Borough of Pierrefonds-Roxboro
Sell my house fast in Pierrefonds
In shortA house in Pierrefonds can be sold as it stands, with no inspection and no commission, on a date you choose. The borough is in Montreal, so the buyer pays the transfer duties.
Pierrefonds is not its own city hall. It is the western and central part of the borough of Pierrefonds-Roxboro, inside the City of Montreal. People searching “sell my house fast in Pierrefonds” are usually sitting on a bungalow or a split-level from the suburban build-out, or on a very different house along boulevard Gouin Ouest where the Rivière des Prairies is the back boundary. Bruce buys those houses directly. No inspection, no commission, no repairs to do first, and the closing date is one you choose.
A borough, not a demerged city
On 1 January 2006 many West Island cities were reconstituted. Pierrefonds and Roxboro were not. They stayed in Montreal as the borough of Pierrefonds-Roxboro. That is why a sale here is billed by the City of Montreal, why the transfer-duty brackets are Montreal’s brackets, and why the assessment roll is Montreal’s roll. Dollard-des-Ormeaux and Kirkland, next door, send their own bills. Pierrefonds does not.
The borough’s own description puts the Rivière des Prairies along its northern edge for about 27 kilometres. Boulevard Gouin Ouest follows that water. The interior is a different map: crescents and bays off boulevard de Pierrefonds, boulevard des Sources and boulevard Saint-Jean. Roxboro, on the eastern side, is the older village that grew around the station. Treating “Pierrefonds” as one housing product misses that split.
What the houses actually are
Most of the interior was farmland, then subdivisions, from the mid-1950s through the 1970s. The streets are still full of brick bungalows, raised bungalows and split-levels from that period, with two-storey houses added later on lots that were held back or split. A typical file is a three-bedroom bungalow with a finished or half-finished basement, a garage that became storage, and a roof or a bathroom that the owners have been meaning to deal with. Bruce’s offer does not ask you to deal with it. The house is bought as it stands, and what you do not want to move can stay.
The waterfront is not that product. Along Gouin the lots meet the river, the houses are older and more individual, and a sale there is often an estate or a house that is more property than the household wants to show. Cap-Saint-Jacques, at the western edge, is the Cap-Saint-Jacques sector of the Grand parc de l’Ouest: a nature park with a beach and trails. A house near the park and a crescent bungalow are different conversations. The address tells Bruce which one it is. Roxboro, east of that, is tighter and older. If your mail says Pierrefonds-Roxboro, say which part.
How a direct sale works on a Montreal roll
You send the address. Bruce calls you. If you want an offer, the deed is signed at a notary. In ordinary Quebec practice the buyer’s notary searches the title, prepares the acte de vente, and publishes it at the land register. Municipal taxes and school taxes are adjusted to the date you pick. Any hypothec is paid from the proceeds on that day if the numbers cover it. This page does not promise that they will. The notary is the person who reads the deed with you, including the clause that the sale is without the legal warranty. That clause matches the offer: no inspection, and the house is taken as it is. It does not cover hiding something you already know is wrong.
The buyer pays the transfer duties, the “welcome tax,” not the seller. For a transfer in Montreal in 2026 the City’s scale is 0.5% up to $62,900, 1% on the slice up to $315,000, 1.5% up to $552,300, 2% up to $1,104,700, 2.5% up to $2,136,500, 3.5% up to $3,113,000, and 4% above that. The base is the highest of the price paid, the price written in the deed, and the value on the assessment roll multiplied by the comparative factor. Montreal’s factor for 2026 is 1.00. The City’s own illustration, a base of $700,000, comes to $9,349. That is the City’s arithmetic, not a price for a bungalow on your crescent and not a quote from Bruce. The bill is payable in one payment within 30 days after Montreal sends it. The notary uses the scale in force on the day of the transfer.
Situations that show up on these streets
The inherited bungalow is the common one. A parent kept the house, the basement is full, and the heirs do not want a month of clearing out before anyone can take photos. A direct sale lets the liquidator and the heirs talk about a date, and the contents can stay. Where a succession is involved, the notary still has to see the will search and the declaration of transmission. That work is the file’s work. It is not something you finish by painting the bedrooms.
The vacant house is the winter version. Taxes do not pause because nobody sleeps there, and many insurance contracts restrict coverage after a vacancy period written in the policy. A house left cold on a Pierrefonds crescent is a pipe problem waiting for January. Selling it as it stands is a way to stop keeping a house you have already left. Bruce does not publish a Pierrefonds average, and this page will not invent one.
Questions people ask
Seller questions
Keep reading
- Sell my house fast in Dollard-des-OrmeauxAn independent city of bungalows and split-levels, with its own 2026 transfer-duty brackets.
- Sell my house fast in KirklandA reconstituted city of larger lots and quiet crescents, between Dollard-des-Ormeaux and the lakeshore.
- Sell an inherited house in MontrealA full house, a liquidator, and a deed without first emptying the rooms.
- Sell a vacant house in MontrealTaxes and insurance do not pause for an empty house. A direct sale skips the showings.
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.