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Century 21 Canada’s price-per-square-foot data and fresh CMHC starts figures show Ontario prices and construction retreating while the Prairies surge.

Toronto built just 156 new condos in the first half of 2026 as rental construction overtook condos for the first time since 1994, CMHC’s new report shows.

Rents in Canada’s most tariff-exposed cities fell nearly four times faster than elsewhere since January 2025, with Oshawa down almost 11 per cent.

New StatCan/CMHC data show Canada core housing need held at 11.6% in 2024, unchanged from 2022, but renters in social housing fell further behind.

Two of Canada’s biggest home price gauges agree the national market cooled in August, but their city-by-city numbers tell sharply different stories.

Fixed mortgage rates jumped and CMHC starts data slipped in August, even as the Bank of Canada held its policy rate steady for a seventh straight time.

CMHC data show starts rising 6 to 7 per cent in Calgary and Vancouver in August even as CREB and GVR data show sales and prices falling in both cities.

Ottawa’s Sept. 8 counter-tariffs on U.S. carpet, plywood and steel doors are pushing up home-building costs, industry groups and StatCan data show.

Ottawa home sales fell 18.6% in August, nearly triple the national drop, but the city’s benchmark price rose 1% as CREA’s national index fell 3%.

CMHC’s Fall 2026 report calls for up to 4.69 million homes by 2036. In 2022, the same federal agency said 3.5 million would fix things by 2030.