08/24/2026
The Normal Market
What if today’s real estate market isn’t broken?
What if our measuring stick is?
For several years, buyers, sellers and even Realtors have been comparing today’s market to one of the most unusual periods Canadian real estate has ever experienced.
COVID gave us historically low rates, compressed inventory, frantic demand, bidding wars and homes selling almost immediately.
Extraordinary became normal.
And when extraordinary disappeared, normal started feeling broken.
That creates three very different problems:
Sellers wonder why their home hasn’t sold in three weeks.
Buyers finally have time and choice — yet sometimes struggle even more to make a decision.
And Realtors can fall into the trap of responding to every challenge with the easiest explanation:
“It’s the price.”
Sometimes it absolutely is.
But today’s market is giving us considerably more information than price alone.
Days on market.
Property days on market.
Inventory.
Showings.
Feedback.
Competing listings.
Recent sales.
Buyer behaviour.
The opportunity isn’t to predict what happens next.
It’s to get much better at reading what is happening now.
This week, we’re looking at THE NORMAL MARKET through three sets of eyes:
SELLERS. BUYERS. REALTORS.
Because national data gives us context.
Local data gives us instructions.
And maybe the most important reset is this:
The market doesn’t owe us 2021.
+the truth.