Condo Listings by Sector: Where Montreal Stock Rises

Alongside its July 2026 statistics, QPAREB publishes a table of active condo listings by sector across the Montreal metropolitan area. Read sector by sector, it describes two simultaneous markets rather than one. This piece compares those sectors against each other, which a report on a single territory cannot do. The wider context for the month sits in our review of July 2026 home sales in Montreal.

The two ends of the ranking

At the top, the South-West of the South Shore shows 75 active condo listings and a year-over-year variation of 168 percent. At the bottom, L'Île-Perrot shows 62 listings and a variation of zero. Same month, same metropolitan area, same segment.

Between those bounds the slope runs continuously, with no clean break: Sainte-Julie and Varennes at 138 percent, Beloeil and Mont-Saint-Hilaire at 100, Repentigny at 94, Montreal-Nord at 93, Saint-Jérôme at 88. A little lower, Candiac and La Prairie at 72, Saint-Hubert at 60, the East End of the Island at 53. Then the curve flattens: Terrebonne at 26, Chambly at 18, the South-West at 17, Brossard and Saint-Lambert at 12, Mirabel at 10, Villeray at 8, the Centre at 6, Downtown Laval at 5, Nuns' Island at 4, Ville-Marie at 2, Vaudreuil-Dorion at 1.

For scale, QPAREB records 19,790 active listings across the metropolitan area in July 2026, up 17 percent year over year and 9 percent above the historical average for a month of July. Condominiums are the segment whose supply grows fastest, at 20 percent, ahead of plexes at 14 and single-family homes at 13.

The count and the variation are not the same claim

This is the central caution when reading the table, and three lines settle it. Montreal-Nord rises 93 percent, on 54 active listings. The South-West rises 17 percent, on 842. Ville-Marie rises 2 percent, on 2,303, by far the largest count in the table.

A buyer looking for choice will not find more of it in Montreal-Nord than in Ville-Marie because the percentage is higher there. The percentage describes a movement; the count describes a state. That is precisely why QPAREB publishes both columns instead of one.

The association's own reading confirms it. QPAREB describes the condo segment on the Island of Montreal as balanced, with surplus conditions in Ville-Marie and the Centre. Those are two of the lowest-variation sectors in the table, at 2 and 6 percent. Surplus there is measured by the level reached, not by the speed of accumulation.

Where the condo market changes regime

Sectors at the top of the table share one trait: modest volumes. The South-West of the South Shore at 75, Sainte-Julie and Varennes at 88, Montreal-Nord at 54, Beloeil and Mont-Saint-Hilaire at 104. On bases that size, a limited number of extra listings is enough to produce a three-digit variation.

That does not cancel the movement; it qualifies it. For a seller in those sectors, direct competition remains numerically small, but it has changed order of magnitude in a year. That is a different situation from a sector where stock was already deep and stayed deep.

Where the stock is already in place

At the other end sit Ville-Marie, Le Plateau-Mont-Royal at 348 listings, Saint-Laurent at 354, Côte-des-Neiges and Côte-Saint-Luc at 339, Lachine and LaSalle at 319, Nuns' Island at 292, the Centre at 286, Brossard and Saint-Lambert at 511, Le Vieux-Longueuil at 245, Rosemont at 235, Ahuntsic at 211. These sectors carry the volumes that structure the region's condo supply.

Their year-over-year variations sit, for the most part, in the lower half of the ranking. A seller there faces numerous competition whose intensity resembles last year's. The region's average condo selling time, at 55 days in July 2026, is up 9 days year over year: the only one of the three segments to lengthen that much, with single-family homes at 38 days and plexes at 46.

Reading your own sector in the ranking

The useful question is not whether the region is doing well or badly. It is which of the two situations your sector is in. A small stock that doubles and a deep stock that holds steady call for different expectations about how many properties yours will be compared against, and how long a listing will take.

In both cases the conduct is the same: an asking price set on recent comparable sales in the sector, for the same property type. The table calibrates an expectation; it does not set a price.

The limits of this ranking

The table covers active listings and their year-over-year variation. It contains no price by sector, no sales volume by sector and no selling time by sector. We derive none of those three, and this article advances no figure absent from the publications cited.

QPAREB sector boundaries also do not coincide with the administrative limits of boroughs or municipalities. A sector named in this table does not necessarily map onto what a seller calls their neighbourhood.