Monthly report · August 2026
Maple Ridge housing cooled into late summer.
Benchmark prices were lower than a year earlier, buyer choice remained relatively healthy, and the Bank of Canada held its policy rate at 2.25%.
Market read
Prices softened, but affordability is still the constraint.
Maple Ridge's composite benchmark was approximately $890,800 in August 2026. Detached homes remained substantially more expensive at about $1.178 million, while attached homes and apartments sat at roughly $704,100 and $504,300.
The year-over-year decline creates more negotiating room than buyers faced in tighter markets, but the practical affordability picture still depends heavily on income, down payment, debt and the qualifying rate.
That is why this publication separates price from purchase power. A lower benchmark price does not automatically make a home affordable if the financing side remains restrictive.
Useful next steps
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Purchase power
Explore an illustrative home-buying range using income, down payment, debt and Canadian stress-test assumptions.
Use the calculator →Closing cash
Estimate BC property transfer tax, exemptions, GST on new builds and other common purchase costs.
Use the calculator →20-year history
Put today's benchmark in context using selected Maple Ridge HPI observations back to 2006.
Explore the data →Rates
The Bank held. Fixed rates can still move.
The Bank of Canada held its target for the overnight rate at 2.25% on September 2. Variable mortgage rates tend to respond more directly to changes in bank prime rates. Fixed mortgage rates are more sensitive to bond yields, lender funding costs and competition.
For buyers, the practical lesson is that a Bank of Canada hold does not freeze mortgage pricing.
Supply
Maple Ridge nearly hit its two-year provincial target.
1,272 net new homes against a two-year cumulative target of 1,284.
Sources & methodology
Primary sources first.
Market data is presented for general educational information and can be delayed, incomplete or revised by source agencies. Area-level statistics do not establish the value, condition or marketability of a particular property, and past market movement does not predict future results. Mortgage qualification varies by lender, insurer, borrower and property. This report is not an appraisal, mortgage approval, legal or tax opinion, or investment recommendation. Verify material facts with original sources and appropriately qualified professionals. Full disclosures.