Ottawa Housing Market: What Is Actually For Sale

By type, the bands look like this:

• Condos: 485 of the 799 active condo apartments ask under $400,000. That is 61 percent of the condo book.
• Townhouses: 434 of 1,087 ask under $500,000, which is 40 percent.
• Houses: 446 of 1,658 ask under $700,000, and 722 ask under $800,000. The lowest-priced house in the book asks $225,000.

The step from condo to townhouse in Ottawa is about $180,000 at the median. The step from townhouse to house is about $300,000, and for a lot of buyers that second jump decides the search.

The Ottawa real estate market by area

Ottawa's listing data uses small MLS neighbourhood names. Grouped into the areas people search, the numbers look like this (Zealty active listings, pulled October 31, 2026):

• Barrhaven: 372 listings, median ask $619,900. Houses $829,900 (160 listings), townhouses $549,900 (187).
• Kanata: 356 listings, median ask $624,900. Houses $899,950 (132), townhouses $566,500 (194).
• Stittsville: 156 listings, median ask about $727,400. Houses $872,450 (86), townhouses $625,000 (62).
• Riverside South: 89 listings, median ask $674,900. Houses about $885,600 (36), townhouses $636,450 (48).
• Central core (Ottawa Centre, Lower Town and the Byward Market, Sandy Hill, West Centre Town): 456 listings, median ask $509,000. Condos are 316 of them, at a median of $419,700.
• Vanier: 95 listings, median ask $659,900. Houses $699,900 (23).
• Westboro: 56 listings, median ask $782,450. Houses $1,149,000 (21).
• The Glebe: 35 listings, median ask $1,085,000. Houses $1,119,500 (14).
• Manotick: 59 listings, all houses, median ask $1,569,000.

The suburbs carry the townhouse supply. Barrhaven and Kanata together hold 381 active townhouses, about a third of the Ottawa total. The core is a condo market, and inner neighbourhoods with older detached stock, such as the Glebe and Westboro, ask well above the citywide house median.

How long Ottawa listings are sitting

The median Ottawa listing has been on the market for 38 days under its current listing. Houses sit at 38 days, townhouses at 33 and condos at 42. In the past 30 days, 1,507 listings went up, which is 40 percent of the book.

The tail is smaller. There are 659 listings that have been up for more than 90 days, and only 109 for more than 180 days. A listing that is taken down and relisted starts its count again, so some homes have been for sale longer than these numbers show.

New supply keeps arriving. In the seven days to October 31, 2026, 350 new residential listings came onto the Ottawa market, about 9 percent of the active book in one week.

646 price cuts in 30 days

In the 30 days to October 31, 2026, 646 active Ottawa listings reduced their asking price. That is about one listing in six. Houses and townhouses cut at the same rate, roughly 19 percent of each book, while condos cut a little less often, at about 15 percent.

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.

Land transfer tax on an Ottawa purchase

Ottawa buyers pay Ontario's provincial land transfer tax and no city land transfer tax on top of it. The Ontario government's land transfer tax guidance names a separate municipal land transfer tax only for the City of Toronto (checked October 31, 2026). That is the main closing cost difference between an Ottawa purchase and a Toronto purchase.

Under section 2(1) of Ontario's Land Transfer Tax Act, for conveyances registered on or after January 1, 2017 (current as checked October 31, 2026), the provincial rates are:

• 0.5 percent of the price up to $55,000
• 1 percent of the portion from $55,000 up to $250,000
• 1.5 percent of the portion from $250,000 up to $400,000
• 2 percent of the portion above $400,000
• An extra 0.5 percent above $2,000,000 when the land holds one or two single family residences

Applied to the Ottawa median asking prices pulled October 31, 2026, that works out to $4,025 on a $370,000 condo, $7,473 on a $549,900 townhouse, and $13,473 on an $849,900 house.

Section 9.2 of the same Act refunds up to $4,000 to an eligible first-time buyer, for conveyances on or after January 1, 2017 (current as checked October 31, 2026). For a qualifying first-time buyer at the median condo ask, that cuts the provincial tax to $25. Legal fees, title insurance and the other costs on closing day are covered in our guide to closing costs in Ontario.

This section is educational and is not tax or legal advice. Confirm your own figures with a real estate lawyer before you close.

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 Ottawa number in this post is an active listing count, an asking price or a days-on-market figure. None of it is a sold price, because we do not have Ontario sold data.

Sold prices and full MLS price history on Zealty are available for British Columbia only. For Ottawa, the useful signals are the ones in this post: how much is listed, at what asking prices, how much is being cut, and how long it sits.

How to read the Ottawa housing market from here

In its live numbers, the Ottawa housing market is a house and townhouse market with a condo core downtown. Asking prices spread widely by area, about one listing in six has cut its price in the last month, and the median listing has been up for a little over a month.

If you are watching it, track the active count, the share cutting price, and how long listings sit for the type and area you want. All of it is visible on the live Ottawa listings on Zealty, and it updates as the feed does.

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 to be 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.