Used desks in Montreal typically sell for C$57 to C$340 (about $40 to $240). Desks divide sharply between ordinary tables and height-adjustable models, and the two sell in very different brackets.
Selling a desk in Montreal
Montreal has the most distinctive moving culture in the country: a very large share of leases end on the same day at the start of July, and for about a week the entire city changes address at once. The second-hand market is built around that single date.
The July moving week produces a concentration of second-hand furniture that has no real equivalent elsewhere in Canada. Prices in the days either side of it are the lowest of the year, and the choice is at its widest.
The outdoor staircases that front so many buildings here are narrow, steep and often spiral, and they defeat more furniture than anything else. Establish the stairs before the price, and remember that winter makes all of it considerably harder.
Measure the outdoor staircase, not just the doorway. The spiral and half-turn stairs on many buildings here defeat sofas and mattresses that would fit anywhere else, and the seller may never have taken it out that way.
Montreal, in Quebec, has around 1.8 million people, which means a deep enough buyer pool that most things sell without having to travel far to hand them over. Quebec City, Laval and Gatineau are close enough that a buyer there may well make the trip for the right thing.
Handing it over in Montreal
Canada Post, Purolator and UPS cover the country, but rates change sharply between provinces and remote postcodes carry surcharges.
What desks are worth
What lifts the price
- Electric height-adjustable frames in working order
- Solid wood tops with no sagging
What pulls it down
- Failed lifting motors or controllers on sit-stand desks
- Very large corner desks that suit few rooms
Working out what yours is worth
- Sight along the top for sag
- Measure the footprint including any return
Getting it ready
- Measure the worktop width and depth, and the height from floor to surface.
- Establish whether it dismantles and whether you have the fittings.
Photograph
- The whole desk from a corner
- Any drawers open, plus damage or wear
Put in the description
- Worktop width and depth, and height from the floor
- Whether it dismantles, and whether the fittings are included
Steady with strong lifts in September and January, and around moving season. Height-adjustable and solid wood desks sell fastest.
Listing is free and there is no selling fee, so the whole amount the buyer pays stays with you. You and the buyer agree the handover between yourselves.
Same region (Quebec)
Common questions
Where can I sell a desk in Montreal?
List it free here and arrange the handover with the buyer yourself. The outdoor staircases that front so many buildings here are narrow, steep and often spiral, and they defeat more furniture than anything else. Establish the stairs before the price, and remember that winter makes all of it considerably harder.
Will it fit in a car?
If it dismantles, say so and give the largest flat dimension. It decides whether the buyer needs a van.
How much is a desk worth in Montreal?
Most used desks change hands for C$57 to C$340 (about $40 to $240). Condition and completeness move that figure more than anything else.
More: selling a desk across Canada, what desks are worth, everything second hand in Montreal, or Furniture in Montreal.
Guide range converted from sterling at the 2 August 2026 rate, not a quote — sellers set their own price.