Real Estate 101
Passive House in Quebec: The Cost and the Exact Standard
A listing that says “passive house” proves nothing in Quebec. Three very different things circulate …
Real Estate Insights
Market trends, buying tips, investment advice, and local neighbourhood guides for Montréal, Laval, the Laurentians & Lanaudière.
Seller's Guide
Selling Your Home in Winter in Quebec: The Obligations
Choosing the month you list is settled elsewhere. What never is: once the decision is made, fall and winter add …
Practical Guide
Tree Cutting Permit in Montreal: How It Works
A maple dying in the backyard, a tree service quote for Thursday, and the surprise: the City decides. In Montreal, …
Practical Guide
Alarm Systems and Insurance Discounts in Quebec
The sales representative announces an insurance discount, sometimes a precise percentage. Nobody shows you the grid …
Practical Guide
Hidden Defect Found During a Renovation in Quebec
The wall is open, the crew is on site, and behind the drywall there is a crack nobody saw before the purchase. The …
Practical Guide
Neighbour Disputes in Quebec: The Recourses
A fence quarrel never stays between two neighbours. It ends up in the certificate of location, in the Déclarations …
Buyer's Guide
Quebec House Construction Features
A buyer touring their first property in Montreal or Laval always notices the same things: the staircase bolted to …
Seller's Guide
Selling a Home Worth Less Than the Mortgage
The offer on the table does not cover the balance of your loan. The sale is still possible, but it will not be …
Buyer's Guide
Buying a Century Old Home in Montreal: What Changes
A house built in 1915 gets visited like any other and bought differently. What changes the file is not the …
Investment
Buying a Commercial Building in Quebec: The Due Diligence
A retail space on the ground floor, two dwellings above, a posted income that seems to hold up. Here the real risk …
Investment
Buying a Cottage in Quebec: Well, Septic and Access
A cottage sells on a photo of the lake. What actually decides the file is not in that photo: the width of the …
Buyer's Guide
Buying Vacant Land in Quebec: The Checks to Make First
A vacant lot takes five minutes to visit. No roof to inspect, no foundation to sound out, and that is the trap: …
Practical Guide
Choosing a Renovation Contractor in Quebec
A licence number painted on a truck proves nothing until you have looked it up yourself in the registry of the …
Buyer's Guide
Fixer Upper or Turnkey Home in Quebec: Who Funds the Work
Two listings, one budget. One is ready to move into. The other needs a kitchen, a bathroom and new wiring, and it …
Finance
How to Pay Off Your Mortgage Faster in Quebec
Your lender offers to switch you “to biweekly.” Two options carry almost the same name and only one of …
Investment
Increasing the Value of a Plex in Montreal or Laval
A plex rarely sells on its decor. The buyer adds up the rents, subtracts the expenses, and the offer follows that …
Buyer's Guide
Intergenerational Home in Laval
Your parents are selling their house and want to move in with you. You picture a unit in the basement, a second …
Investment
Land Value and Zoning in Quebec: How to Read the Roll
Your assessment notice does not show one amount, it shows three: the value of the property, the value of the land …
Seller's Guide
Listing Exposure on Centris in Quebec: The Rules
You sign the brokerage contract on a Tuesday evening. By Thursday your property is online, and you find out what it …
Finance
Moving Expenses in Quebec: The 40 km Rule
Every spring, Quebec taxpayers put their moving expenses on their return and have them refused. The reason almost …
Buyer's Guide
New Build or Resale in Quebec: What Actually Differs
A buyer compares two listings: a project home at $500,000 in a neighbourhood still being built, and a 1998 house at …
Finance
Novoclimat Home in Quebec: What It Buys
“Energy efficient home” is not a legal category. Anyone can write those words in a property …
Seller's Guide
Open House in Quebec: What the Seller Has to Control
On a Sunday afternoon, strangers walk through your house, open your cupboard doors and head upstairs. The real …
Real Estate 101
Pets Banned in a Quebec Condo: Where the Rule Actually Lives
You have visited the condo twice. You like the courtyard, the light, the parking spot. Nobody has said a word about …
