This article written in french by Stéphane St-Amour was automatically translated using AI
As of last May 31, the foundations of 1,803 housing units had already been poured into Laval’s soil in 2025.
To put things in perspective, Laval had ended the year 2023 with a total of 1,170 housing starts. It was, however, one of the worst performances recorded in Laval since the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) has been keeping such statistics, it should be noted. Last year, the city-region had barely reached the milestone of 2,000 new homes.
Addition of 521 doors
In May, CMHC recorded new construction sites totaling 521 doors.
They break down as follows: 369 rental units, 118 condominiums, 25 semi-detached and row houses, and 9 single-family homes.
Since the beginning of the year, the rental segment dominates with the start of construction on 1,595 units, or 9 out of 10 homes.
Worth noting, the month of May saw the first condos emerge from the ground in Laval in 19 months.
This lack of interest in condominiums, which long reigned supreme in Laval’s construction market, was explained last December by CMHC’s principal economist, Francis Cortellino, by the fact that financial institutions often require the sale of two-thirds of the condos in a project before granting financing.
End of the strike
The frantic pace of these new constructions in Laval reflects the situation that prevailed until last May 28. On that day, the Construction Union Alliance, which includes the five industry unions, called an unlimited general strike in the residential construction sector across Quebec.
The good news, however, is that the union alliance reached a tentative agreement on June 18 with the Association des professionnels de la construction et de l’habitation du Québec (APCHQ), thereby temporarily ending the strike while the negotiated agreement is submitted to its members for ratification.
This labor dispute, which lasted three weeks, affected construction sites for single-family homes, row houses, and residential buildings of six storeys or less, considering that residential projects of seven storeys and more fall under the commercial sector.
After the first 5 months of the year, Laval was on track to smash its record of 3,234 new homes recorded in 2008.
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