It's just become very easy to receive a choice of lots in the Whistle Bend subdivision.

No applications were submitted by Tuesday's deadline for the nearly 100 residential sites up for grabs.

Consequently, today's noon lottery for the properties was cancelled.

The properties will be put up for sale over the counter.

The lottery was set for the 20 restricted residential, 57 single-family, 11 duplex sites (with two lots per site) and 11 townhouse sites (with three to five lots per site) after the application deadline closed Tuesday afternoon.

Also closing yesterday was the bid submission for the five multi-family sites in the neighbourhood.

The tender opening had been set for noon Friday, but with no bids coming in, that has also been cancelled.

"They will be available over the counter,” Ron Billingham, a spokesman with the Department of Energy, Mines and Resources, said this morning, noting over-the-counter sales will begin next Monday.

Base prices for the phase two lots are set at:

• between $60,683 and $100,766 for townhouse lots, though they must be purchased as a group per site;

• between $74,301 and $117,113 for duplex lots, though they must be purchased in pairs;

• between $109,935 and $175,350 for restricted residential lots; and

• between $110,830 and $221,482 for single residential lots.

Two duplex lots in the area are also being set aside for Habitat for Humanity. That organization is building a duplex in the first phase of Whistle Bend for two families.

A number of other homes are also being erected in the first phase, though there are still phase one lots available over the counter as well.

Whistle Bend has been envisioned as a neighbourhood which will eventually house up to 8,000 residents.

It will be complete with transit service, a town square, space for a school, green space and a number of both paved and unpaved trails.

While the Yukon government is constructing the subdivision, the planning work was done by the city.

Mike Gau, the city's director of development services, said in an interview late this morning the situation means there is a good supply of lots available – which gives the city room to plan.

"We have a good secure supply of land,” he said.

Gau pointed out that often the planning work the city does takes much longer than the actual construction.

Now, things can move at a "more appropriate pace,” he said.

There's been an agreement with the Yukon government for more than a decade to have a two-year supply of lots readily available over the counter.

This may be the first time that such a supply is actually available.

"We're there now,” Gau said.

For the past few years, it's been difficult to keep up with the demand for lots.

He noted he's spoken with a number of developers who have said once their projects in other parts of town – Ingram, Takhini North and the redevelopment of townhouses in Riverdale – pick up in sales, they plan to start looking to Whistle Bend.

Gau expects sales in Whistle Bend to mount in the spring of 2014, when the construction season gets underway.

He noted that purchasing land in the fall means having to sit on an investment over the winter.