Why Is My House Not Selling in Laval?

A house that is not selling in Laval is diagnosed by comparing your listing with the sales in your neighbourhood: time on market, price range, showings. First benchmark: in the third quarter of 2026, a single-family home sold in Laval had spent 36 days on the market on average, compared with 51 on the Island of Montreal, according to Centris. Five causes are then checked.

Why is my house not selling in Laval: the four-step diagnosis

In order, with public figures and the ones in your own file:

1. Count your days since the brokerage contract was signed. APCIQ (the Quebec Professional Association of Real Estate Brokers) defines average days on market as the average number of days between that signing and the date of sale. Compare yourself with your neighbourhood and your property category.
2. Place your asking price within its range. The APCIQ barometer classifies each price range as a seller’s, balanced or buyer’s market.
3. Count your showings and read the feedback. Each profile points to a different cause: see the diagnosis of a property that is not selling in Quebec.
4. Check the five causes: price, presentation, access for showings, a known defect, buyers’ financing.

What the benchmark does not count. For APCIQ, the date of sale is the date on which the promesse d’achat (promise to purchase) takes effect, once the conditions are lifted. A listing that was withdrawn or that expired has no such date: the average only describes the houses that sold.

Your days on market against your Laval neighbourhood

For single-family homes, three Centris measures for the third quarter of 2026: sales, active listings, meaning the average number of houses for sale at the end of each month, and the average time on market. When Centris does not publish the quarter’s selling time because there are too few sales, the column gives the figure for the last four quarters.

Source: Centris real estate statistics for Laval, Auteuil, Chomedey, Duvernay, Fabreville, Laval-des-Rapides, Laval-Ouest, Laval-sur-le-Lac, Pont-Viau, Saint-François, Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, Sainte-Dorothée, Sainte-Rose and Vimont, third quarter of 2026, meaning July to September. Changes over one year, in days for selling times. Without parentheses: Centris does not publish the quarterly change. “n.p.”: not published, because there are too few transactions.

The same timeline does not weigh the same everywhere. Forty days online is still below the average in Sainte-Dorothée (48 days), but 13 days above it in Duvernay (27). Where supply grows faster than sales, your house sits beside more listings: in Sainte-Dorothée, 112 active single-family listings (+23%) for 54 sales (-3%); in Sainte-Rose, sales up 31%, but supply up 72%.

Two exceptions. Of the ten neighbourhoods where Centris publishes the change in active listings, only Duvernay (-8%) and Vimont (-10%) see their single-family supply shrink. The details are in the analyses of Sainte-Dorothée and Laval-Ouest, of Duvernay and east Laval, of Vimont and Auteuil and of Sainte-Rose and Fabreville.

Condos: a different benchmark. It is 57 days in Laval, and 59 in Chomedey, the only neighbourhood where Centris publishes this timeline for the quarter.

In your city: the supply of houses and the selling time

The same measures for Montreal and the North and South Shores. Centris publishes no total for Longueuil, Terrebonne or Repentigny: in those cases, each row is a borough or a sector.

Source: Centris real estate statistics for the Island of Montreal, Le Vieux-Longueuil, Saint-Hubert, Greenfield Park, Brossard, Terrebonne, Lachenaie, La Plaine, Mascouche, Repentigny, Le Gardeur, Blainville, Mirabel, Saint-Jérôme and Saint-Eustache, third quarter of 2026. The Montreal row covers the whole island.

Supply is rising almost everywhere. It falls only in Saint-Hubert (-10%) and Brossard (-2%); elsewhere, it increases, from 1% in Saint-Eustache to 94% in La Plaine. Selling times range from 23 days in Saint-Eustache to 51 on the Island of Montreal. A house that has been online for 45 days is still below the Island of Montreal average; in Mascouche (25 days), the same timeline exceeds it by 20 days.

Is your price range in oversupply?

Not for single-family homes, according to the APCIQ barometer for the third quarter of 2026. The barometer divides the average inventory of the last 12 months by the monthly average of sales: under 8 months, the market favours sellers; from 8 to 10, it is balanced; above that, it favours buyers. No range in the table is a buyer’s market.

Source: APCIQ residential barometer, third quarter of 2026, Montreal metropolitan area (in French), table 3, single-family, last 12 months, pages 27, 8, 34 and 50; definitions on page 65; sectors on page 6. Unless noted, each range is classified “Seller.” In this barometer, the North Shore includes Terrebonne, Mascouche, Repentigny, Blainville, Mirabel, Saint-Jérôme and Saint-Eustache, among others; the South Shore includes Longueuil and Brossard, among others.

What this changes. In Laval, months of inventory rise with price, from 1.7 under $320,000 to 7.2 at $950,000 and up: the top of the market has more listings per sale, without being in oversupply. Market conditions alone therefore do not explain an unsold single-family home. The home value estimator gives an order of magnitude to see which range your house falls into; it is not a comparative market analysis.

Condos read differently. According to APCIQ’s October 14, 2026 press release, condo conditions on the Island of Montreal “sit on the threshold between a balanced and a buyer’s market,” Laval is “approaching balanced thresholds,” and “Montreal’s downtown and southwest areas are already experiencing an oversupply.”

House not selling: the five causes, in order

1. Price. The OACIQ requires the broker to carry out a comparative analysis with similar properties recently sold in the same area: the price must reflect the reality of the market. Compare yourself with completed sales, not with houses that are listed. According to APCIQ, a broker’s Centris search for a buyer can be filtered by price, by neighbourhood or by features: your price determines which searches your house appears in. Method: auditing your neighbour’s comparables.

2. Presentation. According to the OACIQ, the fiche descriptive (the listing sheet) is often the first information consulted, and what it contains must be accurate, verified and up to date. Reread the living area, the renovations, the inclusions and the season of the photos.

3. Access for showings. The exclusive contract allows the property to be shown at any reasonable time, with appointments set with the occupant (clause 8.8). A rented dwelling, narrow time slots, cancellations: count the refused requests as carefully as the showings that took place.

4. A known defect. The seller warrants the buyer against latent defects (article 1726 of the Code civil du Québec, the Civil Code of Quebec) and cannot exclude liability for a defect they knew of, or could not have been unaware of, and did not disclose (article 1733), except when a non-professional seller sells at the buyer’s own risk. If an inspection reveals significant factors, the OACIQ requires the seller’s broker to update the listing sheet and the Déclarations du vendeur sur l’immeuble (the seller’s declarations) through an Amendments form: the broker cannot go on distributing information that has become incomplete or inaccurate. Contractor quotes or an expert report in the file then put a number on the unknown. See the seller’s declaration.

5. Buyers’ financing. For a CMHC Purchase insured loan on a one- or two-unit home occupied by the buyer, the minimum down payment is 5% on the first $500,000 and 10% on the rest, for a price under $1,500,000. At the quarter’s median price for a single-family home in Laval, $630,000, that comes to $38,000 in cash; at $950,000, $70,000. Debt service ratios are calculated at the higher of the contract rate plus 2% and 5.25%. A mortgage broker can explain these rules for your price range.

My house is not selling: what to do

Every move goes through the contract, explained in the listing brokerage contract, clause by clause.

Lower the price. According to the OACIQ, during the contract, the broker must advise and inform you so that you can adjust the price as the market evolves. The broker then fills out the mandatory Amendments form, which you both sign; article 112 of the Règlement sur les conditions d’exercice d’une opération de courtage, sur la déontologie des courtiers et sur la publicité requires the advertised price to be the price in the contract. Point 2 of clause 7.1: the remuneration is owed if you refuse a promise to purchase that matches the contract’s conditions of sale and is presented during its term. No public source measures the effect of a given price cut on the timeline.

Rethink the marketing. The OACIQ invites sellers to ask how the broker will promote the property: advertising, signs, open houses, the information-sharing service between agencies and brokers. The sharing of the remuneration should remain reasonable, so as not to reduce the interest of other brokers.

Withdraw, then relist. Unless otherwise stipulated in clause 11.1, you can terminate at any time, but you could owe the costs and expenses incurred, or compensation (clause 2.1). The remuneration remains owed if the house sells within 180 days after the contract ends or is terminated, to someone who showed interest in it during its term, unless a new exclusive contract has been signed in good faith with another agency or broker (point 3 of clause 7.1). And according to APCIQ, Centris gives brokers a property’s sales history, “for information on how a property has evolved in the market over several years.”

Change brokers. During an exclusive contract, another broker can neither set an appointment nor present a proposal without going through yours, unless authorized: that is article 99 of the same regulation. The contract ends on the date in its clause 2.1; without a date, 30 days after it was entered into.

Frequently asked questions

Why is my house not selling? Look among five causes, in this order: price compared with comparable sales, the listing sheet, access for showings, a known defect, buyers’ financing. Compare your days with the average for your neighbourhood first.

My house is not selling, what should I do? Do the diagnosis, then choose: adjust the price through the Amendments form, rethink the marketing, or withdraw the listing, knowing the possible costs and the 180-day clause. An inaccurate listing sheet gets corrected before anything else.

Our house has not sold in Laval after 60 days: is that normal? For a single-family home, 60 days exceeds the average of every Laval neighbourhood where Centris publishes it for the third quarter of 2026, from 27 days in Duvernay to 48 in Sainte-Dorothée. For a condo, the Laval average is 57 days. These averages count only properties that sold.

House not selling in Montreal: does it take longer than in Laval? On average, yes: in the third quarter of 2026, a single-family home sold on the Island of Montreal had spent 51 days on the market, compared with 36 in Laval; a condo, 67 days compared with 57. Compare yourself with your own territory.

Divorce: what to do with a house that is not selling? For married spouses, selling the family residence is a decision made by both. Article 404 of the Code civil prohibits the spouse who owns a building with fewer than five dwellings from selling the family residence without the written consent of the other spouse, and the OACIQ then requires the spouse to intervene in the brokerage contract. Between co-owners, article 1030 provides that no one is bound to remain in indivision. Dividing the property is a matter for the notary, the lawyer or the mediator: see separation, divorce and the home in Quebec.

To go further, read the Laval real estate market by sector and the symptom grid for a property that is not selling, and find out whether to list your house higher to leave room to negotiate in Laval and how long it takes to sell a house in Laval.

House not listed yet, or brokerage contract over? I prepare a free comparative market analysis, with recent sales in your neighbourhood. Write to me. If you are under an exclusive contract, ask your broker these questions first. Service in French, English and Arabic.

Georges Matar

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

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