Rideau-St. Lawrence Real Estate Board MLS® home sales end 2025 on a stronger note, finish year on par with 2024
The number of homes sold through the MLS® System of the Rideau-St. Lawrence Real Estate Board totaled 117 units in December 2025. This was up modestly by 1.7% (two sales) from December 2024.
Home sales were 0.8% below the five-year average and 8.7% below the 10-year average for the month of December.
On an annual basis, home sales totaled 2,616 units over the course of 2025. This was essentially unchanged, down just 0.2% (five sales) from 2024.
The MLS® Home Price Index (HPI) tracks price trends far more accurately than is possible using average or median price measures. The overall MLS® HPI composite benchmark price was $510,300 in December 2025, a modest gain of 1.6% compared to December 2024.
The benchmark price for single-family homes was $524,600, up modestly by 1.5% on a year-over-year basis in December. By comparison, the benchmark price for townhouse/row units was $521,300, a minor increase of 1% compared to a year earlier, while the benchmark apartment price was $262,300, a small gain of 1.7% from year-ago levels.
The average price of homes sold in December 2025 was $572,140, a small gain of 2.9% from December 2024.
The more comprehensive annual average price was $577,946, increasing by 2.7% from all of 2024.
The dollar value of all home sales in December 2025 was $66.9 million, a gain of 4.7% from the same month in 2024.
The number of new listings was down sharply by 11.2% (15 listings) from December 2024. There were 119 new residential listings in December 2025.
New listings were 0.5% below the five-year average and 5.9% below the 10-year average for the month of December.
Active residential listings numbered 653 units on the market at the end of December, an increase of 14.6% from the end of December 2024. Active listings haven’t been this high in the month of December in more than five years.
Active listings were 28.5% above the five-year average and 7.3% above the 10-year average for the month of December.
Months of inventory numbered 5.6 at the end of December 2025, up from the 5 months recorded at the end of December 2024 and above the long-run average of 5.1 months for this time of year. The number of months of inventory is the number of months it would take to sell current inventories at the current rate of sales activity.
Board & Association Information
The Rideau-St. Lawrence Real Estate Board was incorporated in January 1954 to provide an information exchange service for Members. That exchange service has evolved into today's modern MLS® system (Multiple Listing Service®), one of the most effective real estate marketing systems in North America. The national website is www.REALTOR.ca. The Rideau-St. Lawrence Real Estate Board covers a large geographic area that includes the United Counties of Leeds & Grenville, Lanark and part of Dundas County in Eastern Ontario.
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Chris Wiltshire
