Days on Market by City
The typical home still for sale in the GTA tonight has been sitting for six to eight weeks — Markham and Hamilton medians top 60 days, Whitby is fastest at 35.
Live feed, pulled November 10, 2026 at 12:47 a.m. ET. Active listings and asking prices only.
How to read this
The method, stated plainly. For each city below we took 300 current listings — fewer in the smallest markets, 232 in Whitby and 257 in Ajax — drawn from the bottom, middle and top of the city’s asking-price range, so no price tier gets to dominate the answer. For every listing we counted the days between its list date and November 10, 2026. That is all this table is: the age of the inventory a buyer scrolling tonight would actually see.
And the limit, stated just as plainly: this counts homes still for sale. The home that listed on a Tuesday and sold firm the next week is not in these numbers — it is gone, and it took its nine days with it. Every overpriced, awkward or simply unlucky listing that has sat for four months is in them, at full weight. So these medians describe the unsold stock, not the speed of the homes that already sold. A city can sell its good listings quickly and still show a 60-day median here, because what remains is, by definition, what has not moved. Read the table as a measure of how much stale competition a new listing joins — and how much seasoned stock a buyer gets to pick over — not as a prediction of how fast any individual home will sell.
| City | Median days on market | Past 30 days | Past 90 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hamilton | 62 | 75% | 32% |
| Markham | 60 | 71% | 38% |
| Vaughan | 54 | 70% | 32% |
| Mississauga | 51 | 67% | 28% |
| Brampton | 50 | 66% | 24% |
| Burlington | 49 | 71% | 28% |
| Toronto | 47 | 70% | 21% |
| Oakville | 47 | 67% | 22% |
| Milton | 47 | 62% | 24% |
| Richmond Hill | 41 | 66% | 21% |
| Ajax | 40 | 58% | 17% |
| Whitby | 35 | 57% | 16% |
Medians are of the sampled listings still for sale on November 10, 2026; shares are the percentage of each sample at or past 30 and 90 days on market. Samples: 300 listings per city drawn across the price range (Whitby 232, Ajax 257, Burlington 285, Milton 292).
The shape of the shelf
No city in this table is fresh. Even Whitby, the fastest shelf in the region, shows a 35-day median and a majority of its stock past the one-month mark; at the slow end, three quarters of Hamilton’s still-listed homes are past 30 days. York Region carries the oldest expensive stock: Markham’s median is 60 days and a region-worst 38 per cent of its sitting listings are past 90 days, with Vaughan close behind at 54 days and 32 per cent. The averages, where we checked them, run far above the medians — Markham’s mean is 104 days against a median of 60 — which is the long tail of very stale listings dragging the arithmetic, and a reminder that the tail is real homes with real sellers in it.
Toronto, with 12,522 homes for sale, lands mid-table at 47 days. Depth cuts both ways: the city sells an enormous number of homes, and it also accumulates an enormous number of listings that have not sold — 70 per cent of its current shelf is past 30 days, and roughly one in five of its listings has been sitting for a full season. Durham is the outlier worth noticing: Whitby and Ajax hold the two youngest shelves in the region, with the smallest stale shares at both the 30- and 90-day marks. Whether that is pricing discipline, price point or buyer demand, the effect for a shopper is the same — the Durham shelf turns over, and the York Region shelf, at the moment, mostly sits.
What it means
Buyers: the stock you are shopping is seasoned, and seasoned stock negotiates. A home at 60 or 90 days has been looked at and passed over at its current number, and that history is leverage: conditions, closing dates and price all get easier to discuss when a listing has a birthday coming. Keep two markets separate in your head, though. Fresh listings — the first week or two — are a different game, priced by sellers who have not yet met the shelf, and the best of them still move on fresh-listing terms. The opportunity in this table is specifically in the inventory that has already waited.
Sellers: your competition is not the neighbour who sold in nine days. It is this shelf — the 60-day median in Markham, the 38 per cent of listings past 90 days, the seven in ten homes across the region that are already a month old. A new listing gets roughly two weeks of being the fresh option before it becomes part of that background. If those two weeks pass without serious interest, the market has given its verdict, and the sellers who read it early and adjust are the ones who leave the shelf. The ones who wait join the averages: six to eight weeks at the median, and a long tail beyond that.
Keep exploring
The best and worst months to sell a home in Ontario — the calendar version of the same question, read from the same feed.
The home selling process in Ontario, step by step — where these weeks sit inside the full sequence, from listing day to closing.
The HomesFound market page — the live listings, counts and medians behind every number in this guide.
Source note: every figure in this guide comes from the live MLS feed as active listings and asking prices, pulled at the time shown. Sold prices are VOW data and are never published on HomesFound.
