Brossard or Montréal: comparison for buyers
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Median prices
| Brossard | Montréal |
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| Single-family home |
$739,500134 sales · +2% year over year
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$812,0001,002 sales · +2% year over year
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| Condo |
$410,000153 sales · -2% year over year
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$477,0001,728 sales · stable year over year
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| Plex (2 to 5 units) |
—No published median
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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).
Brossard: City of Brossard. Median prices and change compared with the same quarter of 2025. Too few plexes sold for a median price to be published (4 sales). (Centris – Brossard statistics)
Montréal: Island of Montréal. Median prices and change compared with the same quarter of 2025. (Centris – Island of Montréal statistics)
At a glance
Brossard
- Population (2021 census)
- 91,525 residents (+6.8% since 2016)
- Occupied private dwellings (2021)
- 37,275
- REM stations
- Panama, Du Quartier and Brossard
Montréal
- Population (2021 census)
- 1,762,949 residents
- Renter households (Island of Montréal)
- About 60%
- Boroughs
- 19
Transit
BrossardSince July 2023, the REM has connected the Brossard, Du Quartier and Panama stations to Gare Centrale, downtown, in about 15, 13 and less than 10 minutes respectively. Brossard station has a bus terminus and a large park-and-ride lot. Buses are operated by the Réseau de transport de l’agglomération de Longueuil (RTL). The Samuel-De Champlain Bridge and highways 10 and 30 complete the network.
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
BrossardCentre de services scolaire Marie-Victorin (including École secondaire Antoine-Brossard, with an international education program) and Riverside School Board for English-language education. Nearest cégep: Champlain College Saint-Lambert.
MontréalMcGill University, Université de Montréal, UQAM, Concordia University, HEC Montréal, Polytechnique Montréal, ÉTS.
Health
BrossardCLSC Samuel-de-Champlain (boulevard Taschereau, Brossard); Hôpital Charles-LeMoyne, in Greenfield Park.
MontréalCHUM, McGill University Health Centre, CHU Sainte-Justine, Jewish General Hospital, Hôpital du Sacré-Cœur, Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont.
Welcome tax
BrossardIn 2026, Brossard applies 1.5% from $315,000 to $500,000, then 3% on the portion of the price above $500,000 (rates as of October 2026, for information only). For a house at the median price of $739,500, that comes to about $12,796.
MontréalMontréal applies additional brackets for properties over $1.1M, up to 4% above $3,113,000.
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