Quebec Election 2026: Real Estate Rules, Party by Party
Three rules decide what a seller keeps from a real estate transaction: how offers are submitted when several buyers compete, the base on which brokerage commission is calculated, and the tax on the gain. This article sets out, for each of the three, the position reported for every party, and writes "no position reported" where the sources consulted report none. For the commission rule as it applies today, see our article on how broker commission is calculated and split in Quebec.
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Disclosure: CourtiConnect is a real estate brokerage platform. The second rule examined here bears on how brokerage commissions are calculated, so it concerns us directly.
The parties appear everywhere in the same order, the alphabetical order of their acronyms: Coalition avenir Québec (CAQ), Parti conservateur du Québec (PCQ), Parti libéral du Québec (PLQ), Parti québécois (PQ), Québec solidaire (QS). Each position is tied to the source that reports it and to its date.
The phrase "no position reported" means exactly this: the sources consulted report no stated position for that party on that specific rule. It is not opposition, it is not a refusal, and it is not silence being interpreted. It is the absence of an item in the sources, written out rather than left to be guessed.
This article passes no judgment on these positions, makes no voting recommendation, and offers no prediction about their adoption or their effects.
Blind bidding: the reported positions
Blind bidding is the situation where several buyers submit an offer on the same property without knowing the amounts of the competing offers, which are not disclosed to them. Here is what the sources consulted report, party by party.
Coalition avenir Québec: no position reported. A reply from the finance minister's office, dated April 2025, is quoted further down; it is presented as such and not as a campaign position.
Parti conservateur du Québec: no position reported.
Parti libéral du Québec: no position reported.
Parti québécois: no position reported.
Québec solidaire: « interdire les enchères à l'aveugle », that is, ban blind bidding, according to the promises reported by Radio-Canada on September 16, 2026. The proposal is not new for this party: Radio-Canada already reported, on April 23, 2025, that Québec solidaire wanted an end to blind overbidding.
Broker commission: the reported positions
The second rule bears on the calculation base of the brokerage commission, that is, on the amount to which the agreed rate applies. Same order, same sources.
Coalition avenir Québec: no position reported. Here too, the reply from the finance minister's office quoted further down is a dated piece of context, not a campaign position.
Parti conservateur du Québec: no position reported.
Parti libéral du Québec: no position reported.
Parti québécois: no position reported.
Québec solidaire: « plafonner le calcul des commissions de courtage au prix de vente affiché », that is, cap the calculation of brokerage commissions at the listed sale price, according to the wording reported by Radio-Canada on September 16, 2026. The Radio-Canada article of April 23, 2025 put the same idea differently: calculate the commission on the listing price rather than on the final sale price. That day, Ruba Ghazal said: « Le marché de l'immobilier est rendu fou, c'est le résultat de 30 ans de mauvais choix politiques. » — the real estate market has gone mad, she said, and it is the result of 30 years of bad political choices.
Real estate capital gains: the reported positions
The third rule is a tax rule and bears on what the seller owes at the time of the transaction. It is the only one of the three on which two parties have a reported position.
Coalition avenir Québec: no position reported.
Parti conservateur du Québec: no position reported.
Parti libéral du Québec: a deferral of capital gains tax payment for developers who reinvest their profits in new housing projects, the deferral being allowed up to one million dollars of gain. Reported by Le Devoir and by Les Affaires in September 2026.
Parti québécois: no position reported.
Québec solidaire: « imposer 100 % du gain en capital immobilier », that is, tax 100% of real estate capital gains, with an exception reported in the same September 16, 2026 wording: « les propriétaires qui acceptent de vendre à des OBNL ou à des offices d'habitation verraient leur gain en capital imposé à 25 % » — owners who agree to sell to non-profits or to housing offices would see their capital gain taxed at 25%.
One important clarification comes with this proposal. Radio-Canada reported on September 1, 2026 that the measure targets income-producing rental buildings, and the article recalled that the sale of a single-family home used solely as a principal residence does not generate a taxable capital gain. The same article reported that the CORPIQ welcomed the proposal.
The finance minister's office reply, April 2025
In its article of April 23, 2025, Radio-Canada reported the reply of the finance minister's office, under the Coalition avenir Québec government. The office answered that consumers are not required to go through a broker, that commissions are always negotiable, and that the government is watching the Ontario experience, where secret offers have no longer been mandatory since 2023.
This item is dated April 2025 and is attributed to a minister's office, not to an election platform. It appears here as reported context, and that is why the sections above write "no position reported" next to the Coalition avenir Québec on the first two rules.
A Université Laval researcher quoted on the subject
The same Radio-Canada article, dated April 23, 2025, quoted Charles-Olivier Amédée-Manesme, of Université Laval: « Quasiment toutes les études qui ont été faites sur le sujet arrivent à une conclusion inverse. Avoir plus d'information n'aide pas à faire baisser les prix, ça fait à l'inverse monter les prix. » In English: almost every study carried out on the subject reaches the opposite conclusion, and having more information does not help push prices down, it pushes them up instead.
The quotation is reproduced with its author and its date, without comment.
What a seller can do with this today
None of the positions above applies to a sale concluded today. They are campaign positions reported by news sources, with no legal text, and a seller who planned a sale around one of them would be planning around an assumption.
What can be done now depends on none of them: reading your brokerage contract where it sets the commission calculation base and the agreed rate, and placing your property against real sales in your area. To see what a given rate means on a specific price, the CourtiConnect calculator runs the numbers.
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