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Greater Vancouver home sales down 43% from last July, 23% from June: REBGV

By:Building .caPosted: Aug 6th, 2022In: ConstructionNews

VANCOUVER – The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver says last month’s home sales were down a whopping 43 per cent from last July and 23 per cent from this past June. Sales in the[...]

GTA home sales down 47% from last year, 24% from June: Toronto real estate board

By:Building .caPosted: Aug 5th, 2022In: ConstructionNews

TORONTO – The moderation of the Greater Toronto Area’s housing market intensified last month as the region’s real estate board found July sales fell 47 per cent from the same time last year and 24[...]

GTA new condo sales slow, 10,000 to be delayed: Urbanation

By:Building .caPosted: Aug 3rd, 2022In: ConstructionNews

Greater Toronto Area (GTA) new condominium sales totaled 6,792 units in the second quarter, declining 19% from the first quarter and 24% year-over-year but remaining above the 10-year average of 6,302 sales, according to Urbanation[...]

Home Prices See Steady Rise Across Canada in H1: CENTURY 21

By:Building .caPosted: Jul 28th, 2022In: ConstructionNews

A press release from CENTURY 21 Canada states that while interest rates have been on the rise for the past few months, the Canadian housing landscape continued to see pricing growth during the first six[...]

Roommates, multi generational homes rising amid increasing costs, immigration: census

By:Building .caPosted: Jul 20th, 2022In: ConstructionNews

TORONTO – When Gina Athanasiou’s father died in 2016, she realized her mother, who bounced between Canada and Greece for most of her life, didn’t have a pension large enough to cover the soaring costs[...]

Calgary home sales ease as detached and semi detached markets see pullback: board

By:Building .caPosted: Jul 5th, 2022In: ConstructionNews

CALGARY – The Calgary Real Estate Board says sales eased in June as the market experienced a pullback in the detached and semi-detached housing categories. The Alberta board says last month’s sales amounted to 2,842, down two[...]

Canadian home buyers face least affordable market in a generation: RBC

By:Building .caPosted: Jun 26th, 2022In: ConstructionNews

RBC’s latest housing affordability report released Thursday reveals that the situation is the worst its been since the early 1990s, and will worsen before it gets better. RBC’s aggregate affordability measure for Canada went up 3.7[...]

Record-setting year for residential construction industry: CHBA report

By:Building .caPosted: Jun 25th, 2022In: ConstructionNews

The Canadian Home Builders’ Association (CHBA) has released its annual report on the performance of Canada’s residential construction industry, which according to the association, details a record-setting year for the industry in its contribution to[...]

Ontario must commit to affordable housing for all, not attainable housing

By:Building .caPosted: Jun 24th, 2022In: ConstructionNews

A for sale sign outside a home indicates that it has sold for over the asking price, in Ottawa, in March 2021. House prices and rents have become increasingly more unaffordable in Ontario over the[...]

Alberta housing starts rebound to 2015 levels as oil prices surge

By:Building .caPosted: Jun 21st, 2022In: ConstructionNews

CALGARY – Alberta’s cities are once again abuzz with the sound of hammers and saws as surging oil prices fuel a fresh building boom in the province. According to Statistics Canada, housing starts in Alberta,[...]