How Long Does It Take to Sell a House in Laval?

In Laval, a single-family home sold in the third quarter of 2026 stayed on the market for 36 days on average, a condo for 57 and a plex for 58, according to Centris. On the Island of Montreal, single-family homes took 51 days. That counter stops when the promesse d’achat (promise to purchase) is accepted, not at the notary. Here are those timelines for Laval’s 13 neighbourhoods and 15 neighbouring territories, followed by the complete calendar.

How long does it take to sell a house in Laval in 2026?

From July to September 2026, Centris counts 848 residential sales in Laval. The average time on market depends first on the type of property.

Source: Centris real estate statistics for Laval, third quarter of 2026, meaning July to September. Changes compare with the same quarter of 2025 and are expressed in days.

Single-family homes are the fastest, and they are speeding up: two days less than in summer 2025. Plexes, on the other hand, take seven days more, on only 65 sales. For the same quarter, APCIQ (the Quebec Professional Association of Real Estate Brokers) counts 40 days for single-family homes in the Montreal metropolitan area. Its barometer, drawn from the same Centris system, gives 37 days for Laval: the tables in this article stick to the Centris pages.

What days on market really measures

APCIQ defines average days on market as the “average number of days between the date the brokerage contract was signed and the date of sale.” The sale date, in turn, “is the date on which the promise to purchase is accepted, which takes effect once all conditions are met.” Four consequences for a seller:

• The counter starts when the brokerage contract is signed. The preparation that comes before it is not included.
• It stops at the promise to purchase, not at the notary. The deed of sale and the handing over of the keys are never counted.
• Only properties that sold are counted. A listing that was withdrawn or that expired has no date of sale.
• It is an average, not a median. A few very long sales are enough to pull it up, especially where sales are rare.

Nor is this timeline the number of months of inventory: APCIQ specifies that this measure “is different than the average selling time.”

Selling times neighbourhood by neighbourhood in Laval

Centris tracks 13 neighbourhoods in Laval. For condos, only the last four quarters provide enough neighbourhood figures. “n.p.”: not published, because there are too few transactions.

Source: Centris real estate statistics for Laval and for each neighbourhood: Auteuil, Chomedey, Duvernay, Fabreville, Laval-des-Rapides, Laval-Ouest, Laval-sur-le-Lac, Pont-Viau, Saint-François, Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, Sainte-Dorothée, Sainte-Rose and Vimont, third quarter of 2026, meaning July to September. In parentheses, the change in days over one year.

From 27 to 48 days for single-family homes. Among the eight neighbourhoods where Centris publishes a quarterly figure, Duvernay is the shortest, at 27 days, 18 fewer than in summer 2025. Sainte-Dorothée is the longest, at 48 days, and it stays the longest over four quarters (46). For prices and supply in these neighbourhoods, see the analyses of Duvernay and east Laval and of Sainte-Dorothée and Laval-Ouest.

Condos are slower almost everywhere. In Chomedey, the only neighbourhood where Centris publishes a quarterly condo figure, it reaches 59 days, compared with 34 for single-family homes. Over four quarters, condos are slower than single-family homes in six of the eight neighbourhoods where both figures exist; Auteuil (32 days) and Sainte-Rose (29) are the exceptions, on 73 and 46 sales.

Plexes, almost invisible. No neighbourhood has a published quarterly figure for plexes. Over four quarters, they range from 43 days in Sainte-Rose to 56 in Laval-des-Rapides. Prices and sales for all 13 neighbourhoods are in the Laval real estate market by sector.

In your city: Montreal, North Shore, South Shore

Same measure, same quarter, for the neighbouring cities. Centris has no page for Longueuil, Terrebonne or Repentigny as a whole: in those cases, each row is a sector published by Centris.

Source: Centris real estate statistics for the Island of Montreal, Longueuil (Le Vieux-Longueuil, Saint-Hubert, Greenfield Park), Brossard, Terrebonne (Terrebonne, Lachenaie, La Plaine), Mascouche, Repentigny (Repentigny, Le Gardeur), Blainville, Mirabel, Saint-Jérôme and Saint-Eustache, third quarter of 2026, meaning July to September. Laval: same source as above.

Laval is getting faster while most of the surrounding area slows down. Of the 15 rows where Centris publishes a quarterly single-family figure, 10 lengthen compared with summer 2025, from 3 days in Saint-Jérôme to 13 in Le Vieux-Longueuil. Only Laval, Saint-Hubert, Mascouche and Saint-Eustache get shorter; Brossard does not move. Timelines range from 23 days in Saint-Eustache to 51 on the Island of Montreal.

Condos: slower, and getting slower. They take longer than single-family homes in nine of the ten rows where both figures exist; only the Terrebonne sector is the exception (35 days compared with 37). In those nine rows, the condo timeline is also up over one year: by 24 days in Repentigny, 16 in Saint-Hubert and 14 on the Island of Montreal. In its October 14, 2026 press release, APCIQ places condo conditions on the Island “on the threshold between a balanced and a buyer’s market,” and writes that, for condos, Laval and Vaudreuil-Soulanges “are also approaching balanced thresholds.”

From brokerage contract to notarial deed: the full timeline

Centris’s average stops at the accepted promise. Here is the whole sequence, with what sets the length of each step.

1. Preparation. Documents, the certificat de localisation (certificate of location). Whatever is done before the brokerage contract is signed is not part of the Centris average.
2. The brokerage contract. Signing it starts the counter.
3. Showings, up to the accepted promise. This is the period covered by the tables above: 36 days on average for a single-family home in Laval in Q3 2026.
4. The buyer’s conditions. The OACIQ promesse d’achat form for a building with fewer than five dwellings, excluding condos, leaves the number of days for the inspection, the financing and the review of documents blank: it is negotiated. Printed deadlines are added to it, such as the seller’s five days to respond when no lender’s commitment is received (clause 6.3). The details are in the selling process, step by step.
5. The deed of sale. Clause 11.1 provides for signing before a notary on or before a date that you write in with the buyer, who becomes the owner at that signing. Occupancy follows the date in clause 11.2, which can be different.
6. The sale proceeds. According to Éducaloi, the notary handles the money in a trust account and pays the creditors who hold a right on the property before handing you the balance.

No official source publishes the average time between the accepted promise and the notarial deed. There is no standard length: it is the date you write into the promise.

What lengthens the timeline, and what shortens it

Public data compares groups of properties. It does not tell you how many days a given house will take.

The type of property. In Laval, a condo took 21 days longer on average than a single-family home in Q3 2026, 57 compared with 36.

The price range. For single-family homes in Laval, over 12 months, the APCIQ barometer calculates 2.8 months of inventory between $470,000 and $790,000, and 7.2 months at $950,000 and up. At the top of the market, supply therefore represents more months of sales, even though every range is still classified “Seller,” below the 8-month threshold. This is not a timeline in days: the barometer does not publish selling times by price range.

Growing supply. In Laval, Centris counts 792 active single-family listings in the quarter, 17% more than a year earlier, for 8% fewer sales. Yet the average single-family timeline there fell by 2 days. For Quebec as a whole, APCIQ’s economist notes that the rise in available properties is beginning to “provide prospective buyers with more choice.”

What you control. The asking price, first: no public source quantifies the days gained by a price in line with comparable sales, but the decision is yours. To place yours, start with the home value estimator, then the comparable sales on your street. The documents, next: clause 10.3 of the promise requires you to provide your deed of acquisition and a certificat de localisation that reflects the current physical condition of the premises. If it needs to be redone, order it before listing. Finally, every condition you accept opens a deadline written into the promise.

How long does it take to sell a house from an estate?

Centris publishes no separate statistics for sales made by an estate. What adds to the time on market are steps before and after.

Before the brokerage contract. According to the OACIQ, the broker must obtain the will, or a certified extract establishing the liquidator’s powers, and ideally the declaration of transmission. If that declaration is not ready, the contract can be signed with the will and the will search certificate, after consulting the notary, but the declaration will have to be signed and published before title is transferred to the buyer. A will that was not made before a notary must first be verified (probated), before a notary or before the court, Éducaloi points out.

Who signs. If the will does not give the liquidator the power to sell, the liquidator needs the consent of the heirs or, failing that, the authorization of the court: that is the rule in article 804 of the Code civil du Québec (Civil Code of Quebec). If the liquidator has only simple administration, the OACIQ asks the broker to obtain the signature of all the heirs or their power of attorney. Without the heirs’ agreement, the court is therefore required, and before the brokerage contract is even signed.

After the sale. The liquidator does not hand the money over to the heirs before obtaining the certificates from Revenu Québec and the Canada Revenue Agency, which can take several weeks, or even several months, Éducaloi warns.

None of these steps has an official length: the estate’s notary confirms the order. The general framework is in inheriting property in Quebec.

Frequently asked questions

How long does it take to sell a house on average? In Quebec, a single-family home sold in 45 days on average in Q3 2026, according to APCIQ, a condo in 58 and a plex in 48. In Laval, Centris counts 36 days for single-family homes. These averages run from the brokerage contract to the accepted promise, not to the notary.

How long does it take to sell a house in Montreal in 2026? On the Island of Montreal, 51 days on average for a single-family home in Q3 2026, 67 for a condo and 52 for a plex, according to Centris. The condo timeline there rose by 14 days in one year.

How can I sell my house quickly? By acting on what depends on you: the asking price, the documents and the deadlines you accept in the promise. No public data quantifies the days these steps save, and none guarantees a timeline for a specific house.

How long does it take to sell a house in Laval, through to the deed of sale? The time on market, 36 days on average for a single-family home in Q3 2026, plus the time until the notarial deed, whose date you write into the promesse d’achat (clause 11.1). No official statistic publishes the average for that second period.

To go further, read the selling calendar and the decisions that shape it, in Montreal and what happens at the notary, step by step, and find out why your house is not selling in Laval and whether now is a good time to sell your house in Laval.

Want to know how many days homes comparable to yours took to sell? I prepare a free comparative market analysis, with recent sales in your area. Write to me. Service in French, English and Arabic.

Georges Matar

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

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