Selling in Oakville or Burlington?A flat fee, not a commission.
Licensed local agents who list, negotiate and close your Halton home for one flat fee set by its price. Set before you meet your agent. Non-exclusive. Cancel anytime. Paid only at closing.⁶
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Oakville (about 243,100 people in 2025) and Burlington (about 197,700) are neighbouring Lake Ontario municipalities in Halton Region, between Toronto and Hamilton, and Landian works across both 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: $8,999 flat for a home around $900,000. $11,999 flat for a home around $1,250,000. $14,999 flat for a home around $1,750,000. 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
Oakville and Burlington at a glance
Two lakefront neighbours growing at different speeds. By Statistics Canada’s estimates Oakville added 9.4% to its population from mid-2021 to mid-2025, while Burlington added 2.0% and dipped slightly from 2024 to 2025. Oakville is also the more international of the two: 41.2% of its residents were immigrants in 2021, against 25.7% in Burlington.
Oakville
Town, Halton Region
Residents
243,107
StatCan estimate, July 1, 2025
Median home value*
$1,200,000
Homeowners
77.5%
Detached houses
58.6%
Built 2016-2021
11.3%
Aged 65 and over
15.7%
Burlington
City, Halton Region
Residents
197,737
StatCan estimate, July 1, 2025
Median home value*
$900,000
Homeowners
75.1%
Detached houses
50.3%
Built 2016-2021
3.9%
Aged 65 and over
21.0%
Halton Region
Oakville, Burlington, Milton and Halton Hills
Residents
666,454
StatCan estimate, July 1, 2025
Median home value*
$1,000,000
Homeowners
78.5%
Detached houses
56.8%
Built 2016-2021
8.9%
Aged 65 and over
16.0%
Statistics Canada. Residents are the July 1, 2025 population estimates (tables 17-10-0155 and 17-10-0152); the other figures are from the 2021 Census of Population: *median value of owner-occupied dwellings as estimated by their owners, homeowners (share of households that own), detached houses and homes built 2016-2021 (shares of occupied private dwellings; our calculation) and residents aged 65 and over. Values are from 2021; September 2026 prices are under “Why people are buying here now”.
Living in Oakville and Burlington
Two harbour towns on the lake, a championship golf valley, a downtown pier and the Niagara Escarpment rising behind it all, with Toronto to the east and Hamilton to the west.
Lakeshore Road East, downtown Oakville
Oakville
A harbour town at the mouth of Sixteen Mile Creek
Oakville grew from the mouth of Sixteen Mile Creek, where Colonel William Chisholm bought land in 1827, financed the harbour and laid out the town survey, first completed in 1833 (Town of Oakville; Canada’s Historic Places). Oakville Harbour is still there, with about 200 boat slips and the Oakville Yacht Club, built in 1907. Beside it, two heritage conservation districts keep the old town: Old Oakville, 162 mostly 19th-century houses designated in 1982, and First and Second Street, 69 houses built mostly from 1850 to 1900, designated in 1987.
Downtown runs along Lakeshore Road East, and the Sixteen Mile Creek trails follow the valley through Lions Valley Park, part of more than 200 km of recreational trails across town. Between downtown and the QEW, Midtown Oakville, around Oakville GO station, is named in provincial, regional and Town policy as a place for intensification: the Town’s October 2025 estimate is 32,472 more residents and 17,268 jobs there by 2051, and it expects Oakville’s population to double by then.
Bronte, at the mouth of Twelve Mile Creek in west Oakville, began as a harbour of its own: the Bronte Harbour Company was founded in 1846, and by 1856 the newly dredged harbour had two piers and a lighthouse (Town of Oakville). Bronte Harbour now has about 200 seasonal slips beside Bronte Heritage Waterfront Park. Inland, on the west side of town, Bronte Creek Provincial Park covers 682 hectares, with a ravine 50 m deep, the Spruce Lane farmhouse from about 1899 and day use all year (Ontario Parks).
North of the QEW, the Glen Abbey neighbourhood surrounds the Glen Abbey Golf Club, which opened in 1976 as Jack Nicklaus’s first solo design (Nicklaus Design). It first hosted the Canadian Open in 1977 and by 2018 had hosted it 30 times, more than any other club (PGA Tour). The Fourteen Mile Creek and Taplow Creek trails follow the creek valleys through west Oakville, and Bronte GO is the Lakeshore West station on this side of town.
A downtown at the lake, a pier and Joseph Brant’s land
Downtown Burlington meets the lake at Spencer Smith Park, a waterfront park with a wide promenade and the Rotary Centennial Pond, where the Brant Street Pier reaches 137 metres over Lake Ontario. Along the same shore are Discovery Landing, a 14,200-square-foot lakeside building with dining, and Beachway Park, with 6.8 acres of park and two kilometres of lakeside trails (Halton community directory).
The city’s community museum tells the story from the Mohawk and British army captain Joseph Brant (Thayendanegea, 1742-1807), whom King George III granted 3,450 acres at the head of the lake, Burlington Bay, in 1798. The Joseph Brant Museum, built to closely model his home and opened in 1942, reopened after a renovation in September 2019 (Museums of Burlington). Burlington’s homes are older on average than Oakville’s: 47.4% were built before 1981, against 27.0% in Oakville, and 17.5% are apartments in buildings of five or more storeys, against 12.2% (2021 Census).
Canada’s largest botanical garden and the Niagara Escarpment
At Burlington’s west end, Royal Botanical Gardens describes itself as the largest botanical garden in Canada and a National Historic Site, with more than 40 living collections in five major garden areas and nature sanctuaries of Carolinian forest, Escarpment cliffs, oak savannah and coastal wetlands reached by 27 km of walking trails. The RBG Centre and Hendrie Park are at 680 Plains Road West in Burlington; the Rock Garden is across the line in Hamilton (RBG).
Behind the city rises the Niagara Escarpment, a UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve since 1990 that runs 725 km from the Niagara Region to the top of the Bruce Peninsula (Niagara Escarpment Commission). The Bruce Trail, which the Bruce Trail Conservancy calls Canada’s oldest and longest marked footpath, follows it with more than 900 km of main trail from Niagara to Tobermory. On Guelph Line, Conservation Halton’s Mount Nemo has cliffs, crags and caves and the Brock Harris Lookout, where the CN Tower is visible on clear days.
Royal Botanical Gardens
Hendrie Park
Mount Nemo
Brock Harris Lookout
Bruce Trail
Why people are buying here now
What the numbers say about demand on the Halton lakeshore this fall.
Oakville keeps growing
Statistics Canada estimates Oakville had 243,107 residents on July 1, 2025, up 9.4% from 2021, while Burlington, at 197,737, grew 2.0%. Halton Region as a whole passed 666,000.
Homes on the way
Ontario’s 2031 housing targets are 33,000 new homes for Oakville and 29,000 for Burlington. Oakville counted 3,679 housing starts in 2024, 134% of that year’s target, by the CMHC data the Town cites.
Prices below last year
In September 2026 the MLS® Home Price Index benchmark was $1,128,800 in Oakville and $840,600 in Burlington, down 3.03% and 2.81% from a year earlier. For a detached house it was $1,573,000 and $1,182,500 (TRREB).
More to choose from
Oakville had 1,073 active listings in September 2026, 4.9 months of inventory, and Burlington 761, or 3.6 months. Homes sold for 96% and 97% of their listing price on average, after 32 and 34 days on the market (TRREB).
Oakville or Burlington: how they differ
Neighbours on the same lake and the same GO line, with different prices, ages and pace. Every figure below is from TRREB’s September 2026 Market Watch, the 2021 Census or GO Transit’s fall 2026 schedule.
Price
The median sale in September 2026 was $1,211,500 in Oakville and $880,000 in Burlington; for detached houses, $1,546,000 and $1,219,950. The 2021 Census medians were $1,200,000 and $900,000.
Age
Burlington is older: 21.0% of residents were 65 or over in 2021, against 15.7% in Oakville, and the median age was 44.4, against 41.6.
Households
Oakville’s households are bigger, 2.9 people on average against 2.5, and its median household income in 2020 was $128,000, against $110,000 in Burlington.
The commute
On a weekday this fall, GO trains take 34 to 46 minutes from Oakville GO to Union Station and 52 to 65 minutes from Burlington GO.
What homes here look like
Mostly family houses owned by the people who live in them. About three in four households own their home in both, 77.5% in Oakville and 75.1% in Burlington, and detached houses make up 58.6% of occupied homes in Oakville and 50.3% in Burlington. Townhouses come next: row houses are 17.0% of Oakville’s homes and 18.8% of Burlington’s, and condominiums are 16.9% and 24.1% (2021 Census).
The 2021 Census medians were $1,200,000 in Oakville and $900,000 in Burlington, against $1,000,000 across Halton. They cover every owner-occupied home, so a lakefront lot or a new detached house can sit well above them.
Old Oakville and downtown
The oldest streets, by the lake on either side of Sixteen Mile Creek, where heritage conservation districts designated under Part V of the Ontario Heritage Act protect 19th-century houses. Ask the Town what needs a heritage permit before you plan exterior work.
Newer Oakville
11.3% of Oakville’s homes in 2021 had been built from 2016 to 2021. In September 2026 the Halton District School Board broke ground on Preserve Drive for a 926-student elementary school, due in fall 2028, for the town’s enrolment growth.
Older Burlington
47.4% of Burlington’s homes were built before 1981, and 17.5% are apartments in buildings of five or more storeys, like the towers along the downtown waterfront.
On the Escarpment
Homes on the Escarpment in north Burlington can fall inside the Niagara Escarpment Plan area. Ask whether a property needs a Niagara Escarpment Commission development permit before you plan to build or add on.
Schools in English and French
Four publicly funded boards serve both municipalities, two in each language. The Halton District School Board (HDSB, English public) welcomed about 64,000 students from Kindergarten to Grade 12 on September 8, 2026, and the Halton Catholic District School Board (HCDSB) has more than 36,000 students in 48 elementary and 10 secondary schools across Burlington, Halton Hills, Milton and Oakville.
In French, Conseil scolaire Viamonde (public) has École élémentaire du Chêne, École élémentaire Patricia Picknell and École secondaire Gaétan-Gervais, which offers the International Baccalaureate diploma, in Oakville, and École élémentaire Renaissance in Burlington. Conseil scolaire catholique MonAvenir has École élémentaire catholique Sainte-Marie and École secondaire catholique Sainte-Trinité in Oakville and École élémentaire catholique Saint-Philippe in Burlington. Each board sets its own boundaries, so check a specific address with its school finder.
Five GO stations on the Lakeshore West line serve the two: Oakville and Bronte in Oakville, and Appleby, Burlington and Aldershot in Burlington. Metrolinx runs two-way, all-day service seven days a week between Union Station and Aldershot. On GO’s weekday schedule this fall there are 46 trips a day from Oakville GO to Union, the first at 5:17 a.m., about every 30 minutes at midday, taking 34 to 46 minutes; from Burlington GO the trip takes 52 to 65 minutes.
The line is being rebuilt for more trains. Metrolinx’s GO Expansion plan calls for 15-minute service or better through the day between Toronto and Burlington, with corridor works such as the Burloak Drive grade separation, and weekend track work sometimes closes parts of the line, so check GO service alerts before a weekend trip. By car, the QEW and Highway 403 run through both.
On the water, Oakville’s two harbours have about 200 slips each, with a launch ramp at Shipyard Park in Oakville Harbour and a public ramp at Bronte Beach Park, and Burlington’s downtown waterfront runs from Spencer Smith Park and the Brant Street Pier to Beachway Park. Inland, Oakville counts more than 200 km of recreational trails, and Bronte Creek Provincial Park is open for day use all year.
Conservation Halton runs the Escarpment parks: Mount Nemo in Burlington and, in neighbouring Milton, Rattlesnake Point and Kelso, which is the Glen Eden ski and snowboard hill in winter and has trails, a lake and a lifeguarded beach the rest of the year. Reservations are not required but are recommended. Royal Botanical Gardens’ nature sanctuaries are home to more than 50 at-risk species and are a major stopover for thousands of migratory birds.
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% up to $2 million, plus 2.5% above $2 million where the land holds one or two single-family homes. On a $1,250,000 house that comes to $21,475. Toronto’s municipal land transfer tax applies to property in the City of Toronto, so a buyer in Oakville or Burlington pays the provincial tax alone. First-time buyers may qualify for a refund of up to $4,000.
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.
Burlington knows what a storm can do: on August 4, 2014, about 191 mm of rain fell in roughly eight hours and more than 3,000 homes were flooded (City of Burlington). Conservation Halton regulates watercourses, valleylands, wetlands, the Lake Ontario and Burlington Bay shoreline and the land next to them under Ontario Regulation 41/24, and most work there, down to decks, sheds and docks, needs its permission. It has updated flood hazard mapping for the Tuck, Shoreacres, Appleby and Sheldon creeks in east Burlington. Check a property near a creek or the shore on its map before you buy or list.
Three example prices in Oakville and Burlington, from a townhouse to a large detached home, and the listing side at each against a traditional 2.5%. One flat fee instead of a percentage: $8,999 flat for a home around $900,000. $11,999 flat for a home around $1,250,000. $14,999 flat for a home around $1,750,000.⁶
On a home around $900,000
Traditional listing side (2.5%)$22,500
1% service (about $3,000 minimum)$9,000
Landian flat fee$8,999
$13,501⁵⁶
more in your pocket than a traditional listing
On a home around $1,250,000
Traditional listing side (2.5%)$31,250
1% service (about $3,000 minimum)$12,500
Landian flat fee$11,999
$19,251⁵⁶
more in your pocket than a traditional listing
On a home around $1,750,000
Traditional listing side (2.5%)$43,750
1% service (about $3,000 minimum)$17,500
Landian flat fee$14,999
$28,751⁵⁶
more in your pocket than a traditional listing
Landian flat fee⁶1% of the price$11,999 flat for a home around $1,250,000. That’s 0.96%, 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 Oakville, Burlington and the rest of Halton.
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.
Bronte Harbour, Oakville
Moving to Oakville and Burlington?
Moving for the lake, the schools or the GO train? Tell us which neighbourhoods you are watching and you are matched with a licensed buyer’s agent who works the Halton lakeshore. Budget for Ontario’s land transfer tax, about $21,475 on a $1,250,000 house, 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 Oakville or Burlington with Landian?
One flat fee set by your home's price, in Canadian dollars, not a percentage: $8,999 flat for a home around $900,000. $11,999 flat for a home around $1,250,000. $14,999 flat for a home around $1,750,000. 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 Oakville and Burlington?
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 Oakville and Burlington?
Yes. Landian has office pages for neighbouring Mississauga and Hamilton and matches you with licensed local agents within about 120 km of your home, so all of Oakville and Burlington is covered. Agents who accept your fee answer, and you compare them before anyone calls.
Do I pay Toronto’s land transfer tax in Oakville or Burlington?
No. Toronto’s municipal land transfer tax applies to property in the City of Toronto. In Oakville and Burlington you pay Ontario’s land transfer tax only, about $21,475 on a $1,250,000 house, and first-time buyers may qualify for a refund of up to $4,000 (Ontario Ministry of Finance).
How long is the GO train from Oakville or Burlington to Union Station?
On GO’s weekday Lakeshore West schedule this fall, 34 to 46 minutes from Oakville GO and 52 to 65 minutes from Burlington GO, with trains about every 30 minutes at midday. Metrolinx plans 15-minute service or better through the day between Toronto and Burlington; check for weekend track work before you travel.
Which costs more, Oakville or Burlington?
Oakville, on the median. In September 2026 the median sale through TRREB’s MLS® System was $1,211,500 in Oakville and $880,000 in Burlington, and the benchmark detached house $1,573,000 against $1,182,500. Both benchmarks were about 3% below a year earlier.
Can my children go to school in French?
Yes. Conseil scolaire Viamonde runs public French schools, including École secondaire Gaétan-Gervais in Oakville, which offers the International Baccalaureate diploma, and Conseil scolaire catholique MonAvenir runs Catholic ones, including École secondaire catholique Sainte-Trinité in Oakville and École élémentaire catholique Saint-Philippe in Burlington. Ask the board about admission. In 2021, 11.0% of Oakville residents and 8.6% of Burlington’s could speak both English and French.
Are Oakville and Burlington part of Toronto?
No. They are separate municipalities in the Regional Municipality of Halton, with Milton and Halton Hills, west of Mississauga and Toronto. Halton Region had about 666,454 residents on July 1, 2025 (Statistics Canada).
How does buying a home in Oakville or Burlington 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 Oakville or Burlington 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.
