December 2025 Montreal Rent Report

At a glance

• Montreal one-bedroom rents show mixed trends in December 2025
  • Unfurnished units averaged $1,620/month, with gains in Ahuntsic–Cartierville and Saint-Henri but sharp drops in Westmount and Villeray–Parc Extension. Furnished units rose to $1,669/month, led by Villeray–Parc Extension and Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, while Downtown, Saint-Laurent, and Ahuntsic–Cartierville declined.
    
• Montreal one-bedroom rents decline YoY, with select neighborhoods seeing gains
  • Unfurnished one-bedroom rents fell -6.4%, driven by steep declines in Westmount and Villeray–Parc Extension, with slight increases in Saint-Laurent and Ahuntsic–Cartierville. Furnished rents dropped -6.9%, with the largest decreases in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, Downtown, and Verdun, while Plateau-Mont-Royal and Villeray–Parc Extension saw minor gains.
    
• Montreal unfurnished larger units show notable December movements
  • Ahuntsic–Cartierville and Saint-Henri two-bedroom units rose strongly, along with Westmount three-bedroom units, while Saint-Henri and Villeray–Parc Extension three-bedroom units declined.
    

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Average rent across Montreal

This month, the average rent price for an unfurnished one-bedroom unit has decreased by $9, bringing Montreal’s city-wide average rent to $1,620/month, still well below rates in other major Canadian rental markets like Metro Vancouver and Toronto. Looking at a year-over-year comparison, Montreal’s city-wide rental rate for an unfurnished one-bedroom unit is $111 less than what it was in December 2024.

Month-to-month rent change

Looking at both furnished and unfurnished units, there were some notable changes in rental rates across Montreal neighbourhoods this month.

Looking first at unfurnished one-bedroom units, there was a notable increase in month-to-month rent prices in Ahuntsic-Cartierville (+7.40%), while Westmount (-9.87%) saw the most notable decline.

Looking at furnished one-bedroom units, average rent prices saw an increase in Villeray-Parc-Extension (+10.02%), with Saint-Laurent (-3.29%) seeing the largest decrease.

Montreal unfurnished vs furnished rent averages

This December, average monthly rent prices for furnished one-bedroom units increased while unfurnished one-bedroom units decreased. One-bedroom unfurnished units decreased (-0.55%) to $1,620/month, while one-bedroom furnished units increased (1.72%), renting for an average of $1,669/month.

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Neighbourhood breakdown

Montreal’s most and least expensive neighbourhoods had significantly different average rent prices this December. This month, Villeray-Parc-Extension is cheapest neighbourhood to rent in at an average of $1,378/month for an unfurnished one-bedroom unit. Meanwhile, Downtown is the most expensive neighbourhood for an unfurnished one-bedroom, at an average of $1,828/month – $450 more than in Villeray-Parc-Extension.

Let’s look even closer at the different listing types to see the differences in one-, two-, and three-bedroom rental rates across each area.

• All unfurnished three-bedroom rent prices across Montreal neighbourhoods decreased except for Ahuntsic-Cartierville, The Plateau-Mont-Royal, and Westmount.
• All unfurnished one-,two-, and three-bedroom rent prices in Downtown Montreal decreased.
• Rent prices for all types of unfurnished units increased in The Plateau-Mont-Royal.

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Our monthly rent reports use data from our own liv.rent listings, as well as data our team manually collects from other popular listing sites – looking at available basement suites, apartments, condos, townhouses, semi-detached houses, and single-detached houses for each area.

When collecting this data, we do exclude luxury properties listed at over $5,000, as well as rooms for rent and shared accommodation. Investing in manual data collection means that we only consider the current month’s listing, since we can filter out duplicate listings and older ads that haven’t been removed.

Another key difference between our data collection methods and some government agencies like the CMHC is that we only include current asking rent prices. Many official reports will include data for entire buildings in their reports, which tends to skew numbers lower since many units are already occupied, and may be rent-controlled or rented for significantly lower than the current rates.

As we are a Canadian rental platform founded and based in Vancouver, we want to ensure that we’re providing a completely accurate depiction of the rental market in the cities we look at.

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