Halton Hills Housing Update - Ep.268

Welcome to this week's Halton Hills housing update! January is off to a slow start but inventory isn’t skyrocketing just yet. Georgetown had three sales this week which is really slow. Anything under five is very slow, so that’s not great, but it’s still early in the year. The bad news is that we had 10 new listings, which is a lot for January. We did have some more terminations that helped keep inventory at bay but we really want to see buyers out and new listings slow down. Acton had one sale and five new listings last week. Glen Williams had no sales and one new listing and the rural market randomly had three sales and no new listings. That’s the first time the rural market and Georgetown have ever had the same number of sales in a week. Another thing to note is that out of the seven sales this week, five of them were over a million dollars. We had this happen a little bit last year where the higher price points were moving but the entry one wasn’t, so I’m going to keep an eye on this. We really want the entry priced homes selling so that it fuels everything above it. As I mentioned, we had six properties come off of the market this week, four relist at a lower price and one relist at the same price. 

So, looking at active inventory, we are up slightly from 134 to 138 listings in Halton Hills. This is a nice number and far off the almost 300 we saw in most of 2025. Georgetown went from 71 to 75, which is totally normal for January. I’d love to see this number stay put and for sales to pick up. Looking at our price points, under $800,000 is up from 11 to 13. Eight hundred thousand to a million is up from 26 to 28. One to 1.5 million is down from 26 to 25 and 1.5 million plus is up to nine. Just to give you a comparison, in September of 2025, we had 289 listings in Halton Hills. In Georgetown we had 171 listings, so 100 more than we have now. Under $800,000 was at 27, $800,000 to a million was at 46, one to 1.5 million was 76 and 1.5 million plus was at 22. So you can see that all of our price points are significantly down right now. It does seem like inventory is picking up again but buyers need to realize that things are quiet right now and it’s a good time to be transacting even though there is less to choose from. 

Acton is up from 16 to 18 active listings. Glen Williams is up from seven to eight and the rural market is down from 40 to 37. The last time we saw 37 listings was in January of 2025. At some points last year we had 70 listings here. A lot of the terminations we’re seeing are in the rural market because it’s just not a good time to be selling there. 

So, this was a pretty normal week for January although we did see quite a big gap between sales and new listings. We don’t normally see that many listings in January so I’m going to be watching this closely. I just hope inventory stays a lot softer this year. Inventory is down, interest rates are down, we should have a good year. So, I’ll be back next week! Have a great day!