Buyer's Guide
Buying New Construction in Quebec
The brochure shows the finishes, rarely what protects you if the builder delivers late, delivers poorly or does not …
Real Estate Insights
Market trends, buying tips, investment advice, and local neighbourhood guides for Montréal, Laval, the Laurentians & Lanaudière.
Investment
Income Plexes in Montreal and Laval
A plex is two purchases in one: a home for you and a small rental business. It is neither a shortcut to wealth nor …
Seller's Guide
How Long Does It Actually Take to Sell a House in Montreal?
When a seller wonders how long it will take, they are usually thinking about the gap between listing and accepted …
Real Estate 101
Separation, Divorce and the Home, Quebec
When a couple separates, the home is often the largest asset on the table. Yet most of the decisions are technical: …
Market Insights
A Montreal Housing Crash: The Data
The question comes back the moment a headline mentions a slowdown: is the market going to crash? I am not going to …
Real Estate 101
Real Estate Commission in Quebec: How It Is Set, Split and Taxed
In Quebec, real estate broker commission has no official rate: it is negotiated between the client and the agency, …
Real Estate 101
5 Questions You Must Ask Before Hiring a Real Estate Broker
Choosing a real estate broker is one of the most consequential decisions in a transaction, and most people give it …
Buyer's Guide
Bidding Wars in Montreal: How They Work
In Quebec, what people call a bidding war has a more precise name on the forms: a multiple promise to purchase …
Buyer's Guide
Your Promise to Purchase Was Refused
Losing a multiple-offer situation in Quebec goes by three different names: your promise to purchase was refused, it …
Buyer's Guide
The Real Cost of Buying Your First Home in Quebec
Everyone tells you what the house costs. Nobody tells you what buying it actually costs. First-time buyers can …
Honest Advice
Eight Situations Where You Should Not Buy
Qualifying and being ready are two different things. A lender measures your repayment capacity at one precise …
Buyer's Guide
Buying a Heritage Building in Montreal
The word heritage covers everything and says almost nothing. A 1910 house with no legal status, a building cited by …
Buyer's Guide
Welcome Tax in Quebec in 2027: Brackets, Calculation and Who Pays
It is the most predictable unpleasant surprise in Quebec real estate. You signed at the notary, you moved in, …
Practical Guide
Moving in Montreal or Laval: Checklist
A move in Quebec is not just about boxes. It is a sequence of notices, legal deadlines and accounts to transfer, …
Buyer's Guide
Catchment School and School Tax in Quebec
Plenty of buyers arrive with a ready made sentence: this street is in a good school zone, so the value will follow. …
Real Estate 101
Eight Real Estate Myths, and the Rules
A real estate myth survives because nobody goes and reads the text. Here are eight beliefs that persist in the …
Market Analysis
Montreal and Laval Real Estate Market
Is it a good time to buy or sell in Montreal? The answer does not come from a prediction, a headline or what the …
Real Estate 101
When a Quebec Deal Goes Wrong: Seven Cases
A Quebec residential transaction almost never breaks for an original reason. It breaks in the same places, each …
Investment
Building a Real Estate Portfolio, Montreal
You buy the first building with your salary. You buy the second one with the rules. What makes a first plex …
Finance
Property Taxes in Montreal and Laval: A Complete Explanation
Property taxes are not complicated, but they are misunderstood and consistently underestimated in buyers’ …
Finance
Renting or Buying in Greater Montreal
Am I making a mistake by continuing to rent? The mental calculation used to answer it compares two numbers that …
Investment
House Flipping in Montreal: The Honest Math Nobody Shows You
On television a flip takes three moves: buy low, renovate fast, sell high. No one shows you the tax line, no one …
Buyer's Guide
Condo or House in Montreal: What You Are Actually Buying
Framing the question as a trade-off between price and square footage misses the point. A divided co-ownership and a …
Buyer's Guide
Buying in Laval: The Six Sectors
Buying in Laval is not buying into a uniform suburb. It is buying on a 246 square kilometre island that, according …
