{"id":2767,"date":"2026-04-13T13:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T13:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/2767\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T13:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T13:12:08","slug":"montreal-area-home-sales-rebound-in-march-after-four-month-skid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/2767\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal-area home sales rebound in March after four-month skid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Home prices climbed across all property categories. The median price of a single-family home led gains, rising 6.9% to $652,250. The median price of a plex increased 5.7% year over year to $880,000, while the median price of a condominium rose 1.2% to $425,000.<\/p>\n<p>On the supply side, new listings in March totalled 8,574 \u2013 up 11.2 % year over year \u2013 while total inventory grew 12.7% to 19,952 units for sale, The Canadian Press reported.<\/p>\n<p>Slowdown lingered in early 2026 <\/p>\n<p>The March rebound follows a turbulent stretch for the Montreal market. Sales in November 2025 fell 8% from the same month in 2024, with 3,542 residential transactions recorded in the Montreal CMA.<\/p>\n<p>QPAREB market analysis director Charles Brant attributed part of that slowdown to affordability pressures. \u201cProperty prices in Montreal, particularly on the island, have reached levels that far exceed the financial capacity of many buyers,\u201d Brant said, adding that those conditions were nonetheless allowing inventory to gradually rebuild and helping rebalance the market.<\/p>\n<p>The downturn persisted into the new year, with 2,364 residential transactions completed in the Montreal CMA in January 2026 \u2013 a 15% decline compared with January 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Home prices climbed across all property categories. The median price of a single-family home led gains, rising 6.9%&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1827,1826,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-2767","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-montreal","8":"tag-home-sales","9":"tag-march","10":"tag-montreal"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}