Photo: Mario Hains · CC BY-SA 3.0The property roll puts Hatley’s houses 64% above the middle of Quebec’s towns
Census values for 2021: a median of $400,000 and an average of $500,000. What owners reported in May 2021 is an opinion of value; interest rates and prices have both moved since. For Hatley there is no published sale price, as for every town in Quebec.
Two ways to price a home in Hatley
Each source sits beside its own median for Quebec’s towns; none compares across provinces, which value homes in their own ways.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $500K
- Owners
- 790
- Quebec’s towns
- $300K
- The typical Canadian town
- $406K
single-family, market at July 1, 2022
- 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).
Hatley’s plexes have a median roll value of $649,500, 57% over Quebec’s towns
On Hatley’s roll, the dwellings sit 80% in single-family houses, 10% in plexes and 4% in buildings of six units or more. Chalets add 64 more entries, valued at a median $590,200.
Median roll value by kind, 2024 the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Dwellings by kind of building
Rôle d’évaluation foncière 2024 (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.
A town of houses: 95% of the homes in Hatley stand alone (Quebec’s towns: 59%)
Hatley had 895 occupied homes at the 2021 census. Half or more were standing by 2000.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Hatley | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | under 1% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 8% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 2% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | under 1% | 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.
Hatley permitted 22.3 new homes a year per 1,000, above the 15.1 of Quebec’s towns
Hatley issued permits for 111 new homes from 2018 to 2023, or about 19 a year. 83% were single-unit buildings, beside 39% for Quebec’s towns. Hatley shares its monthly permits numbers with the rest of the Sherbrooke metro area.
Most in 2021: 27 new homes
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
Slowing: 1,847 new homes in the 12 months to August 2026, 26% fewer
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.
Hatley is 33% above the $300,000 median of Quebec’s towns
510 of Quebec’s towns (2,500 people or more), by median value at the 2021 census, dearest first.
Census 2021, owners’ estimates; towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, no city as a whole, no reserve.
Lower values near Hatley: Waterville, Sherbrooke and Compton
The places around Hatley at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hatley | $400K | $500K | 89% | |
| Waterville | $230K | $252K | 74% | 3 |
| Sherbrooke | $250K | $292K | 50% | 8.2 |
| Compton | $250K | $264K | 77% | 10.5 |
| Sainte-Catherine-de-Hatley | $400K | $468K | 93% | 12.1 |
| Ascot Corner | $300K | $319K | 83% | 17.2 |
| Stoke | $300K | $313K | 87% | 18.8 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Hatley
How many households in Hatley are in core housing need?
Below the norm for Quebec’s towns (3%): under 1% in Hatley, counting the households whose home falls short on cost, size or repair.
Is Hatley expensive for Quebec?
Dearer than the middle: Quebec’s towns come to $300,000, Hatley to more.
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).