My RE/MAX Du Cartier office is in Laval, in Duvernay, and I work as a real estate broker across the city’s 14 neighbourhoods, from Laval-Ouest to Saint-François. If you are thinking of selling, start with the free evaluation of your property or the steps to sell your house in Laval.
What actually sets the Laval market apart
Laval is not a uniform suburb. It is a city of 461,509 people in 2025, according to the Quebec government’s socioeconomic portrait of Laval, and it contains at least four distinct markets.
The metro corridor (Pont-Viau, Laval-des-Rapides, and the edge of Duvernay closest to Cartier station) behaves like an extension of Montreal. It is the classic trade-off: more space than in Villeray or Rosemont, without losing direct access to downtown on the metro’s orange line. Over four quarters, the median single-family home sold for $532,250 in Pont-Viau and $638,000 in Laval-des-Rapides, against $738,500 in Villeray, according to Centris (Rosemont and Villeray). Condos and plexes account for more than half of sales there, but the two neighbourhoods are not on the same curve: sales in Pont-Viau are up 7% over four quarters, while Laval-des-Rapides posted the steepest drop in the city in the third quarter of 2026, according to the analysis of both neighbourhoods.
The west and north (Sainte-Dorothée, Fabreville, Sainte-Rose, Laval-Ouest) are single-family markets: in Fabreville, Centris counts 82 single-family homes sold in the third quarter of 2026, against 12 condos and 5 plexes (the Sainte-Rose and Fabreville real estate market). For a family, check the school before the first visit: the catchment is set by address, with the Trouver son école tool of the Centre de services scolaire de Laval. On transit, Sainte-Dorothée has its REM station, in service since November 17, 2025, and Sainte-Rose has its exo train station, on the Saint-Jérôme line. Selling timelines here are more seasonally sensitive than elsewhere in Laval.
Chomedey is its own case: it alone accounts for a quarter of Laval’s sales, 211 in the third quarter of 2026, including 114 condos, according to Centris (the Chomedey real estate market). Condos, plexes and single-family homes sell side by side there.
The northeast (Saint-François, Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, Auteuil) is not one block: Saint-François has the lowest single-family median in Laval in the third quarter of 2026, $542,500, according to the east Laval analysis, while Auteuil is above the city median.
The figures behind these markets are in the Laval real estate market by neighbourhood in the third quarter of 2026: sales, median prices and days on market, as published by Centris.
Selling in Laval: what makes the difference
Three seller questions each have their own article, built on the figures published for Laval. Find out how much your house is worth in Laval, how long it takes to sell a house in Laval and how much a real estate broker charges in Laval.
The list price is the single most consequential decision of the entire sale.
The comparative analysis prepared is one that goes beyond recent sales on your street. It also includes properties withdrawn from the market without selling, because they tell you where the real buyer ceiling sits in your sector. That is information you will not find in the Registre foncier (Quebec’s land register): a property withdrawn without being sold leaves no deed there.
Then: professional photography, marketing on Centris and across the RE/MAX network, and a concentrated rather than scattered showing strategy. Eight visits in four days can put several buyers in competition the same week; spread over five weeks, they leave each buyer to negotiate alone.
For a house or condo in Laval, the free evaluation of your property can be requested online: comparable sales in your sector, a market value range and the net amount after the sale, with no obligation.
Buying in Laval
Before you visit a single property, we establish three things: your real borrowing capacity confirmed by a lender, the price range that matches what you actually want, and the sectors where that range still exists.
You also benefit from RE/MAX Québec’s exclusive programs: Tranquilli-T for legal assistance, at no additional cost, and the Intégri-T guarantee, paid by the seller or by the buyer, which covers up to $50,000 in latent defects for three years after the notarial deed.
Investing in Laval
Laval plexes compare with those on the island on two figures: a median that is barely lower, $890,000 against $902,500 in the third quarter of 2026 according to Centris, and a clearly lower rent, $1,186 against $1,350 for a two-bedroom in October 2025 according to CMHC. The full calculation is in the example of a triplex in Laval and Montreal.
The trap is elsewhere. A building listed at a 5% return with no reserve for the roof, the windows or the French drain does not return 5%. I run the numbers with you before the visit, not after the promise to purchase.
To test your scenarios, use the mortgage calculator and the closing costs tool, which includes the welcome tax applicable in Laval.
