Zoocasa report<\/a> highlights the best Canadian cities to buy a townhouse in 2026, using benchmark prices and year-over-year growth to determine the ranking.<\/p>\nDespite Quebec City being crowned as the top market in Canada for townhouses, buyers are seeing significant price corrections across almost every major Ontario region.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Zoocasa, with data\u00a0courtesy of the Canadian Real Estate Association.<\/p>\n
Hamilton-Burlington appears to offer potential buyers the most bang for their buck right now, as the report shows that townhouse prices dropped 9.16 per cent from $688,100 in 2024 to $625,100.\u00a0<\/p>\n
There’s some good news for city slickers, too.<\/p>\n
Toronto townhouse prices are also on a decline, albeit not as much as the suburbs. Toronto prices dropped almost 8 per cent, down to $696,300 in 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ottawa, Kitchener-Waterloo, London-St. Thomas and Barrie are other Ontario markets with remarkable price drops. For instance, townhouses in London-St. Thomas are below the half-million mark, averaging at just $459,000.<\/p>\n
There are plenty of perks that come with a townhouse. You typically get more space and less maintanance fees compared to a condo. In some cases, these types of homes can offer main-level or rooftop patios, much larger than condo balconies.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Here’s a look at all the opportunities in Ontario for townhouse buyers:<\/p>\n
Hamilton-Burlington: $625,100 (-9.16 per cent\u00a0Y-O-Y)
Barrie District: $548,100 (-8.68 per cent\u00a0Y-O-Y)
Greater Toronto: $696,300 (-7.73 per cent\u00a0Y-O-Y)
Kitchener-Waterloo: $530,900 (-7.23 per cent\u00a0Y-O-Y)
London-St. Thomas: $459,000 (-7.03 per cent Y-O-Y)<\/p>\n
For first-time buyers eager to enter the market, purchasing a townhouse seems like a worthy investment in 2026, especially since the massive inventory of condos<\/a> hasn’t been getting any traction last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"First-time home buyers eyeing a townhouse\u00a0\u2014\u00a0the perfect middle-ground between a freehold house and an apartment condo \u2014 are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2606,49,48,1639,44,905,167271],"class_list":["post-395515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-best","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-deals","tag-news","tag-ontario","tag-townhouses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395515","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=395515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}