Understand Repentigny before you commit to an address
Repentigny is ninety-one thousand people at the confluence of the Rivière L'Assomption and the St Lawrence, north-east of the island. The largest city in the Lanaudière region and the closest of it to Montreal. It charges 0.5739%, of which over a quarter is special taxes for debt service and operations rather than the general rate. Figures come from the province's assessment roll and municipal budget file, measured the same way in all 28 municipalities here.
The cost of living in Repentigny, 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 Repentigny
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 Repentigny is the right part of the region
No neighbourhood guides for Repentigny yet. What is here instead is the whole region on one comparable footing.
What buying in Repentigny actually involves
That structure is worth noticing because most municipalities on this list levy one general rate and nothing else. Repentigny's bill is a general rate of 0.4190% plus 0.1123% for debt service and 0.0426% for operations, about $2,900 a year in total on a median detached house of $504,700. Special taxes are levied for specific purposes and can come off when the purpose is paid for, but they are also a signal about a municipality's capital position, and they belong in a long-hold calculation.
The geography here is the eastern approach: Highway 40 into the island, the Charles-de-Gaulle bridge, and two stations on the Mascouche line. That approach is congested at peak and has no redundancy, which is the same structural problem the east end of the island has. What Repentigny offers in exchange is a large, well-established, family-oriented city with a long riverfront park network and prices well below the island's.
The city is largely built out, which is unusual on the Rive-Nord and changes what buying here means: the market is turnover rather than new construction, and the housing is mostly 1970s to 1990s detached with an older core near the river.
The riverfront is a genuine amenity with parks and a long shoreline path, and it is also where the flood questions live. The 2017 and 2019 spring floods reached parts of this shoreline, and the mapping that followed is specific enough to check parcel by parcel.
Moving to Repentigny: check these before you commit
- The special tax lines as well as the general rate, since together they are over a quarter of the bill here.
- Highway 40 and the Charles-de-Gaulle bridge at your commuting hour.
- Flood mapping along the Rivière L'Assomption and the St Lawrence frontage.
- The age of the systems in 1970s and 1980s stock, which is most of what trades here.
The 19,923 detached one-dwelling houses on Repentigny'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 Repentigny 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 Repentigny 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