Living in a new semi-detached home near Kirkland while keeping your job in the West Island is doable, on one condition: the house has to make real room for work. The drive to Kirkland is about 56 km; a home office decides how many times a week you'll make it.

This article looks at the house with a home office near Kirkland from that angle: where Kirkland residents work, what remote work amounts to today, the work spaces in the Geoffrion Street homes, and what office days cost you in time.

An island job, a South Shore home

In the 2021 Census, among Kirkland workers with a regular place of work:

19.8% worked in Kirkland itself, where the Town counts nearly 400 industrial, commercial and institutional establishments;
69.4% worked elsewhere on the island of Montreal;
10.0% worked elsewhere in Quebec.

Two sectors carry more weight there than elsewhere: wholesale trade employs 10.3% of the labour force, three times the Quebec share, and professional, scientific and technical services 14.2%, compared with 7.9% across Quebec. For most Kirkland workers, then, the job is on the island, often close by: 63.0% of commuters took less than 30 minutes to get there.

How many days at home?

In May 2021, 36.8% of Kirkland workers were working from home, compared with 21.9% across Quebec and 23.6% in Sainte-Julie. That figure, however, comes from the height of the pandemic. More recently, according to Statistics Canada, about 19.6% of workers in the Montreal metropolitan area mainly worked from home in May 2025, a share that has dropped since 2021.

Remote work is a reality for some workers, then, not the rule. Before you look at houses, ask yourself honestly: how many days a week does your employer let you work from home, and for how much longer? The answer tells you what kind of room you need, and how many trips to plan for.

House with a home office near Kirkland: four work spaces already built

The turnkey homes on Geoffrion Street show four ways to set up an office:

at 423, a three-bedroom Duo home, an open office designed for working from home, plus a finished basement;
at 408, the photos show an office closed off by a glass door, with built-in bookshelves;
at 435, the photos show a bright study with an olive-green wall and a large window, as well as an upstairs work corner next to the residential elevator;
at 405, a mezzanine set up as a work area, under a high ceiling.

All of them can be toured with the sales director. In every BÉAcité home, the rooms have large windows: a real plus when you spend the day in front of a screen.

Where the office fits in each model

For a home you customize, the office gets planned from the drawings:

the semi-detached bungalow keeps everything on one level, 1,006 sq ft, over a basement of the same size;
the Duo cottage spreads 2,018 sq ft of living space over two levels, above an 858 sq ft basement; its optional mezzanine adds 338 sq ft under a high ceiling, for 2,356 sq ft in all;
the more compact Urbain model has 1,622 sq ft of living space and a 652 sq ft basement.

The mezzanine is the obvious place to work: it adds floor space without taking a bedroom, and 405 shows how well it suits a work area. The basement is another option, depending on what you plan to do with it; ask the sales director which options apply. And in a household of several people — Kirkland averages 2.9 — a room with a door that closes can make all the difference during video calls.

Office days: from Sainte-Julie to the West Island

The morning drive is the reverse of the visitors' route: Highway 20 West, Highway 25 North through the Louis-Hippolyte-La Fontaine Bridge-Tunnel, then Highway 40 West to Exit 50, Saint-Charles Boulevard. Allow about 55 km and a little under an hour without traffic, or more than 110 km round trip. The bridge-tunnel is under major repairs until 2027, with lane restrictions that change from one phase to the next.

Three ways to make those days lighter:

carpooling: toward Montreal, a lane reserved for cars with three or more people runs along Highway 20, from Chemin du Fer-à-Cheval in Sainte-Julie to Route 132 in Boucherville;
an electric car: every BÉAcité garage has an outlet to plug it in overnight;
public transit, on weekdays: the T34 taxibus, which you book ahead, runs to the Sainte-Julie terminus; exo route 600 goes from there to the Brossard terminus, where the REM takes you to Kirkland station with no transfer, in roughly 53 to 56 minutes, based on the published station times.

There's also a park-and-ride about seven minutes from the Vilamo neighbourhood.

Do the math before you decide

In Kirkland, nearly two commuters in three took less than 30 minutes to get to work in 2021. From Sainte-Julie, the same job will take longer. The math is simple: multiply your office days by the travel time, then set that against what the house gives you the rest of the week. Your own numbers should make the call.

To get a real feel for it, our guide covers visiting a model home from Kirkland, on a weekday or by appointment; drive out at the time you'd normally leave for work. And to compare everything else — language, schools, parks — read our article on living in Sainte-Julie or Kirkland.

Conclusion

A house with a home office near Kirkland lets you keep an island job while living in Sainte-Julie, as long as you strike the right balance between days at home and days on the road. The finished homes on Geoffrion Street already show an open office, a closed one, a bright study and a mezzanine; the homes still to be customized let you plan yours from the drawings. The sales office at 435 Geoffrion Street welcomes you Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; evenings and weekends are by appointment.

House with a home office near Kirkland: an island job, a South Shore address