Winnipeg Housing Market: Home Prices and Sales | August 2026

The Winnipeg Regional Real Estate Board (WRREB) covers the City of Winnipeg and a market region around it that reaches Steinbach, Morden/Winkler, Gimli and Selkirk. Its monthly release reports averages for three kinds of home, splits each between the city and the surrounding region, and gives sales, active listings and dollar volume, but no MLS® HPI benchmark. The figures here are from the August 2026 release, published in September 2026. The Canadian housing market overview explains why an average can move when no home has changed in value.

Winnipeg home prices, August 2026

WRREB, August 2026. Changes are computed from the board’s figures for the same month a year earlier.

Inside city limits a detached house averaged $453,247 across 565 sales, against $416,565 in the towns and municipalities outside it, a gap of $36,682. The city’s detached average slipped on the year while its condo average rose; WRREB called the August condominium average a record for the month, and said year-to-date averages for both detached homes ($468,679) and condos ($288,834) were the highest on record. Dividing the board’s dollar volume by its 1,326 sales of every type gives an all-types average of $393,463, computed here rather than published by WRREB.

The busiest price band for detached houses was $300,000 to $399,999, with 228 sales or 25% of the total, and 16 detached homes sold for $1,000,000 or more. By neighbourhood, Waverley West had the most detached sales, ahead of St. Vital, and Downtown the most condo sales, ahead of Osborne Village.

Sales and active listings

Sales were 5% lower than a year earlier and active listings 13% higher, which the board said was the second-highest August total of active listings in five years. Even so, the 3.1 months of inventory that leaves is below the 3.6 months CREA uses as the edge of a seller’s market. Detached houses in the city were tighter still: 990 listings for 565 sales, or 1.8 months. WRREB does not publish a monthly new-listings count, so a sales-to-new-listings ratio can’t be worked out for Winnipeg (what the two measures show).

Land transfer tax and property tax

Manitoba’s land transfer tax (all provinces) is charged in brackets, reaching 2.0% on the part of the price above $200,000. On a house at the City of Winnipeg detached average it comes to $6,715. The same purchase with the minimum $22,662 down (5% of the price) carries a mortgage insurance premium of $17,223, rolled into the loan.

Winnipeg property tax is charged on a “portioned” assessment, 45% of assessed value for a house or condo, at the city’s municipal rate of 13.372 mills plus a school rate that depends on the school division. Combined residential rates for 2026 include 25.223 mills in Pembina Trails, 29.366 in the Winnipeg School Division and 29.530 in Seven Oaks. On an assessment equal to the city’s detached average, that is about $5,145 a year in Pembina Trails, $5,990 in the Winnipeg division and $6,023 in Seven Oaks, before Manitoba’s Homeowners Affordability Tax Credit (up to $1,600 for 2026) for eligible homeowners.

Income needed against Winnipeg incomes

With minimum down, the City of Winnipeg’s average detached house needs a household income of about $104,800 and its average condo about $66,400 (method). The Winnipeg metro area’s median household income in the 2021 Census was $83,000 (2020 incomes): the detached figure is 26% above it and the condo figure 20% below it.

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