{"id":465552,"date":"2026-02-10T09:40:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T09:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/465552\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T09:40:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T09:40:27","slug":"montreal-area-home-sales-fall-15-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/465552\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal-area home sales fall 15% in January"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Quebec\u2019s real estate board says 2,364 properties changed hands throughout the month in the Montreal census metropolitan area.Christinne Muschi\/The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

Quebec\u2019s real estate board says Montreal-area home sales fell 15 per cent on a year-over-year basis in January amid a shortage of supply and limited purchasing power for some households.<\/p>\n

The Quebec Professional Association of Real Estate Brokers says 2,364 properties changed hands throughout the month in the Montreal census metropolitan area, down from 2,774 during the same time a year ago.<\/p>\n

Charles Brant, the board\u2019s market analysis director, says that despite a slowdown in activity, the scarcity of properties continues to drive up prices \u2013 especially for multiplexes with two to five units.<\/p>\n

Median home prices were up across all categories in the first month of the year, led by an 8 per cent increase for multiplexes to $841,800.<\/p>\n

The median price of a single-family home rose 4 per cent to $615,000 year-over-year in January, while the median price of a condominium increased 2 per cent to $428,000.<\/p>\n

The board says new listings totalled 6,550 for January, up 8 per cent year-over-year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Quebec\u2019s real estate board says 2,364 properties changed hands throughout the month in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[901,888,902,879,877,903,49,48,876,895,896,891,878,875,46,549,295,894,887,914,880,881,893,889,890,884,904,885,909,910,912,907,911,905,908,882,898,899,714,897,906,66,865,61,900,892,886,883,913],"class_list":["post-465552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-science","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}