ReMax Canada expects national home sales to increase by 3.4 per cent next year, with demand from potential homebuyers and built-up inventory creating sales. <\/p>\n
TORONTO \u2014 Strong demand among potential homebuyers and built up inventory could pave the way for a sales rebound in 2026 after a roller-coaster year plagued by economic uncertainty.<\/p>\n
Re\/Max Canada released its 2026 housing market outlook on Wednesday, projecting national home sales to increase 3.4 per cent next year.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is light at the end of the tunnel following a decline in home sales from coast to coast in 2025,\u201d it said in a news release.<\/p>\n
The forecast comes as a Leger survey commissioned by Re\/Max said one in 10 Canadians plan to buy a home in the next 12 months, half of them for the first time. That\u2019s up from seven per cent in the fall.<\/p>\n
One-quarter said they believe the market in their region will become more affordable next year.<\/p>\n
\u201cAmid looming economic clouds, Canadians are maintaining their interest in home ownership,\u201d said Re\/Max Canada president Don Kottick in a statement.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe resilience that began to emerge in the fall is anticipated to continue into 2026, with first-time buyers in particular finding creative ways to save and enter the market.\u201d<\/p>\n
The report said home sales fell year-over-year in 32 of 38 markets analyzed between January and October.<\/p>\n
Families, new Canadians, and retirees drove a larger share of sales in 2025 than the prior year, when first-time buyers led sales across most Canadian markets.<\/p>\n
\u201cTime will tell how the buyer profile shifts we\u2019ve seen over the past year will influence overall homebuying decisions,\u201d said Kottick.<\/p>\n
But inventory has grown as new listings increased year-over-year across all regions, including a 21 per cent increase in Ontario.<\/p>\n
There were 189,000 properties listed for sale across Canada at the end of October, according to the latest data from the Canadian Real Estate Association, up 7.2 per cent from a year earlier.<\/p>\n
Re\/Max said this has helped lead to balanced conditions that should entice buyers, with average prices expected to fall 3.7 per cent in 2026.<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 26, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ReMax Canada expects national home sales to increase by 3.4 per cent next year, with demand from potential…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,1007,46,968],"class_list":{"0":"post-308749","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-construction","12":"tag-economy","13":"tag-real-estate"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}