Expired listings · 50 cities · Centris 2016-2026
One page per city, same definitions, same source: listings expired without a sale, the failure rate against sales, average days next to median days, year by year since 2016, and what today's rate tells a seller about the starting price.
Across the 50 cities tracked, 7,916 house listings expired without a sale in 2025, against 20,954 in 2016 (-62%) and 5,270 at the 2021 trough. The failure rate (expired ÷ listing endings) went from 40% in 2016 to 13% in 2021, 19% in 2025 and 23% in 2026 (Jan. to Sep.): it is climbing in 36 of 50 cities. Average days on market fell from 98 to 35 (median of cities), median days from 64 to 13: the gap between the two, 34 days in 2016 and 20 in 2026, is the weight of the homes that linger. The highest rates in 2026: Gatineau (41%), Sorel-Tracy (33%), Beaconsfield (32%); the lowest: Beloeil (8%), Val-d'Or (8%), Sept-Îles (4%). Source: Centris (Matrix), compiled October 1, 2026.
Single-family house listings expired without a sale in 2016 and 2025; failure rate (expired ÷ expired + sales) in 2016, 2021, 2025 and 2026 (Jan. to Sep.); average days on market in 2016 and 2026.
| City | Expired 2016 | Expired 2025 | Failure 2016 | 2021 | 2025 | 2026 | Avg. days 2016 / 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gatineau | 2,402 | 1,250 | 48% | 13% | 31% | 41% | 79 / 30 |
| Sorel-Tracy | 253 | 96 | 49% | 7% | 20% | 33% | 122 / 39 |
| Beaconsfield | 144 | 100 | 30% | 17% | 25% | 32% | 74 / 49 |
| Candiac | 127 | 71 | 34% | 11% | 21% | 32% | 110 / 49 |
| Westmount | 75 | 72 | 25% | 20% | 26% | 32% | 124 / 85 |
| Montreal | 2,221 | 1,128 | 38% | 18% | 25% | 30% | 87 / 46 |
| Saint-Lambert | 79 | 55 | 38% | 12% | 27% | 30% | 85 / 44 |
| Brossard | 297 | 265 | 30% | 14% | 26% | 29% | 79 / 46 |
| Magog | 194 | 115 | 46% | 14% | 29% | 29% | 163 / 54 |
| Dollard-des-Ormeaux | 210 | 89 | 33% | 14% | 19% | 28% | 69 / 46 |
| L'Île-Perrot | 50 | 30 | 28% | 8% | 23% | 28% | 92 / 39 |
| Sainte-Julie | 95 | 65 | 30% | 12% | 18% | 28% | 62 / 20 |
| Vaudreuil-Dorion | 196 | 138 | 30% | 11% | 24% | 28% | 94 / 40 |
| Drummondville | 383 | 137 | 52% | 15% | 17% | 27% | 128 / 40 |
| Mirabel | 377 | 197 | 44% | 13% | 25% | 26% | 110 / 33 |
| Saint-Hyacinthe | 295 | 90 | 49% | 13% | 19% | 26% | 108 / 26 |
| Trois-Rivières | 472 | 180 | 39% | 10% | 17% | 26% | 98 / 24 |
| Dorval | 53 | 55 | 28% | 14% | 27% | 25% | 62 / 42 |
| Kirkland | 106 | 86 | 29% | 16% | 26% | 25% | 73 / 46 |
| Pointe-Claire | 109 | 81 | 23% | 13% | 21% | 25% | 57 / 43 |
| Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu | 617 | 247 | 41% | 9% | 21% | 25% | 113 / 36 |
| Boisbriand | 96 | 35 | 31% | 9% | 14% | 24% | 89 / 31 |
| Laval | 1,796 | 638 | 37% | 13% | 18% | 23% | 83 / 36 |
| Rosemère | 125 | 61 | 43% | 14% | 26% | 23% | 125 / 39 |
| Blainville | 444 | 135 | 42% | 9% | 18% | 21% | 99 / 31 |
| Boucherville | 102 | 68 | 24% | 10% | 17% | 21% | 60 / 28 |
| Châteauguay | 318 | 75 | 39% | 7% | 14% | 21% | 99 / 36 |
| Saint-Constant | 105 | 49 | 31% | 7% | 16% | 21% | 94 / 36 |
| Granby | 416 | 93 | 50% | 12% | 14% | 20% | 125 / 36 |
| Saint-Jérôme | 570 | 157 | 47% | 9% | 17% | 20% | 100 / 34 |
| Varennes | 57 | 29 | 30% | 8% | 16% | 20% | 61 / 25 |
| La Prairie | 99 | 65 | 35% | 13% | 24% | 19% | 91 / 34 |
| Longueuil | 630 | 314 | 31% | 11% | 19% | 19% | 82 / 31 |
| Chambly | 137 | 43 | 35% | 9% | 14% | 18% | 98 / 30 |
| Mascouche | 317 | 74 | 42% | 8% | 13% | 18% | 92 / 25 |
| Terrebonne | 804 | 181 | 39% | 8% | 14% | 18% | 102 / 30 |
| Lévis | 757 | 211 | 48% | 22% | 14% | 17% | 129 / 25 |
| Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville | 114 | 56 | 29% | 9% | 17% | 17% | 81 / 30 |
| Repentigny | 545 | 107 | 40% | 8% | 12% | 16% | 96 / 29 |
| Saguenay | 864 | 167 | 52% | 18% | 14% | 16% | 140 / 32 |
| Sherbrooke | 796 | 204 | 46% | 10% | 15% | 16% | 108 / 27 |
| Sainte-Thérèse | 92 | 29 | 37% | 10% | 16% | 15% | 85 / 28 |
| Joliette | 83 | 23 | 46% | 15% | 16% | 14% | 117 / 28 |
| Quebec City | 1,822 | 323 | 39% | 15% | 9% | 12% | 112 / 19 |
| Rimouski | 219 | 62 | 43% | 12% | 14% | 11% | 134 / 29 |
| Rouyn-Noranda | 227 | 36 | 42% | 11% | 10% | 11% | 101 / 44 |
| Victoriaville | 180 | 40 | 34% | 9% | 10% | 10% | 137 / 44 |
| Beloeil | 119 | 26 | 34% | 4% | 10% | 8% | 71 / 19 |
| Val-d'Or | 129 | 43 | 28% | 12% | 13% | 8% | 122 / 36 |
| Sept-Îles | 236 | 25 | 61% | 20% | 11% | 4% | 121 / 49 |
In 2016, four listing endings out of ten were failures: 40% across the 50 cities, with 20,954 contracts ended without a sale. The frenzy sold almost everything (13% failure in 2021, 5,270 expired, -75% from 2016), then the rate hikes put homes back on the shelf (23% in 2023). 2025 stood at 19%, and 2026 (Jan. to Sep.) climbs to 23%, up in 36 of 50 cities: with inventory refilling, homes listed at 2021 prices no longer go. Average days tell the same decade: 98 days in 2016, 32 in 2021, 35 in 2026, while the median went from 64 to 13. The mean-minus-median gap fell from 34 to 20 days: some homes still linger, but they weigh less. The cities where failure is most frequent in 2026: Gatineau (41%), Sorel-Tracy (33%), Beaconsfield (32%); the most efficient: Beloeil (8%), Val-d'Or (8%), Sept-Îles (4%). Only one city in 50 has a 2025 rate above 2016.
An "expired" listing is a brokerage contract that reached its end without a sale; cancellations and early withdrawals are not counted here, which makes this number a floor. The failure rate relates expired listings to all listing endings of the year (sales plus expiries); it does not say how many of those homes eventually sold after a relisting. Average days is the measure the QPAREB publishes; the median, shorter, is on our days-on-market pages. 2026 stops in September. Each city page adds the share of new listings that expire within the year and what the rate changes for a seller.
All series come from the Statistics module of Centris (Matrix), queried on October 1, 2026 with the same parameters for the 50 cities: Single-family category, whole municipality (boroughs or sectors combined for Montreal, Quebec City, Laval, Longueuil, Gatineau, Lévis, Sherbrooke, Saguenay, Terrebonne, Repentigny), expired listings and average days on market by year over ten years; sales come from the September 16 query, new listings from September 30 and median days from September 29. Only aggregates are published. The same cities have their houses that do not sell (twelve months, listing by listing), days on market and homes for sale and inventory pages.
Because both are true at once. The home listed at market price goes in two weeks, which holds the median at 13 days. But inventory has been refilling since 2024, buyers have choice again, and the home listed at the 2021 price no longer gets an offer: it expires. The market sorts by price, not by speed.
We add cities every month. A broker from the team can pull the same statistics for any municipality or neighbourhood in Quebec.
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Each series is recalculated from actual sales or leases, city by city, aggregates only.
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