Living in Montreal · Saint-Léonard · 2026 neighbourhood guide
The east end's neighbourhood of houses with garages, five years from a metro: what it offers, what it costs, and who it suits.
Saint-Léonard is east Montreal's borough of houses with garages: bungalows and cottages from the 1960s and 1970s, handsome duplexes, wide quiet streets, and an Italian identity that shows on Jean-Talon East, Lacordaire and Langelier. The QPAREB groups it with Anjou: in Q2 2026 the single-family home sold there for $712,500 (-2 % year over year, +23 % in five years) in 33 days, the condo for $391,000 (-3 %) in 54 days. The blue line extension, with Lacordaire and Langelier stations planned for 2031, is the change reshaping the sector's value. Seller's market in almost every condo range.
Saint-Léonard was built in one go between 1955 and 1975, when Montreal's Italian families left Little Italy for new houses with a garage and a garden: the result is a borough of bungalows, two-storey cottages and brick duplexes, on wide tree-lined streets, with vegetable gardens at the back. Jean-Talon East is its artery: cafés, pastry shops, grocers and Italian restaurants, then, more recently, Maghrebi and Latin American ones. Boulevard Lacordaire and boulevard Langelier structure the north-south; the Metropolitan (Highway 40) borders the south. It is a calm, family neighbourhood where the car is king and where neighbourhood life happens in parks, arenas and around churches.
The north of the borough, between Jean-Talon and the Montréal-Nord limit, keeps the largest cottages and the most sought-after streets, around Parc Wilfrid-Bastien. The centre, around Lacordaire and Jean-Talon, concentrates shops and duplexes. The south, toward Highway 40 and Rosemont, offers the most affordable plexes and condos, and these are the streets that will gain most from the future metro stations. Domaine Renaissance, to the east, lines up more recent houses.
The borough has no metro yet: Jean-Talon, Lacordaire, Langelier and Viau buses reach the green and blue lines (Saint-Michel, Viau, Cadillac stations). The blue line extension, under construction, will add Pie-IX, Viau, Lacordaire, Langelier and Anjou stations; the STM is aiming for 2031. Highways 40 and 25 are at the door, which makes Saint-Léonard practical for anyone working in Laval, on the North Shore or in the east.
Parc Wilfrid-Bastien (aquatic complex, Martin-Brodeur arena, library) is the borough's leisure heart; Ladauversière, Ferland and Giuseppe-Garibaldi parks complete the offer. Jean-Talon East is the shopping street; boulevard Langelier and boulevard Lacordaire line up service businesses, and the Galeries d'Anjou are next door.
The borough falls under the Centre de services scolaire de la Pointe-de-l'Île and the English Montreal School Board. Hôpital Santa Cabrini, on the borough's edge, and Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont are the sector's hospitals. Library, indoor and outdoor pools, arenas and community centre on site.
The QPAREB's Anjou/Saint-Léonard sector is a genuine house market: a $712,500 median in Q2 2026, slightly down (-2 %) after +23 % in five years, sold in 33 days. Condos ($391,000, -3 %, +25 % in five years) sell in 54 days with 143 active listings; the market favours sellers in every range except between $490,000 and $590,000, which is balanced. The blue line extension is the variable not yet priced into the southern streets.
| APCIQ sector, Q2 2026 | Single-family, median | 1 year | 12 months | 5 years | Days | Condo, median | 1 year | 5 years | Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anjou/Saint-Léonard | $712,500 | -2 % | $700,000 | 23 % | 33 | $391,000 | -3 % | 25 % | 54 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|
| < 200K | 2.5 months | Seller |
| 200K - 290K | 5.1 months | Seller |
| 290K - 490K | 5.0 months | Seller |
| 490K - 590K | 9.6 months | Balanced |
| >= 590K | 6.9 months | Seller |
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 families who want a real house with a garage and a garden on the island, a calm neighbourhood and Italian shops on foot, and who accept the car for the rest. For a patient buyer, the southern streets near the future stations are the east end's best value bet. Less so for those who want a metro today or nightlife: Saint-Léonard goes to bed early.
See real estate broker in Saint-Léonard, living in Anjou, the neighbour to the east, and living in Rosemont, the neighbour to the south.
The sector's median condo was $391,000 in Q2 2026 (-3 % year over year, 25 % in five years), sold in 54 days according to the APCIQ. The actual price depends on the building, the floor and the condition.
The median single-family home was $712,500 in Q2 2026 (-2 % year over year), in 33 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 blue line extension (five stations from Pie-IX to Anjou, including Lacordaire and Langelier in Saint-Léonard) is under construction; the STM is targeting 2031. The southern streets, within walking distance of the future stations, are the ones whose value should move most.
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Published September 6, 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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