Montreal West Island Real Estate — market insights from Pearl Kezele & Jason Fitzpatrick

By Pearl Kezele & Jason Fitzpatrick (Team Kezele), Royal LePage Village

Some homes are built. This one was composed — in 1938, in red brick, with the kind of proportions and presence you usually have to go to Westmount or NDG to find. Nine-foot ceilings. Big windows. Rooms that feel generous because they were drawn that way, not because someone knocked a wall out later. It is bright, and it is fabulous — and it stands in the village of Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, a few minutes' drive from McGill University's Macdonald Campus.

That last part matters more than it might sound. Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue is home to one of the most remarkable campuses in Canada, and this house sits about a kilometre from its gates.

A home for the Macdonald Campus community
McGill's Macdonald Campus, at 21,111 Lakeshore Road, is the university's green campus: 650 hectares — 1,600 acres — of waterfront land at the western tip of the Island of Montreal. It hosts the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, the School of Human Nutrition, the Institute of Parasitology, and the McGill School of Environment. Its programs cover Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Food Science, Nutritional Sciences, and Bioresource Engineering, with master's and doctoral programs in Environmental Sciences and related fields.

That makes this house a natural fit for the people who work and study there — faculty, researchers, graduate students, and staff in environmental, agricultural, and food sciences who want a character home minutes from campus, instead of a long commute into the city. John Abbott College is minutes away too, and the Sainte-Anne waterfront boardwalk is just down the street. This is village life with a world-class campus as your neighbour.

Inside: 1938 character, 2026 kitchen
The charm is original. The updates are not. The kitchen is brand new and custom-built in 2026, with a centre island and an induction cooktop — a cook's kitchen, in a house that was made for gathering. The bathrooms have all been fully renovated. A bright four-season sunroom stretches the living space through the whole year, and a welcoming entry vestibule sets the tone the moment you walk in.

The main floor is flexible in the way modern families need it to be. The family room itself is a later extension to the house — added at some point after 1938 — which is how the main floor gained this flexible living space. With its own adjoining bathroom, it could easily be a fourth bedroom with an ensuite bathroom — a main-floor primary suite, a guest suite, or a home office. Upstairs, three spacious bedrooms with high ceilings and large windows are served by a fully renovated full bathroom. Three bedrooms, three bathrooms, and room to grow in every direction.

And the light — the nine-foot ceilings and the large windows do the work all day. This is a bright house. It photographs bright, it lives bright, and on a grey November afternoon it still feels warm.

Outside: a 454 m² lot with mature trees
The house sits on a 454 m² lot — 4,887 square feet — shaded by mature trees, with a new wood patio deck and a backyard cabana built for outdoor entertaining. The updates since 2020 have been steady and serious: windows replaced, landscaping redesigned, the deck and cabana added. Nothing here was left to chance. It is the kind of property that rewards the owner who notices details, because the previous owners clearly did.

The village around it
Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue is a village in the best sense of the word — a main street with cafés and shops, a waterfront boardwalk, the canal, and neighbours who know each other. John Abbott College is minutes away. The Macdonald Campus is minutes away. Downtown is a drive away, but on a Saturday morning, with the sun on the water and the market streets quiet, you will not be thinking about downtown.

The details
51 Montée Sainte-Marie, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, is offered at $779,000 (MLS 25186725): a 1938 red-brick two-storey with 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, nine-foot ceilings, and a 454 m² lot with mature trees. It was activated on Centris on October 29, 2026, and the open house on November 1 drew seven groups through the door — a huge success, and a sign of how quickly good character homes find their audience.

If you work at Macdonald Campus, study there, or simply want a home with real character in a real village, come and see it. Ask Pearl & Jason for a private viewing.

See the full listing: 51 Montée Sainte-Marie, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue — and the French listing: 51, montée Sainte-Marie, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue.

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A 1938 Red-Brick Character Home Minutes from McGill's Macdonald Campus