Buying · Features · Saguenay · September 18, 2026
Is a pool really worth what it costs in Saguenay? What about a garage? Here are the real price gaps, drawn from listings sold over 12 months, with days on market on both sides.
As of September 18, 2026, across 300 single-family sales read in Saguenay on Centris between September 16, 2025 and September 16, 2026, the median sale price is $371,500 and the median selling time 9 days. Median price gaps by feature: pool 21.9% (30% of sales have one), garage 14% (31%), fireplace 14.3% (38%). The pool carries the most weight in Saguenay. By year built, the median price runs from $312,000 to $492,500. Source: Centris (Matrix), single-family sales closed between September 16, 2025 and September 16, 2026, features as declared on each listing (pool, garage, fireplace, year built), up to 300 sales per city, compiled September 18, 2026, aggregates only.
Every listing sold on Centris declares its features: pool, garage, fireplace or stove, year built. Comparing the sale prices of houses that have them against houses that do not gives a real gap rather than an opinion. Across 300 sales in Saguenay over 12 months, the median sale price is $371,500.
| Feature | Share of sales | Median price with | Median price without | Gap | Days on market with / without |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pool | 30% | $429,000 | $352,000 | +$77,000 (21.9%) | 11 / 9 |
| Garage | 31% | $410,000 | $359,500 | +$50,500 (14%) | 17.5 / 8 |
| Fireplace or stove | 38% | $400,000 | $350,000 | +$50,000 (14.3%) | 11 / 8 |
Source: Centris (Matrix), single-family sales closed between September 16, 2025 and September 16, 2026, features as declared on each listing (pool, garage, fireplace, year built), up to 300 sales per city, compiled September 18, 2026, aggregates only. The gap is the difference between the median price of houses with the feature and the median price of houses without it. It is not the value of an addition: it is what separates two groups of houses on the market.
Houses with a pool sold for $77,000 more than houses without one, a gap of 21.9%. That gap is not a size effect: comparing only three-bedroom houses, it still stands at 30.7%. Days on market, though, are the same on both sides: 11 against 9.
The distinction matters on both sides. Sellers: an in-ground pool costs far more today than the gap shown here, and it also shrinks the buyer pool (young families interested, retirees often put off by the upkeep). You do not install a pool in order to sell. Buyers: if the house you want has a pool, the gap above is the order of magnitude the market grants it, not the cost of building it. That is a documented argument at the negotiating table, to be read alongside the negotiation gap in Saguenay.
A garage separates prices by 14% in Saguenay, and it is present on 31% of the houses sold. Across all 51 cities tracked, the garage is the feature whose price gap is the most consistent: 28.5% at the median, against 21.8% for a pool and 13.4% for a fireplace. In Quebec a garage is not a luxury, it is a winter necessity, and prices show it.
| Year built | Sales | Median sale price | Days on market | Bedrooms (median) | Rooms (median) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 and earlier | 56 | $312,000 | 19 | 2 | 12 |
| 1960-1979 | 119 | $341,000 | 8 | 2 | 12 |
| 1980-1999 | 54 | $435,500 | 8 | 2 | 12 |
| 2000-2009 | 16 | $492,500 | 6.5 | 2 | 13 |
| 2010 onward | 49 | $429,000 | 8 | 2 | 11 |
The most expensive homes at the median are those built in 2000-2009 ($492,500). But price is not the only axis: homes from the 2000-2009 period sold fastest (6.5 days), while those from 1959 and earlier took the longest (19 days).
The province-wide finding is counterintuitive and it repeats from city to city: newer homes sell for more but more slowly. Across the 52 cities, the median price climbs from $457,475 for houses built in 1959 and earlier to $705,000 for those built in 2010 and later, yet median days on market go from 10 days for 1980s and 1990s homes to 17.5 days for the newest ones. Newer costs more, draws less competition, and leaves more room to negotiate.
Two mistakes are expensive. The first is adding the cost of completed work to the asking price: the market does not reimburse an invoice, it pays a gap. The second is ignoring features entirely: in Saguenay, a house with a garage sells for 14% more, and a listing that fails to declare them properly drops out of entire search filters. Before you list, have the gap priced on your own street: our free evaluation in Saguenay starts from actual comparable sales, and selling time in Saguenay completes the picture.
Saguenay ranks 26th of 52 cities for the price gap tied to a pool. The hub pool, garage and year built across Quebec, 52 cities puts all 52 cities side by side.
Single-family listings switched to sold status on Centris (Matrix) between September 16, 2025 and September 16, 2026. For each listing: sale price, days on market, presence of a pool, a garage, a fireplace or stove, year built, bedrooms and rooms. Up to 300 sales read per city, in address order, an order unrelated to price. The gaps are differences between group medians, not isolated effects: a house with a pool may also be larger. That is why the comparison is repeated at equal bedroom count. Subgroups with fewer than 8 sales are not published. Merged cities are taken in full. Only aggregates are published, never an individual listing. Price series live on home prices in Saguenay and Quebec real estate statistics.
Houses with a pool sold for $77,000 more than houses without one, a gap of 21.9%. That gap is not a size effect: comparing only three-bedroom houses, it still stands at 30.7%. Days on market, though, are the same on both sides: 11 against 9. This gap measures what separates two groups of houses on the market, not the return on a pool you would have installed. The cost of an in-ground pool far exceeds the gap observed.
The pool: 21.9% against 14% for a garage. Across the 52 cities tracked, the garage wins at the median (28.5% against 21.8%).
No, the opposite. Across the 52 cities, houses built in 2010 and later sell at the highest median price ($705,000) but take the longest (17.5 days), against 10 days for 1980s and 1990s homes. More expensive, slower, therefore more negotiable.
No. Only single-family homes sold through a broker on Centris. Condos and plexes are covered on our other data pages.
And on the condominium side in Saguenay:
Monthly fees weigh as much on a budget as a rate increase: our city page gives the real median and the breakdown by building age.
The plex, in figures: Plex prices in Saguenay: $150,000 per door, GRM 12.3x
And by type of house in Saguenay:
Single-storey versus two-storey, ten years of median prices from the same Centris listings.
And by number of bedrooms in Saguenay:
Houses with 3, 4 and 5 or more bedrooms, ten years of median prices from the same Centris listings.
And the condo by number of bedrooms in Saguenay:
Condos with 1, 2 and 3 or more bedrooms, ten years of median prices from the same Centris listings.
And how long it takes to sell in Saguenay:
Median days on market for houses and condos, ten years from the same Centris listings.
And the number of sales in Saguenay:
Houses, condos and plexes sold per year, ten years from the same Centris listings.
And plex prices in Saguenay:
Median plex price per year, next to houses and condos, ten years from the same Centris listings.
And the number of homes for sale in Saguenay:
Inventory and new listings per year, ten years from the same Centris listings.
And sale price relative to asking in Saguenay:
Bidding wars or negotiation, year by year, ten years from the same Centris listings.
And the houses that do not sell in Saguenay:
Expired listings and failure rate, year by year, ten years from the same Centris listings.
And the average house price in Saguenay:
Mean, median and asking price, year by year, ten years from the same Centris listings.
And the sales volume in Saguenay:
How many dollars change hands each year, and whether price or the number of sales rose, ten years from the same Centris listings.
And house appreciation in Saguenay:
What a house bought in each year since 2016 is worth today, ten years from the same Centris listings.
And the jump from condo to house in Saguenay:
The gap between house and condo year by year, and how much of it the condo's gain covers, ten years from the same Centris listings.
All the statistics in Saguenay at a glance:
Twelve 2026 Centris indicators, the city's rank on each, and a link to ten years of detail.
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