Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Homes in Messines are worth 33% less than the median of Quebec’s towns
In figures: $200,000 for the median home in 2021, $300,000 for the middle of Quebec’s towns. For Messines there is no published sale price, as for every town in Quebec. The town’s assessors, on the 2025 roll, put the median house at $233,550 (market of July 1, 2023).
What Messines’s homes are worth, two ways
Every figure here is compared within the province, against Quebec’s towns, since each province assesses on its own terms. Census values are owners’ own estimates, taken in May 2021, before the rise in interest rates.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $234K
- Owners
- 660
- Quebec’s towns
- $300K
- The typical Canadian town
- $406K
single-family, market at July 1, 2023
- 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).
Messines’s plexes have a median roll value of $285,200, 31% under Quebec’s towns
By kind of building, Messines’s dwellings on the roll split 50% in single-family houses, 10% in plexes and 2% in buildings of six units or more. There are 461 chalets on it too, with a median of $259,600.
Median roll value by kind, 2025 the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Dwellings by kind of building
Rôle d’évaluation foncière 2025 (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: 89% of the homes in Messines stand alone (Quebec’s towns: 59%)
The 2021 census counted 785 occupied homes in Messines. Half went up before 1981.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Messines | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 1% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 5% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | under 1% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 8% | 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.
Building ahead of Quebec’s towns: 22.2 new homes a year per 1,000 in Messines, against 15.1
Over 2018–2023, 93 homes were permitted in Messines, close to 16 each year. 89% were single-unit buildings, beside 39% for Quebec’s towns.
The busiest year: 2023, with 29 new homes
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
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.
Messines is 33% below 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 Messines: Maniwaki, Déléage and Gracefield
Next to Messines: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Messines | $200K | $234K | 85% | |
| Kitigan Zibi | – | – | 69% | 11.1 |
| Maniwaki | $139K | $145K | 53% | 14.7 |
| Déléage | $150K | $176K | 82% | 15.5 |
| Gracefield | $150K | $194K | 81% | 18 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Messines
How many households in Messines are in core housing need?
Statistics Canada puts 8% of Messines’s households in core housing need, a higher share than the 3% of Quebec’s towns.
Is Messines expensive for Quebec?
Less than most: Quebec’s towns have a median of $300,000, and Messines sits below it.
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).