This publication presents the evolution of bad debts regarding non-payments of property taxes. The process leading to the sale of a property and a series of statistics are exposed to dress up a representative portrait of the situation in Quebec.
The statistics come from records compiled by JLR from the Quebec Land Register.
9,139
notices of sale for non-payment of property taxes issued in 2018
+15%
Increase of Notices of Sale for Unpaid Property Taxes published in 2018
36,7%
of Lands that Received a Notice of Sale Were Sold at Auction
13%
of properties that received a notice of sale were sold at auction
Joanie Fontaine M.SC.
Senior Economist
Joanie joined JLR in 2014. As Senior Economist, Joanie specializes in the analysis of statistical data on the real estate market. She publishes studies on the subject that are often well received by the Quebec media and writes for her column on the blog '''Les Affaires'', a French-language newspaper. Joanie was also lecturer at the Université de Sherbrooke, institution where she got her Master of Science in Economics.
