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The Greater Sudbury real estate market — Jun 2026

Greater Sudbury is northern Ontario's largest city and the mining capital of Canada, built on one of the richest nickel and copper deposits on earth and now home to a research and health-sciences sector that has broadened the old resource economy. Its housing market is the most affordable of Ontario's mid-sized cities by a wide margin. The MLS® HPI composite benchmark price was $514,800 in June 2026, up 0.9% year-over-year, with an average sale price of $509,204.

The unusual detail here is that the average sits slightly below the benchmark — $509,204 against $514,800 — which is the reverse of most Canadian markets. It happens where the housing stock is relatively uniform and the high end is thin: there are few enough luxury sales to pull the average above a typical home. For a buyer, it means the headline number and the realistic budget are close together, which is not true in Toronto or Kingston.

Activity is the story rather than price. Sales reached 339 in June 2026, up 15.7% year-over-year — among the strongest gains anywhere in the province — while the benchmark moved less than a percentage point. Rising volume with flat prices usually means supply is keeping pace with a genuine increase in demand, a healthier pattern than the reverse. Greater Sudbury's board does not publish a months-of-inventory or days-on-market figure, so those fields are left blank rather than filled from a regional proxy.

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