One sale.
That’s the difference between home sales in Chatham-Kent this past June and June of 2025.
According to statistics from the Chatham-Kent Association of Realtors (CKAR), 115 units changed hands last month. That was down by one compared to last year.
Looking further back, home sales were 3.5 per cent below the five-year average and 14.7 per cent below the 10-year average for the month of June.
On a year-to-date basis, home sales totaled 593 units over the first six months of the year. This was a dip of 3.3 per cent from the same period in 2025.
Carrie Patrick, president of CKAR, said the market has remained lukewarm from a buyer’s standpoint, but was sizzling for sellers.
“Sales activity was flat on a year-over-year basis, as buyers showed tepid interest in the market despite sellers posting the highest number of new listings in any June on record,” she said in a media release.
Patrick added good news is on the housing horizon.
“There were two relevant housing-related pieces of news in June, one of which was the announcement of the $8.8 billion federal-provincial funding program to support housing-enabling infrastructure projects. This will hopefully reduce development charges in municipalities and speed up the construction of new homes,” she said. “Later in June at a Housing Affordability Summit hosted by CKAR, a proposal was put forward to eliminate development charges on residential housing altogether for the next three years, a move which would certainly unlock funding from the federal-provincial program and get more homes to market.”
In terms of what sold, the average price of homes sold in June was $472,448, up nearly eight per cent from June 2025.
The more comprehensive year-to-date average price was $446,368, a gain of about three per cent from the first six months of 2025.
The number of new listings saw an increase of 4.1 per cent (13 listings) from June 2025. There were 329 new residential listings in June 2026. This was also the largest number of new listings added in the month of June in history.
