Finance
How to Pay Off Your Mortgage Faster in Quebec
Your lender offers to switch you “to biweekly.” Two options carry almost the same name and only one of …
Real Estate Insights
Market trends, buying tips, investment advice, and local neighbourhood guides for Montréal, Laval, the Laurentians & Lanaudière.
Investment
Increasing the Value of a Plex in Montreal or Laval
A plex rarely sells on its decor. The buyer adds up the rents, subtracts the expenses, and the offer follows that …
Buyer's Guide
Intergenerational Home in Laval
Your parents are selling their house and want to move in with you. You picture a unit in the basement, a second …
Investment
Land Value and Zoning in Quebec: How to Read the Roll
Your assessment notice does not show one amount, it shows three: the value of the property, the value of the land …
Seller's Guide
Listing Exposure on Centris in Quebec: The Rules
You sign the brokerage contract on a Tuesday evening. By Thursday your property is online, and you find out what it …
Finance
Moving Expenses in Quebec: The 40 km Rule
Every spring, Quebec taxpayers put their moving expenses on their return and have them refused. The reason almost …
Buyer's Guide
New Build or Resale in Quebec: What Actually Differs
A buyer compares two listings: a project home at $500,000 in a neighbourhood still being built, and a 1998 house at …
Finance
Novoclimat Home in Quebec: What It Buys
“Energy efficient home” is not a legal category. Anyone can write those words in a property …
Seller's Guide
Open House in Quebec: What the Seller Has to Control
On a Sunday afternoon, strangers walk through your house, open your cupboard doors and head upstairs. The real …
Real Estate 101
Pets Banned in a Quebec Condo: Where the Rule Actually Lives
You have visited the condo twice. You like the courtyard, the light, the parking spot. Nobody has said a word about …
Practical Guide
Quebec Residential Pool Rules and Deadline
Plenty of owners believe the deadline went by in the fall of 2025. It did not. The official text of the Règlement …
Practical Guide
Radon Testing a Home in Quebec
Your pre-purchase inspector will not measure radon. It is not an oversight: the only measurement Health Canada …
Seller's Guide
Selling Before Buying in Quebec: The Clauses That Decide
You own your home and you want to move. The real question is not whether you will sell and buy, but in which order. …
Practical Guide
Spring Melt and Water Infiltration in a Montreal Basement
In March, snow piled against a foundation melts faster than frozen ground can absorb it. The water then takes the …
Seller's Guide
The Process of Selling a House in Quebec: The Steps
Between the first meeting with a broker and the signing at the notaire, a residential sale goes through about ten …
Market Analysis
The Real Cost of the Montreal Suburbs
You will be told the suburbs cost less, and the gap between median prices seems to confirm it. Then the tax bill …
Practical Guide
The True Cost of an In-Ground Pool in Quebec
The installation price of a pool gets negotiated once. The rest gets paid every year, and that is the part almost …
Seller's Guide
Who Buys in Montreal and Laval: What the Data Actually Shows
You are preparing your property for “the buyer”. That generic buyer does not exist. The household that …
Buyer's Guide
New Home Warranty in Quebec: The GCR Plan
Behind every new home sold by an accredited builder in Quebec sits a mandatory warranty plan. It does not cover …
Real Estate 101
Renovating a Condo in Quebec: The Limit
You want to pull up the carpet and lay hardwood, replace the living room window, close in the balcony. In a house, …
Real Estate 101
Vice caché in Quebec: The Four Conditions and Your Recourses
The water arrives in the spring, in a finished basement bought the previous fall. The first reflex is to call a …
Practical Guide
How to Cut Your Heating Bill in Quebec: Where to Start
Two houses of the same age, on the same street in Laval, can show a gap of several hundred dollars per winter. It …
Investment
Adding an Accessory Dwelling Unit in Quebec: The Framework
An empty basement, an attached garage used as a shed, a lot deeper than the others on the street. The reflex is to …
Buyer's Guide
Sale Without Legal Warranty in Quebec
On a Centris listing, the mention fits on one line: sold without legal warranty of quality, at the buyer’s …