{"id":806016,"date":"2026-07-16T16:33:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T16:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/806016\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T16:33:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T16:33:12","slug":"real-estate-housing-starts-in-june-down-6-cmhc-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/806016\/","title":{"rendered":"Real estate: Housing starts in June down 6%, CMHC reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">OTTAWA \u2014 Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says the annual pace of housing starts in June fell six per cent compared with May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The national housing agency says the seasonally adjusted rate of housing starts came in at 238,971 units in June compared with 253,083 in May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The six-month moving average of the seasonally adjusted annual rate was 248,123 units for June, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca\/professionals\/housing-markets-data-and-research\/housing-data\/data-tables\/housing-market-data\/monthly-housing-starts-construction-data-tables\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca\/professionals\/housing-markets-data-and-research\/housing-data\/data-tables\/housing-market-data\/monthly-housing-starts-construction-data-tables\">down 2.8 per cent from May<\/a>.<\/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 totalled 375,469 in June, up 0.2 per cent from May, while completions rose 8.4 per cent to 18,298. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The number of units with approved building permits but not yet started amounted to 137,324 in June, down 1.1 per cent from May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The seasonally adjusted annual rate of rural starts in June was estimated at 11,141 units.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">&#8212;<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 16, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Related Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA \u2014 Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says the annual pace of housing starts in June fell six&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":806017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,1007,46,968],"class_list":["post-806016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-construction","tag-economy","tag-real-estate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806016","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=806016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/806017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}