Photo: Chicoutimi · CC BY 3.0Hampstead’s home values run 5 times those of the middle of Quebec’s towns
In figures: $1,510,000 for the median home in 2021, $300,000 for the middle of Quebec’s towns. Treat the values as owners’ May 2021 guesses: they are self-reported, and they come from before rates went up. Statistics Canada’s housing statistics carry no sale prices in Quebec; the census value stands in for Hampstead. Québec’s 2026 property roll puts single-family homes at a median $1,972,700, at market values of July 1, 2024.
Two ways to price a home in Hampstead
Every figure here is compared within the province, against Quebec’s towns, since each province assesses on its own terms.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $1.77M
- Owners
- 1,700
- Quebec’s towns
- $300K
- The typical Canadian town
- $406K
single-family, market at July 1, 2024
- Quebec’s towns
- $353K
Census 2021 (Statistics Canada); Canadian Housing Statistics Program, tables 46-10-0099 and 46-10-0093; Québec rôle d’évaluation foncière 2026 (MAMH).
Hampstead’s plexes have a median roll value of $1,277,650, 210% over Quebec’s towns
Dwellings on the roll of Hampstead: 56% in single-family houses, 23% in buildings of six units or more, 19% in plexes and 3% in condos.
Median roll value by kind, 2026 the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Dwellings by kind of building
Rôle d’évaluation foncière 2026 (MAMH): a kind’s median needs 10 units or more; plexes are valued per building; each municipality’s roll has its own market date. The ticks are the median of Québec’s municipalities with their own roll.
Before 1961: 47% of the homes in Hampstead, where Quebec’s towns have 21%
Of the 2,490 homes people lived in across Hampstead at the 2021 census, 50% were single-detached houses.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Hampstead | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 5% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 7% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 5% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 4% | 3% | 7% |
Census 2021 (Statistics Canada): occupied private dwellings; core housing need as Statistics Canada defines it. Ticks and columns are medians of the towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more.
Hampstead permitted 1.3 new homes a year per 1,000, below the 15.1 of Quebec’s towns
Hampstead issued permits for 27 new homes from 2018 to 2022, or about 5 a year. Single-unit buildings took 100% of them, where Quebec’s towns built 39%.
A peak in 2018: 14 new homes
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
31,370 new homes in the 12 months to August 2026, up 19% on the year before
Measured across the Montréal metro area: monthly permits
Statistics Canada, tables 46-10-0087 (building permits by census subdivision, 2018–2023: dwelling units created, new construction and conversions) and 34-10-0292 (monthly, metro areas). Per 1,000: units a year over 2019–2023 against occupied homes in 2021.
Hampstead is 403% above the $300,000 median of Quebec’s towns
The census values of Quebec’s towns, 510 of them with 2,500+ people, from dearest to cheapest.
Census 2021, owners’ estimates; towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, no city as a whole, no reserve.
Cheaper next to Hampstead: Snowdon, Loyola and Côte-Saint-Antoine
The places around Hampstead at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hampstead | $1.51M | $1.77M | 68% | |
| Snowdon | $650K | $805K | 29% | 1.1 |
| Loyola | $700K | $672K | 39% | 1.6 |
| Côte-Saint-Antoine | $850K | $931K | 47% | 1.8 |
| Côte-Saint-Luc | $685K | $733K | 46% | 1.9 |
| Savane | $500K | $559K | 22% | 2 |
| Upper Lachine | $548K | $593K | 20% | 2.3 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Hampstead
Is Hampstead expensive for Quebec?
More than most: Quebec’s towns have a median of $300,000, and Hampstead sits above it.
How many households in Hampstead are in core housing need?
About as many as elsewhere: 4% of households in Hampstead, where Quebec’s towns sit at 3%.
Sources: Statistics Canada, Census of Population 2021 · Statistics Canada, building permits (tables 46-10-0087 and 34-10-0292) · Ministère des Affaires municipales et de l’Habitation, rôle d’évaluation foncière 2026. Under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).