{"id":935525,"date":"2026-10-16T19:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T19:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/935525\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T19:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T19:26:11","slug":"annual-pace-of-housing-starts-up-in-september-cmhc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/935525\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual pace of housing starts up in September: CMHC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Mercer, chief information officer at Toronto Regional Real Estate Board, joins BNN Bloomberg to discuss the Toronto housing market. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">OTTAWA \u2014 Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says the annual pace of housing starts in September rose three per cent compared with August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The national housing agency says the seasonally adjusted annual rate of housing starts for September came in at 248,896 units, up from 242,223 in August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The result came as actual monthly housing starts in communities with a population of 10,000 or more fell 11 per cent compared with a year ago to 19,984 units in September compared with 22,375 in September 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The annual pace of rural starts was estimated at 18,094 units.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The six-month moving average of the seasonally adjusted annual rate was up 0.6 per cent at 250,411 units.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Aled ab Iorwerth, deputy chief economist at CMHC, says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca\/media-newsroom\/news-releases\/2026\/housing-starts-construction-data-september-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca\/media-newsroom\/news-releases\/2026\/housing-starts-construction-data-september-2026\">Canada still faces a long-term housing supply gap<\/a> and unless housing construction levels increase, improvements in housing affordability since 2023 will be difficult to sustain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">&#8212;<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 16, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Related Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jason Mercer, chief information officer at Toronto Regional Real Estate Board, joins BNN Bloomberg to discuss the Toronto&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":935526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,1007,46,968],"class_list":["post-935525","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\/935525","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=935525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/935526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=935525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=935525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=935525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}