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The Hamilton real estate market — Aug 2026

Hamilton sits at the western tip of Lake Ontario, a steel city that has spent two decades becoming something else — a health-sciences and education hub anchored by McMaster University, and the last GTA-adjacent city where a detached house was still within reach of a median income.

In August 2026, the MLS® benchmark price in Hamilton stood at $728,400, down 3.9% year over year. By property type: detached −8.1% year over year, semi-detached −4.7% year over year, townhouse −7.4% year over year, and apartment −3.4% year over year. There were 655 sales during the month, 14.5% fewer than a year earlier. With 4.4 months of inventory, the market is balanced by the standard board convention (under 4 months: sellers; 4 to 6: balanced; over 6: buyers). Homes in Hamilton took an average of 43 days to sell. Source: Cornerstone Association of REALTORS® (RAHB) / ACI, August 2026.

Read Hamilton's figures with care, because they do not all cover the same ground. The MLS® HPI benchmark published by the Cornerstone Association of REALTORS® covers the board's full territory — Hamilton, Burlington, Haldimand and Niagara North. No composite is published for Hamilton alone. Method matters too: an average follows whatever sold in a given month, while a benchmark tracks a typical home, so the two can move by different amounts over the same period.

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