Oakville, Ontario
As of September 27, 2026, the median asking price in Oakville is $1,500,000, across 919 active MLS® listings.
Those listings have been on the market an average of 51 days.
435 new listings came to market in Oakville in the last 30 days.
Detached homes in Oakville are listed at an average of $2,545,346 across 555 active listings.
Townhouses in Oakville are listed at an average of $1,149,703 across 188 active listings.
Condos in Oakville are listed at an average of $738,118 across 174 active listings.
Lakeside suburb with established homes and commuter rail
Oakville is a large lakeshore area with a mature housing mix and strong regional rail connections.
Across about 139 km², Oakville combines primarily detached housing with a meaningful supply of townhouses and condominium apartments, plus a spread of everyday shopping, dining, and recreation. The appeal is access to the lake, a broad park-and-trail network, and multiple transit gateways like Oakville GO Station, Oakville via Rail Stn, and Oakville Transit Facility. It is not a single walkable district where one main street defines daily life everywhere—different pockets lean more residential, more retail, or more commuter-oriented.
Oakville is made up mostly of detached houses, with townhouses and condominium apartments also common. That mix creates both traditional low-rise residential pockets and denser nodes where condo living is part of the local fabric.
A typical home in Oakville is a detached house, with many alternatives in townhouse and condominium apartment formats.
Selling in Oakville comes down to two comparisons buyers make: your home against what else is for sale, and this location against the alternatives.
Buyers weigh your home against the homes listed in Oakville right now. The current listings and asking prices are in the Market section of this page.
Put the places a buyer will use in the listing: Old Abbey Park, Indian Ridge Trail and Lindsay Park.
Photography, condition and first impressions decide which listings buyers book to see. Have the home ready before it goes live.
Oakville’s defining advantage is breadth: a detached-led housing market with meaningful townhouse and condo options, multiple GO access points, and a wide spread of parks, schools, shopping, and services. It rewards buyers and sellers who think in terms of specific pockets and the nearest amenity nodes rather than treating the whole area as one uniform experience. It’s a weaker match if you want a single, consistent, walkable daily-errand pattern everywhere within the area.
This description is compiled from the figures above and from published sources. It is not a statistic.
Oakville’s market spans a wide mix of housing, from lakeside estates and established south-Oakville neighbourhoods to family-heavy areas through the central city and newer builds toward the north, and current conditions reflect broad choice: 919 active for-sale listings with a median asking price of $1,500,000. With listings averaging 51 days on market so far and 435 new listings added in the past 30 days, buyers and investors are seeing steady turnover and negotiating room in some pockets, while well-priced homes in the most in-demand school districts and lake-adjacent areas can still move faster.
AI-written commentary on the active MLS® listing snapshot as of September 27, 2026. Not financial advice.
Oakville covers about 139 km², so a single Walk Score®, Transit Score® or Bike Score® measured at one point would not describe it. How easily you can get around depends on which part of Oakville you are in — check the score for a specific address.
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