Investment
Buying a House to Demolish in Quebec: The Permit
The math looks simple: a well located lot, a building at the end of its life, a new house in its place. Except that …
Real Estate Insights
Market trends, buying tips, investment advice, and local neighbourhood guides for Montréal, Laval, the Laurentians & Lanaudière.
Real Estate 101
Buyer Brokerage Contract in Quebec: What You Are Signing
The document runs eight pages and often gets signed in a kitchen, between two showings. It has almost nothing in …
Buyer's Guide
Buying a Country Home in Quebec: What Changes
A principal residence in the country is not a cottage with the heat turned up. The rules that govern it come from …
Real Estate 101
Common Law Partners and the Home, Quebec
You have lived together for twelve years, the house is in his name, and you have paid half of every mortgage …
Practical Guide
Home Infestation in Quebec: Your Real Recourses
Black ants coming out of the basement door frame in May. The real question is not which product to buy: it is who …
Practical Guide
Winter Home Maintenance in Quebec: What Insurers Require
A list of good winter habits does not stand up to a claims adjuster. What does stand up is the small number of …
Practical Guide
Adapting a Home for Aging in Place in Quebec
Your mother wants to stay in her house. The three front steps have become an obstacle, and so has the bathtub. The …
Buyer's Guide
Choosing a Home Inspector in Quebec
Nothing stops someone from calling themselves a home inspector tomorrow morning in Quebec. The trade has started to …
Market Analysis
List Price and Sold Price in Montreal: Reading the Gap
A SOLD sign never says for how much. In Quebec, the sale price is not displayed: it is published later, somewhere …
Practical Guide
Shed, Carport and Garage Permits in Quebec
The shed you buy at the hardware store fits in a box, and nobody at the cash asks for your address. Your address is …
Buyer's Guide
Buying a Home Alone in Quebec: The Real Levers
A lender never asks whether you are buying alone. It asks for two ratios, applies a qualifying rate higher than the …
Buyer's Guide
Buying a Home in Quebec Without Visiting It
You are in Beirut, in Bogota or in Calgary, and the property you want is in Laval. Someone offers you a video tour. …
Buyer's Guide
Buying a Home in Winter in Quebec: The Blind Spots
In January 2026, in the Montreal metropolitan area, APCIQ counted 2,364 residential sales, the thinnest month of …
Buyer's Guide
Buying in a Flood Zone in Quebec: The Checks to Make First
Quebec has replaced the old split between 0 to 20 year and 20 to 100 year zones with a framework built on levels of …
Investment
Buying Property in Quebec as a Foreign Buyer
Can someone who is neither a Canadian citizen nor a permanent resident buy in Laval or Montreal? The answer depends …
Seller's Guide
Sell or Keep Your Home in Quebec: Your Own Six Signals
Nobody sells a house because an index moved. You sell because something changed at home: one bedroom more or one …
Buyer's Guide
Buying a Foreclosure in Quebec: The Rules That Apply
“Reprise de finance”, the everyday Quebec term for a foreclosure, appears nowhere in the Civil Code. It …
Real Estate 101
Contesting Your Municipal Assessment in Quebec
Your tax bill went up and the value entered on the roll looks disconnected from reality. Contesting it is a right, …
Buyer's Guide
Tiny House in Quebec: Zoning, Financing, Insurance
The word tiny house names no recognized type of property in Quebec. It covers two objects the law treats in …
Practical Guide
Home Generator in Quebec: The Rules
After a two day outage, the questions always come in the same order: how much does a generator cost, and does …
Seller's Guide
The Real Cost of Selling a House in Quebec
Most sellers calculate their net proceeds like this: sale price, minus the mortgage balance, minus broker …
Buyer's Guide
Buying a Home with Cash in Quebec: Rules, Risks and Protections
Paying cash does not buy you an automatic discount. It buys certainty for the seller, and that certainty is paid …
Real Estate 101
The Notary in Quebec, Step by Step
Many buyers arriving from another province or another country expect to close with a lawyer. In Quebec, you close …
Investment
Plex or Condo in Montreal: Two Commitments, Not a Ranking
A plex is a business. A condo is a home whose building management is delegated. Comparing them means comparing two …
