Rimouski 2026: 357 Sales Across Eleven Neighbourhoods, and a Base That Excludes 2025

Rimouski has entered our comparable sales base, and this article opens with its limit rather than its figures: the available window runs from 5 January to 4 September 2026, and nothing before. For the general portrait of the city, see our read of the Rimouski real estate market in 2026.

What the base holds, and what it does not

357 closed sales, across eleven neighbourhoods, from 5 January to 4 September 2026. These are real transactions, not listings or asking prices.

Monthly distribution: 33 in January, 44 in February, 47 in March, 46 in April, 53 in May, 48 in June, 45 in July, 35 in August, 6 in September. That last figure signals no collapse: the month had barely begun when the data was extracted.

And here is what the base does not hold: no Rimouski sale earlier than January 2026. We write it at the top because it is the one piece of information that changes how everything else reads, and because a market article that concealed this limit would suggest a historical depth that does not exist.

Why no year-over-year figure appears here

This follows directly from the previous point, and it deserves its own section, because it is exactly the number a reader looks for first.

A year-over-year change compares two periods twelve months apart. With a window starting in January 2026, there is no comparison point: no January 2025 to set against January 2026, no prior annual average, nothing. Any rise or fall we published would be manufactured from a source we do not have.

We do not work around the difficulty by changing the subject, quoting a provincial statistic instead, or comparing months as though they were years. The comparison becomes possible once a full year sits in the base, and it will then be measured. Until then, what is available is a level, not a trend, and that is already useful.

Medians by type, with their sale counts

Single-family home: median $394,000 on 269 sales. The middle half of transactions sits between $325,000 and $465,000. It is the only type in the city whose sample is broad enough for a monthly median to mean anything.

Condominium: median $283,250 on 56 sales, middle half from $240,000 to $330,000. The gap to the single-family median is on the order of $110,000, which places the condominium as the local entry point.

Duplex: median $349,000 on 17 sales, middle half from $300,000 to $385,000. To be read as an order of magnitude, not as a stable market price.

Three buckets deliberately carry no published median: plex with 6 sales, triplex with 5, and the "other" category with 4. Below ten transactions a median shifts with a single unusual sale, and publishing a precise figure on so thin a sample creates a false impression of solidity.

A methodological note that matters: duplex, triplex and plex are three distinct categories in our data, never added together. Aggregating them would produce a fourth figure matching none of the three realities.

Eleven neighbourhoods, four carrying half the volume

Saint-Pie X comes first with 71 sales. Then Sainte-Odile with 48, Sacré-Coeur with 46, and Pointe-au-Père with 41.

Next, Sainte-Agnès and Saint-Germain with 39, Nazareth with 30, Sainte-Blandine and Mont-Lebel with 23, Saint-Robert with 20, Le Bic with 18, Rimouski-Est with 14, and Terrasses Arthur-Buies with 7.

The top four total 206 sales, more than half the city's volume. That concentration has a practical consequence for a seller: in the remaining seven neighbourhoods the annual sample is too thin for a neighbourhood median to be reliable, and the useful comparison is then made at city scale, or against genuinely similar properties rather than a sector.

What a median does not say about your property

A median is the price separating the lower half from the upper half of a sample. It accounts for neither condition, nor area, nor year of construction, nor precise location within a neighbourhood.

That is why we publish the middle half of transactions rather than the median alone. In Rimouski the middle half of houses spans $140,000, from $325,000 to $465,000: a perfectly ordinary house can legitimately sit far from the median with nothing being abnormal.

A median situates an order of magnitude. An appraisal evaluates a specific property with its characteristics. Both are useful, they answer different questions, and confusing one for the other is the most frequent source of disappointment at listing time.

What to verify on your own file

First, the number of real sales in your neighbourhood, not an average price posted somewhere. If your sector holds fewer than twenty transactions over the period, the comparison is made at city scale.

Second, the exact type, in the sense of the bucket. A duplex is not a triplex, and one's median does not help situate the other.

Third, where your property sits inside the middle half, rather than against the median alone. Knowing that half of all houses sell between $325,000 and $465,000 tells you more, when preparing a listing, than the single figure of $394,000.