housing starts

OTTAWA — Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says the annual pace of housing starts increased in October.The national housing agency says the seasonally adjusted annual rate of housing starts rose to 214,875 units last month compared with…

OTTAWA — Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says the annual pace of housing starts in September plunged 20 per cent from August.The housing agency says the seasonally adjusted annual rate of housing starts was 208,980 units in September,…

The trend in housing starts was 213,144 units in August 2020, up from 204,597 units in July 2020, according to Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC). This trend measure is a six-month moving average of the monthly seasonally…

OTTAWA — Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says the annual pace of housing starts in July rose nearly 16 per cent compared with June.The housing agency says the seasonally adjusted annual rate of housing starts rose to 245,604 in…

VANCOUVER — A new forecast says the housing market in British Columbia remains uncertain during the COVID-19 pandemic.Central 1 says it expects home sales to recover marginally in 2020 and 2021 after tumbling by 55 per cent between…

Significant employment and income declines, coupled with uncertainty over the future trajectory of the virus and employment and income conditions, will lower demand for housing in 2020 reports Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC).…

CMHC's recent monthly Starts and Completions Survey (SCS), excluding Quebec, was 196,750 units in May 2020, down from 198,644 units in April 2020.Excluding Quebec, the trend was 151,072 units in May, down from 155,600 units in April…

CMHC has reported that its monthly Starts and Completions Survey (SCS) for April was conducted in each province with the exception of Québec, following the introduction of pandemic measures in the province in late March. Residential…

WASHINGTON — U.S. home-building activity collapsed in March as the coronavirus spread, with housing starts tumbling 22.3% from a month ago.The Commerce Department said Thursday that ground breakings occurred last month at a…

OTTAWA — Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says the annual pace of housing starts slowed by 7.3 per cent in March.The national housing agency says the seasonally adjusted annual rate of starts last month came in at 195,174 units,…