Halton Hills Housing Update - Ep.266

Happy new year! Welcome back to this week’s Halton Hills housing update. I hope you all had a lovely holiday season. I haven’t done an update in about a month as the plague went through my house and the chaos of the holidays, but we’re jumping right in today! I’ll be recapping December’s numbers and taking a look at where the market is sitting today. 

So, looking at December. In December of 2024, our average price was only $904,000. That’s one of the lowest average prices we’ve seen in years and there were 42 sales. This December, we had a great average price of $1,065,000 but only sold 36 units. That is up significantly year over year and besides September (which was a bit of an anomaly this year with a few huge sales), it was our highest average price since May. We finished the year much stronger than anyone expected in terms of pricing. I’m not going to cover sales and new listings today but it’s been pretty dead. Looking at our active inventory, if you go back to our update from last month, I talked about how being in the 70 range in Georgetown and under 150 in all of Halton Hills would be great for our inventory, and we’ve officially hit these numbers! I think we are starting this year off in a pretty great spot. A lot of people are saying this year won’t be great for real estate but historically, when we have these types of inventory numbers, we have a pretty decent first half of the year. We may see a lot of the inventory that left the market flood back and I could be totally wrong, but I think we are starting the year off in a great spot compared to what we saw for most of last year. 

Looking at active inventory, all of Halton Hills is down to 131 active listings. This is super low compared to the 204 we had at the start of December and the 280 we saw in October. So we’ve had a significant drop in our overall inventory. Anyone who knows anything about economics knows it’s supply and demand and the supply is not very high right now. I’m going to be focusing on Georgetown because it’s the market that fuels and feeds a lot of our other markets. So we only have 66 active listings in Georgetown. This number is resale properties only as I do not count new builds in these updates. So, only 66 units for sale. We had 120 at the start of December and 163 at the end of October. These are drastically different numbers and it’s exactly what we wanted to see happen. Looking at our price points, under $800,000 is down to 10 active listings. I cannot remember the last time we had this low of a number. Eight hundred thousand to a million is down to 23. We were at 40 in December so it’s basically cut in half. One to 1.5 million is down from 47 at the start of December to 27. We have been sitting ridiculously high in this price point lately so it’s good to see. Finally, 1.5 million plus is down to just six active listings. That is crazy! I don’t think I’ve ever seen it this low since I started doing these updates. It was at 16 in December so there aren’t a ton of big ticket properties available right now. Something else to note is that if the 10 properties available for under $800,000, seven of them are freehold which means we are seriously lacking condos and condo town homes right now. Normally this product is what we mostly see in this pocket so hopefully that helps to fuel the market. The other notable thing is that of the 66 units, only five of them have been on the market for less than 28 days. Over half of these 66 properties have been available for over 60 days which means they are likely stale and overpriced. I think that any new properties that come on will be busy with buyers. So this is going to be a really interesting January and I can’t wait to see how things pan out. I think we are going to have a really strong start to this year. I keep reading that inventory is high, and it is in Ontario overall, but I’m focusing on our Halton Hills bubble and I know just how high our inventory was.

So, looking at our other markets, Acton is at 15 active listings. We saw this number around February and March last year and then it just skyrocketed to 20-30 listings and it sat like that for the rest of the year. So, starting the year off at 15 is technically high for Acton, but it’s much lower than it has been. Also, when Georgetown’s inventory is soft, we know that Acton tends to get a little more activity so that could be good news for sellers there. Glen Williams is down to six active listings and the rural market is down from 52 to 44. That’s not a huge drop for the rural market and 44 is still quite high, but if Georgetown’s inventory continues to stay soft, we should see more transactions happening here. 

That’s my initial recap of what happened in December, as well as how were starting 2026 off. I’m genuinely curious to see where the market is going to go this year. Last year started off strong and then we had some exterior forces impact buyer confidence and that really impacted all of 2025. Interest rates are also lower this year than the last few years so my gut is telling me that it will be a good year. There are reasonably priced houses available, inventory is low, interest rates are low - all good signs of a strong start. Who knows though! After the past five years it’s just really hard to predict where our market will go.

Hopefully you found this informative! I’ll be back each week with my market updates so that we can really track how the market goes. Have a great week!