{"id":114,"date":"2026-10-26T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ziafayaz.com\/blog\/?p=114"},"modified":"2026-10-26T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T10:00:00","slug":"canadas-housing-starts-trend-holds-flat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ziafayaz.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/26\/canadas-housing-starts-trend-holds-flat\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s Housing Starts Trend Holds Flat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/zia-fayaz\/housing-starts-september-remotion-videos-2eb8\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>Canada&#039;s 6-mo housing starts trend stayed flat in Late-Q3 at 250.4K units, while total monthly SAAR for all areas \u21913% MoM to 248.9K.<br \/>\nIn centres above 10K population, actual Late-Q3 starts totaled 20K units, \u219311% yearly, while the Early-Q1-to-Late-Q3 tally for 2026 reached 171K, \u21934%.<br \/>\nConstruction activity stayed steady in larger centres: units under construction were flat MoM at 371.6K, completions \u2193~1% to 17.4K, and unstarted permits \u2191~1%.<br \/>\nAn economist warned Canada&#039;s key risk is not building enough during softer market conditions, saying sustained affordability gains since 2023 depend on higher construction levels.<br \/>\nNext national housing-starts data arrives November 17, while rural starts were estimated at 18.1K units in Late-Q3, adding context to Canada&#039;s supply picture.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada&#039;s 6-mo housing starts trend stayed flat in Late-Q3 at 250.4K units, while total monthly SAAR for all areas \u21913% MoM to 248.9K. In centres above 10K population, actual Late-Q3 starts totaled 20K units, \u219311% yearly, while the Early-Q1-to-Late-Q3 tally for 2026 reached 171K, \u21934%. Construction activity stayed steady in larger centres: units under construction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ziafayaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ziafayaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ziafayaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ziafayaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ziafayaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ziafayaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116,"href":"https:\/\/www.ziafayaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions\/116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ziafayaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ziafayaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ziafayaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ziafayaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}