Montreal, Quebec
Quebec publishes the richest open property file in Canada — land value, building value, floor area, year built, dwelling count and the date title was last registered, per assessment unit — with the owner's name deliberately cut out of it; the name is free, but only one property at a time on the city's own site.
8 buildings · 6 with an owner established · 25 sources · 2 tier B · 6 tier A · prepared 2026-10-10
Ownership in Quebec is genuinely public and free, but only retail. Montreal's online assessment roll (Evalweb) states it gives "the name and mailing address of the owner(s) of a building", the lot's area and the assessed value of building, lot and property, at no charge to anyone who has the address, lot number or matricule. The provincial bulk roll for the whole of Quebec is published as open data with exactly the same records, except that owner names and mailing addresses are stripped out and the licence forbids re-identifying them — so there is no lawful way to assemble a Quebec owner database from open data. Behind the roll sits the Registre foncier du Québec, the legal land register back to 1841, which charges $1.50 per document consulted and is where a sale price actually appears.
- 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.”
- open.canada.ca (Rôle d'évaluation foncière du Québec dataset licence) — “Information concerning cadasters, names of owners and their mailing addresses are redacted. In order to obtain this information, you can consult a particular unit of assessment on the municipality's website or at the clerk's office. It is forbidden to re-identify redacted personal information (names and addresses of owners).”
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Place Ville Marie 1 Place Ville Marie, Montreal |
Mixed use | Ivanhoé Cambridge (Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, operating since June 2025 as La Caisse) 100% since 2013 The 2013 CNW Telbec release from Ivanhoé Cambridge announces it "will acquire the 50% interest in Place Ville Marie held by certain clients of Alberta Investment Management Corp (AIMCo)", a transaction "valued at more than $400 million", plus over $100M of further investment; it describes the property as having five towers and 150 tenants. Ivanhoé Cambridge's own site now states its real estate portfolio operates as La Caisse. The roll (RM66023.xml) carries 1-5 place Ville-Marie as one office unit (CUBF 6000) at $1,043,500,000 — land $305,704,400 + buildings $737,795,600, previous roll $1,100,000,000 — the most valuable taxable unit in the city. |
Pension fund | CAD more than $400 million 2013-08 Stated price for the 50% interest held by clients of Alberta Investment Management Corp, not for the whole complex. B |
| 425 Viger (425 avenue Viger Ouest) 425 avenue Viger Ouest, Montreal 316,097 sq ft GLA (Allied); 29,754 m² floor area (roll) · 13 floors |
Office | Allied Properties Real Estate Investment Trust Allied's 2025 annual report lists "425 Viger" in its Montréal rental-property schedule at 307,201 + 8,896 = 316,097 sq ft, 100.0% leased, and describes it as one of the "hybrid structures" where Allied integrated heritage buildings with new construction. MAMH's quarterly roll RM66023.xml (June 2026 update) gives land $26,275,200 + building $87,924,800 = $114,200,000 total (previous roll $130,808,000), 2,502.40 m² of land, 13 storeys, built 1861, title last registered 2004-11-29. |
REIT | —B |
| Le Nordelec 1301-1303 rue Montmorency, Montreal 823,845 sq ft |
Mixed use | Allied Properties Real Estate Investment Trust Listed in Allied's Montréal rental-property schedule at 785,307 + 38,538 = 823,845 sq ft, 91.3% leased at 31 December 2025 — Allied's single largest Montreal holding by area. |
REIT | —A |
| 1001 boulevard Robert-Bourassa 1001 boulevard Robert-Bourassa, Montreal 687,187 sq ft |
Office | Allied Properties Real Estate Investment Trust Allied's schedule shows 676,019 + 11,168 = 687,187 sq ft, 100.0% leased; the report attributes part of 2025 NOI growth to rent commencing here after development completion. |
REIT | —A |
| 747 Square-Victoria 747 Square-Victoria, Montreal 468,443 sq ft |
Office | Allied Properties Real Estate Investment Trust Allied's Montréal schedule: 451,748 + 16,695 = 468,443 sq ft, 97.5% leased at 31 December 2025. |
REIT | —A |
| La Cité — 111 boulevard Robert-Bourassa 111 boulevard Robert-Bourassa, Montreal 371,060 sq ft (one of eight La Cité buildings in the schedule) |
Office | Allied Properties Real Estate Investment Trust Allied's schedule lists La Cité as eight separate addresses (111 Robert-Bourassa, 50/75/80 Queen, 645/700 Wellington, 740 Saint-Maurice, 87 Prince); 111 Robert-Bourassa is 358,286 + 12,774 = 371,060 sq ft, 76.1% leased. |
REIT | —A |
| Complexe Desjardins 150 rue Sainte-Catherine Ouest, Montreal |
Mixed use | Not established the source would not open The complex's own site states only that "Complexe Desjardins® and its logo are trademarks of the Fédération des caisses Desjardins du Québec, used under license" — a trademark licence, not a statement of who owns the real estate. No filing or register page opened that names the owning entity, and the free municipal roll lookup that would is reCAPTCHA-gated. |
Not established | —A |
| Tour de la Bourse (Place Victoria) 800 Place Victoria, Montreal |
Office | Not established the source would not open tourdelabourse.com issues an HTTP 301 to groupepetra.findspace.com/building.php?building=place-victoria — a leasing host that then refuses the connection, so not even the manager's own claim could be read, let alone the owning entity. |
Not established | —A |
The core land
The most valuable ground in the city, and what the public record says about it.
Quebec publishes per-parcel land and building values for the whole province for free, which makes downtown Montreal one of the few skylines where a researcher can price the ground without paying anyone. The figures below were read or calculated directly from the open files. Re-sourced 2026-10-10 from MAMH's quarterly roll (www.mamh.gouv.qc.ca/role/RM66023.xml); the earlier build used a host whose robots.txt disallows crawling. The roll figures match the earlier build exactly for 425 avenue Viger Ouest; the city-wide total and ranking, which the earlier build could not compute, are now given from the same file. The quarterly file is a later state than the deposited roll the Sommaire summarises: MAMH's Sommaire du rôle 2026 gives 437,192 units and $503,463,316,783 (codes 200001, 200013), against 437,973 units and $506,518,069,794 here (+781 units, +0.61%).
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.
There is no Quebec or Canadian league table of housebuilders by units — nothing equivalent to the US Pro Builder Top 200 or Australia's HIA Housing 100 — so the figures below come from each company's own site and are counted on whatever basis that company chose (lifetime units, apartments under management, square feet). What Montreal does publish openly is permits: the construction/transformation/demolition dataset carries a dwelling count (nb_logements) per permit under CC BY 4.0, and the roll carries dwellings and rental units per assessment unit. The builders are overwhelmingly private and family-controlled; not one of the significant Montreal residential developers is a listed company, which is why none of these figures is audited.
| Name | Type | Units (own basis) |
|---|---|---|
| Prével Prével's own about page: "Since Prével's very first construction in the late 1970s, we have built over 11,000 units", alongside a counter reading 11 000 living units, 16 real estate projects, founded 1987, 82 employees. |
Family / private | 11,000+ unitsA |
| Le Groupe Maurice Its own by-the-numbers panel: 37 residences, 2,473 employees, 14,108 residents, 12,192 apartments, 844 care units. A seniors-housing operator-developer, so its units are rental residences rather than homes for sale. |
Private company | 12,192 apartmentsA |
| Broccolini Broccolini's own pages state it is marking its 75th anniversary, "having grown from a single home in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce to landmark projects across Montreal, Toronto, and Ottawa", with over 400 employees, and that it has developed and built "more than 21 million additional square feet of Amazon facilities delivered". The stated figure is industrial, not residential — Broccolini is a general developer-contractor, included here because it is the largest family builder in the market and no residential unit count is published. |
Family / private | 21M+ sq ft (Amazon facilities alone)A |
| Groupe Devimco Devimco's own site states it is celebrating its 27th anniversary and lists its condominium projects (Wellington sur le Bassin, Sir Charles), but publishes no cumulative unit count. Named because it is the developer behind Solar Uniquartier and Griffintown's largest phases. |
Private company | 27 years trading; no unit total publishedA |
Commercial landlords
The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.
Montreal's commercial landlords split three ways: the Quebec pension complex (La Caisse, formerly branded Ivanhoé Cambridge), listed REITs, and institutional insurers who outsource management. No Quebec body publishes a floor-area league table, so the figures below are each landlord's own disclosure, on its own as-of date — and they are not on comparable bases (one is a global portfolio value, one is Montreal GLA, one is a managed Quebec portfolio).
| Name | Type | Portfolio |
|---|---|---|
| La Caisse (Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec) — real estate, formerly branded Ivanhoé Cambridge lacaisse.com states a real-estate portfolio of $42.9B net assets as at 31 December 2025, gross assets valued at $74B, 8% of the total portfolio, with 70+ global strategic partners. Ivanhoé Cambridge's own site states that "Ivanhoé Cambridge, its real estate portfolio, now operates as La Caisse in all regions where it does business" since June 2025. Global figure, not a Montreal figure — no Montreal-only area is disclosed. |
Pension fund | $42.9B net / $74B gross, globallyB |
| Allied Properties REIT Allied's 2025 annual report: Montréal 5,843,884 sq ft, 40.3% of its total and 90.1% leased at 31 December 2025, out of 191 rental properties valued at $8.0B and 14.5M sq ft of total rental GLA. Montreal is Allied's largest market by area. |
REIT | 5,843,884 sq ft in MontréalA |
| iA Financial Group (portfolio managed by Canderel) Canderel's own case study states iA Financial Group "entrust[ed] Canderel with the operational management, leasing and maintenance of its entire Quebec portfolio—4.5M sf of real estate assets across 16 properties in Montreal and Quebec, including heritage buildings", of which Canderel leased 466,106 sq ft in the first year. iA owns; Canderel manages. |
Public company | 4.5M sq ft across 16 propertiesA |
Looked for and not found
Claims this page would have made if a source could be opened. They are left out rather than guessed.
- This record reads RM66023.xml, MAMH's June 2026 quarterly update (437,973 units, $506,518,069,794), not the deposited RL66023_2026.xml the Sommaire summarises (437,192 units, $503,463,316,783), because donneesouvertes.affmunqc.net disallows all robots. The two are 0.61% apart and are not reconciled line by line here.
- The assessed total for downtown Montreal (Ville-Marie borough). The borough's tax-billing CSV is 266 MB of per-tax-line rows, which would answer it, and was not downloaded here.
- Who owns Complexe Desjardins, Tour de la Bourse / Place Victoria, 1000 de La Gauchetière, Tour Deloitte, the Sun Life Building and Centre Eaton as legal entities. All would be answered free by the Montreal roll lookup, which is reCAPTCHA-gated, or for $1.50 a document at the Registre foncier.
- Whether Ivanhoé Cambridge's Montreal assets (Place Ville Marie, Centre Eaton, Fairmont Le Reine Elizabeth) are still held under that name after the June 2025 rebrand to La Caisse — the rebrand notice is the only page left on ivanhoecambridge.com.
- Any Quebec ranking of homebuilders by units delivered in a single year. None exists; the figures used are lifetime or portfolio totals on each builder's own basis.
- 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 — only per-property lookups on municipal sites.
- No sale price dataset. The roll's RL0201Gx gives the DATE ownership was registered but not the consideration; price requires the Registre foncier ($1.50 per document).
- The Montreal unités dataset carries no assessed value; values must come from the provincial roll XML or the borough tax CSVs.
- The Montreal tax CSVs' currency varies by borough — a sample row was fiscal year 2021, so each file needs per-file checking.
Sources
- Rôle d'évaluation foncière du Québec (property assessment roll), 2026 — Ministère des Affaires municipales et de l'Habitation (MAMH) · openA
- RM66023.xml — the Ville de Montréal assessment roll, quarterly-update version (schema 2.9; RLM01A 66023; 437,973 assessment units; file dated 2026-06-25), downloaded whole and tabulated directly — MAMH · openA
- Check property assessment rolls (Evalweb) — Ville de Montréal · openA
- Consulter le rôle d'évaluation foncière — free per-property consultation — Ville de Montréal · openA
- Sommaire — Tarification des produits et services du registre foncier et du cadastre, in force 1 April 2026 — Ministère des Ressources naturelles et des Forêts (MRNF) · openA
- Statistiques sur le marché immobilier — August 2026 — Registre foncier du Québec / Gouvernement du Québec · openA
- Statistiques sur les permis de construction, transformation et démolition — Ville de Montréal (Données Montréal) · openA
- 2025 Annual Report / Q4 2025 results — Allied Properties Real Estate Investment Trust · openA
- Ivanhoé Cambridge to purchase the 50% interest from its partner AIMCo in Place Ville Marie — Ivanhoé Cambridge via CNW Telbec · openA
- Ivanhoé Cambridge now operates under La Caisse brand — Ivanhoé Cambridge · openA
- Real Estate — portfolio and selected investments — La Caisse (Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec) · openA
- Canderel — iA Financial Group case study — Canderel · openA
- Prével — About / Our story — Prével · openA
- About Le Groupe Maurice — by the numbers — Le Groupe Maurice · openA
- Who we are — Broccolini · openA
- Imposition annuelle de taxes municipales (per-tax-line billing, 19 borough CSVs) — Ville de Montréal (Données Montréal) · openA
- Groupe Devimco — Devimco Immobilier · openA
- Registre foncier du Québec en ligne — MRNF / Foncier Québec · paidA
- Registre foncier — "Registre public qui permet de consulter les documents contenant les informations sur les transactions immobilières et les droits concernant les propriétés depuis 1841" — Gouvernement du Québec · openA
- Complexe Desjardins — site footer — Complexe Desjardins · openA
- tourdelabourse.com — 301 redirect to groupepetra.findspace.com — Groupe Petra · blockedA
- Terms of use and privacy policy — Centris (Quebec Professional Association of Real Estate Brokers) · openA
- Permis de construction, transformation et démolition (per-permit dataset with nb_logements) — Ville de Montréal (Données Montréal) · openA
- Index de la mise à jour trimestrielle des rôles d'évaluation foncière — "66023,Montréal,https://mamh.gouv.qc.ca/role/RM66023.xml,2026-06-25 16:10:12" — MAMH · openA
- Sommaire du rôle d'évaluation foncière, exercice 2026 — MAMH's per-municipality workbook (200001 units, 200013 total value, 200016 taxable, 200019 non-taxable); Montréal row 66023 — MAMH — Données statistiques sur l'évaluation foncière · openA