Buyers shop the floor first. “What is the cheapest new construction in Kitchener?” is the question every aggregator answers with a scraped number; this catalogue can answer it with a verified one — and can say, in the same breath, exactly how much of the shelf the answer covers. Counted from the records: the four KWCG cities hold 115 projects between them. 26 carry a verified from-price; 89 are on request. Everything below is the floor of the priced shelf only, and the post will keep saying so, because that limit is what makes the numbers worth anything.
The floor in each city
| City | Projects (priced) | Minimum verified from-price | Where the floor sits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cambridge | 32 (8) | $400,000 | Cachet on the Park — condo apartment, Coming Soon |
| Guelph | 28 (6) | $438,676 | Northside — townhouse, Now Selling, tax-free guaranteed |
| Kitchener | 29 (8) | $449,990 | NOMI Urban Towns — townhouse, Now Selling, after rebate |
| Waterloo | 26 (4) | $569,900 | Vista Hills — townhouse and detached, Now Selling, after rebate |
The bases are part of the floor, not footnotes to it. Two of the four floors are after-rebate figures — net of an estimated rebate, which is why every surface on this site that prints them adds the line “after estimated rebate; eligibility applies”, and why the rebate stack post exists. The Guelph floor is a builder-guaranteed tax-free figure, a different kind of number again. And the Cambridge floor — the minimum figure in the region — comes with two cautions of its own: the builder states no basis for it, and the project is Coming Soon, so it is a floor nobody can buy at yet.
The seven records under $500,000
| Project | City | From-price | Basis | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cachet on the Park | Cambridge | $400,000 | Not stated | Coming Soon |
| Northside | Guelph | $438,676 | Tax-free guaranteed | Now Selling |
| NOMI Urban Towns | Kitchener | $449,990 | After rebate | Now Selling |
| Erinbrook Towns | Kitchener | $454,900 | Not stated | Now Selling |
| Urban Towns at Wallaceton | Kitchener | $459,990 | After rebate — enhanced | Now Selling |
| Activa at Trussler West | Kitchener | $479,990 | Not stated | Now Selling |
| Clairmont | Guelph | $484,990 | After rebate — enhanced | Now Selling |
Four of the seven sit in Kitchener, and three of those four also anchor the city’s per-bed table — the size view of the same shelf. Waterloo places nothing under $500,000 on the priced shelf at all: its floor is $119,910 above Kitchener’s, across only four priced records, which says as much about how thin Waterloo’s published pricing is as about what Waterloo costs.
What a verified floor cannot tell you
- The 89 on-request records are not “more expensive”. They are unpriced in public. Any of them could publish below these floors tomorrow; the floor moves when a record verifies, not when a scraper guesses. Treating the priced shelf as the market is the one error this post is built to avoid.
- A from-price is an entry plan’s price, not a typical one. Cachet on the Park’s own price note records its units running to the mid-$800,000s — the floor and the top of the same project are more than $400,000 apart, and both are on the record.
- Floors on different bases are not the same kind of number. A tax-free guaranteed $438,676, an after-rebate $449,990 and a basis-unstated $400,000 cannot be ranked by subtraction alone; the basis column is the comparison, and the number is what is left after you have read it.
The floor is a screening tool: it tells a buyer where verified pricing starts in each city today, and which seven doors in the region open under half a million. The worksheet takes it from there — the project you actually want, at the price basis it actually carries.