Granby, Quebec
The most valuable piece of ground in Granby is a zoo: 34 hectares at 525 rue Saint-Hubert Ouest assessed at $70,279,000 and exempt from tax as a recognised non-profit, ahead of the hospital and the shopping centre — and in a city of 23,577 assessment units worth $13.8 billion, the single largest private holding is 509,612 sq ft of retail owned by a Montreal family firm.
8 buildings · 4 with an owner established · 17 sources · 2 tier B · 6 tier A · prepared 2026-10-10
Can you find out who owns it?
Ownership in Quebec is public and free, but only one property at a time: the roll is a public document and the owner's name can be read for any address on the municipality's own site or at the clerk's counter. The provincial bulk file publishes all 23,577 Granby assessment units with land value, building value, lot area, storeys, year built, dwellings, non-residential premises and the statutory paragraph behind any tax exemption, but with the owner's name and mailing address cut out, and Données Québec states that re-identifying them is forbidden. In a town this size the exemption paragraph does most of the work: it is what establishes that the sports complex on rue Crémazie and the wastewater plant on boulevard Industriel are entered in the name of the municipality, and that the zoo and the seniors' residence on rue Déragon are entered in the name of bodies recognised as non-profit under s. 243.3. A sale price appears only in the Registre foncier du Québec, at 1,50 $ per document.
Is ownership public?An open dataset names the owner
Cost of one title search1,50 $ per document (Registre foncier du Québec consultation, in force 1 April 2026); the municipal assessment roll, which names the owner, is free
Bulk ownership dataNone published
Sale pricesAggregates only — no individual sales
Sites that forbid taking their data
- donneesquebec.ca / open.canada.ca — “Les renseignements concernant les cadastres, noms des propriétaires et leurs adresses postales sont caviardés. Afin d'obtenir ces informations, vous pouvez consulter une unité d'évaluation particulière sur le site Web de la municipalité ou au bureau du greffier. Il est interdit de réidentifier les renseignements personnels caviardés (noms et adresses des propriétaires).”
- centris.ca — ““Screen scraping,” “data mining” or any other activity, whether automated or not, intended, directly or indirectly, to collect, store, copy, reproduce, reorganize or manipulate the Content is also prohibited and constitutes a violation of copyright and these Terms.”
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The marquee buildings
The towers that set the tone of the core, and who holds them. A price is the price a document states, on the date it states — not an estimate of what the building is worth now.
| Building | Use | Owner | Owner type | Last price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zoo de Granby 525 rue Saint-Hubert Ouest / 285 rue Bourget Ouest, Granby 34.23 ha site (342,265.31 m² of land) · 2 floors |
Institutional | Société zoologique de Granby The most valuable assessment unit in Granby: land $12,835,100 + buildings $57,443,900 = $70,279,000 (previous roll $64,079,000), CUBF 7124, 10 non-residential premises, 342,265.31 m² of land, title first registered 1981-01-01. The whole value is exempt under s. 204(10°) with an apportionment under s. 205.1(1) — an immovable the subject of a recognition in force under s. 243.3, the non-profit recognition. The Zoo's own history states that in 1953 “un terrain de 60 acres est cédé à M. Boivin par la paroisse Notre-Dame” and that the Société zoologique de Granby, created that year, “assure désormais la gestion et le développement du Zoo”. |
Institution | —B |
| Hôpital de Granby 205 boulevard Leclerc Ouest, Granby 4.36 ha site · 7 floors |
Institutional | Santé Québec or an establishment of the Quebec health and social services network Roll: land $3,539,400 + buildings $56,341,600 = $59,881,000 (previous roll $43,823,000 — a 37% increase), CUBF 6513 "service d'hôpital", 7 storeys, 43,561.70 m² of land, title first registered 2022-04-05. Exempt under s. 204(14°a) — entered in the name of Santé Québec or of an establishment listed in Schedule II of the Loi sur la gouvernance du système de santé et de services sociaux. |
Government | —B |
| Galeries de Granby 20-60 rue Évangéline, Granby (postal 40 rue Évangéline) 509,612 sq ft (Westcliff); 17.54 ha site · 1 floors |
Retail | Groupe de Sociétés Westcliff The largest private holding in Granby and fully taxable: land $30,210,000 + buildings $27,686,000 = $57,896,000 (previous roll $50,800,000), CUBF 5003 “centre commercial local (45 à 99 magasins)”, 100 non-residential premises, 175,422.65 m² of land, title first registered 2022-09-30. Westcliff's own property page gives “Galeries de Granby … Superficie 509 612 pi.ca, Adresse 40, rue Évangéline”, anchored by Walmart, Sports Experts and IGA; the mall's own site footer reads “© 2018 Groupe Westcliff. Tous droits réservés.” |
Family / private | —A |
| 250 rue Déragon 250 rue Déragon, Granby 14,866.7 m² of floor area · 6 floors |
Residential | Not established the licence forbids naming the owner Roll: land $1,311,700 + buildings $55,127,300 = $56,439,000 (previous roll $46,204,000), CUBF 1541 "maison pour personnes retraitées non autonomes (inclus les CHSLD)", 6 storeys, 14,866.7 m² of floor area, built 2021, 10,440.77 m² of land, title first registered 2006-12-14. The whole value is exempt under s. 204(10°) with an apportionment under s. 205.1(1) — an immovable the subject of a non-profit recognition in force under s. 243.3. The fourth most valuable parcel in the city and the most valuable residential one; no document opened names the operator or the title holder. |
Not established | —A |
| 65 rue Évangéline 65 rue Évangéline, Granby 21,306.6 m² of floor area · 5 floors |
Residential | Not established the licence forbids naming the owner Granby's largest taxable apartment building: land $3,158,000 + buildings $37,792,000 = $40,950,000 (previous roll $39,878,000), CUBF 1543 "maison pour personnes retraitées autonomes", 246 dwellings, 5 storeys, 21,306.6 m² of floor area, built 2009, 13,969.10 m² of land, title first registered 2008-06-03. It carries no s. 204 exemption, so unlike 250 rue Déragon it is held commercially — but the owner is redacted from the open file. |
Not established | —A |
| Sports and recreation complex, 550 rue Crémazie 550 rue Crémazie / 560 rue Léon-Harmel, Granby 4.53 ha site · 1 floors |
Civic | Ville de Granby Roll: land $3,363,000 + buildings $31,275,000 = $34,638,000 (previous roll $29,481,000), CUBF 7620 “parc à caractère récréatif et ornemental”, built 2004, 45,290.00 m² of land, title first registered 1981-01-01. Exempt under s. 204(3°), which covers “un immeuble … inscrite au nom d'une municipalité locale qui est situé dans son territoire” — so Granby's own roll states that Granby owns it. The City's wastewater plant at 1250 boulevard Industriel ($24,247,000, CUBF 4841, 19.78 ha) is exempt under the same paragraph. |
Government | —A |
| 625 rue Luxembourg — corrugated packaging plant 625 rue Luxembourg Nord, Granby 20,643.4 m² of floor area; 12.97 ha site · 2 floors |
Industrial | Not established the licence forbids naming the owner The most valuable industrial unit in Granby and the sharpest revaluation in the city: land $4,799,300 + buildings $21,491,700 = $26,291,000 against a previous roll of $4,525,000, a 481% increase. CUBF 2932 "industrie de boîtes en carton ondulé et en carton compact", 2 storeys, 20,643.4 m² of floor area, built 2001, 378.45 m of frontage, 129,710.00 m² of land, fully taxable, title first registered 2022-03-31 — the roll records both a change of owner in 2022 and a near-fivefold revaluation. No source opened names the occupier or the owner. |
Not established | —A |
| 444-450 rue Principale 444-450 rue Principale, Granby 10,777.1 m² of floor area · 5 floors |
Office | Not established the licence forbids naming the owner Granby's largest office building: land $4,174,000 + buildings $32,422,000 = $36,596,000 (previous roll $36,651,000 — one of only two among the city's 100 most valuable units to fall), CUBF 6111 "service bancaire (dépôts et prêts, incluant banque à charte)", 5 storeys, 4 non-residential premises, 10,777.1 m² of floor area, built 2009, 16,697.90 m² of land, fully taxable, title first registered 2007-04-10. The use code says a bank occupies it; no document opened names the owner. |
Not established | —A |
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The core land
The most valuable ground in the city, and what the public record says about it.
Re-sourced 2026-10-10 from MAMH's quarterly roll (www.mamh.gouv.qc.ca/role/RM47017.xml); the earlier build used a host whose robots.txt disallows crawling. Computed from RM47017.xml, the quarterly-update version of Granby's 2025-2026-2027 roll (schema 2.8, file dated 2026-06-11, reference date RL0401A 1 July 2023), and checked against MAMH's Sommaire du rôle workbook for fiscal 2026, which records the roll as deposited: 23,468 units, $13,542,878,592. The updated file carries 109 more units and $258.5 million (+1.91%) of maintenance changes since deposit; every marquee unit's values are unchanged. Granby is a useful control case: a city small enough that eight parcels describe most of what matters, and whose roll carries exactly the same fields as Montreal's.
Total assessed value, Ville de Granby$13,801,337,995 CAD over 23,577 units
RM47017.xml, June 2026 update: land $4,136,679,295 + buildings $9,664,658,700; 36,639 dwellings and 2,672 non-residential premises. The earlier build's $13,542,878,592 over 23,468 units (35,953 dwellings, 2,683 premises) is the deposited figure, which the Sommaire du rôle 2026 confirms (codes 200013, 200001).
Highest assessed parcel$70,279,000 CAD
Zoo de Granby, 525 rue Saint-Hubert Ouest: land $12,835,100 ($37/m² over 342,265.31 m²) + buildings $57,443,900, previous roll $64,079,000. One unit = 0.51% of the city's assessed value; the top 10 units are 3.43% ($473,340,000) and the top 100 are 12.64% (RM47017.xml).
Share of assessed value that is tax-exempt7.82% ($1,059,496,491)
MAMH Sommaire du rôle 2026, code 200019, the non-taxable value by art. 204 paragraph: the municipality $355,203,023 over 215 units and 1,688 ha; primary and secondary schools $220,985,000 over 23 plus $34,017,400 under par. 15°; recognised non-profits $195,218,368 over 40 units and 497.5 ha; the health network $124,261,000 over 14; CEGEPs $22,484,000; the Crown in right of Canada $5,515,000 over 3. The June 2026 RM47017.xml gives about $1,074 million (7.78%). The earlier build's 9.6% ($1,295,033,024; 9.51% / $1,312,322,022 on the June file) summed every unit carrying any RL0504 entry, which also catches farm tax credits and the taxable parts of partly exempt units. Three of Granby's five most valuable parcels — the zoo, the hospital and the Déragon seniors' residence — are exempt.
New dwellings in the Granby region, 2024706 homes built, of which 490 rental
APCHQ figures reported by La Voix de l'Est, 20 February 2025, for the Granby region including Roxton Pond, Bromont, Saint-Paul-d'Abbotsford and Saint-Alphonse-de-Granby; for comparison the same series gives Saint-Hyacinthe 374 (342 rental) and Drummondville 1,060 (801 rental). The APCHQ's economics director is quoted: "Dans nos prévisions 2025, plus de 75 % des constructions neuves sont des appartements et des condos principalement destinés au marché locatif."
Dwellings in buildings completed 2021-2024 (city of Granby only)579 / 617 / 783 / 519
Computed from RL0307A and RL0311A in RM47017.xml (unchanged from the earlier build; 2025 adds 562), counting only units with a single identified main building, so a floor rather than a total. The city itself counted 619 construction projects in 2023 and issued 176 affordable-housing permits in 2024.
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Who owns the town
At this scale the significant owner is rarely a trust or a fund: it is one or two local holding companies, a family in its second or third generation, and often the land around the town rather than the buildings in it.
At Granby's scale concentration is easy to measure and the answer is that the biggest holders are not companies. The city itself and two recognised non-profits hold three of the five most valuable parcels; the largest private holder is a Montreal retail family firm; and the largest single landholding in the city by area is a 196-hectare recreational parcel on rue Drummond held by another recognised non-profit.
| Name | Type | Holdings |
|---|---|---|
| Société zoologique de Granby The city's most valuable parcel, exempt under s. 204(10°) as a body recognised under s. 243.3. The Zoo's own site records the original 1953 grant of 60 acres by the paroisse Notre-Dame and a 2022-2030 master plan of close to $51M. |
Institution | 34.23 ha, $70,279,000 assessedB |
| Ville de Granby 550 rue Crémazie / 560 rue Léon-Harmel recreation complex $34,638,000 and the 1250 boulevard Industriel wastewater plant $24,247,000 (19.78 ha), both exempt under s. 204(3°) — entered in the name of a local municipality situated in its own territory. |
Government | $58,885,000 across its two largest parcelsA |
| Groupe de Sociétés Westcliff Galeries de Granby, 20-60 rue Évangéline — the largest private holding in the city by assessed value at $57,896,000. |
Family / private | 17.54 ha, 509,612 sq ftA |
| 700 rue Drummond (owner not established) The largest single landholding in the city: land $25,796,300 + buildings $2,216,700 on 1,958,312.00 m², CUBF 7620 "parc à caractère récréatif et ornemental", exempt under s. 204(10°) with an apportionment under s. 205.1(1) — a body recognised under s. 243.3. Title first registered 2008-01-01. The roll redacts the owner and nothing opened identifies it. |
Institution | 195.83 ha, $28,013,000 assessedA |
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Who builds the houses
New-home building in this market: the volume, and the firms behind it. Ownership of a builder matters as much as its volume — a private-equity platform and a family firm behave differently.
Granby is building rental housing faster than it builds anything else — 490 of the 706 new homes in the region in 2024 were rental, and the APCHQ expects more than 75% of 2025 starts to be apartments and condos for rent. The city has set itself a target of 5,500 new dwellings by 2034. Only one private developer could be named from a source that opened; Quebec publishes no builder league table, and Granby's own developers mostly do not publish unit counts.
| Name | Type | Units |
|---|---|---|
| Gesteco La Voix de l'Est, 4 June 2024 and 20 February 2025: "Le promoteur immobilier Gesteco va construire à terme 186 appartements répartis dans 11 immeubles dans le secteur de Granby situé au carrefour des routes 112 et 139", a mix of 4½ and 5½ units at $1,450-$1,550 a month, completing 1 July 2026, and "« La valeur foncière de ces immeubles représentera un montant d'environ 55 millions de dollars »" per the firm's David Lambert. Gesteco bought the land from three named private investors; they are not named here because they are private individuals. |
Private company | 186 apartments in 11 buildingsA |
| Ville de Granby La Voix de l'Est quotes mayor Julie Bourdon: "Nous voulons densifier. Notre politique d'habitation est d'atteindre la cible de 5500 nouveaux logements d'ici 2034", and "L'an dernier, nous avons délivré 176 permis pour du logement abordable"; the city counted 619 construction projects in 2023 and is planning average heights of about six storeys downtown. Included because in a city this size the municipality's housing policy is the main determinant of who builds what. |
Government | 5,500 new dwellings targeted by 2034; 176 affordable-housing permits in 2024A |
| Operator of 250 rue Déragon (not established) The largest residential building completed in Granby in recent years is a non-autonomous seniors' residence held by a body with a non-profit recognition under s. 243.3 of the Loi sur la fiscalité municipale, assessed at $56,439,000. Named here only by address because the roll redacts the owner and nothing opened identifies it. |
Institution | 14,866.7 m², 6 storeys, built 2021A |
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Commercial landlords
The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.
Granby's commercial stock is thin and the ownership is correspondingly simple: one out-of-town family firm holds the shopping centre, and after that the largest taxable commercial units are a bank building and two retail strips whose owners the open roll does not name.
| Name | Type | Floor area |
|---|---|---|
| Groupe de Sociétés Westcliff Westcliff's own property page for Galeries de Granby gives 509,612 sq ft at 40 rue Évangéline; the 2026 roll records 100 non-residential premises on a 17.54 ha site assessed at $57,896,000. Westcliff's own about text: "une société privée de développement immobilier qui exploite le plein potentiel de chaque propriété. Depuis plus de 50 ans …" It also owns Les Promenades Gatineau's management mandate and, since 2024-2026, Fairview Park in Kitchener and Kingsway Mall in Edmonton. |
Family / private | 509,612 sq ft, 100 premisesA |
| 367-423 Montée Industrielle-et-Commerciale pattern — Granby's retail strips (owners not established) Beyond Galeries de Granby, the roll's commercial units in the Évangéline retail district are small and separately held: 9-11 rue Évangéline $6,217,000 on 10,774.30 m², 39 rue Évangéline $1,628,000, 27-37 rue Évangéline $1,330,000, 59 rue Évangéline $1,307,000. The fragmentation is the finding; the open roll redacts every owner. |
Private company | $6,217,000 at 9-11 rue Évangéline, 2 premises; smaller units along rue ÉvangélineA |
| 444-450 rue Principale (owner not established) Granby's largest office building, CUBF 6111 "service bancaire", assessed at $36,596,000 and fully taxable. Listed for scale only. |
Private company | 10,777.1 m², 5 storeysA |
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Looked for and not found
Claims this page would have made if a source could be opened. They are left out rather than guessed.
- Who occupies and owns 625 rue Luxembourg, the corrugated-packaging plant whose assessment went from $4,525,000 to $26,291,000 between rolls, with title first registered 2022-03-31.
- Who owns the 195.83-hectare recreational parcel at 700 rue Drummond, the largest landholding in Granby. The roll establishes that it is a body with a non-profit recognition under s. 243.3; it does not say which.
- Who owns or operates 250 rue Déragon ($56.4M seniors' residence, built 2021) and 65 rue Évangéline (246 dwellings, built 2009), Granby's two largest residential buildings.
- Who owns 444-450 rue Principale, Granby's largest office building, whose use code says a bank occupies it.
- Whether the Société zoologique de Granby holds the zoo site directly. The roll's s. 204(10°) exemption establishes that a body recognised under s. 243.3 holds it, and the Zoo's own history states the Société has managed and developed the site since 1953, but no deed or filing was opened.
- Which legal person within the Quebec health network holds Hôpital de Granby; s. 204(14°a) covers both Santé Québec and any Schedule II establishment.
- Whether Granby publishes a free online per-property roll lookup. Its roll page opened and links five explanatory PDFs but no consultation tool.
- Owner names are redacted from the provincial bulk roll and the licence forbids re-identifying them, so no lawful bulk owner join exists in Quebec.
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Sources
- Quebec property assessment roll (Rôle d'évaluation foncière du Québec) — the 1,140 municipal XML files, owner names and mailing addresses redacted — Ministère des Affaires municipales et de l'Habitation (MAMH) / Données Québec · openA
- Quebec property assessment roll — English dataset record stating the redaction and the re-identification ban — Government and Municipalities of Québec via Open Government Portal · openA
- RM47017.xml — the Ville de Granby assessment roll, quarterly-update version (schema 2.8; RLM01A 47017; 23,577 assessment units; file dated 2026-06-11), downloaded and tabulated directly — MAMH · openA
- Répertoire des renseignements prescrits du rôle d'évaluation foncière, version 2.5 — the field dictionary for RL0101 to RL0507 — MAMH via Données Québec · openA
- Sommaire — Tarification des produits et services du registre foncier et du cadastre, in force 1 April 2026 ("Documents … Par document 1,50 $", updated 25 March 2026) — Ministère des Ressources naturelles et des Forêts (MRNF) · openA
- Loi sur la fiscalité municipale (chapitre F-2.1), art. 204 — the exemption paragraphs the roll cites in RL0504 (1° l'État or Société québécoise des infrastructures; 1.1° the Crown in right of Canada; 3° a local municipality; 5° a mandatary of a municipality, MRC or Communauté; 10° a body recognised under s. 243.3; 13° a school service centre, CEGEP or university-level establishment; 14°a Santé Québec or a health-network establishment) — Légis Québec / Gouvernement du Québec · openA
- Unités d'évaluation foncière — used only as the published CUBF code→label dictionary (CODE_UTILISATION / LIBELLE_UTILISATION) — Ville de Montréal (Données Montréal) · openA
- Terms of use and privacy policy — Centris (Quebec Professional Association of Real Estate Brokers) · openA
- À propos du Zoo — the 1953 grant of 60 acres by the paroisse Notre-Dame, the creation of the Société zoologique de Granby, and the 2022-2030 master plan of close to $51M — Zoo de Granby · openA
- Galeries de Granby — property page (509 612 pi.ca, 40 rue Évangeline) — Groupe de Sociétés Westcliff · openA
- Projet immobilier de 55 M$ en construction à Granby — Gesteco, 186 apartments in 11 buildings, ~$55M of assessed value, completing 1 July 2026 — La Voix de l'Est (Jean-Luc Lorry) · openA
- La construction de logements en plein essor à Granby — APCHQ: 706 new homes in the Granby region in 2024, 490 of them rental; city target 5,500 dwellings by 2034 — La Voix de l'Est (Jean-Luc Lorry) · openA
- Galeries de Granby — mall site, footer "© 2018 Groupe Westcliff. Tous droits réservés." — Galeries de Granby · openA
- Westcliff — "une société privée de développement immobilier … Depuis plus de 50 ans", with its 2024 and 2026 acquisitions — Groupe de Sociétés Westcliff · openA
- Rôle d'évaluation foncière — Granby's roll page (explanatory PDFs; no online consultation tool) — Ville de Granby · openA
- Index de la mise à jour trimestrielle des rôles d'évaluation foncière — "47017,Granby,https://mamh.gouv.qc.ca/role/RM47017.xml,2026-06-11 15:31:14" — MAMH · openA
- Sommaire du rôle d'évaluation foncière, exercice 2026 — MAMH's per-municipality workbook (200001 units, 200013 total, 200019 non-taxable, 600001-600099 non-taxable value by art. 204 paragraph); Granby row 47017 — MAMH — Données statistiques sur l'évaluation foncière · openA