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The Kingston real estate market — Jun 2026

Kingston sits where Lake Ontario narrows into the St. Lawrence, a limestone city that was briefly Canada's capital and has since built its economy on three steady employers: Queen's University, a cluster of hospitals and the federal correctional and military presence. Those are recession-resistant payrolls, and the housing market reflects that steadiness. The MLS® HPI composite benchmark price was $549,900 in June 2026, down just 1.2% year-over-year, with an average sale price of $652,470 across 353 sales.

The gap between the benchmark and the average — more than $100,000 — is worth understanding before reading either as the price of a house here. The benchmark tracks a typical property from month to month; the average simply divides total dollar volume by the number of sales, so a handful of waterfront or historic-district transactions pulls it well above what a typical buyer pays. When the two diverge this much, the benchmark is the better guide for budgeting and the average is the better guide to how varied the local stock is.

Inventory stood at 4.3 months in June 2026, which on the standard CREA scale is squarely balanced — neither side holds a structural advantage — and sales were essentially flat at 353, down 0.3% year-over-year. One caveat about geography: these figures cover the entire jurisdiction of the Kingston and Area Real Estate Association, not the city limits. The association publishes no municipal breakdown, and Payotte does not manufacture one, so treat the numbers as an area gauge rather than a Kingston-proper measurement. Neither a median price nor an average days-on-market figure is published for this market.

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