Is Lachine a borough or its own city?

It is a borough of Montreal. Saint-Pierre merged into Lachine in 1999. The 2006 demergers did not pull Lachine back out. Montreal’s roll and Montreal’s duty scale apply.

Can I sell a plex with a tenant still in it?

Yes. The lease continues. Bruce’s offer, if you accept one, takes the property as it is, including the lease. It is not a promise that anyone will be evicted.

Do Montreal’s higher brackets apply in Lachine?

Yes. The 2026 scale includes 2% from $552,300, then 2.5%, 3.5% and 4% on the higher slices. The 2026 comparative factor is 1.00. The buyer pays.

Is Summerlea the same as old Lachine?

Summerlea, also called Dixie on older maps, is the western end of the borough toward Dorval. The numbered avenues near the canal are the older centre. Saint-Pierre is the former city on the eastern side. Use the civic address.

Does a direct sale cancel a case at the TAL?

No. A hearing already filed stays a hearing. A sale does not replace the tribunal. It changes who owns the building, and the lease follows the building.

Borough of Lachine

Sell my house fast in Lachine

In shortA Lachine house or plex can be sold with a tenant still there. There is no inspection and no commission, and you choose the closing date. Lachine is a Montreal borough, so the buyer pays Montreal’s transfer duties.

Lachine is a borough of Montreal, not a city that demerged in 2006. The former city of Saint-Pierre joined Lachine in 1999, and the whole territory became a borough in 2002. The housing is older and more mixed than a West Island crescent: row houses and plexes on the numbered avenues near the canal, single-family streets further west toward Summerlea, and Saint-Pierre as its own former town. “Sell my house fast in Lachine” is often a plex with a tenant, or a house full of a succession, not an empty bungalow staged for photos.

Canal, old grid, Saint-Pierre

The Lachine Canal is the southern edge people mean when they say the borough. The fur-trade site and the old parish are why the centre does not look like Kirkland. Notre-Dame and Saint-Joseph, and the numbered avenues that run between them, are a walkable grid of duplexes, triplexes and row housing, with shops at the corners. A “house” on those avenues may be a plex you live in, with one or two rented units, or a building you no longer want to manage. Parc René-Lévesque, on the waterfront, is the open edge west of that grid. Further west, Summerlea — the area also called Dixie on older maps — is lower and more residential as the borough approaches Dorval.

Saint-Pierre is not a neighbourhood nickname. It was a city until 1999. Its streets sit toward the eastern side of the borough, nearer the canal’s city end and the highway approaches. The houses are often modest, and the files are often practical: a vacant upper unit, a tenant who has stopped paying, a building inherited by people who live somewhere else. Bruce buys that kind of property as it stands. He does not require you to end the lease first. Under the Civil Code, a sale does not by itself terminate a residential lease. The next owner takes the lease. This offer does not include a promise to remove anyone.

Montreal’s bill, not a West Island city’s

Lachine uses the City of Montreal’s transfer-duty scale. For 2026 that is 0.5% up to $62,900, then 1% to $315,000, 1.5% to $552,300, 2% to $1,104,700, 2.5% to $2,136,500, 3.5% to $3,113,000, and 4% on the rest. The comparative factor for 2026 is 1.00, so the roll value is not grossed up by an extra factor this year. The base can still be the assessment rather than the price, if the assessment is higher. A plex and a small cottage in Summerlea will not produce the same duty. The buyer pays Montreal, within 30 days after the bill is sent. You, selling, are not the person who writes that cheque. You do still adjust the year’s municipal and school taxes at the notary, to the date you pick.

The notary’s work on a Lachine plex is often busier than on an empty bungalow: the lease, any TAL file already open, the declaration of transmission if someone has died, and the hypothecs. Busy is not the same as a list of work you have to do first. There is no inspection in this offer. There is no commission. The legal-warranty clause is explained before you sign. If you know a unit has a serious defect, you say so. The clause is not a hiding place.

What people are actually trying to leave

One file is the owner-occupant of a duplex who is tired of the other door. Rent, repairs the lease requires the lessor to think about, notices, a hearing at the Tribunal administratif du logement: that is a job. Selling does not erase a hearing that is already booked, and it does not evict. It does let you stop being the person who has to sleep there while the file goes on. The buyer takes the building and the lease. You pick a date and you can leave your own furniture.

Another is a succession in a row house that has not been touched in years. The liquidator is out of town. The will search at the Chambre des notaires and the Barreau still has to be done, and the declaration of transmission still has to be published, before title is clear enough to sign. None of that requires a dumpster before Bruce will talk. Send the address. If the succession is not ready to sign, he will hear that, and the form still does not commit anyone.

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This is general information about how a sale usually works in Quebec. It is not legal, tax or financial advice, and it is not a promise about your price or your date. A notary — and, if your file needs it, a lawyer or a licensed insolvency trustee — applies the rules to your situation. Sending an address does not commit you to sell.