With Toronto slowly emerging from a real estate slump that has bitten into prices and sales over the past year-and-a-half, and Vancouver's housing market "in the dumps," Montreal is emerging as the country's hottest major city housing market. Faced with new taxes in the Toronto and Vancouver regions, foreign buyers have turned their attention to Montreal, which Chinese real estate portal Juwai this summer said is the hottest city in Canada for Chinese real estate investors, reports Huffington Post (6 November 2018).