How Long Does It Take to Sell in Terrebonne? Selling Time by Property Type

In Terrebonne, how long it takes to sell depends not only on the market but on what you are selling. Over twelve months of sales, a condo finds a buyer in a median 38.5 days and a triplex in 105. Our general overview of the city is in our Terrebonne real estate market article; this one isolates a single mechanism, selling time by property type, and the part the number of units plays in it.

Twelve months, 519 sales: what this comparison measures

The figures in this article come from the CourtiConnect comparable sales database, for the city of Terrebonne, rentals excluded. The window covers twelve months, from May 1, 2025 to April 30, 2026, and includes 519 sales. Selling time is the number of days on market recorded for each sale, and every value is a median: half the sales closed faster, half more slowly. A median holds up better than an average against one or two unusually long sales.

Why twelve months? Because our market pages show one month and one property type at a time. The page for Terrebonne condos in April 2026, for instance, is based on 13 sales. That is useful for following a segment, not for comparing types: triplexes do not sell often enough for a single month to say anything. It takes a year to gather enough sales of each type.

Median days on market by property type

Here is the median selling time for each type over the window from May 1, 2025 to April 30, 2026, with the number of sales behind it:

• condo: 38.5 days (n = 120);
• duplex: 39.5 days (n = 26);
• house: 41 days (n = 328);
• plex: 62 days (n = 18);
• triplex: 105 days (n = 27).

Three types are neck and neck: condos, duplexes and houses, between 38.5 and 41 days. Then the gap widens. The plex, a category our database keeps separate from duplexes and triplexes, rises to 62 days. The triplex breaks away clearly at 105 days, more than twice the selling time of a house.

The triplex stands alone past three months

A hundred and five days is a little over three and a half months. For a seller, the difference is concrete: a triplex listed at the start of summer may, if it follows the median, only find a buyer in the fall, when a house at the same price would have sold before summer ended.

Price has nothing to do with it. For context only, the median price of a triplex sold in Terrebonne over the same window is $800,000 (n = 27), and that of a house $799,900 (n = 328). Two properties at the same price level, two selling times that look nothing alike. What separates them is not the amount to finance, it is who is able to buy.

A narrower pool of buyers

A house appeals to every household looking for a home in that budget. A triplex appeals to only two profiles: the investor, and the owner-occupant willing to become landlord of two units. Fewer possible buyers for each listing means, mechanically, more time before the right one shows up.

Financing adds a step. For an income property, the lender looks at the borrower but also at the building: its rents, its leases, its expenses. The buyer therefore has to gather documents a house buyer never produces, and the decision partly depends on figures the buyer does not control. Each of these steps takes time, before the offer and after it.

Duplex at 39.5 days, plex at 62: not a simple unit count

If selling time simply tracked the number of units, a duplex would sell more slowly than a house. That is not what the data shows. The duplex, at 39.5 days (n = 26), sells at the pace of a house: two units, one of which easily suits the buyer as a home, keep the building within reach of an owner-occupant. The plex, at 62 days (n = 18), also sells faster than the triplex: the triplex does not sit at the end of a regular scale, it breaks away from it.

Building age does not explain the gap either. The median construction year of triplexes sold is 1991 (n = 27), more recent than that of duplexes, 1975 (n = 26), which nonetheless sell more than two and a half times faster. For condos it is 2012 and for houses 2005, on sales where the year is recorded (117 and 327 sales). The mechanism that holds best is the buyer pool: the more a purchase depends on an investor profile, the narrower that pool gets.

18, 26 and 27 sales: read these medians with care

Three of the five medians rest on small samples: 18 sales for plexes, 26 for duplexes, 27 for triplexes. At that size, a few sales more or less are enough to move the value by several days. It would be wrong to conclude that a triplex sells in 105 days, to the day.

What you can take away is the order of magnitude. A spread running from 41 days for a house, across 328 sales, to 105 days for a triplex is too wide to be a sampling accident. Condos and houses, for their part, rest on samples large enough for their medians to be solid.

What this means if you are selling a triplex in Terrebonne

First, a timeline. If you are selling a triplex, plan for a marketing period that looks like a triplex's, not like the house next door. Your moving date and the financing of your next purchase should be planned around that period.

Next, a file ready on listing day. Since the buyer and the lender will need the building's leases, income and expenses, gathering them before you list removes a step from a transaction that already has more steps than most.

Finally, a price backed by the right comparisons. The medians quoted here are indicative: your building's value is measured against sales of genuinely similar properties in your area.