This article written in french by Stéphane St-Amour was automatically translated using AI
Against all odds, Laval experienced the most prolific month in its history in June in terms of new housing starts.
This achievement is all the more remarkable considering the first 18 days of the month were affected by a labor dispute in the residential construction sector.It’s important to note that the strike launched at the end of May by the Construction Union Alliance targeted only construction sites for single-family homes, row houses, and apartment buildings of six stories or fewer.
Why? Simply because in Quebec, projects of seven stories and above fall under the commercial sector, not residential construction.
Laval… and the Others
Last month, foundations were poured in Laval for 1,000 housing units, including 974 rental units.
That’s four times more than on the Island of Montreal, where the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) recorded just 260 new housing starts.
In total, four out of every ten new units — 37% of the 2,729 units started in June across the broader Montreal Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) — were launched in Laval. An unprecedented milestone!
According to the latest monthly report from the federal housing agency, 748 new units were started on the North Shore and 534 on the South Shore, while the Vaudreuil-Soulanges RCM trailed with 187 new homes.
Half-Year Summary
Laval closed out the first half of 2025 with 2,803 new housing units — another all-time high since CMHC began tracking these statistics for the Laval area.
In fact, the first six months of the year alone surpassed the total of 2,023 units started during all of the previous 12 months.
In Laval, the all-time record of 3,234 new housing starts, set in 2008, could be broken this month — only 432 units away from setting a new benchmark.
Let’s recall that last fall, during a real estate summit, Mayor Stéphane Boyer projected the construction of 42,000 housing units over the next 10 years — more than double what was built in Laval over the past decade.
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