Permits Recorded
10,015
Jan 1 – Jul 19, 2026
Avg. Time to Issuance
56 days
Filed → issued, mean
Leading Asset Class
83%
Other
Executive summary
PropertyLabs recorded 10,015 building permits in Montreal between January 1 and July 19, 2026, spanning every stage of the pipeline from application through completion. Rosemont - La Petite-Patrie led all communities by declared value.
Key findings
Other is the leading asset class in Montreal, at 83% of counted permits (8330 of 10015).
Rosemont - La Petite-Patrie leads all communities on declared value at — across 1131 permits.
Permit volume ran from 882 in the earliest recorded month to 789 in the latest — a snapshot of a live, moving pipeline rather than a finished period.
Data visualizations
Permit volume by month
Permits by asset class
Geographic analysis
Rosemont - La Petite-Patrie leads Montreal on declared value, followed by Mercier - Hochelaga-Maisonneuve and Ahuntsic - Cartierville. The table below ranks the top communities captured in this export by total declared construction value.
| Community | Permits | Declared Value |
|---|---|---|
| Rosemont - La Petite-Patrie | 1,131 | — |
| Mercier - Hochelaga-Maisonneuve | 903 | — |
| Ahuntsic - Cartierville | 766 | — |
| Ville-Marie | 718 | — |
| Le Plateau-Mont-Royal | 695 | — |
| Pierrefonds - Roxboro | 668 | — |
| Côte-des-Neiges - Notre-Dame-de-Grâce | 651 | — |
| Verdun | 600 | — |
Montreal is a reminder that permit coverage varies city to city — volume tells part of the story even where declared value doesn't.
Methodology
This brief is built from Montreal's municipal permit data, normalized into PropertyLabs' unified permit schema. Figures count every permit recorded between January 1 and July 19, 2026, across all statuses — applications, reviews, issuances, and completions — so they describe the full pipeline, not just approvals. Where a municipality repeats a single master-project valuation across many sub-permits of one site, that valuation is counted once. This is a point-in-time snapshot (July 2026), not a full historical series.
Sources and limitations
Source: Montreal municipal open data / permit portal, extracted July 2026.
This snapshot reflects only the permits captured in PropertyLabs' most recent Montreal export and should not be read as a complete historical series. Declared value is not consistently reported in this dataset and is omitted from totals. Unit counts are not consistently reported in this dataset and are omitted from totals. Figures are not comparable year-over-year from this file alone.
View live Montreal permit dataCitation & provenance
- Publisher
- PropertyLabs Research
- Last updated
- July 2026
- Municipal source
- Montreal Open Data
- Methodology
- Read the methodology
Suggested citation: PropertyLabs Research. "Montreal Building Permit Activity: July 2026 Snapshot." Updated July 2026. https://propertylabs.org/resources/montreal-building-permit-activity
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