Understand Brossard before you commit to an address
Brossard is ninety-eight thousand people on the south shore, laid out in the 1960s in lettered sectors, and since 2023 the southern terminus of the REM. The first stretch of the network to open, and a fifteen-minute automated run to Gare Centrale. The towers going up at Solar Uniquartier around Du Quartier station are the most visible thing happening in this region's housing market. Figures come from the province's assessment roll and municipal budget file, measured the same way in all 28 municipalities here. It sits in the Longueuil agglomeration, so part of what an owner pays here funds services set by a council this municipality does not control.
The cost of living in Brossard, and what a home costs
Two calculators on Quebec's own rules: semi-annual compounding and the real minimum down payment tiers, and the closing costs this province actually charges.
Rent or buy in Brossard
Whether buying here beats renting, and the year it turns over. Both households start with the same cash, so the comparison is not rigged either way.
Mortgage calculator
Semi-annual compounding, the CMHC premium under twenty percent down, and the 9% Quebec sales tax charged on it in cash at closing, the highest in the country.
Then work out whether Brossard is the right part of the region
No neighbourhood guides for Brossard yet. What is here instead is the whole region on one comparable footing.
What buying in Brossard actually involves
Brossard demerged from Longueuil in 2006 and charges 0.5505% against the central city's 0.7412%, on a median detached house assessed at $713,800: a bill of about $3,900. It has the commercial base to support that: Quartier DIX30, the Taschereau corridor and a large office cluster. It is also the most linguistically and culturally mixed municipality on this list, with a very large Chinese-Canadian population and an established Asian commercial district along Taschereau.
The REM has done something here that no other transit project in this region has done: it has made a suburb's downtown commute faster and more reliable than most of the island's. The consequence is a development boom concentrated in a few hundred metres around the stations, and a widening gap between the sectors within walking distance of one and the 1960s bungalow streets that are not. The median assessment above sits between those two markets and describes neither well.
The city is organised on an alphabetical grid of sectors, and the letter tells you the era: the earliest sectors are 1960s and 1970s bungalows, the later ones are 1990s and 2000s, and the newest development is around the station and the quartier being built beside it. Buyers who learn that shorthand can read the market much faster.
The station has changed the shape of demand here more than any other transit project in the region, and the development around it is ongoing rather than finished. For an address nearby the relevant question is what is approved and when it lands, because construction and eventual density are both part of the deal.
Moving to Brossard: check these before you commit
- Walking distance to an REM station, which is now the single largest price variable inside this municipality.
- Whether you are buying into new construction at Solar Uniquartier or the older lettered sectors, which are different products at different risks.
- Condominium fees and reserve funds in the new towers, which are early in their lifecycle and where the fee history is short.
- Which sector the address is in, since the letter is a reliable guide to the era and the lot size.
- The approved development around the station if the address is within walking distance of it.
The 13,884 detached one-dwelling houses on Brossard's 2026 roll are what the median above describes. The roll was built against market conditions on 1 July 2023 and is fixed for three years, so it is a market value rather than a current one.
Sourced, dated, and separated from the guesswork
Every Brossard figure below is cited, stamped with the period it describes, and editable, because a number for the whole city rarely describes your purchase. Appreciation and investment returns are assumptions rather than facts, and they are labelled that way. Read the methodology for how the line is drawn.
- Prices, rents and tax rates: published statistics and the official schedules.
- Nothing here is a lender quote, a pre-approval or financial advice.
Where the Brossard figures come from
- Rôles d'évaluation foncière du Québec: rôle 2026, fichiers par municipalité · Ministère des Affaires municipales et de l'Habitation, via Données Québec · retrieved Supports: Every property on the 2026 assessment roll of each of these municipalities, with its predominant use, its number of dwellings, its physical link and its value, The median detached one-dwelling residence in each municipality, computed identically across all twenty-eight, The market conditions date each roll was built against: 1 July 2023 for twelve of them and 1 July 2024 for sixteen
- Rapport financier des organismes municipaux: données prévisionnelles non auditées 2026, Simple occurrence · Ministère des Affaires municipales et de l'Habitation · retrieved Supports: The 2026 residential property tax rate adopted by each municipality, in dollars per $100 of assessment, Special rates for debt service, operating and investment activities where a municipality levies them, under the taux-unique code as well as the taux-variés résiduelle one, The 2026 decree population of each municipality, The adopted-rate file itself rather than the dataset page that lists it, so the next reconciliation is a fetch rather than a search
- Données prévisionnelles non auditées 2026: description des postes · Ministère des Affaires municipales et de l'Habitation · retrieved Supports: Which code carries which adopted rate: general CPALB01724 taux unique or CPALB01726 taux variés résiduelle, debt CPALB01736 or CPALB01738, operating CPALB01747 or CPALB01749, investment CPALB01758 or CPALB01760, That a special rate adopted at a single rate is recorded under a different code from one adopted per property class, which is the distinction this layer reads both halves of
- Rental Market Survey, Montréal CMA: October 2025 · Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation · retrieved Supports: An average two-bedroom rent of about $1,200 across the purpose-built stock of the Montreal CMA, A vacancy rate of 2.9%, Survey zones that do not correspond to municipal boundaries, which is why this layer carries one regional figure rather than twenty-eight
- Réorganisation municipale: les municipalités reconstituées et le conseil d'agglomération · Gouvernement du Québec, Ministère des Affaires municipales et de l'Habitation · retrieved Supports: The reconstitution of fifteen municipalities on the island of Montreal and four in the Longueuil agglomeration on 1 January 2006, The division between local competences and agglomeration competences. Police, fire, water production, arterial roads and public transit, The agglomeration council's power to set the levy that funds them
- Regulations amending the Insurable Housing Loan Regulations and the Eligible Mortgage Loan Regulations (SOR/2025-55) · Canada Gazette, Part II · retrieved Supports: The $1.5 million insured price cap, which only three of these twenty-eight municipalities' median detached houses exceed, 30-year insured amortization for first-time buyers and new builds