For someone starting a home search with a $600,000 purchase-price ceiling, these figures show how differently that threshold sits within each property category.
Most recorded condominium sales and more than half of freehold townhouse sales fell within it. Detached sales at that price were a smaller part of their category.
These are completed sale agreements visible in an August data snapshot. They describe what sold, rather than what is available to buy today.
How many sales were at or below $600,000?
The threshold includes sales at exactly $600,000.
Common scale: 0–100%. Source: PropTx snapshot, September 10, 2026. The table gives the same percentages and sample counts.
| Property type | August sold listing episodes | Sold for $600,000 or less | Share of category |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apartment condominium | 128 | 115 | 89.8% |
| Townhouse condominium | 73 | 72 | 98.6% |
| Freehold townhouse | 207 | 122 | 58.9% |
| Single detached | 379 | 42 | 11.1% |
Source: New Purveyors Lab calculations from a PropTx VOW snapshot extracted September 10, 2026. Each percentage uses that property's category total as its denominator.
The largest number of sales within the threshold was in the freehold townhouse group: 122. Condo townhouses had the highest share within the threshold, with 72 of 73 recorded sales at or below $600,000.
Those statements answer different questions. A category can have a high proportion of sales within budget while contributing fewer actual sales than a larger category.
Was $600,000 enough for a freehold townhouse?
It covered the recorded sale price of 122 of 207 freehold townhouse sold episodes in August, or 58.9%.
The category's median sale price was $582,500. Its middle half of sale prices ran from approximately $530,000 to $630,000, placing the $600,000 threshold inside that central range.
This makes freehold townhouses a relevant category to investigate at this purchase-price level. It does not establish that a particular neighbourhood, bedroom count or condition was available within the budget. This analysis does not break the sales down by those characteristics.
What about a detached home?
The sample included 42 detached sold episodes at $600,000 or less, out of 379, or 11.1%.
The detached median was $805,000. A $600,000 ceiling therefore captured a relatively small share of that category's recorded sales, although it did not exclude the category entirely.
We cannot infer why those 42 sales were below the threshold. Location, size, condition and other characteristics have not been compared here. The figures do not justify describing those homes as bargains, renovation projects or substitutes for the typical detached sale.
For a buyer, the useful next question is which of the homes in that price range would actually meet their needs.
How do condominium options compare?
Most sales in both condominium categories were within the threshold: 115 of 128 apartment condo episodes and 72 of 73 condo townhouse episodes.
Their August median sale prices were close—$385,500 for apartment condos and $386,000 for condo townhouses—but their price distributions differed. The middle half of apartment condo prices ran from approximately $305,000 to $515,000. For condo townhouses, it ran from approximately $359,000 to $420,000.
The similarity in medians does not establish that the homes, buildings or ownership expenses were equivalent. Condominium fees and other ongoing costs are outside this analysis, so the sale-price threshold is not a comparison of total affordability.
Our Ottawa move-up price-gap article explores the differences between these group medians in more detail.
How should buyers use these numbers?
Use the findings to frame a search: which property categories produced sales within your purchase-price limit, and which deserve closer examination in the areas you are considering?
The next comparison needs to account for the actual homes and their ownership costs. A historical sale count does not promise similar inventory now, and a purchase-price limit does not establish a household's financing eligibility or monthly budget.
The strongest supported finding is specific: in this August sample, a $600,000 threshold included a majority of freehold townhouse sales, most condominium sales and a smaller minority of detached sales.
Source and methodology
This study uses a PropTx VOW snapshot extracted September 10, 2026. It includes records marked sold, for sale rather than rent, with August 2026 purchase contract dates and the feed's Ottawa region designation. It does not use closing dates to assign the month.
The four property categories contain 787 sold listing episodes. Another 73 records in the broad residential extraction belong to other property types and are excluded. All included episodes had valid positive recorded sale prices. Each group exceeds the analysis's minimum of 30 valid sales, which is not a guarantee of statistical precision.
We count episodes with recorded sale prices at or below $600,000 and divide by all valid sales in the same category. Percentages are rounded to one decimal place. Supporting medians and middle-50% ranges use the same extraction; quartiles use linear interpolation. No outlier trimming was applied.
The region is not asserted to match an independently verified municipal boundary or the full Ottawa Real Estate Board territory. Source coverage, withheld records and later updates remain limitations. Relistings are not linked into unique properties, and unsold listings are outside the sample. The analysis does not adjust for location, size, condition or ownership costs.
This extraction contains 379 detached sold episodes. The supplied report snapshot used in our time-to-sell and below-asking articles contains 378. Those snapshots have not been combined.
Data source: PropTx. Analysis and commentary: Matt Richling, New Purveyors Lab.
Cite this edition
Richling, Matt. “What sold for $600,000 or less in the Ottawa region?” New Purveyors Lab. August 2026 edition, published September 11, 2026. Data source: PropTx. Permanent edition.