‘We haven’t seen anything like this before’: pandemic boosts Canadian real estate That frenzy is almost commonplace in greater Montreal and on the Island especially.Homes for sale are hard to come by and those that are listed often sell fast.“We probably only have about five or six listings on the market right now, and we typically have three times that — in a typical year,” says real estate broker Mark Broady of Team Broady.According to the Quebec Professional Association of Real Estate Brokers, the listed number of detached family homes for sale on the Island of Montreal dropped by 34 per cent in February compared to the same period last year.The value of those same homes listed increased by 21 per cent.“It’s a new phenomenon, it’s.