Hamilton Real Estate Market: What Is Actually For Sale

These are asking prices. They show what sellers want, not what buyers end up paying.

Where Hamilton asking prices sit

Across all 2,068 priced listings, 546 (26 percent) ask under $500,000 and 427 (21 percent) ask $1,000,000 or more. By type:

• Condos: 188 of the 312 active condo apartments ask under $400,000. That is 60 percent of the condo book.
• Townhouses: 98 of 347 ask under $500,000, or 28 percent.
• Houses: 334 of 1,300 ask under $600,000, or 26 percent, and 382 ask $1,000,000 or more. The lowest-priced house in the book asks $199,900.

The cheapest apartment listings need a closer read. Several of those under $200,000 describe themselves as co-operative units, where you buy a share in a corporation rather than a registered condo title, so check financing early. If you are shopping a condo at the low end, ask for the status certificate on a true condo, or the co-op's own disclosure package, before you firm up.

The Hamilton housing market by area

Hamilton's listing data uses more than 200 small MLS neighbourhood names. Grouped into the parts of the city people actually search, the numbers look like this (Zealty active listings, pulled November 10, 2026):

• Lower City (old Hamilton below the escarpment, from Westdale and Ainslie Wood east through downtown, the North End, Crown Point, Rosedale and Riverdale): 888 listings, median ask $539,900. Houses $599,900 (499 listings), condos $340,000 (213).
• Mountain (old Hamilton above the escarpment, including the West, Central and East Mountain): 407 listings, median ask $689,900. Houses $725,000 (303), townhouses $499,450 (78).
• Stoney Creek (lower Stoney Creek, Winona and Fruitland, and Upper Stoney Creek on the Mountain): 263 listings, median ask $749,900. Houses $899,000 (144), townhouses $649,000 (77), condos $462,400 (40).
• Binbrook and Glanbrook (Binbrook, Mount Hope, Hannon and rural Glanbrook): 112 listings, median ask $809,450. Houses $970,500 (62), townhouses $689,000 (47).
• Dundas: 39 listings, median ask $999,900. Houses $1,150,000 (31).
• Waterdown and Flamborough (Waterdown, Carlisle, Greensville, Freelton and rural Flamborough): 199 listings, median ask $1,060,000. Houses $1,398,800 (139), townhouses $754,900 (24).
• Ancaster (including Meadowlands and rural Ancaster): 150 listings, median ask $1,192,450. Houses $1,398,000 (115), townhouses $699,900 (28).

The Lower City is where the entry-level stock is. It holds 43 percent of all Hamilton listings and 213 of the 312 condos, and its median house asks $599,900. Ancaster is the other end: its median house ask of $1,398,000 is within $1,000 of the Toronto house median.

How we grouped it: listings whose MLS area name belongs to a former municipality (Stoney Creek, Ancaster, Dundas, Flamborough, Glanbrook) go to that group. The rest of old Hamilton is split by postal code, with the L8H, L8K, L8L, L8M, L8N, L8P, L8R, L8S, L8E and L8G codes counted as the Lower City and L8T, L8V, L8W, L9A, L9B, L9C and L8J counted as the Mountain. Postal code boundaries do not follow the escarpment exactly, so a few brow-side listings may sit in the neighbouring group. Ten listings whose area name and postal code did not point to one group are left out of the area figures.

Price per square foot

Not every Ontario listing in the feed reports its interior size, so these figures cover only the listings that do. On those, the median Hamilton house asks $423 per square foot (255 listings with a size), condo apartments $419 (86 listings), and townhouses $372 (64 listings).

Treat these as a rough guide. Fewer than one house listing in five reports a size, and size reporting is too thin on the Toronto side for a fair per-square-foot comparison.

Hamilton vs Toronto asking prices

On the same November 10, 2026 pull, using the same method (duplicates removed, placeholder prices dropped), Toronto's medians compare with Hamilton's like this:

• Houses: Toronto $1,399,000 (2,800 listings), Hamilton $799,450. The Hamilton median is 57 percent of Toronto's, about $600,000 less.
• Townhouses: Toronto $774,894 (754 listings), Hamilton $633,100. Hamilton is 82 percent of Toronto, about $142,000 less.
• Condo apartments: Toronto $574,900 (4,403 listings), Hamilton $376,950. Hamilton is 66 percent of Toronto, about $198,000 less.

The house gap is the one that moves people. A buyer priced out of a Toronto house can find the median Hamilton house for roughly what a Toronto townhouse asks. The townhouse gap is much narrower, so the savings shrink if a townhouse is what you want. For other Ontario cities with lower entry prices, see the cheapest places to buy a house in Ontario.

Hamilton buyers pay Ontario's provincial land transfer tax but no city land transfer tax, since the Ontario government's land transfer tax guidance names a municipal tax only for the City of Toronto (checked November 10, 2026); the rest of closing day is covered in our guide to closing costs in Ontario.

385 price cuts in 30 days

In the 30 days to November 10, 2026, 385 active Hamilton listings reduced their asking price. That is almost one listing in five, and the rate is close to even across types: 249 houses (19 percent of the house book), 61 townhouses (18 percent) and 63 condos (20 percent).

New supply keeps arriving too. In the seven days to November 10, 2026, 215 new residential listings came onto the Hamilton market, about 10 percent of the active book.

A price cut means the first ask was not being met. For a buyer, a listing that has already dropped once is worth a second look, because the seller has shown they will move.

What we can and cannot show you in Ontario

Ontario listing data on Zealty comes from the CREA Data Distribution Facility (DDF) feed, and it covers active listings only. Every Hamilton number in this post is an active listing count or an asking price. None of it is a sold price, because we do not have Ontario sold data.

The feed also does not give a reliable days-on-market figure for Ontario listings, so this post does not report one. Sold prices, days on market and full MLS price history on Zealty are available for British Columbia only.

How to read the Hamilton real estate market from here

In its live numbers, the Hamilton real estate market is a house market with a condo pocket in the Lower City. Asking prices rise steadily as you move from the Lower City up the Mountain and out to Stoney Creek, Dundas, Waterdown and Ancaster, and almost one listing in five has cut its price in the last month.

If you are watching it, track the active count and the share cutting price for the type and area you want. All of it is visible on the live Hamilton listings on Zealty, and it updates as the feed does. For the rest of the province, start from Zealty's Ontario listings.

NOTE: This representation is based in whole or in part on data generated by Greater Vancouver REALTORS®, Fraser Valley Real Estate Board, Chilliwack and District Real Estate Board, or The Canadian Real Estate Association which assume no responsibility for its accuracy. This information is deemed reliable but is not guaranteed accurate by these organizations or by the agent or brokerage hosting this website. Data presented here is under the license agreement of Holywell Properties, a British Columbia Brokerage.