Sainte-Rose and Fabreville, Laval Real Estate Market: Q3 2026

Sainte-Rose and Fabreville share a border, but their markets went in opposite directions this summer. In the third quarter of 2026, Centris counts 21% more residential sales than a year earlier in Sainte-Rose, and 18% fewer in Fabreville. The single-family home sold at a median price of $670,000 on one side and $560,000 on the other. Here is what these figures say, what they leave out, and what is changing in Laval’s sector 5.

The Sainte-Rose and Fabreville, Laval real estate market, by the numbers

The City of Laval places both neighbourhoods in its planning sector 5, and Centris publishes a page for each. The changes in parentheses compare with the same period a year earlier; for time on market, the change is in days.

Single-family homes, which account for most transactions.

Source: Centris real estate statistics for Laval (Sainte-Rose), for Laval (Fabreville) and for Laval, third quarter of 2026, July to September.

Condominiums. Ten sales in Sainte-Rose and twelve in Fabreville: too few for Centris to publish a median price for the quarter. This table therefore covers the last four quarters.

Source: Centris real estate statistics for Laval (Sainte-Rose) and for Laval (Fabreville), the four quarters ending in September 2026 combined.

Plexes of 2 to 5 units. Three sales in Sainte-Rose and five in Fabreville during the quarter. In Fabreville, Centris publishes no median price at all, not even over four quarters.

Source: same Centris pages, the four quarters ending in September 2026 combined.

Boundaries to read with care. Centris publishes a single area called “Laval (Fabreville)”. Sector 5, however, does not contain all of Fabreville. By cross-referencing two of the City’s open datasets, geolocated addresses and sector boundaries, I counted 15,606 civic addresses in the former town of Fabreville: 9,826 are in sector 5, and the other 5,780, to the west, are in sector 4. Read the Centris figures as those of Fabreville as a whole.

APCIQ draws the lines differently again: its third quarter barometer groups Sainte-Rose with Auteuil and Vimont, and Fabreville with Laval-Ouest. None of its months of inventory tables matches sector 5, so this article does not describe this market as favouring sellers or buyers.

Two neighbouring areas, two price levels

The $110,000 gap is not just a summer effect. Over four quarters, Centris puts the single-family median price at $650,968 in Sainte-Rose and $566,125 in Fabreville, on either side of Laval’s $629,750. Over the same period, Fabreville also sells faster: 30 days on average, against 34 in Sainte-Rose.

Why the gap? The published data cannot tell you: Centris releases neither the living area, nor the age, nor the lot size of the homes sold. A median price describes the batch of homes sold during the period, not the value of a specific house. One fact does set the neighbourhoods apart, without explaining the gap: the City’s 2018 architectural heritage inventory has 175 entries in Sainte-Rose, more than anywhere else in Laval, against 20 in Fabreville.

What changed in a year

Laval as a whole lost 15% of its residential sales in the quarter, according to Centris. On October 14, APCIQ concluded that single-family sellers keep the upper hand in each major sector of the metropolitan area, and that Laval’s condo market is approaching balance. The policy rate stands at 2.25% as of October 19, 2026, ahead of the October 28 announcement.

Sainte-Rose: more sales, and much more supply. Single-family sales rose 31%, and their active listings 72%. Time on market stayed at 39 days. Over four quarters, sales are up 13% and inventory 43%: the trend goes beyond the season.

Fabreville: fewer sales, and an inventory that is changing in nature. Single-family sales fell 18% in the quarter and 16% over four quarters. Total inventory is stable (152 listings, -1%), but it holds 22% more single-family homes and 39% fewer condos.

Rentals and new construction. CMHC publishes its figures for its Laval-Ouest/Fabreville/Ste-Rose zone, whose name also includes Laval-Ouest. From January to September 2026, it counted 376 housing starts there, including 358 apartments, against 561 a year earlier. The zone’s vacancy rate was 2.0% in October 2025, against 2.5% a year earlier; the rate for the city of Laval was 3.4%.

Sainte-Rose station and Vieux-Sainte-Rose

A special planning program around the station. Sainte-Rose station, at 99 boulevard Sainte-Rose Est, is served by exo’s line 12, Saint-Jérôme, in fare zone B. Since 2022, a special planning program (programme particulier d’urbanisme, or PPU) has governed its area: about 415 hectares on both sides of the railway, at the edge of Vieux-Sainte-Rose and Auteuil.

The PPU sets building heights: one to three storeys in established residential areas, up to six on boulevard Sainte-Rose Est near the station, and up to eight at the heart of the station hub. It also plans discussions with exo on redeveloping the park-and-ride lot, which currently has 705 spaces. Its action plan is indicative and proceeds by time horizons, with no construction dates.

Practical consequence. Near the station, the lot next door may be able to receive a building of several storeys. The City’s Info-règlements tool looks up the rules of the Code de l’urbanisme (its planning code) by address or by lot number.

Heritage rules. Exterior renovations or an extension may require a PIIA (plan d’implantation et d’intégration architecturale, a site planning and architectural integration program): according to the City, an additional condition for the permit, assessed against criteria rather than fixed standards. Demolishing a heritage building falls under by-law L-12507 and a demolition committee. In May 2026, that committee reviewed the file of a 1904 house on rue des Patriotes, listed in the 2018 inventory and subject to the PIIA for territories of heritage interest; its minutes note that no objection was received within 10 days of the public notice.

A proposal (avis de proposition) adopted in 2025, initially aimed at the Sainte-Rose historic district, calls for assessing a supplementary inventory of buildings from before 1940; the City lists it as “In progress”. See what buying a heritage building involves.

The Rivière des Mille Îles and the future of Golf Ste-Rose

Two timelines for the maps. The City expects the new flood zone mapping, produced by the Communauté métropolitaine de Montréal (CMM), by the end of 2026; until then, the reference remains the map of the 0 to 20 year and 20 to 100 year zones. The CMM, for its part, wrote on July 30, 2026 that Quebec had postponed, with no new date, the first batch of these maps, which covers the banks of the Rivière des Mille Îles among other areas. On April 15, 2026, the City reported streets made impassable by minor flooding in the Laval-Ouest and Fabreville sectors. The map that applies to a riverside address can therefore change after you buy: see the checks to make in a flood zone.

A nature park in place of the golf course. Golf Ste-Rose, at 1400 boulevard Mattawa, sits in the part of Fabreville that the City places in sector 5. In February 2026, the City made an offer to purchase this 52 hectare site, with $4.5 million from the CMM and Quebec, to turn it into a nature park; its consultation page now refers to the acquisition of the land. The City plans to lease the site to the golf course operator until November 30, 2027. The June 2026 presentation sets public access to the site for 2028 and states that 74% of its area lies in a flood zone. An information meeting is scheduled for October 22, 2026.

Selling in Sainte-Rose or Fabreville

In Sainte-Rose, sales went up, and competition went up even more: 72% more single-family listings, against 31% more sales. The $670,000 median price depends on the batch of homes sold this summer, not on your house. Start from similar sales on your own street: see how to read the comparables of a neighbouring house. If the house appears in the heritage inventory, gather the authorizations and permits you obtained: a buyer may ask for them.

In Fabreville, the homes that sold went in 30 days on average, below the Laval average of 36, but the single-family inventory grew by 22%: your house sits alongside more competing listings.

Buying in Laval’s sector 5

The price gap also shows up in the welcome tax (droits de mutation). Both medians exceed $500,000, the threshold above which Laval applies 3% in 2026. Using the City’s brackets and a tax base equal to the price, the duties come to $7,410.50 at $560,000 and $10,710.50 at $670,000. The base, however, is the highest of the price paid, the amount stated in the deed, and the assessed value multiplied by 1.03: the welcome tax calculator redoes the calculation with your own figures.

Near the river, look up the address or lot number on the Quebec government’s interactive map, then ask the City for the precise boundary: the notation “Présence possible de zone inondable” (possible presence of a flood zone) has no legal value.

Frequently asked questions

Is Fabreville part of Laval’s sector 5? Partly. The City names its sector 5 “Sainte-Rose, Fabreville”, but its own data place the western part of the former town of Fabreville in sector 4. Centris, for its part, publishes a single area for all of Fabreville.

Does the Sainte-Rose station PPU allow tall buildings? It provides for up to eight storeys at the heart of the station hub, and one to three storeys in established residential areas. For a specific lot, the rules are those of the Code de l’urbanisme, which you can look up by address in Info-règlements.

Is the Sainte-Rose market favourable to sellers? No APCIQ document describes Sainte-Rose on its own: its barometer groups it with Auteuil and Vimont. For the metropolitan area, APCIQ writes that single-family sellers keep the upper hand in each of the major sectors.

To go further, read the Laval real estate market, neighbourhood by neighbourhood and buying in Laval: the six sectors, and see my Laval page.

Selling or buying in Sainte-Rose or Fabreville? Write to me: we look at comparable sales on your street, the flood zone map and the zoning of the address. Service in French, English and Arabic.

Georges Matar

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

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