Greater Sudbury Single-Family Residential Market History

What the longer record tells me

If you are buying or selling in Greater Sudbury, I would not start with a single “market is up” or “market is down” headline. I would ask two separate questions: how many homes are reaching closing, and what is the middle sale price among the homes that did close? The historical MLS exports help with both, but they do not tell us what one particular home is worth.

The clearest shift is in sales activity. This export cohort recorded 1,985 sold closings in 2019, climbed to 2,486 in 2021, then fell to 1,693 in 2023. By 2025 it recorded 1,962. That is close to the 2019 count, but it is not a return to the same pricing environment. The median close price in these records was $263,000 in 2019 and $482,000 in 2025. Those are medians of different homes sold in different years, not an appreciation rate for a typical unchanged house.

The turning points do not arrive together. In pooled, trailing-12-month windows, sold closings in this cohort reached 2,609 in the window ending June 2021, fell to 1,669 in the window ending September 2023, and stood at 1,911 in the window ending July 2026. The pooled median close price reached $485,000 in several later windows (October 2025 and March through June 2026), then was $484,500 in the July 2026 window. I would read that as a warning against making one line do the work of two: sales volume and the mix-sensitive middle sale price describe different parts of the market.

Year-by-year view

These are registered-export-cohort counts, not a certified total of every City single-family listing. The export begins in September 2015, but its opening month is partial, so the full-year table starts in 2016. A sold closing requires a valid closing date and positive close price in the original-nine replay. All price medians on this page use only recorded close prices from $10,000 to $10,000,000; closings outside that range remain in the sold counts. The 2026 row stops on August 19 and must not be compared as a full year.

New listings and sold closings are different event groups. A home can be listed in one month and close in another. Dividing closings by new listings in the same period gives a useful flow comparison, but not the share of those new listings that sold, not month-end inventory, and not a forecast.

How many listing records remained open?

The listing and closing totals tell us how many events happened. I also reconstructed a count of open listing records from each record's listing date and recorded off-market date. On August 19, the export shows 619 open listing records in 2019, 233 in 2021, 332 in 2025 and 399 in 2026. Of those four August 19 checkpoints, 2021 was the lowest. The reconstructed count has risen since then and since last summer, but it was still below the same date in 2019.

I would not call those numbers official active inventory. They include listings marked conditional, and a relisted home can have more than one listing record. The historical export gives us each record's dates, not every temporary suspension, reactivation or change to conditional status along the way. It is a useful direction-of-travel check for this export cohort, not a count of homes you could necessarily book a showing for on those past dates. For today's choice, I would look at currently available homes in your own price range and neighbourhood.

A seasonal check before calling one month “slow”

Across ten complete calendar years, the median May had 348 new-listing events in these exports; the median December had 80.5. The median June had 223.5 sold closings; the median December had 83. That is why I would compare a month with the same season in other years as well as the month immediately before it. A quiet December is not, on its own, proof that buyers disappeared. These are medians of ten monthly counts, not a promise about any future May, June or December.

How I would use this for one move

For a buyer, the long record tells you the scale and direction of past activity. It cannot set your offer. Ask what comparable homes are available in your price range and neighbourhood, what similar properties recently sold for, and what the financing, tax, insurance and repair costs look like for the home in front of you. The buyer process and mortgage pre-approval guide cover those property-level decisions.

For a seller, do not raise or lower an asking price by the change in the median in these exported records. The homes sold in two different periods are not the same set. Start with recent local comparables, then test price and presentation against the homes a buyer can choose today. The seller process and pricing guide are the next steps.

You may see older monthly articles here that say “House” in the title. Those use a later set of exports and then narrow the records to the House building-type label. This longer history uses the nine historical single-family-residential search exports without that extra House-only selection. If the figures differ, please do not read the gap as the contribution of non-House homes: the source versions and selection rules differ too.

How I built this history

This history uses nine MLS exports captured on August 19, 2026. When I ran the search, I intended to include SREB single-family residential listings for sale in districts within the City of Greater Sudbury, but the saved settings are not embedded in the CSV files. The figures describe those registered exports, not a certified count of every eligible City listing. Each MLS listing is a distinct event; a relisted property may contribute another event. The 2026 annual row stops on August 19.

The open-record comparison counts a listing from its listing date up to, but not including, its recorded off-market date; no off-market date means it remains open through the export cutoff. Four sold records missing that date use their closing date, and 35 records with an off-market date before the listing date are omitted. Those counts do not recover every interim listing status. The listing and closing flows do not establish the eventual probability of sale for a newly listed home, and the price medians do not establish causes or constant-quality appreciation.