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In real estate, both brokers and their clients have to shake many hands, visit many properties, and meet many people. Since the spread of COVID-19 is everyone’s business, the REALTA team is taking the necessary steps to put the health of its customers first during this crisis.   DURING OPEN HOUSES (when maintained): We will welcome visitors by group only to limit the flow ...

Missed the Real Estate Wine & Cheese? Here are the key highlights! Like everyone else, you’re seeing a booming real estate market on the island of Montreal and wish you could predict the future so that you would know what to expect. François Bissonnette decided to try his hand at this exercise and came up with two possible scenarios. Before venturing into the future, however, let’s ...

Start off 2020 with some good news by looking at what made our 2019 so great!   JANUARY A new sign and a new decor! Our office gets a modern update to better reflect our team! Come see us   FEBRUARY Thanks to our association with the Patrice Besse real estate agency, our customers can now sell internationally via a large network in France that can give them the ...

Adored by tourists, dreaded in winter, and keeping brokers in great shape, Montreal’s outdoor staircases commonly draw mixed reactions. But the city would not be the same without them. Do you know the story behind our famous staircases? Parthenais Street There are a few theories for the existence of these eye-catching exterior stairs. One relates to the mid-19th century when rural ...

Built at the turn of the 19th century, the 357 du Village in Repentigny is a breath of fresh air. This traditional Quebec farmhouse retains all the charming authenticity of its original structure and raw materials, tastefully enhanced with smart modern touches. A unique beauty oozing with character!     Jean-François and his family currently live in this ancestral home, which ...

BACKGROUND Did you know that at this very moment, a construction team is hard at work at 7137-7141 Christophe Colomb on what promises to be an unprecedented project? Tanya has spent the last 20 years working as a construction contractor, developing projects for buildings that are “in need of love”. She has a knack for transforming these buildings into stunning modern creations. ...

Ninety-one-year-old globally renowned Quebec painter, René Gagnon has built an extraordinary estate that borders on the unreal. In 1969, he arrived at Anse-de-Roche in Sacré-Coeur, Quebec and instantly fell in love. “When I saw the place, I said to myself: ‘I’m going to die here,’” he says.   The original 700-acre lot was untouched at the time. No trails, no houses, ...

Familiar with Lac de la Cabane in St. Adolphe d’Howard? It was during one of his regular father-daughter walks that real estate project designer Guylain Verdier spotted it from the summit of the Calvaire trail. After three long years of searching for the ideal lakeside lot to build a family home, the perfect spot had finally revealed itself! On the lake was the former hunting ...

It’s not every day that a Quebec real estate agency announces the listing a $7.75 million property. For REALTA, this is a historic record. In Quebec, radio stations, major regional daily newspapers and even La Presse dedicated glowing reports to the property. On our website, the listing has attracted visitors not only from across Canada, the U.S., Mexico and Europe, but as far away as ...

A Memorable Evening It was evening of celebration on March 9th during the official inauguration of the International House of Puppetry Arts (MIAM). Among the 100-some attendees were two ardent promoters of the project: former Outremont mayor Marie Cinq-Mars and Louise Lapointe, General and Artistic Director of the Casteliers Festival. REALTA was proudly represented at the event by its ...