Buyer's Guide
Catchment School and School Tax in Quebec
Plenty of buyers arrive with a ready made sentence: this street is in a good school zone, so the value will follow. …
Real Estate Insights
Market trends, buying tips, investment advice, and local neighbourhood guides for Montréal, Laval, the Laurentians & Lanaudière.
Real Estate 101
Eight Real Estate Myths, and the Rules
A real estate myth survives because nobody goes and reads the text. Here are eight beliefs that persist in the …
Market Analysis
Montreal and Laval Real Estate Market
The question comes up every week: is it a good time to buy or sell in Montreal? The answer does not come from a …
Real Estate 101
When a Quebec Deal Goes Wrong: Seven Cases
A Quebec residential transaction almost never breaks for an original reason. It breaks in the same places, each …
Investment
Building a Real Estate Portfolio, Montreal
You buy the first building with your salary. You buy the second one with the rules. What makes a first plex …
Finance
Property Taxes in Montreal and Laval: A Complete Explanation
Property taxes are not complicated, but they are misunderstood and consistently underestimated in buyers’ …
Finance
Renting or Buying in Greater Montreal
The question comes up every week: am I making a mistake by continuing to rent? Almost always, the person has …
Investment
House Flipping in Montreal: The Honest Math Nobody Shows You
On television a flip takes three moves: buy low, renovate fast, sell high. No one shows you the tax line, no one …
Buyer's Guide
Condo or House in Montreal: What You Are Actually Buying
Framing the question as a trade-off between price and square footage misses the point. A divided co-ownership and a …
Buyer's Guide
Buying in Laval: The Six Sectors
Buying in Laval is not buying into a uniform suburb. It is buying on a 246 square kilometre island that, according …
Buyer's Guide
Your Credit Score and Buying a Home
A fictional example, for illustration. Picture a typical buyer: software engineer, good job, solid savings, excited …
Real Estate 101
Inheriting Property in Quebec
When a house is part of an estate, the heirs’ first question is almost always the same: do we sell? Before …
Investment
Buying a Triplex in Laval: The Checks
A triplex is not bought the way a house is. The asking price says nothing about real income, the rents in place …
Seller's Guide
When to List Your Property in Montreal
“List in spring” is the most repeated piece of advice given to sellers in Greater Montreal. The useful …
Seller's Guide
How to Prepare Your Home for Sale in Montreal and Laval
Careful preparation generally helps attract more visitors in the first weeks on the market. But preparation …
Seller's Guide
Selling With or Without a Realtor, Quebec
This is the most common question among Quebec sellers, and often the one they hesitate to put to a broker directly: …
Real Estate 101
Comparing Two Montreal Neighbourhoods
You will not find a list of the five best neighbourhoods in Montreal here. Not because the exercise would be hard, …
Financing
What Salary Do You Need to Buy in Montreal or Laval?
This is one of the most frequent questions among first-time buyers, and no single number can answer it honestly. …
Finance
Quebec First-Time Buyer Tax Benefits 2026
Almost every first-time buyer I meet misses at least one program. And in 2026 the list changed: Quebec now refunds …
Real Estate 101
Real Estate Banners in Quebec: The Role
The choice of a banner comes up early in the conversation, and almost always in the wrong place. People compare …
Investment
Investing in Laval: What to Verify Before You Commit
Laval gets discussed as a market. What you buy, though, is a building, not a city. No municipal statistic …