Seller's Guide
My House Is Not Selling in Quebec: The Honest Diagnosis
Your property has been listed for eight weeks. The phone has gone quiet, and the only suggestion you keep hearing …
Real Estate Insights
Market trends, buying tips, investment advice, and local neighbourhood guides for Montréal, Laval, the Laurentians & Lanaudière.
Practical Guide
Climate Resilient Renovations in Quebec
Two violent storms in one summer are enough to turn a finished basement into a claim. In Montreal as in Laval, the …
Practical Guide
Mould in a Quebec Home: Detect, Declare, Act
A black stain at the bottom of a basement wall almost always triggers the same reaction: get the air tested, get a …
Practical Guide
Sunroom and Veranda: The Extension Permit in Quebec
A sunroom gets shopped for like a piece of furniture: a model, a frame colour, an installation date. The Régie du …
Investment
Owner Occupied Plex in Quebec: Repossessing a Dwelling
You are buying a duplex or a triplex in Montreal or Laval to live in it. The dwellings are occupied, the leases …
Buyer's Guide
Sagging Sewer Drain in Montreal
The basement smells of sewer when it rains hard. The downstairs toilet gurgles while the washing machine empties. …
Investment
Short Term Rentals in Quebec: The Rules
When you buy a property to rent out by the night, the profitability math comes last. What decides the project is …
Finance
Mortgage Refinancing in Quebec: Is It Worth It?
Three requests land on the same desk under three different names: renew, transfer, refinance. Only one of those …
Finance
Homeowner Tax in Quebec: What Actually Gets Deducted
Selling your house tax free, deducting your mortgage interest, running a renovation through your expenses: three …
Practical Guide
Common Home Insurance Claims in Quebec
Almost everybody believes they have “home insurance.” Almost nobody knows whether the loss most likely …
Practical Guide
Foundation Cracks in Quebec: Diagnosis and Recourses
A crack does not say what caused it. Yet it is the cause, and the cause alone, that decides whether you have a …
Practical Guide
Renovation Permits in Montreal and Laval: Winter
January does not stop you from renovating. It imposes conditions on anything touching concrete, it ruins the laying …
Market Analysis
Best Time to Buy in Montreal: What the August Data Says
In late August, a buyer hears two contradictory things: that sellers in a hurry give in before the fall, and that …
Buyer's Guide
Vermiculite and Asbestos in a Quebec Home
Grey-brown granules with a faint sheen, poured loose between the attic joists: that is often all a buyer sees …
Investment
Municipal Tax Sale in Quebec: The Procedure
An abandoned house, a municipal auction, a price that looks ridiculously low: the tax sale gets passed around as a …
Finance
Undivided Co-Ownership in Montreal: How It Gets Financed
You visit a 4 1/2 in the Plateau, listed $80,000 below a comparable condo two streets away. The listing says …
Buyer's Guide
Bill 16 and Condo Documents in Quebec
A seller tells you his co-ownership has neither a maintenance logbook nor a contingency fund study. In 2026 he is …
Practical Guide
First Meeting With a Real Estate Broker: The Documents
Most sellers show up to that appointment empty-handed, assuming the conversation will be mostly about price. Three …
Seller's Guide
Keep or Sell a Property in Quebec: Five Cases
An owner who is hesitating tells themselves they are holding on “until things become clearer”. The …
Buyer's Guide
Hard to Insure Home in Quebec: What Actually Blocks the Deal
No Quebec law requires an owner to carry insurance. The lender almost always does. The result: an insurer saying no …
Seller's Guide
Real Estate Comparables: Auditing Your Neighbour's Price
The house across the street is listed at $749,000, so you conclude yours is worth about the same. Yet two …
Practical Guide
Smoke Alarms in Quebec: The Obligation and the Insurer
Your smoke alarm complies with your city’s by-law. That says nothing about what your insurer expects of you. …
Practical Guide
Snow Removal and Owner Liability in Quebec
A delivery driver slips in your driveway. A sheet of ice breaks off your cornice and dents the car parked beside …
Seller's Guide
The Seller's Declaration in Quebec: The DV 00001 Form
Plenty of sellers fill out the Déclarations du vendeur sur l’immeuble in fifteen minutes, ticking …