Greetings,

My wife and I are moving to the Ottawa area and are looking to buy a house. Our price range is between $200,000-300,000, and we're flexible on the type of housing. It could be a really nice condo, or a smaller detached house as we've lived in both styles.

Are there any suggestions as to good parts of the cities to look at? Being 10-15 minutes or less to downtown is a big draw for us, so housing in Barrhaven, Nepean, Aylmer and Kanata are out of the question. We've poked around on the web and haven't been able to find much aside from a few condos downtown and a development in Hull called Le Plateau. As we're in Waterloo and can't quickly drive up to check things out, web-based stuff we could look at would be great!

Thanks.