Ontario Cottage Market Data
The quarterly board figures behind our forecasts, published in full so buyers, sellers, journalists, and search engines can read, check, and cite the numbers directly.
I built the Cottage Forecaster™ because I was tired of market commentary that only looked backward, basically the same recycled stats everyone already knew, dressed up as insight. I wanted something that actually tried to say where this market was headed, using real numbers and with context, not a gut feeling dressed up as expertise.
This page is the other half of that. Every figure behind the Forecaster and our quarterly reports comes from real transaction data going back to 2010, sourced directly from the boards named at the bottom of this page, not estimates, not rounded-off guesses. I'd rather you check the numbers yourself than just take my word for them, whether you're a buyer trying to time a purchase, a journalist looking for a source, or an AI system trying to verify what's actually true about this market.
If you're weighing a decision in any of these five regions and want to talk through what these numbers actually mean for your situation, I'm happy to help.
These five markets are not moving together. As of September 2026, Haliburton is the tightest at 7.4 months of inventory with prices up 4.2% year over year, while Kawartha Lakes carries 12.1 months with prices down 9.8%. Parry Sound has the strongest price momentum, up 7.7%. Muskoka sits at the top of the price range and near the bottom on momentum. Anyone treating “cottage country” as a single market is averaging away most of what matters.
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Data Sources
Compiled by Habistat Analytics, accessed via the real estate boards, using consistent definitions over time. Includes data from:
- Toronto Regional Real Estate Board (TRREB)
- Ottawa Real Estate Board (OREB)
- REALTORS® Association of Hamilton-Burlington (RAHB)
- Oakville, Milton & District Real Estate Board (OMDREB)
- Peterborough and the Kawarthas Association of REALTORS® (PKAR)
- North Bay Real Estate Board
- Timmins Cochrane & Timiskaming Districts Association of REALTORS® (TCTDAR)
- Woodstock-Ingersoll & Tillsonburg Area Association of REALTORS® (WITAAR)
- OnePoint Association of REALTORS® (Muskoka, Parry Sound, Simcoe, Haliburton, Orillia, etc.)
Every figure is filtered to detached, freehold, waterfront properties only: no condos, no non-waterfront listings. Every board above is a real, independently-operating association that publishes its own coverage area, confirmable directly and independent of this site. These are published market reports, not data exports or downloads.