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Ontario Detached Home Market Heat

Detached homes are the biggest-ticket segment of the Ontario resale market and often the first to turn when conditions shift. This report tracks how fast detached homes sell, how sale prices compare with what sellers originally asked, and where price cuts are concentrating — with relisting chains merged so the numbers reflect a home’s full time on market.

Report period: 2026 Q2
Status: REVISED
Eligible sales (Detached): 22,485
Methodology: v1.1 · full notes

Finalized August 27, 2026 — these figures are frozen and will not change without a visible revision note.

Analyst commentary — 2026 Q2

Commentary for this report period has not been published yet. The figures on this page come straight from the finalized snapshot data above.

Detached — Ontario at a Glance (2026 Q2)

22,485 eligible detached sales analysed this period.

25 days

Median market time (CDOM, days) (Ontario)

55.7%

Sold within 30 days (%) (Ontario)

23.7%

Sold at/above original asking (%) (Ontario)

96.5%

Median sale-to-original-list ratio (Ontario)

Fastest Detached Markets

Ontario cities ranked by Detached median market time
City	Median market time	Eligible sales
1Thunder Bay	12 days	79
2Timmins	13 days	124
3North Bay	14 days	125
4Waterloo	14 days	159
5Wilmot	14 days	49
6Kitchener	15 days	314
7Petawawa	15 days	118
8Uxbridge	15 days	55
9Ajax	16 days	178
10Hamilton Township	16 days	25

Cities below the disclosure floor are excluded — sample sizes shown per city. Full table, every metric and every city: open the interactive index.

Property-type cells use a 25-eligible-sale disclosure floor. Filtered index view: Detached across every metric.

Detached in the Major Markets

The largest qualifying detached markets by sample size, side by side across speed, asking-price performance, reductions and discounts.

Major-city comparison for Detached
City	Sales	Median market time	At/above asking	Sale ÷ original ask	Reduction rate	Median discount
1Toronto	2,115	18 days	34.1%	96.7%	9.6%	6.4%
2Ottawa	1,525	21 days	29.9%	97.9%	15.5%	3.8%
3Hamilton	877	25 days	17.9%	95.9%	20.9%	5.5%
4London	830	22 days	23.4%	96.7%	18.2%	4.4%
5Brampton	699	32 days	17.9%	95.0%	11.2%	6.3%
6Mississauga	573	26 days	19.5%	95.5%	14.0%	6.0%
7Oakville	461	29 days	13.4%	94.1%	17.1%	6.7%
8Vaughan	409	27 days	24.2%	95.9%	11.5%	5.5%
9Burlington	379	18 days	22.7%	96.6%	13.2%	4.5%
10Markham	362	21 days	34.8%	97.0%	14.4%	5.6%
11Kingston	339	23 days	18.6%	97.4%	13.9%	3.6%
12Kitchener	314	15 days	56.4%	100.0%	10.8%	4.3%

Where Detached Markets Are Moving

Year-over-year movement will appear here once the index has a full year of finalized quarters behind this one — the series starts in Q3 2025.

This report describes past sales of detached homes and is not investment advice or a price forecast. Above-asking rates partly reflect list-low pricing strategies; discount medians are conditional on selling below the original ask. Semi-detached homes are covered inside the index's semi-detached filter rather than a standalone report — too few cities clear the disclosure floor for a reliable ranking. Full rules in the methodology.

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