Month in review

May 2026, by its own numbers.

216 homes changed hands across the Saint John board region, at a median of $355,000, selling for 104.2% of asking in a median of 21 days. A record of a closed month, written from the data rather than from memory.

What sold

$355,000

median sale price

+10.1% on a year earlier

104.2%

of asking price

sold above list

21 days

to sell

23 a year earlier

3.0 months

until everything sells

at that pace, tilted toward sellers

216

homes sold

worth $84.9 million

321

newly listed

sales equal to 67% of them

+0.0%

median vs April 2026

$355,000 then

$364,500

benchmark price

the index, +9.0% on the year

Sold figures cover the Saint John Real Estate Board region and CREA revises between reports, so treat month-to-month moves as direction. Listing figures are Greater Saint John from the MLS® feed, homes only. Source: Canadian MLS® Systems, CREA. Saint John and Area MLS® Residential Market Activity report, published by the New Brunswick Real Estate Board.