Photo: Pymouss · CC BY-SA 4.0Owners in Mont-Royal value their homes at 4.6 times the median of Quebec’s towns
The census median was $1,390,000 in 2021, against $300,000 for Quebec’s towns. No sales are published for towns in Quebec, Mont-Royal included, so owners’ values are the measure. Single-family homes are on the 2026 roll at a median $1,796,900; the roll values them as of July 1, 2024.
What Mont-Royal’s homes are worth, two ways
Two sources, each set against Quebec’s towns only: provinces measure value differently, so they don’t line up across borders. Census values are owners’ own estimates, taken in May 2021, before the rise in interest rates.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $1.48M
- Owners
- 5,030
- 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).
Built in 1951: the median house in Mont-Royal, where Quebec’s towns sit at 1981
Mont-Royal’s roll counts its dwellings 48% in single-family houses, 29% in buildings of six units or more, 13% in condos and 10% in plexes.
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.
63% of Mont-Royal’s homes predate 1961, against 21% for Quebec’s towns
Of the 7,735 homes people lived in across Mont-Royal at the 2021 census, 32% were single-detached houses.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Mont-Royal | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 22% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 7% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 8% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 6% | 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 at the pace of Quebec’s towns: 15.7 new homes a year per 1,000 in Mont-Royal, against 15.1
Building permits added 739 homes in Mont-Royal between 2018 and 2023: some 123 a year. Very few were houses: 3% in single-unit buildings (Quebec’s towns: 39%).
The busiest year: 2021, with 306 new homes
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
Rising: 31,370 new homes in the 12 months to August 2026, 19% more
Area-wide: monthly permits, counted over the Montréal metro area
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.
Mont-Royal is dearer than most of Quebec’s towns: 363% above their $300,000 median
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 Mont-Royal: Parc-Kent, Parc-Extension and Savane
Next to Mont-Royal: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mont-Royal | $1.39M | $1.48M | 65% | |
| Parc-Kent | $850K | $873K | 19% | 1.6 |
| Parc-Extension | $552K | $565K | 20% | 1.9 |
| Savane | $500K | $559K | 22% | 2.1 |
| Chameran/Montpellier | $400K | $435K | 24% | 2.6 |
| Outremont | $800K | $1.22M | 55% | 2.7 |
| Édouard-Montpetit | $700K | $636K | 12% | 2.8 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Mont-Royal
Is Mont-Royal expensive for Quebec?
Above the norm for Quebec’s towns, whose median home is worth $300,000; Mont-Royal’s is worth more.
How many households in Mont-Royal are in core housing need?
Statistics Canada puts 6% of Mont-Royal’s households in core housing need, a higher share than the 3% of Quebec’s towns.
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).