Notre-Dame-de-Grâce is one of Montreal's most consistently sought-after family neighbourhoods. Wide tree-lined streets, strong English-language schools, proximity to the MUHC hospital campus, and a real estate market that holds its value through every cycle. One of the city's most reliable long-term holds.
Source: Centris, CDN/NDG borough, last 4 quarters. Data is for guidance purposes; individual properties vary.
NDG is home to some of Montreal's best English-language public schools, including Westmount High, FACE School and multiple strong elementary options. Families relocating from across the city and from abroad target the neighbourhood specifically for school access. Demand from this profile is structural and persistent.
Dominant buyer segmentThe McGill University Health Centre (Glen site) at the eastern edge of NDG employs thousands of medical professionals. Doctors, nurses, and administrators consistently choose NDG for its proximity to the campus, its character homes, and the quality of life it offers families with demanding schedules.
MUHC proximity segmentNDG's abundant duplex and triplex stock makes it one of the best owner-occupant plex markets in the city. Buyers live in one unit and offset mortgage costs with rental income from the others. Hospital workers, students from Concordia and McGill, and young professionals keep rental vacancy consistently low.
Income property segmentThe social hub of NDG. Monkland Avenue is lined with independent restaurants, cafés, pharmacies, boutiques, and a beloved weekend farmers' market. Properties within a few blocks of Monkland command premiums and sell faster than the neighbourhood average. The combination of walkability and school proximity is unmatched.
The most coveted addresses sit north of Sherbrooke. Streets like Grosvenor, Oxford, Melrose, and Brock feature large detached and semi-detached homes with generous lots and early 20th-century character architecture. This is where the $1.3M–$2M+ single-family market lives, and where competition is most intense.
The Benny Farm redevelopment created a well-designed community park and residential area in the western part of NDG. Family-focused buyers appreciate the green space, the rebuilt community infrastructure, and the access to strong schools. A more accessible price entry point into the neighbourhood without sacrificing quality of life.
The eastern edge of NDG near Vendôme station has seen the most condo development activity. Buyers who prioritize transit access and a lower entry price point look here first. The MUHC campus is steps away, which drives steady rental demand from hospital workers and reinforces the area's investment fundamentals.
On Grosvenor, Oxford, and Melrose, many transactions happen through broker networks before a property is ever listed on Centris. Families with children in area schools often have a 3–5 year horizon and move pre-emptively. If you wait for the MLS listing, you are often competing against buyers who knew for months it was coming.
The borough is called CDN/NDG, but the two neighbourhoods have distinct price points, buyer profiles, and dynamics. CDN is denser, more multicultural, and more transit-oriented. NDG is quieter, more suburban in feel, and more focused on family home ownership. Applying borough-level averages to NDG-specific decisions leads to miscalibration.
The Glen site opened in 2015 and the full impact on the eastern NDG market is still unfolding. The hospital complex is one of the largest employers in the province and has created sustained, high-income demand for housing within commuting distance. This structural demand driver is permanent and often underappreciated in market analysis.
Current medians by property type, how English school eligibility actually works, and why the same house costs differently on either side of Décarie.
Here it is
Centris reports NDG inside the Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce borough. Sales counts, active listings and quarterly changes are not published at that level, so this brief shows medians and days on market only. I would rather show you three honest numbers than five invented ones.
Access to English public school in Quebec is not a matter of language spoken at home. It runs on a certificate of eligibility issued under the Charter of the French Language, and eligibility is inherited: broadly, a child qualifies if a parent did the majority of their elementary schooling in English in Canada, or if a sibling already holds the certificate.
This matters in NDG more than almost anywhere else on the island, because the English elementary and secondary network here is dense and well regarded. Families who hold eligibility concentrate where they can use it, and that concentration is priced into the housing stock.
Two practical consequences. If you hold eligibility, you are competing against a smaller pool than the listing price suggests. If you do not, you may be paying a premium for a catchment you cannot use, and the same money buys more in Côte-des-Neiges or Montréal-Ouest.
NDG splits, and the split is geographic. The Monkland Village end runs to renovated single-family houses, semis and upper duplexes, a walkable commercial strip, and the shortest commute to the English school network. The Décarie end and the blocks north of Sherbrooke run to plexes, larger lots, more rental stock and more variance in condition.
The median above is a single number laid across both. Two houses with the same square footage, the same year of construction and the same condition can price differently by a wide margin depending on which side of that line they sit. If a listing looks underpriced for NDG, check the address before you conclude you found something.
Compare the plex median above to the single-family median. NDG has one of the deepest plex markets on the island, and plexes here are bought by two very different buyers: investors, and families who intend to live in one unit and rent the others.
If you are the second kind, the plex median is the more relevant number for you than the house median, because it buys you a house you partly live in. What it costs you is a landlord's obligations: leases you inherit at the rents that are already in them, rent fixation through the Tribunal administratif du logement, and no ability to remove a tenant simply because you bought the building.
Selling in NDG? Start with a valuation.