{"id":1163,"date":"2026-02-19T09:02:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T14:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.realestategtatoday.ca\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/gta-housing-starts-continue-to-slow-cmhc-report\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T09:02:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T14:02:29","slug":"gta-housing-starts-continue-to-slow-cmhc-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realestategtatoday.ca\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/gta-housing-starts-continue-to-slow-cmhc-report\/","title":{"rendered":"GTA Housing Starts Continue to Slow: CMHC Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to a recent CMHC report, the pace of homebuilding across Canada, including the GTA, is slowing, with a 15% decrease in seasonally-adjusted annual housing starts in January. This decline marks the fourth consecutive month of downward trend, with the six-month moving average also dropping by 3.5%. Deputy Chief Economist Tania Bourassa-Ochoa cites trade and geopolitical uncertainty, high construction costs, weaker demand, and rising inventories as factors constraining developer activity. While actual housing starts in centres with a population of 10,000 or greater saw a slight 1% year-over-year increase, the overall outlook suggests a continued slowdown in new construction. With Prime Minister Carney’s ambitious goal to double housing construction, the current trends present a significant challenge. For more detailed insights, read the full article on BNN Bloomberg.<\/p>\n

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New CMHC data reveals a continued slowdown in Canadian housing starts, including the GTA, raising concerns about future supply amidst ambitious construction goals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[178,206],"tags":[313,287,182,324,223,207],"class_list":["post-1163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-market-data","category-residential","tag-cmhc","tag-construction","tag-gta","tag-housing-starts","tag-real-estate-market","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realestategtatoday.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realestategtatoday.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.realestategtatoday.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realestategtatoday.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realestategtatoday.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realestategtatoday.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realestategtatoday.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}