Canadian housing starts fell 3.2% in July compared with the previous month as a drop in multiple urban starts outweighed an increase in single-detached urban ones, data from the national housing agency showed on Tuesday.
The seasonally adjusted annualized rate of housing starts fell to 272,176 units from a revised 281,200 in June, the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation said. Analysts had expected 275,000 starts in July.
(Reporting by Julie Gordon in Ottawa; editing by John Stonestreet)
