Economics

Montreal’s Real-Estate Market Is About to Eclipse Vancouver’s

  • Residential sales collapse in Canada’s most expensive city
  • Quebec’s business capital hasn’t faced same regulatory crunch

Montreal’s benchmark home price was C$349,300 in January, up 6.3 percent from a year earlier.

Photographer: Brent Lewin/Bloomberg
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Vancouver is on pace to lose its status as Canada’s second largest housing market to Montreal.

While still Canada’s most expensive city for housing, a recent collapse in salesBloomberg Terminal has led the value of real estate transactions substantially lower. That leaves Montreal’s soaring market poised to overtake the Pacific coast city’s.