New Brunswick REALTORS® du Nouveau Brunswick

The number of homes sold through the MLS® System of the New Brunswick REALTORS® du Nouveau Brunswick totaled 559 units in December 2025. This was unchanged from December 2024.

Home sales were 4.5% above the five-year average and 11.2% above the 10-year average for the month of December.

On an annual basis, home sales totaled 9,631 units over the course of 2025. This was an increase of 4% from 2024.

At the local level home sales activity posted an increase in Fredericton (14.4%) and Northern and Valley Regions (9.3%) and recorded declines in Greater Moncton (-6.2%) and Saint John (-10%) on a year-over-year basis.

“MLS® home sales were virtually unchanged from last December and came in above what we typically see this time of year. The number of newly listed properties was slightly higher than a year ago but slowed sharply from recent months, falling to the lowest monthly total since December 2024,” said Justin Morehouse, Chair of the New Brunswick REALTORS® du Nouveau Brunswick. “Overall inventory tightened, with active listings dropping below the 2,000-home mark for the first time since spring. Prices held firm, with the MLS® HPI Composite Benchmark essentially unchanged from November and ending the year a touch higher year over year. In other news, the Bank of Canada announced they would be holding rates at the current level, which adds a bit more certainty for buyers and sellers looking to make a move in early 2026.”

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 $334,100 in December 2025, increasing by 1.6% compared to December 2024.

The benchmark price for single-family homes was $335,400, a modest gain of 1.6% on a year-over-year basis in December. By comparison, the benchmark price for townhouse/row units was $239,700, nearly unchanged, down only 0.2% compared to a year earlier, while the benchmark apartment price was $288,500, essentially unchanged, down just 0.8% from year-ago levels.

The dollar value of all home sales in December 2025 was $182.9 million, up only 0.3% from the same month in 2024.

The number of new listings was up modestly by 2.4% (11 listings) from December 2024. There were 461 new residential listings in December 2025.

New listings were 6.9% above the five-year average and 1.2% above the 10-year average for the month of December.

Active residential listings numbered 2,558 units on the market at the end of December, an increase of 5% 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 14.1% above the five-year average and 21.1% below the 10-year average for the month of December.

Months of inventory numbered 4.6 at the end of December 2025, up from the 4.4 months recorded at the end of December 2024 and below the long-run average of 7.1 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.