Québec City housing market

New-home prices

Statistics Canada's new housing price index for Québec City stood at 144.2 in Sep 2026, up 1.9% from a year earlier, compared with down 2.0% for Canada as a whole.

With December 2016 set to 100, the index means builders are charging about 44.2% more for a comparable new home than they did then.

The index is at or near its highest level on record, so new-home prices have not retreated from their peak.

The index tracks contractors' selling prices for new homes of the same specifications. It does not cover resale homes, so it shows builder pricing rather than the whole market.

Construction and supply

Builders started 9,293 homes in Québec City over the 12 months to Sep 2026, up 12.2% from the previous 12 months.

6,607 homes were completed over the same period (up 22.9%), and 11,516 were under construction at the latest count (up 23.1% year over year).

More homes are being started than finished, so the construction pipeline is growing and should keep completions up in the coming months.

Building permits, which come before construction starts, covered 11,389 dwelling units over 12 months, up 21.2%. Rising permits usually point to more starts ahead.

Of newly completed homes, 80 were still unsold or unrented at the latest count (up 11.1%), while 539 new homes were sold or rented on completion over the last 12 months (down 11.9%).

Population and housing need

Québec City's population was estimated at 903,607 (July 1, 2025), growing 1.0% over the year.

That works out to 10.3 housing starts per 1,000 residents, and 7.3 completions per 1,000.

Roughly 8,916 residents were added in the latest year, about 1.3 new residents for every home completed. That is close to or below typical household size, so new supply is keeping pace with population growth.

Rental market

CMHC's Rental Market Survey put the purpose-built rental vacancy rate at 2.6% (October 2025 survey), up 1.6 percentage points from the previous survey. A rate below 3% is generally considered a tight market, where landlords have the upper hand.

The average two-bedroom rent across all purpose-built units was $1,276 a month, up 10.1% year over year.

Statistics Canada's quarterly estimates show advertised two-bedroom rents of $1,460 versus $1,230 actually paid by renters. The $230 gap is roughly what a household pays extra to move into a newly listed unit.

Borrowing costs

Borrowers who took out a new uninsured mortgage in Aug 2026 paid an average of 4.58% on fixed terms of five years or more and 3.90% on variable rates, according to the Bank of Canada. The five-year-plus fixed average is up 0.3 percentage points from a year earlier.

Variable rates sit 0.68 points below long fixed terms, so borrowers are paying a premium for payment certainty.

The Bank of Canada's policy rate is 2.50% and the banks' prime rate is 4.70%. Variable-rate mortgages are priced off prime, so they move when the policy rate changes; fixed rates follow Government of Canada bond yields, with the 5-year yield at 3.46%.