Brossard or Saint-Léonard: comparison for buyers
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Median prices
| Brossard | Saint-Léonard |
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| Single-family home |
$739,500134 sales · +2% year over year
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last 4 quarters$718,12570 sales · -1% year over year
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| Condo |
$410,000153 sales · -2% year over year
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last 4 quarters$422,12593 sales · +2% year over year
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| Plex (2 to 5 units) |
—No published median
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last 4 quarters$1,056,875140 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)
Saint-Léonard: Borough of Saint-Léonard. Centris does not publish a median price for Q3 2026 due to too few transactions: the figures cover the last four quarters, with the change over one year. The plex is the most frequently sold property type in the borough. (Centris – Saint-Léonard 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
Saint-Léonard
- Population (2021 census)
- 79,495 residents (+2% since 2016)
- Owner households (2021)
- About 35% (about 65% renters)
- Area
- 13.5 km² (about 5,900 residents per km²)
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.
Saint-LéonardThere is no metro station in the borough yet. The 141 Jean-Talon Est bus connects Saint-Léonard to the Saint-Michel (blue line) and Honoré-Beaugrand (green line) stations. The blue line extension will add five stations between Saint-Michel and Anjou, three of them on rue Jean-Talon Est, in Saint-Léonard or at its boundary; according to the STM, it is scheduled to open in 2031. To the north, the Saint-Léonard–Montréal-Nord exo station (Mascouche line) leads to Côte-de-Liesse station, where you can take the REM downtown. Highway 40 crosses the borough.
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.
Saint-LéonardCentre de services scolaire de la Pointe-de-l’Île for French-language education (including École secondaire Antoine-de-Saint-Exupéry) and English Montreal School Board for English-language education (including Laurier Macdonald High School, on boulevard Viau). There is no cégep in the borough; Collège de Rosemont and Cégep Marie-Victorin, in eastern Montréal, are accessible by public transit.
Health
BrossardCLSC Samuel-de-Champlain (boulevard Taschereau, Brossard); Hôpital Charles-LeMoyne, in Greenfield Park.
Saint-LéonardCLSC de Saint-Léonard and Hôpital Santa Cabrini (emergency), on rue Saint-Zotique Est, near the borough. Both are part of the CIUSSS de l’Est-de-l’Île-de-Montréal, as is 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.
Saint-LéonardSaint-Léonard is part of the City of Montréal, so Montréal’s rates apply: 0.5% up to $62,900; 1% up to $315,000; 1.5% up to $552,300; 2% up to $1,104,700; then additional brackets up to 4% above $3,113,000 (2026 rates, for information only). For a plex at the median price of $1,056,875, that comes to about $16,487; for a house at the median price of $718,125, about $9,712.
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