Average days on market in the GTA ticked up to 32 this July, and active listings are sitting well above the ten-year average for the month — buyers simply have more homes to choose from than they did a couple of years ago. That makes first impressions do more work than ever. Most buyers now decide whether a home is worth touring in person based on the photos alone, long before your listing shows up on a Saturday drive-by. This checklist walks through exactly how to get your Oakville home ready — from the six-week mark down to the morning of a showing.
A quick note on the data: staging and photography vendors report meaningful gains from virtual tours, video, and professional staging (for example, listings with video reportedly draw significantly more inquiries, and staged listings tend to move faster). Treat the exact percentages as industry-reported rather than independently verified — but the direction is consistent enough across sources that the underlying advice holds: invest in how your home is presented online.