{"id":610915,"date":"2026-04-17T20:24:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T20:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/610915\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T20:24:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T20:24:14","slug":"canadian-housing-starts-fell-6-in-march-cmhc-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/610915\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian housing starts fell 6% in March, CMHC says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"display:block\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/resizer\/v2\/MXWN6UJWDBB5XFG24JSVI7R6S4.JPG?auth=9916464faba8afd6d06388ca0b07f8e53d11d892ca0b9217657240cafaf88a0f&amp;width=600&amp;height=400&amp;quality=80&amp;smart=true\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" data-photo-viewer-index=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Open this photo in gallery:<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"figcap-text\">Carpenters build a log home in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Que., last year.Christinne Muschi\/The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says the seasonally adjusted annual rate of housing starts in March fell 6 per cent compared with February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">The national housing agency says the seasonally adjusted annual rate came in at 235,852 units for March compared with 250,961 in February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">The six-month moving average of the seasonally adjusted annual rate came in at 248,378 units for March, down from 255,874 a month earlier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text mv-16 l-inset text-pb-8\" data-sophi-feature=\"interstitial\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/investing\/personal-finance\/article-housing-home-costs-ontario-tax-development\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Recent changes will lower new home costs by 15 to 20% \u2013 but only temporarily<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">CMHC chief economist Mathieu Laberge says the March data points to a continued loss of momentum in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/topics\/housing\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/topics\/housing\/\">housing<\/a> construction, broadly in line with the agency\u2019s housing market outlook.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Actual housing starts in centres with a population of 10,000 or greater totalled 16,398 units in March, up from 14,935 in March 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Rural starts for March were estimated at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 11,846 units.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Carpenters build a log home in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Que., last year.Christinne Muschi\/The Canadian 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