Living in Montreal · Saint-Laurent · 2026 neighbourhood guide
The borough of jobs, the REM and planned neighbourhoods: Saint-Laurent, sector by sector, with the numbers.
Saint-Laurent is Montreal's largest borough and its most economic in the employment sense: the Technoparc, aerospace, head offices and industrial parks employ more people than the borough has residents. It is also a highly contrasted residential borough: Old Saint-Laurent and its old houses, Bois-Franc and its planned neighbourhood around the REM station of the same name, Norgate and its post-war buildings, and streets of 1950s and 1960s bungalows. In Q2 2026 the single-family home sold there for $988,750 (+22 % year over year, a rise carried by the large houses of Bois-Franc and the north) in 43 days, the condo for $482,290 (+2 %) in 58 days, with 367 active listings: a balanced market between $360,000 and $720,000, buyer's above. Côte-Vertu and Du Collège metro, Bois-Franc, Du Ruisseau and Montpellier REM stations.
Saint-Laurent is a former city, now merged, that kept a historic centre, Old Saint-Laurent, around the church, the Cégep de Saint-Laurent and the museum of master craftsmen, and grew in patches: Norgate and its 1950s rental buildings, the bungalow streets of the centre, the towers and condos around Côte-Vertu, then Bois-Franc, a planned neighbourhood from the 1990s to 2020s with its parks, ponds and townhouses, around the Bois-Franc REM station. To the north and west, the Technoparc, the aerospace plants and the industrial parks make it the island's first job hub outside downtown. The population is one of Montreal's most multicultural, with Lebanese, Armenian, Chinese, Maghrebi and South Asian communities.
Bois-Franc is the most sought-after and expensive sector: townhouses, semi-detached houses and recent condos, parks and ponds, REM on foot. Old Saint-Laurent, around boulevard Décarie and rue Saint-Louis, keeps the old houses and tree-lined streets. The centre, around Côte-Vertu and Du Collège, concentrates condos and towers, with the largest choice. Norgate, to the southeast, and the edges of the Metropolitan offer the lowest prices, in post-war buildings. The north, toward Cartierville and boulevard Henri-Bourassa, lines up the large houses of the 1960s and 1970s.
Two orange-line stations, Côte-Vertu (terminus) and Du Collège, serve the centre; the REM stops at Bois-Franc, Du Ruisseau and Montpellier (Deux-Montagnes branch), with downtown a few stations away. Buses on Côte-Vertu, Décarie, Marcel-Laurin and Henri-Bourassa complete the network. Highways 40, 15 and 13 border or cross the borough; the airport is next door. It is one of the island's best-connected boroughs, by transit and by car.
Parc Marcel-Laurin and its woodland, the Bois-Franc parks with their basins, Parc Beaudet and Parc Noël-Sud are the large spaces; the Saint-Laurent sports complex, the Raymond-Bourque arena and the Bibliothèque du Boisé, awarded for its architecture, are the flagship facilities. Shops concentrate on Côte-Vertu, Décarie, Marcel-Laurin and at the Marché Central, on the eastern limit.
The borough falls under the Centre de services scolaire Marguerite-Bourgeoys and the English Montreal School Board; the Cégep de Saint-Laurent and Vanier College are both on the territory. Hôpital du Sacré-Cœur-de-Montréal, in Cartierville, is the nearest; the Saint-Laurent CLSC and many clinics serve the neighbourhood. Du Boisé and Old Saint-Laurent libraries, pools, arenas.
Saint-Laurent is the island sector where the single-family home rose most year over year in Q2 2026: a $988,750 median, +22 % in a year (but only +12 % in five years), with 148 active listings and 43 days on market; the rise comes from the mix of sales, driven by Bois-Franc and the north, more than from a street-by-street surge. The condo ($482,290, +2 %, +16 % in five years) sells in 58 days with 367 listings, one of the island's largest choices: seller's market below $360,000, balanced up to $720,000, buyer's above (11.2 months of inventory).
| APCIQ sector, Q2 2026 | Single-family, median | 1 year | 12 months | 5 years | Days | Condo, median | 1 year | 5 years | Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Laurent | $988,750 | 22 % | $888,000 | 12 % | 43 | $482,290 | 2% | 16 % | 58 |
| Island of Montreal, all | $834,250 | 4% | $810,000 | 21 % | 41 | $483,000 | 0% | 19 % | 54 |
The balance of power by price range (four months of inventory separates a seller's market from a balanced one; beyond eight, the buyer leads):
| Price range (condo, 12 months to Q2 2026) | Months of inventory | Market |
|---|---|---|
| 240K - 360K | 6.2 months | Seller |
| 360K - 600K | 8.4 months | Balanced |
| 600K - 720K | 9.9 months | Balanced |
| >= 720K | 11.2 months | Buyer |
In August 2026 the island of Montreal sold single-family homes for $820,000 (+2 %) in 57 days and condos for $475,000, with record listings downtown; the monthly picture is in the island's August 2026 report and the Montreal condo market.
For those who work in the west or at the Technoparc and want the REM or the metro on foot; for families looking for a planned neighbourhood with parks and townhouses (Bois-Franc); for a condo buyer who wants choice and time. Less so for those looking for a neighbourhood shopping street or a uniform character: Saint-Laurent is vast, contrasted, and crossed by car.
See real estate broker in Saint-Laurent, living in Ahuntsic-Cartierville, the neighbour to the east, and the Laval market, across the river.
The sector's median condo was $482,290 in Q2 2026 (2% year over year, 16 % in five years), sold in 58 days according to the APCIQ. The actual price depends on the building, the floor and the condition.
The median single-family home was $988,750 in Q2 2026 (22 % year over year), in 43 days. Plexes (2 to 5 units) make up a large share of the housing stock; their price is documented on closed sales on the street, not on a borough average.
The Q2 2026 median ($988,750) reflects sales of large houses in Bois-Franc and the north more than the rise of any single house; over five years the sector gained only 12 %, one of the island's weakest gains. A seller therefore prices on the closed sales of their street, not on the borough median.
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