Homes For Sale in Brockville

About Brockville

Brockville is a waterfront community in City of Brockville. The local market mixes year-round homes with seasonal cottages and condos near the water.

Waterfront inventory moves with the seasons. Every listing below sits inside the community boundary shown on the map.

The homes of Brockville

Brockville is the City of the 1000 Islands — the upriver anchor of the Thousand Islands region, a city of 22,116 (2021) settled in 1785, incorporated in 1832 and named for Sir Isaac Brock. The housing stock is full-city range with 19th-century depth: heritage homes on the old streets near the river (the city's Loyalist and Victorian layers are in the streetscape), post-war bungalows across the grid, 1970s-to-2000s subdivisions, and the St. Lawrence waterfront tier where the river views set the prices.

The market is the region's value point and the data is strong. HOMEH puts the 12-month median sold price at $421,843 through September 2026 (335 sales, up 2.5% in volume), taking a median of 34 days at 97.7% of asking; detached homes carried a median of $441,829 (194 sales) with active listings at a median near $499,900. Listings seen in 2026 included St. Lawrence waterfront homes at 806 River Acres Drive ($1,299,900) and 1219 County Road 2 ($1,250,000) — the in-town tier broadly in the high-$300Ks to $400Ks, riverfront past a million.

The buyer pool is local families, St. Lawrence river lovers, retirees, Kingston and Ottawa commuters (the corridor runs both ways), and GTA movers buying the value. The downtown — the riverfront, the historic blocks, the tunnel — is genuinely intact. It's a real city at small-town prices, and the market's volume growth (up 2.5% while much of Ontario cooled) says the secret is getting out.

Waterfront realities

Brockville's waterfront is the St. Lawrence River in the Thousand Islands reach — the city's defining asset and its diligence headline. On any waterfront or near-water property, confirm floodplain status with the Cataraqui Region Conservation Authority, review shoreline-erosion mapping and the property's shoreline-work history, and get an insurance quote before conditions lift. The river here is the Seaway's channel as well as the islands' playground; the working river and the recreational river share the water.

Shoreline road allowances apply along the river — have your lawyer confirm where the surveyed lot ends and the water begins, and verify permissions for any dock, deck, boathouse or shoreline structure. The $1.25-$1.3 million riverfront listings show what the views command; the diligence on those properties should match the price — survey, shoreline permits, flood history, and insurance, all before conditions lift.

Services are municipal across the city. Short-term rental rules are set by the City of Brockville; the Thousand Islands visitor economy supports rental demand, but licensing is address-specific — confirm before buying with rental income in your plans. The city's full servicing is the practical edge over the township markets: in-town Brockville is a known quantity on water, sewer and winter roads.

The town and getting there

Brockville's attractions are the real thing: the Brockville Railway Tunnel — bored in 1860 as Canada's first railway tunnel, now reopened as a free walkable light-and-sound installation through the downtown bedrock — is one of Ontario's great heritage experiences. Fulford Place (the Edwardian mansion museum), the Aquatarium (the river discovery centre on the waterfront), and St. Lawrence Park on the river complete the set. The downtown riverfront, with the islands in view, is the city's signature.

Highway 401 runs through the city: Kingston is 45 minutes west, Ottawa about an hour and a quarter east, Cornwall 45 minutes east — Brockville sits at the centre of the eastern corridor, which is why its commuter pool runs both directions. From the GTA it's about three to three and a half hours. VIA Rail serves the city on the corridor; the Thousand Islands Bridge to the US is minutes west.

The economy blends the river tourism economy, manufacturing, healthcare and education, the county-town services role, and the commuter households working in Kingston, Ottawa and Cornwall. The population is stable, the downtown is intact, and the river gives the city a setting most cities three times its price can't match. It's the eastern corridor's value city with a waterfront to show for it.

Brockville market snapshot

The region's value market, moving well. The 12-month median of $421,843 (335 sales, up 2.5% in volume) at a median 34 days and 97.7% of asking makes Brockville one of the stronger small-city markets on this list — volume growing, sellers getting close to asking, and the lowest median of any city here. The active median near $499,900 sits above the sold median: normal seller optimism in a market where the riverfront listings skew the asking side.

The tiering is river-driven: in-town detached homes in the high-$300Ks to $400Ks (the volume market, moving in about a month), heritage homes near the river at condition premiums, and St. Lawrence waterfront past a million (the $1,299,900 River Acres and $1,250,000 County Road 2 listings define the ceiling). The detached median of $441,829 is the number that matters for most buyers — and it's the lowest city-detached median on this list.

For buyers, Brockville is the eastern Ontario value equation: a real city of 22,000 on the St. Lawrence in the Thousand Islands, detached homes under $450,000 on median, and the corridor's job markets within commuting range. Pull riverfront and in-town comparables separately — the river premium roughly triples the in-town price. In a market with growing volume and 34-day turnarounds, the prepared buyer moves promptly on the well-priced in-town homes and negotiates the riverfront on its own thin comparables.

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