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Parry Sound Cottage Market | Year End Review & 2026 Outlook

2025 Review

2025 proved to be another difficult year for the Parry Sound cottage market. Sales edged higher, increasing 2.5% from 2024 to 373 transactions, but still ran approximately 31% below long-term historical norms. Weakness was evident across all price ranges. Even the luxury waterfront segment-properties priced above $2,000,000-saw sales decline by roughly 10% year over year, underscoring the depth of the slowdown. A very interesting statistic is that on average, cottages sold for 93.5% of asking even with a large number of price drops. I see this as evidence that sellers expectations are still substantially higher than the market will currently bare.
Listing activity continued to build. New cottage listings rose 3.4% year over year to 1,179 units, pushing overall supply close to decade-high levels. Inventory was elevated across every price band, creating sustained pressure on absorption. If we pull back even further however, the listing numbers are much closer to long term averages.
One of the most notable features of the year was the surge in terminated listings. Termination volume-properties withdrawn from the market without a successful sale-reached 247 units, the highest level in recent memory and more than four times long-term historical norms. This reflects widespread repricing activity and growing seller resistance in a price-sensitive market.

2025 in a Nutshell

Unit sales down 5.7% – 31% below long term averages
Sale prices averaged 6.5% below asking
New listings close to 10 year high
Termination rate at historic highs
Average days on market was 61, down from 64 in 2024
Average Price – Just over $ 900,000.00
Approximately 12 months of inventory on average with 15.75 at the end of December

2026 Outlook

Looking ahead to 2026, we expect conditions in the Parry Sound cottage market to remain largely unchanged from 2025:

Supply is likely to stay elevated.…

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