Understand Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville before you commit to an address
Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville is twenty-seven thousand people around one of the Monteregian hills, with the Mont-Saint-Bruno national park on its slopes and a commuter station on the Mont-Saint-Hilaire line. It demerged from Longueuil in 2006 and charges 0.5511% on a median detached house of $667,800. 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 Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, 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 Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville
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 Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville is the right part of the region
No neighbourhood guides for Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville yet. What is here instead is the whole region on one comparable footing.
What buying in Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville actually involves
The bill of about $3,700 a year sits between Boucherville's and Longueuil's, which is roughly where the town's commercial base sits too. A promenade and a highway strip rather than an industrial park. What Saint-Bruno has that its neighbours do not is the mountain: the national park, the lakes and the orchards on its flanks are the reason people move here and the reason the town has resisted density on the upper slopes for decades.
The commuter line is peak-oriented and the station is a park-and-ride for much of the town, so the practical commute is a drive to the station or a drive to Longueuil metro. Highway 30 and Highway 116 are the road options and both work better than the tunnel. This is a quieter, more expensive and more constrained market than Boucherville's, and it moves slowly in both directions.
The mountain and the park are the reason the town looks and feels different from its neighbours, and they also constrain where anything can be built. That is why the supply here is limited and why the older sectors near the centre hold their value the way they do.
The town is compact and its centre is genuinely usable on foot, with the station a short distance from a good deal of the housing. Between the park, the centre and the station, this is one of the few South Shore municipalities where a household could function with one car rather than two.
Moving to Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville: check these before you commit
- The exo timetable on the Mont-Saint-Hilaire line, which is a commuter service rather than an all-day one.
- Whether the lot is on the mountain, where development rules, slope and tree protection all bind harder.
- School catchments, which draw families here and are the main reason the market is tight.
- The walk from the address to both the station and the centre, since the town is small but not uniform.
- Any conservation or park-adjacent restriction on the lot, which applies to a good deal of the town.
The 7,288 detached one-dwelling houses on Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville'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 Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville 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 Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville 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