{"id":1838,"date":"2026-04-12T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narumenon.com\/blog\/?p=1838"},"modified":"2026-04-12T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T09:00:00","slug":"cmhc-reports-february-housing-starts-up-4-5-from-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.narumenon.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/cmhc-reports-february-housing-starts-up-4-5-from-january\/","title":{"rendered":"CMHC reports February housing starts up 4.5% from January"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>Canada&#039;s annual housing starts rose 4.5% in February to 250,900 units, with a nearly flat six-month trend indicating steady new construction despite monthly fluctuations. Year-over-year starts increased 10% in centers with populations over 10,000. Construction rose 5% in early 2026, driven by higher starts in B.C. and Ontario, offsetting a 28% decline in Toronto. Vancouver and Montreal saw significant increases. However, overall starts have been cooling since September 2025 due to weak population growth, high costs, unsold inventories, and weak pre-sales.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.canadianmortgagetrends.com\/2026\/03\/cmhc-reports-february-housing-starts-up-4-5-from-january\/\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada&#039;s annual housing starts rose 4.5% in February to 250,900 units, with a nearly flat six-month trend indicating steady new construction despite monthly fluctuations. Year-over-year starts increased 10% in centers with populations over 10,000. Construction rose 5% in early 2026, driven by higher starts in B.C. and Ontario, offsetting a 28% decline in Toronto. Vancouver [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narumenon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narumenon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narumenon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narumenon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narumenon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.narumenon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1840,"href":"https:\/\/www.narumenon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838\/revisions\/1840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narumenon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narumenon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narumenon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}