Where I work
Niagara isn’t one market. A townhouse in Welland, a century home in St. Catharines and a new build in Niagara Falls all sell to different people, on different timelines, for different reasons. Knowing which one you’re in changes what your listing should say and what your offer should look like.
These six have a page of their own, so start there if one of them is on your list:
- Welland The canal city, six wards, and a flatwater centre most of Ontario has still not heard of.
- St. Catharines The region’s largest city, six named wards, and the GO train to Toronto.
- Niagara Falls Weekday and weekend GO service, Niagara Parks on the doorstep, and a lot of new building.
- Beamsville Part of the Town of Lincoln, and where its future GO station really stands.
- Grimsby The west end of the region, and what the market figures can and can’t tell you there.
- Fort Erie How the town is put together, and what living on Lake Erie involves.
I also work in Thorold and Niagara-on-the-Lake, and beyond those across the rest of the Niagara Region. Those two don’t have a page of their own yet, and neither do the smaller places in between. That’s a note about my website rather than about where I work, so please ask me about any of them.
Whichever corner you’re in, we can do the whole thing in English, Spanish or French, and I do mean the whole transaction rather than only the first conversation.
What the Niagara market is doing right now
The figures, and their limits
In August 2026 the MLS Home Price Index composite benchmark price for the Niagara Association of REALTORS® board was $569,800, down 6.2 per cent year over year. The region recorded 522 sales, with 3,130 active listings at month end and 6 months of inventory, and the average sale price was $638,102 (CREA, board statistics, August 2026). I write these up every month in my Niagara market report.
Those are regional figures, and there’s no city-level alternative. No official source publishes a benchmark price or a days-on-market figure for any one of these towns on its own. CREA and the local board publish at board level, which covers most of the region (Grimsby isn’t on the board’s list of communities). If someone quotes you a per-city benchmark, it came from a private data aggregator. I’m not going to repeat a number I can’t point you at.
What I can do is show you the actual comparable sales on your street, which is a better answer than a regional average anyway. That’s what a comparative market analysis is for, and it’s free.
How I work across the region
Buying or selling, the process is the same wherever you are in Niagara, and I’ve written both halves out in full for you. If you’re buying, start on the buying page. If you’re selling, the selling page walks through how I price, prepare and market a listing. If you want a number on your own house before you decide anything, ask for one on the home value page.
I’ll sometimes guide you away from a home when I don’t believe it truly fits your lifestyle or long-term goals. That’s easier to do honestly when I know the street, and it’s the whole argument for working with someone local rather than someone regional.
Let’s talk homes over lattes. Get in touch and tell me which corner of Niagara you’re looking at.