For the second time this year, the Canadian Real Estate Association has downgraded its forecast for home sales in 2025, even as it reported the number of homes changing hands across the country in June rose 3.5 per cent compared with a year ago.
For the second time this year, the Canadian Real Estate Association has downgraded its forecast for home sales in 2025, even as it reported the number of homes changing hands across the country in June rose 3.5 per cent compared with a year ago.
The association says Canadian home sales last month also increased 2.8 per cent compared with May on a seasonally adjusted basis.
In its outlook, CREA now expects a total of 469,503 residential properties to be sold this year, a three per cent decline from 2024. In April, the association forecast the number of home sales for 2025 to remain essentially unchanged from last year, which itself marked a steep cut from its January forecast of an 8.6 per cent year-over-year increase.
The national average home price is forecast to fall 1.7 per cent on an annual basis to $677,368 in 2025, which would be around $10,000 lower than predicted in April.
CREA senior economist Shaun Cathcart says that despite a “chaotic start to the year,” the latest data suggests the housing market rebound originally forecast for this year — before it was upended by the Canada-U.S. trade war — may have “only been delayed by a few months.”
In June, the national average sale price fell 1.3 per cent compared with a year earlier to $691,643.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 15, 2025.
Sammy Hudes, The Canadian Press