What This Snapshot Covers

This report describes active inventory — the homes and properties currently listed for sale on the MLS® system across Ottawa and the surrounding Eastern Ontario communities. Every figure here is an asking (list) price or a count of live listings. None of it reflects sold or closed transactions; that information is not part of this dataset.

Across the region tracked in this snapshot there are thousands of active listings spread over close to 200 Ontario communities, with Ottawa itself making up the single largest share. The numbers below give buyers, sellers, and investors a clear read on what is available right now and what sellers are asking.

Ottawa at a Glance

Within the City of Ottawa, the median asking price across all active residential listings sits in the high-$600Ks. That figure blends everything from entry-level condos to luxury detached homes and commercial properties, so it is best read as a centre-of-gravity rather than a price for any one home type.

Just as telling is how long listings are sitting. Ottawa’s active listings have been on the market for roughly two months on average — a healthy, balanced pace that gives buyers room to do their homework while still rewarding well-priced, well-presented homes.

Where the Inventory Is

Single-family homes dominate the active market by a wide margin, making them the most liquid and competitive segment. Beyond detached housing, the active inventory includes a meaningful pool of vacant land, multi-family (small apartment) buildings, and commercial property — retail, office, industrial, business, and agricultural listings — for investors looking past the typical house purchase.

The multi-family segment in particular carries a much higher median asking price than single-family homes, reflecting that these are income-producing buildings priced on the rent they generate rather than on bedrooms and bathrooms.

Condos and Carrying Costs

A large share of Ottawa’s more affordable active listings are condominiums. Among active listings that carry a monthly condo (association) fee, the median fee is in the high-$500s per month, against a median asking price in the high-$300Ks. For first-time buyers and investors weighing cash flow, that monthly fee is a real part of the carrying cost and belongs in every affordability calculation.

Beyond the City

Ottawa is the anchor, but Eastern Ontario’s towns and townships make up a large and varied active market of their own — communities like Clarence-Rockland, Russell, Carleton Place, Arnprior, Smiths Falls, and Pembroke each carry dozens of active listings. Asking prices and time-on-market vary widely between them, and several offer noticeably lower entry points than the Ottawa average. The neighbourhood and town reports drill into each of these individually.

How to Use This

• Buyers: Use the median asking prices as a reality check before you tour, and watch days-on-market as a signal of negotiating room.
• Sellers: Price against active competition — the homes a buyer will see next to yours — not against last year’s headlines.
• Investors: Look past single-family medians to the multi-family and condo segments, where carrying costs and asking spreads tell a different story.

The Key Statistics panel and Market Data table on this page are generated directly from the snapshot below, so the figures you see are the figures in the data.