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Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo Retail Market Report 2025 — Prices, Cap Rates & Trends

In the Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo retail market, the median recorded sale price is $2,025,000, across 158 recorded transactions, between 2021-09-08 to 2025-12-15.

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$2M

Median sale price

158

Recorded transactions

-46.7%

YoY change in median

Price distribution

Where Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo retail sale prices sat across 158 recorded transactions.

Median sale price by year

5 of 5 years in the window carried enough recorded sales to plot a median for Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo retail.

Recorded transaction volume by year

Year	Recorded transactions
2021	9
2022	36
2023	26
2024	44
2025	43

This market vs. Ontario overall

Metric	Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo	Ontario
Median sale price	$2,025,000	$2,194,500
25th percentile	$1,335,000	$1,325,000
75th percentile	$5,809,375	$4,750,000
Recorded transactions	158	29,749
Year-over-year change	-46.7%	-5.5%

Asset classes in Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo

Asset class	Median price	Transactions
Industrial	$4M	242
Land	$4.7M	109
Multifamily	$2.5M	383
Office	$2.5M	118
Other	$2.2M	226
Retail	$2M	158

Retail across Ontario markets

Market	Median price	Transactions
Barrie	$2.6M	52
Belleville	$1.4M	26
Brantford	$1.7M	47
Greater Sudbury	$1.9M	37
Guelph	$2.4M	39
Hamilton	$1.7M	223
Kingston	$2M	57
Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo	$2M	158
London	$2.1M	139
Oshawa	$2.2M	72
Ottawa	$2.6M	199
Peterborough	$2.2M	27
St. Catharines-Niagara	$1.6M	151
Thunder Bay	$1.3M	25
Toronto	$2.1M	1,287
Windsor	$1.6M	102

Rental market context

The CMHC Rental Market Survey reports a 4.1% purpose-built rental vacancy rate for Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo (2025). This is residential rental context, not a commercial metric.

Recent recorded sales

Month	Area	Price band	Type
2025-12	Cambridge, ON	$3.5M–$4.0M	Retail
2025-12	Cambridge, ON	$12M–$13M	Retail
2025-12	Cambridge, ON	$1.0M–$1.5M	Retail

Municipality, month and price band only.

Common questions

What is the median retail sale price in Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo?

$2,025,000, across 158 recorded transactions in our dataset.

Are Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo retail prices rising or falling?

The median recorded sale price changed -46.7% year over year in the most recent full comparison.

Methodology

This page draws on 158 recorded commercial transactions in Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo between 2021-09-08 and 2025-12-15, from the EVALUAITE Market Intelligence dataset. A city and asset class is published only once it carries at least 50 recorded transactions.

Too few of these sales reported a cap rate to publish a range, so none is shown. All 5 years in the window carried enough sales to plot a median. The year-over-year comparison had enough sales on both sides to compute. CMHC rental context is available for this market.

Prepared by the EVALUAITE Market Intelligence team.