{"id":79463,"date":"2025-08-18T19:53:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T19:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/79463\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T19:53:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T19:53:14","slug":"canadian-housing-starts-rise-4-per-cent-in-july-cmhc-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/79463\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian housing starts rise 4 per cent in July, CMHC says"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The seasonally adjusted annualized rate of housing starts rose to 294,085 units in June, the national housing agency says.DARRYL DYCK\/The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says the annual pace of housing<\/a> starts in July rose four per cent compared with June.<\/p>\n

The agency says the seasonally adjusted annual rate of housing starts was 294,085 units for July, up from 283,523 in June.<\/p>\n

The seasonally adjusted annual pace of housing starts for Canadian centres with a population of 10,000 or greater was 273,618 units, up five per cent from 261,171 in June.<\/p>\n

The annual pace of rural starts was estimated at 20,467 units.<\/p>\n

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CMHC says actual housing starts in July for centres with a population of 10,000 or greater was 23,464 units, up four per cent from 22,610 in July 2024.<\/p>\n

The six-month moving average of the overall seasonally adjusted annual rate housing starts for all areas was 263,088 units in July, up 3.7 per cent from June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: The seasonally adjusted annualized rate of housing starts rose to 294,085 units in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[901,888,902,879,877,903,45,49,48,876,895,896,891,878,875,46,549,295,894,887,914,880,881,893,889,890,884,904,885,909,910,912,907,911,905,908,882,898,899,714,897,906,865,61,900,892,886,883,913],"class_list":["post-79463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79463","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=79463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}