Laurentians Real Estate Market by Sector: Q3 2026

In the third quarter of 2026, Centris counts 2,324 residential sales in the Laurentians, 5% fewer than in summer 2025. Single-family homes, however, are selling more there (+2%), and their median price reaches $573,750 (+5%). The region brings together two markets that do not move at the same pace: a house sells in 23 days on average in Saint-Eustache, and in 76 days in Mont-Tremblant. This overview compares the 21 most active municipalities and covers Argenteuil and Antoine-Labelle, which the series deals with only here.

The Laurentians real estate market in Q3 2026

From July to September 2026, single-family homes held up in the region; condos and plexes lost about a quarter of their sales.

Source: Centris real estate statistics for the Laurentians, third quarter of 2026, meaning July to September. Changes are compared with the same quarter of 2025; changes in days are expressed in days.

In total, the region shows 4,622 new listings (+12%) and 5,191 active listings (+15%). The Centris total includes hobby farms, hence 6 more sales than the sum of the three categories.

Compared with Quebec, two gaps in opposite directions. The APCIQ’s October 14, 2026 release puts the provincial median at $500,000 for single-family homes, $400,000 for condos and $699,000 for plexes: the Laurentians are above for the first, and below for the other two.

Three cities, 41% of the condos sold. Saint-Jérôme (52 sales), Mont-Tremblant (49) and Mirabel (47) account for 148 of the 361 condos sold in the quarter, and they are the only ones with a quarterly condo median: $319,250, $370,000 and $462,000. For plexes, only Saint-Jérôme has one, $655,000 on 37 sales.

The 21 municipalities compared

Centris divides the region into 82 municipalities and unorganized territories. The table keeps those with at least 150 sales over the last four quarters: 21 municipalities, because of a tie for 20th place, which account for 7,720 of the region’s 10,236 sales. “n.p.”: a figure Centris does not publish, because there are not enough transactions.

Source: Centris real estate statistics for the Laurentians and for Saint-Jérôme, Mirabel, Blainville, Saint-Eustache, Mont-Tremblant, Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-Lac, Sainte-Thérèse, Sainte-Adèle, Saint-Sauveur, Saint-Colomban, Sainte-Sophie, Saint-Hippolyte, Boisbriand, Deux-Montagnes, Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, Prévost, Lachute, Rosemère, Bois-des-Filion, Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines and Brownsburg-Chatham, third quarter of 2026, meaning July to September. “Days”: average selling time for a single-family home during the quarter.

The top of the table depends on the period. For the quarter, among the 17 municipalities with a median, Blainville leads ($835,000), ahead of Saint-Sauveur ($725,000) and Sainte-Thérèse ($710,000). Over four quarters, Rosemère moves to the top at $877,722, even though its quarterly median is not published. The bottom does not change: Brownsburg-Chatham comes last over both periods.

Three medians fall for the quarter, none over four quarters. Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts (-16%), Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-Lac (-9%) and Sainte-Adèle (-1%) have a lower quarterly median than in summer 2025; over four quarters, every median in the table is stable or rising. A change in the median price is not the change in value of any given house: the mix of properties sold shifts from one quarter to the next.

Sales diverge, supply rises almost everywhere. Only Saint-Colomban (+38%), Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-Lac (+10%) and Prévost (+2%) are selling more than a year earlier; Rosemère falls the most, -32%. Active single-family listings are up in 18 of the 20 municipalities where Centris publishes the change, from +1% in Saint-Eustache to +95% in Deux-Montagnes.

North Shore suburbs and cottage country: two markets in the Laurentians

The Centris municipal pages add up exactly to the regional total. The MRCs (regional county municipalities) of Deux-Montagnes, Thérèse-De Blainville and La Rivière-du-Nord, along with Mirabel, account for 6,470 of the 10,236 sales over the last four quarters, or 63%. Les Pays-d’en-Haut and the MRC des Laurentides account for 2,618, or 26%.

Selling time draws the line. In the southern cities, from Saint-Eustache (23 days) to Saint-Jérôme (39 days), a single-family home sells in under 40 days on average, except in Sainte-Sophie (49) and Saint-Hippolyte (53). In cottage country, it takes 70 days in Saint-Sauveur and 76 in Mont-Tremblant. Sainte-Adèle, at 29 days, looks more like the south.

APCIQ months of inventory, price range by price range. The APCIQ considers a market favourable to sellers under 8 months of inventory, balanced from 8 to 10, and favourable to buyers beyond that. For single-family homes, over 12 months, every price range in the territories below favours sellers, except often the most expensive one, and except under $240,000 in Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts (8.9 months, balanced). In the most expensive range, inventory runs from 7.1 to 12.1 months in the south, and from 14.2 to 19.0 months in cottage country.

Source: APCIQ, residential barometers for the third quarter of 2026, Montreal CMA (pages 35 to 38 and 43) and province of Quebec (pages 19, 28, 29 and 30), table 3.

These territories are not cities: the Saint-Sauveur urban centre also takes in Prévost, Piedmont, Morin-Heights, Sainte-Anne-des-Lacs and Saint-Adolphe-d’Howard. For the Mont-Tremblant urban centre, the APCIQ publishes this table only for condos: from 14.5 to 22.8 months of inventory above $210,000, every one of these ranges favourable to buyers. Its October 14, 2026 release places “the resort markets of the Laurentides” among those showing “the most balanced conditions in the province, without however systematically favouring buyers.”

Argenteuil and Antoine-Labelle

According to the maps of the ministère des Affaires municipales et de l’Habitation (Quebec’s municipal affairs ministry), the MRC d’Argenteuil has 9 municipalities and 38,581 residents under the population decree for 2026; the MRC d’Antoine-Labelle has 17 municipalities plus unorganized territories, and 38,189 residents over 14,793 km². Gore and Mille-Isles are part of Argenteuil, even though the APCIQ places Gore in its Saint-Jérôme sector.

A single-family market. Over four quarters, the Centris pages total 621 sales in Argenteuil and 527 in Antoine-Labelle, 11% of the region between the two. In the third quarter, a single condo sold there: 1 of 158 transactions in Argenteuil, none of 154 in Antoine-Labelle.

Three municipalities have a quarterly median. Lachute: $475,000 (+15%), $431,627 (+14%) over four quarters, in 74 days. Brownsburg-Chatham: $392,250 (+6%), in 44 days. Mont-Laurier: $319,000 (-10%), the lowest quarterly median in the region, $346,162 (-1%) over four quarters, in 73 days. In Rivière-Rouge, only the four-quarter median is published: $354,975 (0%).

None of these municipalities has a page in the APCIQ barometers, and so none has official months of inventory. In October 2025, CMHC measured a rental vacancy rate of 1.5% in Lachute (rating a, excellent) and 2.2% in Mont-Laurier (rating c, good).

What is weighing on the Laurentians real estate market

The policy rate. As of October 21, 2026, it stands at 2.25%, unchanged since October 29, 2025; the Bank of Canada will announce its next decision on October 28, 2026. For the effect on your own loan, a mortgage broker runs the numbers.

Transfer duties that vary from city to city. The law allows a municipality to charge up to 3% on the portion above $500,000 (section 2 of the Act respecting duties on transfers of immovables). Saint-Jérôme applies that 3% from $500,000.01. Blainville made a different choice for 2026: 1.5% up to $750,000, then 3%. For an $850,000 property, close to its single-family median, the City publishes $12,360.50 in duties for 2026, against $16,153.50 in 2025. Boisbriand charges 2.5% from $500,000 to $800,000, and Mont-Tremblant 2% from $500,000 to $750,000. With a regional median of $573,750, at least half of the single-family homes sold exceed $500,000. The welcome tax calculator gives an order of magnitude; the notary sets the amount.

Short-term rentals are decided zone by zone. The Loi sur l’hébergement touristique (Quebec’s Tourist Accommodation Act) requires registration for renting to tourists, for payment, for 31 days or less (sections 2 and 4), on pain of a fine of $2,500 to $25,000 for an individual (section 28). A municipality can prohibit the rental of a principal residence only through a zoning or conditional-use by-law adopted under a procedure that facilitates a referendum (section 23). Sainte-Adèle prohibits Airbnb-type rentals “on the vast majority of the territory.” Saint-Sauveur allows them only in certain zones, with an occupancy certificate. Mont-Tremblant limits tourist residences to detached single-family homes and applies a separate tax rate to them. If you are counting on that income, check the zone before making an offer: see the short-term rental rules.

Tomorrow’s flood map has no date. The banks of the Rivière des Mille Îles and the Lac des Deux Montagnes are part of the first batch of new-generation maps from the Communauté métropolitaine de Montréal (CMM), scheduled for August 1, 2026. The Environment ministry postponed it “to an undetermined date,” according to the CMM’s July 30, 2026 release. Until it is published, the map of the municipality or the MRC applies. Before an offer on a waterfront property, see the checks to make in a flood zone.

New construction. From January to September 2026, CMHC recorded 1,891 housing starts in Saint-Jérôme, 1,821 of them apartments, against 682 a year earlier; 576 in Blainville (223 a year earlier) and 533 in Deux-Montagnes (186). These are mostly apartments: 534 of the 576 in Blainville, 520 of the 533 in Deux-Montagnes. A housing start is not a delivered home.

The region’s six sectors, one by one

The series devotes an analysis to six sectors, modelled on the MRCs. Sales add up the Centris pages over four quarters; a sector median does not exist, and making one up would be wrong.

Thérèse-De Blainville: Blainville, Sainte-Thérèse, Boisbriand, Rosemère, Lorraine, Bois-des-Filion and Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines. 2,038 sales, and the two highest single-family medians in the region, in Blainville and in Rosemère.

Deux-Montagnes: Saint-Eustache, Deux-Montagnes, Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-Lac, Pointe-Calumet, Saint-Joseph-du-Lac, Oka and Saint-Placide. 1,362 sales. Saint-Eustache has the shortest single-family selling time in the table.

Mirabel. 918 sales, the region’s second city, published as a single block by Centris.

La Rivière-du-Nord: Saint-Jérôme, Saint-Colomban, Prévost, Sainte-Sophie and Saint-Hippolyte. 2,152 sales, the most active sector, 1,146 of them in Saint-Jérôme, the region’s leading city.

Les Pays-d’en-Haut: Saint-Sauveur, Sainte-Adèle, Morin-Heights, Piedmont, Sainte-Anne-des-Lacs, Saint-Adolphe-d’Howard, Sainte-Marguerite-du-Lac-Masson, Wentworth-Nord, Estérel and Lac-des-Seize-Îles. 1,349 sales. Two towns in the same MRC, two paces: 70 days in Saint-Sauveur, 29 in Sainte-Adèle.

The MRC des Laurentides: Mont-Tremblant, Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, Val-David, Val-Morin, Mont-Blanc, Labelle and 14 other municipalities. 1,269 sales. In Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, the median falls for the quarter ($459,000, -16%) but rises over four quarters ($501,000, +8%).

Frequently asked questions

Where are single-family homes most expensive in the Laurentians? Among the published medians, in Blainville for the third quarter of 2026 ($835,000), and in Rosemère over four quarters ($877,722). The lowest quarterly median is in Mont-Laurier ($319,000). To place a specific address, see how to audit your neighbour’s comparables.

Are prices still rising in the Laurentians? The Centris regional single-family median gains 5% over one year, and the condo median does not move; the median of three municipalities in the table falls for the quarter. These figures describe completed sales, not future prices.

Does the Laurentians market favour sellers? It depends on the territory and the price range. For single-family homes, the APCIQ classifies every price range as a seller’s market in its five sectors located entirely in the south of the region, except the most expensive range in four of them. In the three cottage-country territories where it publishes this table for single-family homes, the most expensive range favours buyers.

Why does Centris show no quarterly median for Rosemère? Because 26 single-family homes sold in the quarter are not enough, according to Centris, for a reliable statistic. The four-quarter median takes over: $877,722.

To go further, read how the welcome tax is calculated and the checks to make before buying a cottage.

Torn between the North Shore suburbs and cottage country, or want to see where your property stands in these figures? Write to me: we will start from the recent sales in your municipality, one by one, not from the regional median. Service in French, English and Arabic.

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

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