{"id":932932,"date":"2026-10-14T17:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T17:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/932932\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T17:00:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T17:00:15","slug":"statcan-reports-building-permits-up-1-1b-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/932932\/","title":{"rendered":"StatCan reports building permits up $1.1B in August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BNN Bloomberg is Canada\u2019s definitive source for business news dedicated exclusively to helping Canadians invest and build their businesses. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">OTTAWA \u2014 Statistics Canada says the total value of building permits issued in Canada in August rose $1.1 billion month-over-month to $13.6 billion, boosted by strength in the residential sector.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The agency says <a href=\"https:\/\/www150.statcan.gc.ca\/n1\/daily-quotidien\/261014\/dq261014a-eng.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www150.statcan.gc.ca\/n1\/daily-quotidien\/261014\/dq261014a-eng.htm\">construction intentions for the homebuilding sector rose $1.1 billion<\/a> to $8.5 billion in August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The increase came as permits for multi-unit buildings rose to $5.8 billion, while the total value of permits for single-family homes edged down to $2.6 billion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The value of non-residential building permits edged lower by $29.8 million to $5.1 billion in August. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The move came as plans for commercial construction fell $380 million to $2.2 billion, offset in part by a $317.3-million gain in the industrial sector which totalled $1.1 billion. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The institutional building component rose $32.9 million to $1.8 billion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 14, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Related Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BNN Bloomberg is Canada\u2019s definitive source for business news dedicated exclusively to helping Canadians invest and build their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":932933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,1007,46,968],"class_list":["post-932932","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\/932932","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=932932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/932933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}