{"id":738349,"date":"2026-06-15T13:49:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T13:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/738349\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T13:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T13:49:07","slug":"annual-pace-of-housing-starts-down-in-may-cmhc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/738349\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual pace of housing starts down in May: CMHC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">OTTAWA \u2014 Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says the annual pace of housing starts in May fell six per cent compared with April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The agency says the seasonally adjusted annual rate of housing starts came in at 261,377 units for May, down from 278,380 in April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The six-month moving average for May edged up 0.5 per cent to 258,010 units compared with 256,646 in April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The results came as CMHC says the number of units under construction in centres with a population of 50,000 or more rose 0.9 per cent month-over-month to 374,662 in May, while completions rose 10.6 per cent compared with April to 16,880 units.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The number of units with approved building permits but not yet started was down 2.4 per cent month-over-month to 138,842 units in May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The seasonally adjusted annual rate of rural starts was estimated at 14,357 units for May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 15, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA \u2014 Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says the annual pace of housing starts in May fell six&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":738350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[45,49,48,1007,46,20739,968],"class_list":["post-738349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-construction","tag-economy","tag-ottawa","tag-real-estate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/738350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}