Living · Duel · Duvernay or Saint-François and Saint-Vincent-de-Paul · October 11, 2026
Two neighbouring areas, the pros and cons of each side by side, and the con that most often decides between the two.
Duvernay or Saint-François and Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, the pros and cons side by side. Duvernay: pro, Large houses on large lots, quiet streets, Val-des-Brises for the recent stock, and east Montreal via the Pie-IX Bridge. Con, No train or metro: Duvernay is lived by car, and the Pie-IX Bridge is saturated at rush hour. Saint-François and Saint-Vincent-de-Paul: pro, Space and countryside twenty kilometres from downtown, the Rivière-des-Mille-Îles park, at the lowest price in east Laval. Con, Rural and quiet: no train, no metro, no condos or shopping street; everything is by car. For families who want a large house on a large lot, quiet streets and quick access to eastern Montreal and the North Shore; for those looking for a recent house in Val-des-Brises. For families who want space, countryside twenty kilometres from downtown and a great park, at eastern Laval's lowest price; for those working in eastern Montreal or Terrebonne via Highway 25.
Duvernay and Saint-François and Saint-Vincent-de-Paul are neighbours, and buyers often hesitate between the two. Here are the pros and cons of each, side by side, written by a team that sells in both; the figures are those published by the APCIQ for the second quarter of 2026, and nothing is embellished.
| Duvernay | Saint-François and Saint-Vincent-de-Paul | |
|---|---|---|
| Transit | Duvernay has neither metro nor train station: STL buses reach the Cartier terminus and Montmorency metro. | The sector has neither metro nor station: STL buses reach the Cartier terminus and Montmorency metro. |
| Parks and shops | The Centre de la nature, Laval's great park with its lake, farm and trails, is at the sector's limit in Saint-Vincent-de-Paul; within Duvernay, the Val-des-Brises park, the boulevard Lévesque banks and neighbourhood parks with arenas and pools. | The Centre de la nature (lake, farm, trails, winter sliding) is Laval's great park and the east's leisure heart; the banks of both rivers and neighbourhood parks complete the offer. |
| Schools and services | The sector falls under the Centre de services scolaire de Laval and the Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board. | The sector falls under the Centre de services scolaire de Laval and the Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board. |
| The market in 2026 | Duvernay is a house market where supply is shrinking: 77 active listings in Q2 2026, a $735,000 median (+5 % year over year, +32 % in five years), 34 days on market, and a seller's market in every range, including above $1.07 million (7.5 months of inventory, still the seller's), which is rare in Laval. | Saint-François and Saint-Vincent-de-Paul is the Laval sector that rose most in five years for houses (+43 %), for a median still among the city's lowest: $552,944 in Q2 2026 (+2 % year over year), 33 days on market, 88 active listings. |
| Who it is for | For families who want a large house on a large lot, quiet streets and quick access to eastern Montreal and the North Shore; for those looking for a recent house in Val-des-Brises. | For families who want space, countryside twenty kilometres from downtown and a great park, at eastern Laval's lowest price; for those working in eastern Montreal or Terrebonne via Highway 25. |
| Not for | Less so for those who want a train, a metro or a condo: Duvernay is lived by car, and its thin supply requires being ready to offer fast. | Less so for those who want a train, a metro, a condo or a shopping street: eastern Laval is rural, calm and lived by car, toll included. |
Duvernay: For families who want a large house on a large lot, quiet streets and quick access to eastern Montreal and the North Shore; for those looking for a recent house in Val-des-Brises. Saint-François and Saint-Vincent-de-Paul: For families who want space, countryside twenty kilometres from downtown and a great park, at eastern Laval's lowest price; for those working in eastern Montreal or Terrebonne via Highway 25.
The con that most often decides between the two. On one side, no train or metro: Duvernay is lived by car, and the Pie-IX Bridge is saturated at rush hour. On the other, rural and quiet: no train, no metro, no condos or shopping street; everything is by car. Whichever of the two you accept more easily names your neighbourhood. The detail of each is in Living in Duvernay: the pros and cons and Living in Saint-François and Saint-Vincent-de-Paul: the pros and cons.
Duvernay is a house market where supply is shrinking: 77 active listings in Q2 2026, a $735,000 median (+5 % year over year, +32 % in five years), 34 days on market, and a seller's market in every range, including above $1.07 million (7.5 months of inventory, still the seller's), which is rare in Laval. Saint-François and Saint-Vincent-de-Paul is the Laval sector that rose most in five years for houses (+43 %), for a median still among the city's lowest: $552,944 in Q2 2026 (+2 % year over year), 33 days on market, 88 active listings. The price of a specific house is set on the comparable closed sales on its street, which the team pulls from the Centris system; our Living in Duvernay and Living in Saint-François and Saint-Vincent-de-Paul guides give the benchmark of each sector.
The sector falls under the Centre de services scolaire de Laval and the Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board. The sector falls under the Centre de services scolaire de Laval and the Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board. The exact school catchment varies from one street to the next: check before buying.
Duvernay has neither metro nor train station: STL buses reach the Cartier terminus and Montmorency metro. The sector has neither metro nor station: STL buses reach the Cartier terminus and Montmorency metro.
Duvernay: No train or metro: Duvernay is lived by car, and the Pie-IX Bridge is saturated at rush hour. Saint-François and Saint-Vincent-de-Paul: Rural and quiet: no train, no metro, no condos or shopping street; everything is by car.
The pros and cons are written by the Loaa & Manseur team from our neighbourhood guides and from what buyers tell us after the visits; no figure is added to those published by the APCIQ. The other neighbouring duels are in pros and cons, neighbourhood against neighbourhood.
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Published September 7, 2026 by the Loaa & Manseur team, the number 1 team at RE/MAX Platine in 2024 and 2025, 6th RE/MAX team in Quebec, 15th in Canada and in the global top 50 according to the official RE/MAX ranking. Tell us about your project.
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