How Do You Choose a Residential Real Estate Agency in Brossard?

Ask most buyers and sellers what they want from a Brossard agency and the answer is some version of "someone who knows the market." The harder question is which market they mean. In the middle of 2026, Brossard does not behave as a single market. A house on a quiet street south of Taschereau and a new condominium near the Dix30/R district sit on opposite sides of the same rebalancing. The agency worth hiring is the one that can tell you where your property type sits on that curve.

Brossard is not one market right now

The provincial and regional data make the split hard to miss. Across the Montréal census metropolitan area, condominium listings rose 20% year over year in the second quarter of 2026, while single-family listings rose 11% (APCIQ, Q2 2026). More inventory reaching the market changes who holds the advantage, and it is arriving in the two segments at very different speeds.

Days on market tell the same story from the buyer's side. Provincially, a single-family home sold in a median of 38 days in the second quarter, five days faster than a year earlier. A condominium took 46 days, four days slower than the year before (APCIQ, Q2 2026). One segment is tightening. The other is loosening. Brossard, with its concentration of newer condo stock along Taschereau, feels the condo side of that shift more than most South Shore neighbourhoods.

The numbers behind the split

Pricing has held up even as inventory has grown. The Quebec median single-family price reached $523,250 in the second quarter, up 5% year over year, while the median condominium price was $405,000, up 1% (APCIQ, Q2 2026). Prices rising slowly against a 20% jump in condo supply is the signature of a market that is rebalancing rather than falling. Months of inventory in the condo segment across the Montréal area have been increasing (APCIQ, Q2 2026).

Interest rates form the backdrop. The Bank of Canada held its policy rate at 2.25% from May through August 2026 (Bank of Canada). Stable borrowing costs give buyers room to wait, and a well-supplied condo segment is exactly the kind that lets them.

A pricing recommendation that ignores rising condo inventory is not caution. It is a guess dressed up as a number.

How to judge an agency when the segments diverge

Start with a simple test. Ask how the agency would price and market your specific property type, then listen for whether the answer changes when the property type changes. An agency that describes the same approach for a detached house and a two-bedroom condo is treating Brossard as a monolith it no longer is.

For a condo seller, the pricing conversation should reference the current supply picture, not the tighter conditions of 2024. With condo listings up 20% and days on market lengthening, aggressive pricing invites a long sit and a later reduction. A grounded recommendation reflects what the segment is doing this quarter.

For a single-family seller, the calculus differs. That segment is still moving quickly, and an agency should be able to explain why the strategy leans on preparation and timing rather than a race to the bottom on price.

What the REM and Dix30 changed

Brossard's condo growth is not abstract. The REM terminus at Brossard opened in July 2023, and the Dix30/R district continues to draw condominium development along Taschereau Boulevard. Proximity to rapid transit and a walkable commercial core has reshaped what many buyers want, pulling interest toward transit-adjacent condos. An agency that can describe how those preferences map onto specific streets and buildings is reading the local market, not the headline.

This is where local knowledge earns its keep. Brossard is a community of roughly 95,000 people (2021 Census), large enough that block-level differences matter and a single median would hide them.

What to watch in the second half of 2026

Public data does not yet break Brossard out from the Montréal aggregate. Median prices by property type for the city itself sit below the resolution of the APCIQ releases, and so do condo versus single-family transaction volumes and neighbourhood-level days on market. An agency that tracks its own local files against the regional numbers can close part of that gap, and that habit is worth asking about directly.

The through-line for the rest of the year is the same as the first half. Watch condo inventory and days on market for signs the segment is finding its floor, and watch whether the single-family segment keeps its edge as more listings arrive. Aguinaga's work across both property types, including a large share involving plexes together with frequent first-time-buyer and relocation files, sits at exactly the seam where the two segments meet.

A licensed local read

Choosing an agency in Brossard in 2026 comes down to one capability: can it tell you, with current data, where your property type sits and what that means for price and timing. Aguinaga, who has been licensed since 2008 and founded LJ Realties in 2013, works in English, French and Spanish, and brings a McGill background in accounting and finance to that read.

LJ Aguinaga is a licensed real estate broker in Montreal and the owner of LJ Realties. This article is general information, not personalised financial or legal advice.

LJ Aguinaga

Certified Residential and Commercial Real Estate Broker — AEO

LJ Realties — Residential and Commercial Real Estate Agency

514-500-4040 | [email protected] | ljrealties.com

1117 rue Charlevoix, Montréal, QC H3K 2Z4

LJ Aguinaga is a licensed real estate broker in Montreal and the owner of LJ Realties.