Hochelaga, Anjou and Saint-Léonard, Montreal Real Estate Market: Q3 2026

In East End Montreal, the third quarter of 2026 took a third off sales in Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve: 205 transactions, 34% fewer than a year earlier, according to Centris. In Anjou, sales rose slightly; in Saint-Léonard, they fell 20%. In all three boroughs, supply grew faster than on the island as a whole. Here is what these figures say, and what is changing along the blue line.

The East End Montreal real estate market, by the numbers

The area brings together three boroughs of the City of Montreal and one related municipality, Montréal-Est, where Centris counts 8 sales for the quarter, with no median price published.

Single-family homes. No territory has a quarterly median price: Centris reports an “insufficient number of transactions to produce reliable statistics”. The table gives the total of the last four quarters.

Source: Centris real estate statistics for Montreal (Mercier/Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, Anjou, Saint-Léonard, Island) and Montréal-Est, third quarter of 2026, July to September. Changes are year over year; changes in time on market are in days.

Condominiums. Only Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve has a published quarterly median price.

Source: same Centris pages, third quarter of 2026 and total of the last four quarters.

Plexes of 2 to 5 units.

Source: same Centris pages, same periods.

Hochelaga, Anjou, Saint-Léonard: three distinct markets

Saint-Léonard’s plexes have the highest median price in the area: $1,056,875 over four quarters, above the island’s. Anjou’s rose 12%, on 68 sales. In Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, plexes sell below the island median, and more slowly: 65 days against 52.

Single-family homes stay below the island median wherever Centris publishes one, from $619,625 to $718,125 over four quarters. Condos in Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve sell faster than the island’s: 43 days against 67.

The APCIQ barometer groups Anjou and Saint-Léonard in its sector 16 and publishes quarterly medians for it: single-family homes at $620,000 (-3%), sold in 36 days (23 fewer); condos at $392,500 (-5%), in 74 days (28 more); plexes at $1,022,500 (+5%). Montréal-Est is grouped there with Rivière-des-Prairies-Pointe-aux-Trembles: no barometer figure describes it on its own.

For these two sectors, the barometer measures condos in months of inventory over 12 months: under 8 favours sellers, 8 to 10 is balanced, over 10 favours buyers. In Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, every price range is a seller’s market, at 2.5 to 6.4 months. In Anjou and Saint-Léonard, condos are a seller’s market under $490,000, a buyer’s market from $490,000 to $580,000 (14.5 months) and balanced above that.

Across the region, APCIQ places the island’s condo market on the border between a balanced market and an advantage for buyers, and single-family sellers keep the upper hand in each of the main sectors of the census metropolitan area. The Bank of Canada’s policy rate is 2.25% as of October 20, 2026. A median price is not the value of a given house: it moves with the mix of properties sold.

What changed in a year

Supply grew faster than on the island as a whole. Across all categories, active listings are up 24% in Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, 37% in Anjou and 25% in Saint-Léonard, against 12% for the island.

Sales did not follow. The 34% drop in Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve is the steepest of the island’s 18 sectors, according to APCIQ. Condo sales there fell 38% and plex sales 23%, and time on market grew by 9 days for each.

Saint-Léonard is the exception for single-family homes: 70 sales over four quarters (+12%), and time on market down 18 days.

Housing starts rose. From January to September 2026, CMHC counted 857 in its Hochelaga-Maisonneuve zone, against 104 a year earlier, 467 in its Mercier zone, against 426, and 474 in its Anjou/Saint-Léonard zone, against 2, almost all of them apartments.

The blue line, the Pie-IX BRT and the eastern tramway

The blue line. According to the STM, the extension adds four stations on Jean-Talon east of Saint-Michel station, at Pie-IX (Vertières), Viau (Mary-Two-Axe-Earley), Lacordaire (Cesira-Parisotto) and Langelier (Madeleine-Parent), then the Anjou terminus, with an entrance on each side of Highway 25. The five stations are to open at the same time, and the inauguration is scheduled for 2031. In 2021, Saint-Léonard adopted a special planning program for rue Jean-Talon Est, an area the City describes as slated for transformation and densification.

For lots above the tunnel, the STM becomes the owner of the underground volume and the holder of a legal servitude; it notifies owners by bailiff. Before the work, it has buildings inspected within 75 metres of surface excavations or 30 metres of the tunnel’s centre line. Near Jean-Talon, ask the seller whether they received the notice or the inspection, and have the notary check the servitude.

The Pie-IX BRT (SRB Pie-IX), in service from Laval to avenue Pierre-De Coubertin, is being extended toward rue Notre-Dame Est, in Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve: construction has been under way since fall 2023, and ARTM expects service to begin in fall 2027.

The eastern tramway. The Projet structurant de l’Est, proposed by ARTM in May 2024, is a 38 km tramway with 31 stations, on two branches: Maurice-Duplessis and Lacordaire-Dickson; Highway 40 and rue Sherbrooke Est. According to ARTM, the Quebec government announced that it would be built in February 2025. No construction schedule is published: it is a proposed route, not a service.

Assessment roll, transfer duties and industrial land

The 2026-2027-2028 roll reflects the market as of July 1, 2024, compared with July 1, 2021. In the East End, residential increases match or exceed those of the City of Montreal:

Source: Rôles d’évaluation foncière 2026-2027-2028 (2026-2027-2028 property assessment rolls), City of Montreal, tables on pages 33 and 55.

Montréal-Est’s total increase of 33.3% is explained, according to the City, by its large industrial park; for a house, only the single-family column matters. According to the City, a higher value will not automatically translate into an equivalent increase in the tax bill.

Transfer duties change at the Montréal-Est boundary. The City of Montreal applies 1.5% on the portion from $315,000 to $552,300, then 2% up to $1,104,700. Montréal-Est stops the 1.5% rate at $500,000, then applies 2% up to $750,000, 2.5% up to $1,000,000 and 3% above that. On a $700,000 base, the City of Montreal calculates $9,349; Montréal-Est’s rates give $9,610.50. The welcome tax calculator applies the City of Montreal’s rates, not those of Montréal-Est.

Industrial land. The Assomption Sud-Longue-Pointe sector, in Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, includes the residential neighbourhoods of Guybourg and Haig-Beauclerk, industrial parks and a port zone. The planning vision the City adopted in 2023 calls for a green link between the Steinberg and Vimont woods; since May 2025, all of the Steinberg woods has been protected by its zoning. Near former industrial activity, check the City’s list of contaminated sites, which the City says is not exhaustive: only a specialized consultant can establish the condition of the soil.

Selling or buying in East End Montreal

If you are selling a condo, active listings are up 32% to 43% depending on the borough, and in Anjou and Saint-Léonard, above $490,000, the barometer does not classify the market as a seller’s market. The asking price starts from recent comparable sales, not from the median.

If you are selling a plex in Saint-Léonard, the median is the highest in the area, but 56 plexes are listed there, a third more than a year earlier; the Saint-Léonard page describes its sectors.

If you are buying a plex, three factors weigh on the math. Anjou, Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve and Saint-Léonard prohibit commercial tourist residences, and in Saint-Léonard, the City does not even allow renting out a principal residence to tourists: see the short term rental rules. Converting to divided co-ownership requires an exemption from the borough, then the authorization of the Tribunal administratif du logement (Quebec’s rental board); in Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, the exemption covers, among others, buildings of 4 units or fewer at least half occupied by their owners for at least 3 years, and in Anjou, only buildings of 30 units or more in a defined area. In October 2025, CMHC measured a 4.5% vacancy rate in its Hochelaga-Maisonneuve zone, reliability code d, “Fair (use with caution)”, and 1.1% in its Mercier zone.

If you are buying, condo supply has grown in all three boroughs; for single-family homes, only Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve has a published change: 53 active listings, 20% more. None of these figures says whether it is the right time: they say where the supply is, and how fast it is selling.

Frequently asked questions

Will the metro station push up the value of my house in Saint-Léonard? No official source measures that. What is published: an inauguration scheduled for 2031 and a legal servitude on the lots the tunnel crosses.

My assessment rose 16.6% in Saint-Léonard: will my taxes rise as much? Not automatically: the bill depends on the rates set in the budget, and the City of Montreal has announced that the increase will be spread over the three years of the roll. If the value seems wrong to you, see how to contest your municipal assessment.

Can I rent out my condo on Airbnb in Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve? Not as a commercial tourist residence: the borough prohibits it. Renting out your principal residence remains possible from June 10 to September 10, with an annual permit from the City and, in a condo, a declaration of co-ownership that allows it or the syndicate’s authorization.

To go further, read the Montreal real estate market, borough by borough, Montreal and Laval Real Estate Market, Welcome Tax in Quebec and Plex or Condo in Montreal.

Selling or buying in Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, Anjou, Saint-Léonard or Montréal-Est? Write to me: the analysis starts from the sales in your area, not from the median for the island of Montreal. Service in French, English and Arabic.

Georges Matar

Residential Real Estate Broker · RE/MAX DU CARTIER INC.

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