Bucking the trend over the past five years, Chatham-Kent residential property transactions were up last month, compared to September 2025.
A total of 115 units changed hands, up nearly 13 per cent from the same month last year, and more than 10 per cent above the average for the past five years.
The September spike brought up the tally nicely for the first nine months of 2026. Nine more homes were sold over that time compared to the same period a year ago.
Carrie Patrick, President of the Chatham-Kent Association of Realtors (CKAR), said it was good to see.
“Sales activity was back up to more normal levels for this time of year in September,” she said in a media release.
Patrick added inventory levels remain strong.
“New supply, on the other hand, was just one listing off from the second highest level for this month on record,” she said. “There appears to be two distinct stories in our housing market – one for buyers and another for sellers. The former are operating at levels typical for this time in the early fall, while the latter are more motivated than ever to move their properties.”
Despite the improved number of homes changing hands, CKAR numbers indicate what sold went at a lower price compared to September of 2025.
The average price of homes sold in September 2026 was $410,864, a decline of just over four per cent.
Looking at the first nine months of the year, that average price of a house sold is 435,149, basically unchanged from the same period last year.
New listings, 274, didn’t keep pace with sales in September, dipping by eight per cent. Still, that number was about 10 per cent above the five-year average and nearly 30 percent beyond the 10-year-average for Septembers.
Active residential listings numbered 572 units on the market at the end of September, up eight per cent when compared to the end of September 2025. Active listings haven’t been this high in the month of September in more than a decade.
