{"id":1157,"date":"2026-02-18T09:01:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T14:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.realestategtatoday.ca\/index.php\/2026\/02\/18\/gta-housing-starts-slide-construction-momentum-fades\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T09:01:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T14:01:31","slug":"gta-housing-starts-slide-construction-momentum-fades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realestategtatoday.ca\/index.php\/2026\/02\/18\/gta-housing-starts-slide-construction-momentum-fades\/","title":{"rendered":"GTA Housing Starts Slide: Construction Momentum Fades?"},"content":{"rendered":"

New data reveals a concerning trend in the GTA’s housing market. January 2026 saw a 15% drop in housing starts across Canada, signaling a potential slowdown in construction momentum. CMHC’s latest report points to a fourth consecutive monthly decline, raising concerns about future housing supply and affordability targets. While Vancouver saw a jump in starts, Toronto experienced a 2% slip due to weaker single-detached construction. Experts cite high construction costs, weaker demand, and rising inventories as factors constraining developer activity. With CMHC projecting housing starts to fall below the 10-year average through 2028, the GTA’s long-term supply gap looms large. Read the full article to understand the implications for GTA homebuyers and investors.<\/p>\n

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GTA housing starts are down 15% in January, raising concerns about future supply. Will this impact affordability in Toronto’s competitive market?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[178,206],"tags":[313,287,182,215,324,207],"class_list":["post-1157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-market-data","category-residential","tag-cmhc","tag-construction","tag-gta","tag-housing-market","tag-housing-starts","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realestategtatoday.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realestategtatoday.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realestategtatoday.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realestategtatoday.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realestategtatoday.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.realestategtatoday.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realestategtatoday.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realestategtatoday.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realestategtatoday.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realestategtatoday.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}