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Area · City of Brossard, South Shore of Montreal

Brossard

The REM speeding downtown, neighbourhoods named by letter, and a town that speaks every language. Here's my top 11, the neighbour's version, not the brochure version.

Let's talk about this area

Brossard is the gateway to the South Shore. From my home base in Verdun, I cross the Samuel De Champlain Bridge and I'm there in minutes. I work with buyers torn between the island and the South Shore, and with sellers looking to benefit from the fresh momentum the REM has brought. A young town, carefully planned, where more than 90,000 people from all over have chosen to build their lives.

I put this top 11 together for a simple reason: when you buy or sell, you're not just shopping for a property, you're shopping for a neighbourhood life. Each point comes with an opener to talk about. Use it.

Maxime Laforest, residential and commercial real estate broker · Équipe Loiselle, RE/MAX Dynamique

The town's top 11

What makes the heart of Brossard beat.

Eleven reasons buyers fall for this town, and why the people already here don't leave.

01 Public square and shops at the Quartier DIX30 in Brossard
The icon

The Quartier DIX30

At the junction of Highways 10 and 30, it's the South Shore's retail giant. Opened in 2006 and often described as the country's first lifestyle centre, you can shop under the open sky, have dinner on a terrace, and cap off the evening at the L'Étoile hall. Plenty of Montrealers cross the bridge just for this.

Ask me about it: ask me which residential pockets let you walk to DIX30. There are more than you'd think, now that the area has grown denser.
02 A REM train arrives at Du Quartier station, with the Solar Uniquartier towers behind
Transportation

The REM, three stations in town

Since summer 2023, Brossard has been the REM's starting point: the Brossard, Du Quartier, and Panama stations reach downtown in under twenty minutes, rain or shine. The Brossard terminus offers a huge park-and-ride lot, and Panama hosts one of the network's biggest bus terminals.

Ask me about it: ask me which of the three stations moves the needle the most for property values. Hint: it's not always the terminus.
03 The Samuel De Champlain Bridge seen from the St. Lawrence River
Access

The Samuel De Champlain Bridge at the end of the street

Opened in 2019, the new bridge changed daily life in the area. Highways 10, 15, and 30 serve the town, and the bridge's multi-use path even lets you cross by bike or on foot to Nuns' Island and Verdun. For anyone who lives or works on both sides of the river, it's hard to find a better-connected spot.

Ask me about it: ask me what the bridge path changes for cyclists who work downtown. It's an argument I use often during showings.
04 The La Résurrection parish church on Auteuil street, in Brossard's sector A
The neighbourhoods

Streets named by letter

A quirk unique in Quebec: a 1960s urban plan divided the town into sectors where every street starts with the same letter. In sector A, you'll find Auteuil and Auclair; in sector R, everything starts with R. Locals even introduce themselves that way: "I live in the M." Each letter has its own era, its own house style, and its own feel.

Ask me about it: ask me which letter fits your project best. It's the first question to settle when you're shopping in Brossard.
05 The Saint-Jacques River at Parc Radisson, in Brossard
Nature

The Saint-Jacques River, the wild side

Between Brossard and La Prairie flows a river where you can spot turtles and herons minutes from the highways. Forest trails, a footbridge at Parc Radisson, canoeing and kayaking in summer: it's the town's big green lung, and plenty of residents take years to discover it.

Ask me about it: ask me which sectors give walking access to the trails. Those addresses never stay on the market long.
06 Sunset over the Montreal skyline seen from Panama street, in Brossard
Waterfront

Montreal as a backdrop

From the edges of the river and the seaway, the skyline and Mount Royal stand out against the horizon. The sunsets over the city never get old. Parc Léon-Gravel and Marie-Victorin boulevard offer kilometres of shoreline to walk or bike facing that view.

Ask me about it: ask me which streets get a real view of the water or the city. You can nearly count them on one hand, and it carries real weight at resale.
07 The Nathalie-Croteau community centre, in Brossard
Family life

A town built for families

Neighbourhood schools in almost every sector, Antoine-Brossard high school, and the Lucille-Teasdale international school, which is finishing a major expansion for the fall of 2026. Add the parks, community centres like Nathalie-Croteau, and the Georgette-Lepage library, and you understand why kids who grow up here often come back to buy.

Ask me about it: ask me which sectors young families are fighting over right now, and why being close to an elementary school makes all the difference.
08 The multilingual collection at the Georgette-Lepage Brossard library
Local colour

A town that speaks every language

From a village of 3,400 people in 1958, Brossard has grown into a town of over 90,000 where some fifty cultural communities live side by side. You can taste it in the restaurants along Taschereau boulevard and Grande Allée, and you can see it right down to the library's multilingual collection. Few suburbs in Quebec offer that kind of openness.

Ask me about it: ask me how that diversity plays out differently from one sector to the next. It's one of the things that surprises my clients from the island the most.
09
Sports

Where the Canadiens train

The CN Sports Complex, opened in 2008 under the name Bell Sports Complex, is the official training centre for the Montreal Canadiens: two NHL-sized rinks and an indoor soccer field, just steps from DIX30. Minor hockey and public skating share the ice with the pros, which makes for some pretty special practice mornings.

Ask me about it: ask me what it does for a neighbourhood to have the NHL next door. Hockey fans don't need me to spell it out.
10 The Maison-Brossard heritage site
Heritage

Maison-Brossard, memory of a young town

The town was only founded in 1958, with Georges-Henri Brossard as its first mayor, but its name honours one of the oldest landowning families in La Prairie county. The Maison-Brossard heritage site recalls that farming past, light-years from the towers rising today around the REM.

Ask me about it: ask me how a town this young could change so much in one generation. Understanding its history helps predict where value is headed.
11 The Solar Uniquartier towers, near the REM's Du Quartier station
The projects

Solar Uniquartier and tomorrow's Taschereau

Around Du Quartier station, Solar Uniquartier is growing a real downtown: residential towers, offices, and shops make up one of the most ambitious mixed-use projects in Quebec. And both Longueuil and Brossard have unveiled their vision for transforming Taschereau boulevard, with a rapid bus service being studied between Panama station and the Longueuil metro.

Ask me about it: ask me what these projects could mean for values a decade from now. That's exactly the kind of bet we evaluate together.
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