Blainville or Montréal: comparison for buyers
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Median prices
| Blainville | Montréal |
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| Single-family home |
$835,000148 sales · +11% year over year
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$812,0001,002 sales · +2% year over year
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| Condo |
last 4 quarters$432,425159 sales · +1% year over year
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$477,0001,728 sales · stable year over year
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| Plex (2 to 5 units) |
last 4 quarters$821,56244 sales · +10% year over year
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$902,500614 sales · +3% year over year
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Median price = half of the properties sold for less, the other half for more. The price of a specific property varies.
Source: Centris, Q3 2026 (July to September).
Blainville: City of Blainville. For condos and plexes, Centris does not publish a quarterly price due to too few transactions: the figures cover the last four quarters. (Centris – Blainville statistics)
Montréal: Island of Montréal. Median prices and change compared with the same quarter of 2025. (Centris – Island of Montréal statistics)
At a glance
Blainville
- Population (2021 census)
- 59,819 residents (+5.2% since 2016)
- Occupied private dwellings (2021)
- 22,424
- Average home value (2026 budget)
- $710,200
Montréal
- Population (2021 census)
- 1,762,949 residents
- Renter households (Island of Montréal)
- About 60%
- Boroughs
- 19
Transit
BlainvilleBlainville station is on the exo 12 Saint-Jérôme line; according to exo, the trip to Lucien-L’Allier station, downtown, takes about 1 h 15 min. On weekends, trains end at De la Concorde station in Laval (connection to the metro). exo buses serve the station and neighbourhoods. Highway 15, Route 117 and Highway 640 cross the city.
MontréalThe metro has 4 lines and 68 stations. The REM serves the South Shore (since 2023), Deux-Montagnes (since November 2025) and the West Island (since May 2026); the airport branch is planned by the end of 2027. Five exo train lines connect Montréal to the suburbs (Vaudreuil–Hudson, Saint-Jérôme, Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Candiac and Mascouche).
Education
BlainvilleCentre de services scolaire des Mille-Îles (including the Henri-Dunant and Lucille-Teasdale secondary schools) and Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board for English-language education. Nearest cégep: Collège Lionel-Groulx, in Sainte-Thérèse.
MontréalMcGill University, Université de Montréal, UQAM, Concordia University, HEC Montréal, Polytechnique Montréal, ÉTS.
Health
BlainvilleHôpital de Saint-Eustache, which serves the MRC de Thérèse-De Blainville.
MontréalCHUM, McGill University Health Centre, CHU Sainte-Justine, Jewish General Hospital, Hôpital du Sacré-Cœur, Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont.
Welcome tax
BlainvilleSince the 2026 budget, Blainville applies 1.5% from $315,000 to $750,000, then 3% on the portion above $750,000 (rates as of October 2026, for information only). For a house at the median price of $835,000, that comes to about $11,911.
MontréalMontréal applies additional brackets for properties over $1.1M, up to 4% above $3,113,000.
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