Mirabel or Saint-Léonard: comparison for buyers
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Median prices
| Mirabel | Saint-Léonard |
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| Single-family home |
$650,000112 sales · +11% year over year
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last 4 quarters$718,12570 sales · -1% year over year
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| Condo |
$462,00047 sales · +4% 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) |
last 4 quarters$841,31272 sales · +14% year over year
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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).
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)
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
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
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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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