Even in the currently sluggish housing market, home buyers in certain GTA neighbourhoods are wasting no time when it comes to snapping up family-sized houses.
According to a recent analysis by digital real estate platform Wahi, single-family homes continue to sell in two weeks or less in specific Toronto-area communities.
The platform analyzed home sales data for the first quarter of 2025 and looked at the average number of days that listings remained on the market before selling. Findings show that three-bedroom single-family homes are the fastest-selling type of property in the GTA.
To be considered in the analysis, neighbourhoods had to meet a threshold of at least five sales of a given housing type.
Source: Wahi.
Single-family homes with three bedrooms, which for the purposes of the study, included detached and semi-detached houses as well as townhouses, took an average of 23 days to sell. In 48 specific neighbourhoods, three-bedroom single-family homes took only two weeks or less to sell.
Only seven neighbourhoods saw homes with two bedrooms or fewer sell as quickly, while 37 neighbourhoods matched this pace of sales for four-bedroom houses.
The analysis cites recent research from the Missing Middle Initiative, a think tank based out of the University of Ottawa, and Toronto Metropolitan University’s Centre for Urban Research and Land Development, which both suggest that a lack of accessible family-sized housing is driving more home buyers out of the GTA every year.
Source: Wahi.
When looking at the entire GTA housing market, the area’s condo segment is by far the weakest, with smaller units proving to be the toughest to sell. In the first quarter of the year, condos remained on the market for an average of 36 days before selling, which is 11 days longer than single-family homes.
Condos with two or fewer bedrooms took an average of 37 days to sell, while three-bedroom and four-bedroom condos took 34 days each on average.
In 18 GTA neighbourhoods, condos with two or fewer bedrooms took approximately 50 days to sell on average. In Toronto, neighbourhoods like Eglinton East, Milliken Mills East, Jane and Finch, Humber Heights, Saint James Town, and Dorset Park all struggled with condo sales in the first quarter of 2025.
