Montreal Single-Family July 2026: The Segment That Holds

In July 2026, the Montreal metropolitan area recorded 3,338 sales, down 10% year over year. Single-family homes gave up only 4%, with 1,852 transactions. They therefore carry 55.5% of the month's market, and their median price reached $650,000, up 4%. While the condominium loses 17% of its volume and the plex 16%, this is the segment that holds. For the full picture of the month, see our review of Montreal home sales in July 2026.

A decline two and a half times smaller than the market

The number to hold is not the minus 4% on its own, it is the gap with the minus 10% for the whole market. In a month where every segment falls, single-family homes fall far less than the other two. That is what "holding up" means in a declining market: not rising, but giving way more slowly. A single-family seller is therefore not operating in the same market as a neighbour listing a condo, even though both are reading the same headlines about the Montreal slowdown.

55.5% of the market, and what it implies

With 1,852 of the 3,338 sales, single-family homes account for more than half the Montreal market in July, against 34.2% for the condominium with its 1,142 transactions. That market share has a direct consequence for how the headline statistics read: when a headline says "the Montreal market is down 10%," that figure is already made up mostly of single-family sales, and it is dragged down by the two minority segments. The average describes each of its components poorly.

Volume and price point the same way

That is this segment's particularity in July: its median rises 4% year over year, to $650,000, and its volume gives up only 4%. Both moves are moderate and consistent with each other. It is very different from the plex, whose price jumps 6% while its sales collapse 16%. A price gain backed by roughly stable volume describes demand that is still there. A price gain backed by collapsing volume mostly describes a change in the mix of completed sales.

What it changes for a single-family seller

The good news is real, it is not a blank cheque. A 4% drop in volume is still a drop, and regional inventory is up 17% year over year. In practice: there are still buyers for single-family homes, but they compare more than they did a year ago. The asking price must be anchored on recent comparable sales of the same type in the same area. The $650,000 median is a context marker: it aggregates the entire metropolitan area, from the most central to the most outlying, and says nothing about your street.

What it changes for a buyer

If you were waiting for relief on single-family homes, July does not deliver it. The median price is up 4%, volume gives up only 4%, and the other two segments absorb most of the slowdown. Read single-family instead as the segment where patience pays least. The 17% rise in regional inventory does widen choice, but it covers the whole market: it does not guarantee that a well-located, correctly priced single-family home will stay available for long.

Resilience to watch, not to take for granted

July is the fifth consecutive month of decline for the Montreal market as a whole. Single-family homes have absorbed that movement better than the others so far, but nothing guarantees the gap holds. The measure to follow is simple, and it is the same as for the other segments: the distance between the segment's decline and the market's. As long as it stays wide, single-family holds. If it closes, the pressure has reached this segment too.