Hobby farms and farms · Estrie · Centris 2016-2026
The median sale price of a hobby farm or farm in the Eastern Townships, year by year since 2016, the number of sales, the ten-year increase, the region's median house alongside and the caution that comes with such a dispersed category. Centris figures, not estimates.
In the Eastern Townships, a hobby farm or farm sold for $826,232 at the median in 2026 (January to September), on 52 sales, against $330,000 in 2016: +150%. 829 sold in ten years, 16.7% of farm sales across the 12 regions tracked. The region's median single-family house is worth $475,500 the same year: the farm costs 1.74 times the house. Caution: the median moved by up to 41% from one year to the next (2022), because the category mixes hobby farms, farms and built land. Source: Centris (Matrix), compiled October 14, 2026.
The short answer
In the Eastern Townships, a hobby farm or farm sold for $826,232 at the median in 2026 (January to September), on 52 sales, against $330,000 in 2016: +150%. 829 sold in ten years, 16.7% of farm sales across the 12 regions tracked. The region's median single-family house is worth $475,500 the same year: the farm costs 1.74 times the house. Caution: the median moved by up to 41% from one year to the next (2022), because the category mixes hobby farms, farms and built land.
Median price and farm sales by year
| Year | Hobby farm or farm, median price | Sales | Region's median house | Houses sold |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | $330,000 | 92 | $187,250 | 3,609 |
| 2017 | $390,000 | 84 | $195,000 | 3,662 |
| 2018 | $330,000 | 83 | $204,000 | 3,821 |
| 2019 | $355,000 | 83 | $210,000 | 4,273 |
| 2020 | $490,500 | 109 | $245,000 | 5,287 |
| 2021 | $522,500 | 100 | $305,000 | 4,605 |
| 2022 | $735,000 | 56 | $355,000 | 3,765 |
| 2023 | $720,000 | 47 | $379,000 | 3,516 |
| 2024 | $650,000 | 55 | $419,000 | 4,304 |
| 2025 | $676,853 | 68 | $450,000 | 4,746 |
| 2026 (Jan. to Sep.) | $826,232 | 52 | $475,500 | 3,613 |
"Farm" category (hobby farms, farms, built agricultural land), every municipality of the region, median sale price and number of sales by year, Centris (Matrix), pulled on the night of October 13 to 14, 2026. A year with fewer than 5 sales is left blank (n/a). 2026: January to September. Very dispersed prices: read the trend, not a single year.
What ten years of sales say in the Eastern Townships
- Ten years of farms in the Eastern Townships: +150% between 2016 and 2026 (January to September) (9.6% a year). Peak $826,232 in 2026, low $330,000 in 2016; decline in 2018, 2023, 2024. Across the 12 regions tracked, the median increase is +148%; Estrie is in the norm.
- Amplitude: from one year to the next, the median moved 12% at the median and up to 41% (2022). That is the category's dispersion, not a bubble: a year with more working farms sold than hobby farms sees its median climb. Across the 12 regions, the largest year-to-year swing is 39% at the median.
- Against the house: the median farm is worth 1.74 times the region's median single-family house ($475,500 in 2026 (January to September)), or +74%. Over the same period, the house rose +154% against +150% for the farm; the farm rose faster than the house in 9 of 12 regions. Farms weigh 1.8% of the region's farm and house sales.
- Sales: 92 in 2016, 100 in 2021, 68 in 2025 (-26% in nine years), 52 from January to September 2026; 829 sales in ten years in the Eastern Townships. Busiest year: 2020 (109 sales). The 12 regions total 4,951 farm sales since 2016; Estrie accounts for 16.7%.
- 2019 to 2021, the pandemic and remote-work years: +47% in the Eastern Townships. That is when city buyers went looking for the hobby farm and space.
- 2026 (January to September) versus 2025: +22% ($676,853 to $826,232); 5 of 12 regions are down over one year.
- Benchmarks in the region, 2026 median house of the cities tracked: Magog ($600,000), Granby ($462,543), Sherbrooke ($458,500). The hobby farm compares with the neighbouring town's house price, plus the land.
- Across the 12 regions tracked, the median farm went from $276,250 in 2016 to $420,000 in 2021 and $648,125 in 2026 (January to September) (median of regions); 11 regions doubled, 5 are at their peak in 2026 and 3 fell in 2023.
What it changes when buying or selling a hobby farm in the Eastern Townships
In the Eastern Townships, the median farm at $826,232 puts the region among the most expensive of the 12 tracked ($609,625 at the median). You pay for proximity to cities and the demand of hobby-farm buyers: land is worth as much for its view and access as for its agricultural yield. For a seller, it is the market where the renovated hobby farm sells to city buyers; for a buyer who wants to produce, cheaper regions give more acres for the same price. In every case, the price is set on the specific property (buildings, arable acres, agricultural zoning, CPTAQ rights), never on this median. The region's land prices are in land prices in the Eastern Townships; cottage prices, in cottage prices in the Eastern Townships.
How to read these numbers
One price and one number of sales per year for the whole Estrie region. The Centris "Farm" category groups hobby farms, working farms and built agricultural land: a five-acre hobby farm and a 300-acre dairy farm fall in the same median. Prices are very dispersed and, with few sales, the median can swing a lot from one year to the next without the market having changed. The number of sales is the solidity benchmark: 68 sales in 2025 in the Eastern Townships give a readable median. Private sales between farmers and sales without a broker are not in Centris: the page measures the market of listed farms, not all the region's farmland.
Frequently asked questions
How much does a hobby farm or farm cost in the Eastern Townships in 2026?
$826,232 at the median in 2026 (January to September) (52 sales), against $330,000 in 2016, all municipalities of the region combined. The region's median single-family house is worth $475,500 the same year.
Why does the median farm price swing so much from one year to the next?
Because the "Farm" category mixes very different properties: leisure hobby farms, working farms, agricultural land with buildings. With 52 sales in the reference year, two or three large farms are enough to move the median: it moved by up to 41% from one year to the next in the Eastern Townships.
How much did farm prices rise in ten years in the Eastern Townships?
+150% between 2016 and 2026 (January to September) in the Eastern Townships (9.6% a year), against +148% at the median of the 12 regions tracked; the region's median house rose +154% over the same period.
How many farms sell in the Eastern Townships?
829 farm and hobby-farm sales in the Eastern Townships since 2016 on Centris, 68 in 2025. Enough for a median every year, but each year remains sensitive to a few large sales.
Source: Centris (Matrix), Statistics module, query run on the night of October 13 to 14, 2026 for the Estrie administrative region: "Farm" category, every municipality, median sale price and number of sales by year over ten years; the region's single-family house, same query, Single-family category; compiled by the Loaa & Manseur team, aggregates only, current year partial. The hobby farm and farm prices in 12 regions hub compares all 12 regions; land prices in the Eastern Townships give bare land and home prices in the Eastern Townships the region's median house.
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