Durham · Market Report

Centennial market

How homes are selling in Centennial. Latest: August 2026.

Updated with August 2026 sold data
Balanced marketAll home types · 22 sales over 3 months
Buyer'sBalancedSeller's

Homes in Centennial are selling near asking in about 25 days. Neither side has the upper hand right now.

What homes rent for hereLeases · 12 months

Median monthly rent in Centennial, by bedroom count.

2 bed20+$1,800
3 bed +20+$2,450-9.3% yr

Bedroom counts with fewer than 20 leases are not shown. Year-over-year appears only where the prior year also cleared that bar. Leases to 2026-09-15.

The Centennial market, at a glance

Sold prices, pace, and neighbourhood detail — pick any month we've reported.

$760,000
MEDIAN SOLD PRICE
11.8% vs prior month
6
HOMES SOLD
39
AVG DAYS ON MARKET
95%
SOLD-TO-LIST
COMMUNITIES
August
REPORT MONTH

What sold in Centennial, by home type — August 2026

Every style of home, averaged honestly — so you can see exactly where your home fits.

Detached homesAVG SOLD PRICE
2-Storey Detached
1 sale · too few to publish a price
INDICATIVE
Sidesplit
1 sale · too few to publish a price
INDICATIVE
Bungalow
1 sale · too few to publish a price
INDICATIVE
Backsplit
1 sale · too few to publish a price
INDICATIVE
Townhomes, condos & semisAVG SOLD PRICE
Condo Townhouse
1 sale · too few to publish a price
INDICATIVE
Condo Apt
1 sale · too few to publish a price
INDICATIVE

Average sold price within each tier. Detached split by style & garage. Tiers with fewer than 3 sales are marked indicative. Ask us for a precise read on any segment.

Sold-to-asking by home type

Above 100% means homes traded over ask — a read on where competition is hottest.

Detached homes sold — by size

Median price and price-per-square-foot for detached homes across size bands in August 2026. Smaller homes cost more per foot; larger homes cost more overall.

SIZE (SQ FT)MEDIAN SOLDHOMES SOLD$ / SQ FT
Under 1,0002
1,000 - 1,4991
1,500 - 1,9992
2,500 - 2,9991

Bands with only a handful of sales are directional. Ask us for the fuller multi-month trend.

Recent sold homes — August 2026

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What moves Centennial prices

Two forces sit behind almost every price move: the cost of borrowing and the pace of inflation. When rates fall and inflation cools, buying power rises and prices tend to firm; when they climb, the market cools.

5-year fixed mortgage rate
4.35%
0.05 pt
Jun 2025Jun 2026
Bank of Canada · uninsured, funds advanced
Inflation — CPI
3.00%
0.20 pt
Jul 2025Jul 2026
Bank of Canada / StatCan · year-over-year
Know Before You Go

Buying & selling in Centennial, made clear

Plain-English guides that turn the numbers above into decisions.

For Sellers

The first two weeks decide the price — what 4,301 Oshawa sales say about time on market

Homes that sold in Oshawa within a week got 101.1% of their asking price. Homes that took more than sixty days got 96.4%. The gap is worth about $34,000 on a typical Oshawa house — and the median sold price is almost identical in both groups, so this is not simply cheap homes selling fast. Here is the full picture from five years of TRREB sold data, with the method shown.

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Local history

The war that built Durham: six places between Ajax and Bowmanville where the Second World War actually happened

If you live in south Ajax, your street is almost certainly named after a sailor. A shell-filling plant the size of twelve square kilometres stood where your subdivision is. Ten kilometres east, Britain ran a secret agent school on the lakeshore. In Bowmanville, German U-boat commanders tunnelled under a boys' school. This is the history under Durham Region — what happened, what is still standing, and how to go and see it.

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Market data

The same house, $357,000 apart — what a four-bedroom detached costs across Whitby

A four-bedroom detached home sold for a median of $1,195,000 in Rural Whitby and $838,000 in Downtown Whitby over the past two years. Same bedroom count, same house type, one town — a 43% difference that is location and nothing else. And the neighbourhoods where buyers bid over asking are not the expensive ones. Ten Whitby communities, 898 sales, with the method shown.

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