{"id":855652,"date":"2026-08-12T18:46:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T18:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/855652\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T18:46:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T18:46:16","slug":"canadas-building-permits-surge-in-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/855652\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s building permits surge in June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Residential rebound masked by a soft second quarter<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Residential construction intentions rose 6.3% in June to $8.1 billion, with the multi-unit component climbing $283.7 million to $5.3 billion. Quebec led multi-unit gains at $201.3 million, followed by Alberta at $143.4 million and Saskatchewan at $61.4 million.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Single-family permits added $196.0 million to reach $2.8 billion, with Alberta contributing the most at $110.8 million. British Columbia registered a $30.8 million decline across the single-family component.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The monthly bounce, however, sits against a weaker second-quarter picture. In Q2 2026, residential permits fell $944.2 million, or 4.3%, in constant dollars to $21.1 billion, with the multi-unit component accounting for most of the drop.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Nationwide, 80,000 housing units were authorized in the quarter, down from 82,200 during the same period in 2025.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Non-residential permits told a different story for the quarter. In constant dollars, they climbed $1.9 billion to $15.4 billion in Q2 2026,\u00a0the largest quarterly increase in the series. The national institutional component reached\u00a0a record high of $6.1 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Residential rebound masked by a soft second quarter Residential construction intentions rose 6.3% in June to $8.1 billion,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":855653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,297654,44,49067,50],"class_list":["post-855652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-building-permits","tag-news","tag-residential-construction","tag-statistics-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855652","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=855652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/855653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}