Sooke’s 2025 real-estate market remained Greater Victoria’s most affordable enclave for home offerings, with prices significantly below the regional average, and up year-over-year within the sub-market compared to 2024, according to the latest Multiple Listings Service data from Victoria’s Real Estate Board.

 

 

2025 single-family-home sales via MLS numbered 265, a 30-unit or 15% jump over the previous year. Prices, meanwhile, averaged $977,149 in 2025, compared to $965,350 in 2024, an increase of 1.22%. The median in 2025 was slightly lower at $872,000 compared to $877,000 in 2024. The average time to sell a single-family-home, known as total days on market, rose in 2025 to 64 days from 54.

 

The annual Greater Victoria average for listings between Sooke and Sidney was $1,305,083, nearly 34% higher than the Sooke average, and 25% below the regional average. The Capital as a whole saw 3,510 single-family-home sales, with Sooke accounting for fewer than 8% of that total. The single-family housing market in all of Victoria saw price appreciation of nearly 3%.

 

Victoria real-estate agent Ryan Cook (see website) says the Sooke sub-market of the Capital Region remained a value leader compared to other communities, and makes a compelling case for buyers seeking more affordable homeownership in the Capital, or first-time buyers looking for an entry point.

 

“The price advantage in Sooke is well illustrated in the 2025 market data, showing a noteworthy 34% difference between an average detached home in Sooke, and elsewhere on the south Island,” Cook says. “For some buyers, price is a more motivating factor than location, and for individuals who may not necessarily need to commute into Victoria’s core, living in Sooke offers significant monthly mortgage savings and a suburban lifestyle in a community that evokes a blend of Tofino, Salt Spring Island, or other small coastal towns, yet it’s close to Victoria and connected by all-day transit services.”

 

 

Although a single-family-home-dominated real-estate market, Sooke only has a handful of condominiums buildings, which see marginal re-sales from year to year. In 2025, 14 units sold for an average of $678,700 with a $632,500 median. In 2024, 25 units sold at an average of $493,076, at a median of $450,000. The small volume of sales makes it difficult to extrapolate a definitive sense of value from year to year, or to derive a reasonable average for the purposes of a cross-regional comparison.

 

In December of 2025, no condominium sales were recorded via MLS.

 

Townhome sales (including units within multi-plexes like duplexes and tri-plexes) reached 72 units in 2025, at an average of $703,535, and a median of $672,500. This represents a 4% increase over 2024’s $676,055 at a median of $645,000, when 73 units sold.

 

Throughout the Capital Region, townhomes averaged at a price 18% above the Sooke average, or $830,125 (across 843 sales). Sooke’s 72 sales in 2025 represented 8.54% of the regional 843 total, slightly higher than the nearly 8% split in the single-family-home segment.

 

“The data shows a significant price advantage in the Sooke market for townhomes, compared to the regional average. Townhomes are the secondary market in Sooke, whereas condominiums are the secondary market in the Capital Region as a whole,” Cook said.

 

The District of Sooke’s population growth has led the province in recent census periods, rising by double digits in each of the last three censuses from 11,435 people in 2011 to 15,086 in 2021. Additionally, Statistics Canada data shows Sooke’s satellite communities (East Sooke, Otter Point, Shirley and Jordan River) saw an increase from 3,660 people to 4,585 over the same period, bringing the Sooke Region’s total 2021 population to 19,671 at a growth rate of over 30%. The latest iteration of the federal census is due in mid-2026, and is expected to reflect a population of upwards of 23,000.

 

 

Challenges in the community include a lack of retail offerings, placing pressure on residents to access retail amenities in adjacent suburbs like Langford and Colwood, and under-investment in road infrastructure by the District of Sooke, the Capital Regional District and the Province, which oversees the operations of Highway 14/Sooke Road (and Highway 14/West Coast Road west of Sooke’s town centre).

 

Cook, however, says the perceived traffic issues are considered normal by the standards of people who move to the Capital from larger urban centres in Canada, and improvements are on the way.

 

“Sooke’s traffic by Victoria standards is noteworthy, but it’s primarily an issue for commuters heading westbound into Sooke, and when compared to what motorists experience in other cities, it’s quite reasonable,” Cook says, adding:

 

“The impact is a personal perception and seen through a subjective lense, which makes it difficult to quantify. But there is investment coming by way of a new bypass in the town centre, and the Province is said to be working on multiple investments that will benefit traffic flows on Highway 14. In exchange for some traffic, is it worth saving several hundred thousand dollars? For many buyers, the trade-off is absolutely worth it.” C

 

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