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Aurora (about 67,400 people), Newmarket (about 95,800) and the Township of King (about 29,100) sit side by side at the north end of York Region, about 40 minutes to an hour from Union Station by GO train, and Landian works across all three, from King City, Nobleton and Schomberg to Aurora’s and Newmarket’s main streets, with licensed local agents. Sellers list on the MLS with a licensed local agent for one flat fee set by the home's price, not a commission: $7,999 flat for a home around $850,000. $11,999 flat for a home around $1,300,000. $14,999 flat for a home around $1,800,000. The fee is shown before you meet the agent, written into your agreement, and paid only at closing. Buyers get a buyer's agent on the same schedule, based on the price of the home they buy, usually covered by the seller's contribution; anything the seller contributes above it comes back as a rebate or closing credit where allowed. Fees are in Canadian dollars.⁶
Aurora, Newmarket and King at a glance
Three municipalities, three densities. King is the largest municipality in York Region by area and the smallest by population, with about 82 people per square kilometre; Newmarket fits about 2,284 into each of its 38.5 square kilometres. Aurora grew fastest from 2016 to 2021, by 11.9%, ahead of King (11.5%) and more than twice York Region as a whole (5.7%).
Aurora
Town, York Region
Residents
67,385
StatCan estimate, July 2025
Growth 2016-2021
11.9%
People per km²
1,241.1
Median home value*
$1,000,000
Homeowners
81.2%
Detached houses
60.4%
Newmarket
Town, York Region
Residents
95,763
StatCan estimate, July 2025
Growth 2016-2021
4.4%
People per km²
2,284.1
Median home value*
$950,000
Homeowners
75.8%
Detached houses
59.8%
King
Township, York Region
Residents
29,077
StatCan estimate, July 2025
Growth 2016-2021
11.5%
People per km²
82.3
Median home value*
$1,600,000
Homeowners
88.2%
Detached houses
87.2%
Residents are Statistics Canada’s population estimates for July 1, 2025. The other figures are from the Statistics Canada 2021 Census Profile: population growth from 2016 to 2021, people per square kilometre of land, *median value of owner-occupied dwellings as estimated by their owners, homeowners (share of households that own) and detached houses (share of occupied dwellings; our calculation). For York Region as a whole, the same figures are 5.7%, 667.3, $1,100,000, 82.2% and 61.9%. Values are from 2021; September 2026 prices are under “Why people are buying here now”.
Living in Aurora, Newmarket and King
Two railway towns on Yonge Street and a rural township of villages and horse farms on the Oak Ridges Moraine, side by side at the north end of the GTA.
Hillary House National Historic Site, Aurora
Aurora
A railway town on Yonge Street, with a new town square
Aurora grew up on Yonge Street, the road finished in 1796 to link Lake Ontario and Lake Simcoe. The settlement, then Machell’s Corners, boomed after Canada West’s first railway arrived from Toronto in 1853; postmaster Charles Doan renamed its post office Aurora, for the Roman goddess of sunrise, in 1854, and it became a village in 1863 and a town in 1888. Its 1874 drill shed is Ontario’s oldest purpose-built armoury still in use, and Hillary House, a National Historic Site that the Aurora Historical Society runs as a museum, stands on Yonge Street (The Canadian Encyclopedia).
The Town protects Northeast Old Aurora as a heritage conservation district, where every tree counts as a heritage asset, and its heritage walking tour passes the childhood home of Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson and the house of John Bowser, who oversaw construction of the Empire State Building. Aurora Town Square opened in September 2024 around the old Church Street School, now home to the Aurora Cultural Centre and the Aurora Museum & Archives: a 29,000-square-foot outdoor community space and a 32,000-square-foot space with a flexible performance hall. Magna International and Bulk Barn have their headquarters in town, and St. Andrew’s College has been on its 126-acre Yonge Street campus since 1926.
Newmarket began with Quaker settlers from Pennsylvania who were granted land in 1801 and quickly built a gristmill; the spot became a “new market” for goods, including produce from the Holland Marsh. By the 1820s the town was growing along an old Indigenous trail that became Main Street, it reached north to a new railway station in 1853, and it became a village in 1858 and a town in 1880. Robert Simpson ran a dry goods store here from 1858 to 1872 before moving to Toronto and building the Simpsons department stores (The Canadian Encyclopedia).
Main Street’s south end has been a heritage conservation district since 2013, and the Italianate Old Town Hall of 1883, which once housed the farmers’ market, is now an arts hub. Main Street won the People’s Choice award in the Canadian Institute of Planners’ 2016 Great Places in Canada contest, and Summerfest on Main, first held in 2025, was named best event for a city or municipality at the 2026 Canadian Event Awards. Fairy Lake, on the East Holland River, connects to the Nokiidaa and Tom Taylor trails, and on September 18, 2026 the Town opened Mulock Park, 16 acres on the former Mulock estate at Yonge Street and Mulock Drive. Southlake Health, on Davis Drive, runs regional cancer and cardiac care programs, and the Town counts more than 41,000 local jobs.
Horse farms and villages on the Oak Ridges Moraine
King is the largest municipality in York Region and has the smallest population. Two-thirds of the township (66%) lies on the Oak Ridges Moraine and a third on the Greenbelt, and most people live in its three main villages, King City, Nobleton and Schomberg; smaller villages include Ansnorveldt, Kettleby, Laskay, Lloydtown, Pottageville and Snowball. The Township describes a thriving equine community of riding schools, boarding stables, race horses, show stables and breeders, and Nobleton as surrounded by rolling hills peppered with horse farms; its golf course sits in an enclave of multimillion-dollar homes.
King City, on the moraine a minute east of Highway 400, has its own GO station, the Municipal Centre, the King Township Cultural and Heritage Centre, Seneca’s King Campus (the Eaton family’s former 700-acre estate, a campus since 1971), The Country Day School and Villanova College; the Township’s Official Plan expects it to grow from about 6,900 people in 2016 to 15,500 by 2031. Schomberg, just north of the moraine at Highways 27 and 9, keeps a historic Main Street, a four-day agricultural fair and a Main Street Christmas on the first Saturday of December. The Holland Marsh, which the Township credits with more than $1 billion a year in economic impact, is part of King’s farm economy.
What the numbers say about the north end of York Region this fall.
Room to grow, by plan
Ontario’s Ministry of Finance projects York Region’s population to grow 20.0% from 2025 to 2051. Aurora’s Official Plan estimates 85,800 residents by 2051, and King’s expects King City to grow from about 6,900 people in 2016 to 15,500 by 2031, while its countryside shrinks slightly.
Prices below a year ago
TRREB’s MLS® Home Price Index benchmark for all home types was $1,106,800 in Aurora, $959,500 in Newmarket and $1,529,300 in King in September 2026, down 6.8%, 9.0% and 8.0% from a year earlier, against 4.7% across the GTA.
More homes to choose from
TRREB counted 292 active listings in Aurora, 331 in Newmarket and 239 in King in September 2026: about 4.9, 4.2 and 11.4 months of inventory. Homes sold for 98%, 97% and 94% of their listing price on average.
A new square and a new park
Aurora Town Square opened in September 2024 around the restored Church Street School. Newmarket opened the 16-acre Mulock Park in September 2026, with a café in the restored Mulock House and a 340-metre refrigerated skating trail.
What homes here look like
Mostly detached houses, owned by the people who live in them. Detached houses are 87.2% of occupied homes in King, 60.4% in Aurora and 59.8% in Newmarket, and 88.2%, 81.2% and 75.8% of households own their home, against 68.4% across Ontario (2021 Census).
The 2021 Census medians were $1,600,000 in King, $1,000,000 in Aurora and $950,000 in Newmarket, against $1,100,000 for York Region. In September 2026, TRREB’s detached benchmark was $1,739,800 in King, $1,307,600 in Aurora and $1,074,200 in Newmarket, and the median detached sale that month was $1,812,500, $1,255,000 and $1,046,500. With 16 detached sales in King that month, its figures move a lot from month to month.
Aurora
A heritage core and newer subdivisions: 37.3% of homes were built from 1981 to 2000 and 12.9% from 2016 to 2021, and row houses make up 16.8% of homes. September 2026 sales had a median of $1,081,500 across all home types.
Newmarket
The most varied mix: 59.1% of homes were built from 1961 to 2000, 10.4% before that, and 24.2% of households rent. Row houses (12.8%), semi-detached houses (7.4%) and flats in duplexes (6.6%) add choice below detached prices; TRREB’s September 2026 benchmark for an attached home was $788,600.
King
Village streets, estate lots and farms: 87.2% detached, and a third of homes (32.9%) built from 2011 to 2021; intensification is only permitted within village boundaries. TRREB’s year-to-date median to September 2026 was $1,720,000 over 161 sales.
Aurora from above, along Wellington Street
Schools: public, Catholic, French and independent
Four publicly funded boards serve the area. The York Region District School Board (English public) runs 183 elementary and 33 secondary schools for 126,879 students (October 2025), making it Ontario’s third-largest board, and the York Catholic District School Board, with its head office in Aurora, has 86 elementary and 17 secondary schools for about 50,000 students. In French, the Conseil scolaire catholique MonAvenir runs École secondaire catholique Renaissance (Grades 9 to 12) and École élémentaire catholique Saint-Jean in Aurora, and the Conseil scolaire Viamonde’s nearest schools are Académie de la Moraine and École secondaire Norval-Morrisseau in Richmond Hill and École élémentaire Chantal-Benoit in East Gwillimbury.
Public high schools include Aurora High School and Dr. G.W. Williams in Aurora; Newmarket High School, Huron Heights, Sir William Mulock and Dr. John M. Denison in Newmarket; and King City Secondary School. The Catholic board’s high schools are Cardinal Carter and St. Maximilian Kolbe in Aurora and Sacred Heart in Newmarket (Ontario Ministry of Education, 2024-25). Each board sets its own boundaries, so check a specific address with its school finder.
Independent schools are here too: St. Andrew’s College has more than 650 students on its Aurora campus, 260 of them boarders; Pickering College in Newmarket, founded on Quaker values, has taught since 1842 and runs from junior kindergarten to Grade 12; The Country Day School, founded in 1972, sits on 100 acres in King; and Villanova College is in King City.
Three GO stations on the Barrie line serve the area: King City GO, Aurora GO and Newmarket GO. In GO Transit’s weekday schedule for October and November 2026, 16 trains leave King City and Aurora for Union Station, every 15 to 30 minutes in the morning rush and about hourly until mid-afternoon, and 9 leave Newmarket. The ride takes about 40 to 45 minutes from King City, 50 to 55 from Aurora and about an hour from Newmarket. Aurora GO has 1,382 parking spaces, including an 847-space garage, and King City GO has 636. Metrolinx has changed some Barrie line evening and weekend trips until spring 2027, and its expansion plan aims for more frequent two-way, all-day service seven days a week, without a date.
By car, Highway 400 runs through King, a minute from King City, and the Township puts King about 50 minutes north of downtown Toronto. York Region Transit’s Viva rapid buses connect Aurora and Newmarket with Richmond Hill, Markham and Vaughan and with Toronto’s subway; in Newmarket, Viva has its own 2.6 km rapidway on Davis Drive, opened in November 2015, with a park-and-ride at Highway 404. Subway Line 1 is being extended about 8 km north from Finch toward Vaughan, Markham and Richmond Hill, with five stations; Metrolinx says it will open after the Ontario Line is complete.
Viva rapidway on Davis Drive at Main Street, Newmarket
King sits on the Oak Ridges Moraine, a 190,000-hectare landform: two-thirds of the township is on it, and almost a quarter of King, 8,000 hectares, is forest, more than 20% of all the forest cover in York Region. The Township counts more than 100 km of public trails, including 6.6 km of marked trails at Cold Creek Conservation Area, and the York Regional Forest, open every day of the year, has more than 2,500 hectares in 24 tracts and over 150 km of trails, with an accessible loop in Nobleton. Seneca’s King Campus covers 282 hectares of woods, lake and fields.
Aurora maintains about 62 km of trails and more than 62 parks on over 800 acres. The Tim Jones Trail, part of the Nokiidaa Trail, passes through Sheppard’s Bush and the Aurora Community Arboretum, about 40.5 hectares, and follows the East Holland River north toward Newmarket and East Gwillimbury. In Newmarket the Nokiidaa Trail reaches Fairy Lake, the 13.4-hectare Wesley Brooks Memorial Conservation Area, whose first dam was built in 1801 to power a mill and now controls flooding on the river; the park also connects to the Tom Taylor Trail.
The Holland Marsh is farm country: the Township estimates that enough carrots grow there each year to give every person in Canada four pounds, and that about 90% of the Asian vegetables eaten in Ontario come from it. King hosts Holland Marsh Soupfest each October.
Buying here: land transfer tax, heritage rules and the Moraine
Ontario charges land transfer tax on every purchase: 0.5% on the first $55,000, 1.0% up to $250,000, 1.5% up to $400,000 and 2.0% above that, plus 2.5% above $2 million where the land holds one or two single-family homes. That comes to $18,475 on a $1,100,000 house and $48,975 on a $2,500,000 estate. First-time buyers may qualify for a refund of up to $4,000. Toronto’s municipal land transfer tax is charged only on properties in the City of Toronto, so it does not apply in Aurora, Newmarket or King. Foreign buyers may also owe Ontario’s 25% non-resident speculation tax.
On a newer home, ask for the original date of possession: Tarion’s one- and two-year warranty coverage runs from that date even if the home has since been sold, and its seven-year coverage for major structural defects ends on the seventh anniversary of it.
Older streets and rural lots come with rules. In Newmarket’s Lower Main Street South Heritage Conservation District, alterations or demolition need a heritage permit. In King, every property on the Oak Ridges Moraine is governed by the Oak Ridges Moraine Conservation Act, 2001: owners can build within its guidelines, and intensification is only permitted within village boundaries. Parts of King fall under the Toronto and Region or the Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority, which regulate building near valleys, streams and wetlands, and in King a septic system within 100 metres of a stream, lake or pond that flows to Lake Simcoe must be inspected every five years.
Three example prices, from a townhouse in Newmarket to a detached house in King, and the listing side at each against a traditional 2.5%. One flat fee instead of a percentage: $7,999 flat for a home around $850,000. $11,999 flat for a home around $1,300,000. $14,999 flat for a home around $1,800,000.⁶
On a home around $850,000
Traditional listing side (2.5%)$21,250
1% service (about $3,000 minimum)$8,500
Landian flat fee$7,999
$13,251⁵⁶
more in your pocket than a traditional listing
On a home around $1,300,000
Traditional listing side (2.5%)$32,500
1% service (about $3,000 minimum)$13,000
Landian flat fee$11,999
$20,501⁵⁶
more in your pocket than a traditional listing
On a home around $1,800,000
Traditional listing side (2.5%)$45,000
1% service (about $3,000 minimum)$18,000
Landian flat fee$14,999
$30,001⁵⁶
more in your pocket than a traditional listing
Landian flat fee⁶1% of the price$11,999 flat for a home around $1,300,000. That’s 0.92%, and it never becomes a percentage.
Under $500,000, the fee you see is final. From $500,000, an agent may propose a different fee before you choose them, with a reason and always under 1% of your expected price. You can say no and wait for an agent who accepts.
The same three steps as everywhere on Landian, with licensed agents who work Aurora, Newmarket, King City, Nobleton and Schomberg.
1
Book online
Enter your address and expected price. Your flat fee shows right away; pick a consultation time.
2
Compare agents
Licensed local agents who accept your fee answer. You compare their cards (rating, experience, response time) and choose.
3
Meet and list
Meet your agent, then decide. Nothing is exclusive until your home is listed, and you can cancel from your dashboard.
Church Street School, now part of Aurora Town Square
Moving to Aurora, Newmarket and King?
Moving for the GO train, the schools or a few acres on the Moraine? Tell us which towns you are watching and you are matched with a licensed buyer’s agent who works northern York Region. Budget for Ontario’s land transfer tax, about $18,475 on a $1,100,000 home, alongside your down payment; Toronto’s municipal tax does not apply here.
A licensed buyer's agent for a flat fee from the same schedule, based on the price of the home you buy. The fee is usually covered by the seller's contribution, and anything the seller contributes above it comes back to you as a rebate or closing-cost credit where allowed.¹
How much does it cost to sell a house in Aurora, Newmarket or King with Landian?
One flat fee set by your home's price, in Canadian dollars, not a percentage: $7,999 flat for a home around $850,000. $11,999 flat for a home around $1,300,000. $14,999 flat for a home around $1,800,000. It is shown before you meet your agent, written into your agreement, and paid from your proceeds at closing. Nothing upfront.
Is the fee the same in Aurora, Newmarket, King City, Nobleton and Schomberg?
Yes. The schedule is set by the home's price, not by the town, so a home at the same price pays the same flat fee anywhere in Ontario. Under $500,000, the fee you see is final. From $500,000, an agent may propose a different fee before you choose them, with a reason and always under 1% of your expected price. You can say no and wait for an agent who accepts.
Does Landian have agents in Aurora, Newmarket and King?
Yes. Landian has office pages for Vaughan and Toronto and matches you with licensed local agents within about 120 km of your home, so Aurora, Newmarket, King City, Nobleton and Schomberg are covered. Agents who accept your fee answer, and you compare them before anyone calls.
How long is the GO train to Union Station?
In GO Transit’s weekday schedule for October and November 2026, trains take about 40 to 45 minutes from King City GO, 50 to 55 from Aurora GO and about an hour from Newmarket GO. Sixteen trains a weekday leave Aurora and King City for Union and nine leave Newmarket. Metrolinx has changed some Barrie line evening and weekend trips until spring 2027, so check the current timetable.
What are homes selling for right now?
In September 2026 the median sale across all home types was $1,081,500 in Aurora, $872,500 in Newmarket and $1,710,000 in King (TRREB). Benchmark prices were down from a year earlier in all three: 6.8% in Aurora, 9.0% in Newmarket and 8.0% in King, against 4.7% across the GTA.
Can you build on a property on the Oak Ridges Moraine?
Within limits. About 66% of King Township lies on the moraine and a third on the Greenbelt. Every property on the moraine is governed by the Oak Ridges Moraine Conservation Act, 2001: owners can build within its guidelines, and intensification is only permitted within village boundaries. Conservation authorities also regulate building near valleys, streams and wetlands, so check a lot with the Township before you buy or list.
Do buyers pay Toronto’s land transfer tax here?
No. Toronto’s municipal land transfer tax is charged on properties purchased in the City of Toronto. In Aurora, Newmarket and King you pay Ontario’s land transfer tax only, about $18,475 on a $1,100,000 home, and eligible first-time buyers may get up to $4,000 back. Foreign buyers may also owe Ontario’s 25% non-resident speculation tax.
Which school boards serve Aurora, Newmarket and King?
Four publicly funded boards: the York Region District School Board and the York Catholic District School Board in English, and the Conseil scolaire catholique MonAvenir and the Conseil scolaire Viamonde in French. MonAvenir’s École secondaire catholique Renaissance is in Aurora. Boundaries follow the street address, so check a specific home with each board.
How does buying a home in Aurora, Newmarket or King work with Landian?
You get a licensed buyer's agent for a flat fee from the same schedule, based on the price of the home you buy. The fee is usually covered by the seller's contribution, and anything the seller contributes above it comes back to you as a rebate or closing-cost credit where allowed.
Your northern York Region home. One flat fee.
Set before you meet your agent. Non-exclusive. Cancel anytime. Paid only at closing.
⁶Flat listing fee by expected price: $5,999 from $600K; $6,999 from $700K; $7,999 from $800K; $8,999 from $900K; $9,999 from $1M; $11,999 from $1.25M; $14,999 from $1.5M; $19,999 from $2M; lower below $600K. Based on the higher of the price you enter and a third-party estimate of your home’s value, and written into your Client Agreement before you meet an agent. If your listing price falls in a higher step, the fee follows the schedule; it never rises after your home is listed. Under $500K the fee you see is final; from $500K an agent may propose a different amount before you choose them, always under 1% of your expected price. Payable only at closing. Buyer-side fees use the same steps on the price of the home you buy and are usually covered by the seller’s contribution.
⁵Seller savings are estimated against a 2.5% listing-side commission on the final sale price. Commissions are not set by law and are negotiable, so actual savings vary by market, agent and property. The fee shown is the flat listing-side fee for the home’s price, set on Landian before the seller met the agent.
¹Rebates available where jurisdictional laws permit. Excludes AL, AK, KS, LA, MS, MO, OK, OR, TN. Seller credits may be requested as an alternative to rebates in restricted jurisdictions.
