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Sometimes, the perfect home is hiding in plain sight. For non-filthy-rich Montrealers, the prospect of owning waterfront property sounds as ludicrous as owning a home in the city in the first place. But this humble mobile home for sale in Montreal could be the perfect place for a small family, with its direct access to the Rivière des Prairies

The home includes three bedrooms and two bathrooms for a total of seven rooms spanning just over 1,000 square feet. Around the back is the water access (scroll down for some of the views, including a truly blissful sunset pic).

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Buying a home is feeling increasingly unachievable for many Canadians, who turn instead to a life of renting someone else's property in order to avoid sleeping on the street. The hunt for a good apartment to rent in Montreal is somewhat easier than searching for a house to own, but folks here and everywhere are disillusioned.

As of 2022, 33 per cent of non-homeowners "believe they will never be able to buy a family home," 15 per cent more than in 2021, according to a survey by Mortgage Professionals Canada (MPC).

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If you've been looking for an elegant and expansive home right near the new T&T grocery store, this $7.5 million mansion could be your next home, sweet home. With six bedrooms and 7,500 square feet of living space, this opulent home is decorated to the tastes of a generation before minimalism claimed the aesthetics of the upper class.

It's a soup of brasses, creams and dark woods dripping in frills and flamboyant carpentry — a home fit for the anti-heroic machinations of Emily Gilmore, herself.

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Although Twilight's Cullens may have fictionally lived in the United States, it's impossible to imagine any other family living in this massive woodland mansion in Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, an off-island suburb of Montreal. And few families can swing the startling price tag: $10,995,000 for all 26 rooms.

That's just shy of $11 million, for those of us who can't read numbers. No judgement.

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Sometimes, things seem chaotic on the outside, but everything falls into place once you step over the threshold. Is that a metaphor? Maybe! But it's also a literal description of the experience of looking at this $6 million Westmount house at 618 ave Murray Hill.

This home is a five-bedroom 1914 construction, which explains the aggressively plain (yet somehow overdressed) exterior. It's been very newly renovated, so much so that certain staging photos are actually virtually rendered. The house is also across from Murray Hill park, giving its owners a remarkable view.

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The average rent across Montreal is still hovering above the $1,500 mark, a far cry from the worst neighbourhoods in Toronto or Vancouver, but still hundreds more than the average rent in previous years. In February of 2022, Montreal's average rent was $1,414, according to liv.rent. Now, it's climbed to nearly $1,600 — but some areas are being hit harder than others.

Traditionally cheaper neighbourhoods, like Hochelaga-Maisonneuve or Villeray-Parc-Extension are seeing slower increases than pricier areas like downtown or Westmount. In Hochelaga, the average two-bedroom will cost you $1,755, much less than downtown's whopping $2,540 average.

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If you know anything at all about Senneville, Quebec, you probably know that it's among the wealthiest West Island suburbs on the island of Montreal. With homes going for millions on the regular, it's reasonable to assume many of them are at least a little rich-people-weird.

This $12 million mansion is no outlier, packing 15 rooms into a two-storey building that sprawls over a beautiful plot of seven acres of forested land near a lake. The building even has its own nickname: Le Sabot, or The Boot. With a four-car garage and a 20-car driveway, this spot is perfect for a partier with money to spare.

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The opinions expressed in this article are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect the views of Narcity Media.

When I tell people that I pay $470 per month for rent in Montreal, they either express skepticism or beg to move in with me. I've never met anyone who's paying lesser rent, but it's certainly possible to beat the odds and spend below $800 for rent monthly on the island. Of course, you'll have to make a few sacrifices.

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Montreal's rental market may be rough, but if you broaden your horizons, there are plenty of options to buy your own home for a reasonable price — though you might have to compromise on proximity to downtown.

There's great poutine all over — and off — the island, so you won't miss out on much once you move into this friendly, inviting home for sale right now for $245,000.

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So you don't want to spend $2,500 on a downtown studio with thin walls and no appliances. Okay, fair enough — it's time to look outside the inner-city bubble and take a chance on a beautiful place that doesn't cost 60% of your monthly income.

In a year so full of expenses — inflation, cost of living increases, you know the drill — finding the right neighbourhood for your budget has gotten more challenging for many. Thankfully, liv.rent's monthly Montreal rent reports help give us a sense of which areas of the city are cheaper, and which are... not.

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You may have seen apartment tour and rent check videos on TikTok, perhaps from the hugely popular account @calebwsimpson, whose 6.6 million followers know him best for filming "this generation's MTV cribs" — videos touring New York City apartments and sharing how much each tenant pays per month.

Recently, a Montrealer has gone viral for a similar style of video: touring Montreal apartments and revealing how much each person pays for housing each month. The first video in the series, touring a Montrealer's $1,100 apartment, received over 460,000 views on TikTok.

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Ask any Montrealer and you'll soon learn that the housing market is in crisis. A new report released by the Front d'action populaire en réaménagement urbain (FRAPRU), an organization that advocates for housing rights, confirms these anecdotes: housing in Quebec is a dire struggle, for some more than others.

In their 25-page report, FRAPRU notes that the vacancy rate should be 3% to consider the market "balanced," per the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC). The CMHC's 2022 report revealed that markets across Quebec fell well below this threshold. In Montreal, the sum reaches that 3% number, but Laval as well as other northern and southern municipalities have vacancy rates as low as 0.5%.

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