A limit, stated up front. These guides explain general rules. They replace neither legal advice, nor tax advice, nor a broker's review of your file. When your situation falls outside the usual frame — a contested estate, undivided co-ownership, a heritage building, unusual zoning — you need a professional, not an article.
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Seller guides
What to understand before you list.
Selling a property in Quebec is a series of decisions, each with a cost. These guides cover the points where sellers most often get it wrong — with no promise of results and no number pulled out of thin air.
IN PREPARATION — the guides below are the planned writing order. Each becomes its own page. This index stays noindex until at least three guides are published.
- Municipal assessment or market value: what separates them In preparation
- What a brokerage contract contains, clause by clause In preparation
- Seller's declarations: what you are really signing In preparation
- The certificate of location: when it has to be redone In preparation
- Net proceeds: what is left after the sale In preparation
- Selling a property held in an estate In preparation
- Selling a plex or an income property In preparation
- Selling to buy: the order of operations In preparation
- Selling without a broker: what it actually involves In preparation
- Selling time: what stretches it and what shortens it In preparation
A specific question about your property?
An article answers the average case. The estimate answers yours, and it is free.