Practical Guide
Quebec Residential Pool Rules and Deadline
Plenty of owners believe the deadline went by in the fall of 2025. It did not. The official text of the Règlement …
Real Estate Insights
Market trends, buying tips, investment advice, and local neighbourhood guides for Montréal, Laval, the Laurentians & Lanaudière.
Practical Guide
Radon Testing a Home in Quebec
Your pre-purchase inspector will not measure radon. It is not an oversight: the only measurement Health Canada …
Seller's Guide
Selling Before Buying in Quebec: The Clauses That Decide
You own your home and you want to move. The real question is not whether you will sell and buy, but in which order. …
Practical Guide
Spring Melt and Water Infiltration in a Montreal Basement
In March, snow piled against a foundation melts faster than frozen ground can absorb it. The water then takes the …
Seller's Guide
The Process of Selling a House in Quebec: Steps and Timelines
Between the first meeting with a broker and the signing at the notary, a residential sale goes through nine steps. …
Market Analysis
The Real Cost of the Montreal Suburbs
You will be told the suburbs cost less, and the gap between median prices seems to confirm it. Then the tax bill …
Practical Guide
The True Cost of an In-Ground Pool in Quebec
The installation price of a pool gets negotiated once. The rest gets paid every year, and that is the part almost …
Seller's Guide
Who Buys in Montreal and Laval: What the Data Actually Shows
You are preparing your property for “the buyer”. That generic buyer does not exist. The household that …
Real Estate 101
Hidden Defects (Vice Caché) in Quebec: Conditions, Deadlines and Recourses
The water arrives in the spring, in a finished basement bought the previous fall. The first reflex is to call a …
Buyer's Guide
New Home Warranty in Quebec: The GCR Plan
Behind every new home sold by an accredited builder in Quebec sits a mandatory warranty plan. It does not cover …
Real Estate 101
Renovating a Condo in Quebec: The Limit
You want to pull up the carpet and lay hardwood, replace the living room window, close in the balcony. In a house, …
Practical Guide
How to Cut Your Heating Bill in Quebec: Where to Start
Two houses of the same age, on the same street in Laval, can show a gap of several hundred dollars per winter. It …
Investment
Adding an Accessory Dwelling Unit in Quebec: The Framework
An empty basement, an attached garage used as a shed, a lot deeper than the others on the street. The reflex is to …
Buyer's Guide
Sale Without Legal Warranty in Quebec
On a Centris listing, the mention fits on one line: sold without legal warranty of quality, at the buyer’s …
Seller's Guide
My House Is Not Selling in Quebec: The Honest Diagnosis
Your property has been listed for eight weeks. The phone has gone quiet, and the only suggestion you keep hearing …
Practical Guide
Climate Resilient Renovations in Quebec
Two violent storms in one summer are enough to turn a finished basement into a claim. In Montreal as in Laval, the …
Practical Guide
Mould in a Quebec Home: Detect, Declare, Act
A black stain at the bottom of a basement wall almost always triggers the same reaction: get the air tested, get a …
Practical Guide
Sunroom and Veranda: The Extension Permit in Quebec
A sunroom gets shopped for like a piece of furniture: a model, a frame colour, an installation date. The Régie du …
Investment
Owner Occupied Plex in Quebec: Repossessing a Dwelling
You are buying a duplex or a triplex in Montreal or Laval to live in it. The dwellings are occupied, the leases …
Buyer's Guide
Sagging Sewer Drain in Montreal
The basement smells of sewer when it rains hard. The downstairs toilet gurgles while the washing machine empties. …
Investment
Short Term Rentals in Quebec: The Rules
When you buy a property to rent out by the night, the profitability math comes last. What decides the project is …
Finance
Mortgage Refinancing in Quebec: Is It Worth It?
Renew, transfer, refinance: three words often used interchangeably. Only one of these operations opens a new loan, …
Finance
Homeowner Tax in Quebec: What Actually Gets Deducted
Selling your house tax free, deducting your mortgage interest, running a renovation through your expenses: three …
Practical Guide
Common Home Insurance Claims in Quebec
Almost everybody believes they have “home insurance.” Almost nobody knows whether the loss most likely …
