Mirabel or Montréal: comparison for buyers
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Median prices
| Mirabel | Montréal |
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| Single-family home |
$650,000112 sales · +11% year over year
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$812,0001,002 sales · +2% year over year
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| Condo |
$462,00047 sales · +4% 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$841,31272 sales · +14% 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).
Mirabel: City of Mirabel, Q3 2026 (July to September), change compared with the same quarter of 2025. For plexes, Centris does not publish a quarterly price due to too few transactions: the figures cover the last four quarters. (Centris – Mirabel statistics)
Montréal: Island of Montréal. Median prices and change compared with the same quarter of 2025. (Centris – Island of Montréal statistics)
At a glance
Mirabel
- Population (2021 census)
- 61,108 residents (+21% since 2016)
- Occupied private dwellings (2021)
- 24,795
- Average value of a single-family home (2026 budget, new assessment roll)
- $595,686
Montréal
- Population (2021 census)
- 1,762,949 residents
- Renter households (Island of Montréal)
- About 60%
- Boroughs
- 19
Transit
MirabelMirabel station, on rue Victor in the Saint-Janvier sector, is on the exo 12 Saint-Jérôme line; it offers 333 parking spaces and a bus loop. Highway 15 (Autoroute des Laurentides) and Highway 50, which serves the airport and leads toward Gatineau, cross the territory, as do routes 117, 148 and 158.
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
MirabelDepending on the sector, schools fall under the Centre de services scolaire des Mille-Îles or the Centre de services scolaire de la Rivière-du-Nord; Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board offers English-language education. Nearest cégeps: Collège Lionel-Groulx (Sainte-Thérèse) and Cégep de Saint-Jérôme.
MontréalMcGill University, Université de Montréal, UQAM, Concordia University, HEC Montréal, Polytechnique Montréal, ÉTS.
Health
MirabelMirabel is served by the Saint-Jérôme and Saint-Eustache hospitals, located just outside the city. A CLSC is located in the Saint-Augustin sector.
MontréalCHUM, McGill University Health Centre, CHU Sainte-Justine, Jewish General Hospital, Hôpital du Sacré-Cœur, Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont.
Welcome tax
MirabelMirabel applies an additional bracket: 0.5% up to $62,900, 1% up to $315,000, 1.5% up to $500,000, then 3% on the portion above $500,000 (rates in effect since January 1, 2026, for information only). For a house at the median price of $650,000, that comes to about $10,111, or about $2,250 more than with Québec’s base rates. Since 2025, the City has allowed this amount to be paid in two instalments if it is at least $300.
MontréalMontréal applies additional brackets for properties over $1.1M, up to 4% above $3,113,000.
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