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Montreal Housing Market Report

This Montreal housing market report tracks median prices, rents, vacancy and property tax across Montreal CMA, using APCIQ, June 2026 and CMHC rental data.

Median price · APCIQ, June 2026 · Montreal CMA

Montreal average price by property type

What each kind of home costs in Montreal CMA, and how far apart a house and an apartment have moved.

Detached

$649,000

House, not attached to a neighbour

All property types

$649,000

Median price

Condo

$435,000

The usual entry point

APCIQ, June 2026, for Montreal CMA. A detached home costs 1.5× what a condo does here. Detached, all types and condo are the same measure from the same release (median price), so they can be compared with each other, though not directly against another city’s differently-measured figure. Montreal’s board does not publish a townhouse figure we hold, so this report leaves that segment out rather than estimating it.

Average cost by property type in Montreal

What each kind of home costs, from the same release.

All three from APCIQ, June 2026, on the same basis (median price), so they can be compared with each other. Montreal's board does not publish a townhouse or row-house figure we hold, so this report shows the three segments it does publish rather than estimating a fourth.

What it costs to buy

The benchmark, where it has moved in twelve months, and the land transfer cheque that clears on closing day.

Median price

$649,000

APCIQ, June 2026

12 month change

+3.5%

Composite, same source

Land transfer on closing

$8,451

At the benchmark, 20% down, no rebate

Condo benchmark

$435,000

The usual entry point

Quebec's welcome tax arrives as a bill after closing rather than on closing day, which catches buyers who budgeted to the keys and then stopped. Montreal adds two brackets above the provincial schedule, so the city is meaningfully more expensive than the rest of Quebec on higher-priced homes.

Price and twelve month change: APCIQ, June 2026. The closing figure is Quebec welcome tax (droit de mutation), calculated on the Median price at 20% down with no first-time rebate applied. Run your own price through the land transfer tax calculator or the closing costs calculator.

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What the market pays a seller

Where the detached and condo segments have split, and what comes out of the sale price before you see it.

Detached

$649,000

APCIQ, June 2026

Condo

$435,000

Same board, same month

Detached to condo

1.5×

How many condos to one house

12 month change

+3.5%

What your comparables are worth now

Montreal is a rising market while five of the eight are falling, so the pricing instinct imported from Toronto coverage is wrong here. Median-based reporting also means the mix of what sold moves the headline number more than in benchmark markets.

Sales counts, days on market and months of inventory are not published for Montreal in a form we hold, so this report does not show them. APCIQ reports prices at the board level; only TRREB publishes community-level activity, which is why Toronto is the one report here that carries those figures. We would rather omit a number than estimate it.

Detached and condo figures are from the same release as the composite, so the spread between them is like-for-like. What comes out of the sale price is a provincial question. See the commission calculator and the sale proceeds calculator.

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What the rent covers

Sitting rents, CMHC vacancy, gross yield on the benchmark, and the property tax drag underneath it.

Rent, 2 bedroom

$2,050

Per month, asking

Vacancy

2.9%

Montréal CMA, purpose-built

Gross yield

3.8%

Annual rent over price, before costs

Property tax

$4,932

0.76% on the benchmark, per year

At 2.9% vacancy with the second-lowest rents in the set, Montreal's yield case rests on entry price rather than rent growth. Quebec's rent-fixing regime and the lease transfer rules shape what a new owner can actually reset.

Vacancy describes Montréal CMA, purpose-built and comes from CMHC Rental Market Report, October 2025. That area is wider than Montreal itself, so treat it as the backdrop rather than the rate on one building. Gross yield is annual two-bedroom rent over the Median price, before vacancy, tax, insurance and maintenance. It is not a cap rate. Property tax is Montreal’s residential rate of 0.76% applied to that same price.

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How Montreal compares

The same measures across all eight markets. Switch the measure to move the ranking.

Where Montreal ranks

Benchmark, median or average price. Montreal is 4th of the eight markets on this measure.

Each board's own headline price figure. Montreal is a median and Winnipeg an average, so those two answer a slightly different question than the six benchmarks.

Benchmark price, twelve month change, detached and condo prices, two bedroom rent and vacancy for eight Canadian markets
MarketPrice12 moDetachedCondoRent, 2brVacancy
VictoriaGreater Victoria$1,170,200MLS benchmark−0.6%$1,301,800$553,600$2,1203.3%
VancouverMetro Vancouver$1,099,100MLS benchmark−6.0%$1,990,000$771,000$3,1503.7%
TorontoGreater Toronto Area$940,800MLS benchmark−5.4%$1,360,000$631,000$2,7003.0%
MontrealMontreal CMA$649,000Median price+3.5%$649,000$435,000$2,0502.9%
OttawaOttawa Census Division$634,000MLS benchmark−0.5%$725,000$385,500$2,3003.0%
CalgaryCity of Calgary$569,200MLS benchmark−2.0%$743,900$299,000$1,9005.0%
HalifaxHalifax–Dartmouth$557,300MLS benchmark0.0%$610,000$420,000$1,8262.7%
WinnipegWinnipeg Census Metropolitan Area$408,020Board average+2.3%$454,264$290,522$1,5502.8%

Price and twelve month change come from each city’s own board, on the month named in that city’s report. They are not all the same month, and Montreal and Winnipeg publish medians and averages rather than a benchmark. Rents are market asking rents; vacancy is CMHC purpose-built for the CMA named on each report page, which is wider than the city proper.

Montreal against another market

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Detached, composite and condo

What each segment costs in Montreal against Toronto.

  • Montreal
  • Toronto

Same board release in each city, so the segments are like-for-like within a market. Across markets the measurement differs: APCIQ, June 2026 against TRREB, June 2026.

Tax on closing, as the price climbs

Land transfer, property transfer, welcome or deed tax at 20% down, with no first-time rebate.

  • Montreal
  • Toronto

Calculated from each province’s published brackets, the same functions behind our calculators. Montreal: Quebec welcome tax (droit de mutation). Toronto: Ontario LTT + Toronto municipal LTT. Alberta charges no land transfer tax at all, so its line is registration fees only and stays near the axis.

Go deeper in this market

Neighbourhood prices, agent coverage, and the calculators preloaded with this city's figures.

Sources

Every figure on this page, and where it came from.

Prices come from Montreal's own board on the month named above. Vacancy is CMHC's, and the tax figures are calculated from the published rates and brackets rather than quoted from a listing. Where a board publishes its release on the open web but we do not hold the link, the release is cited by name.

Other housing market reports

The rest of the markets we track, most expensive first.

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