{"id":874,"date":"2025-12-16T09:01:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T14:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.realestategtatoday.ca\/index.php\/2025\/12\/16\/gta-housing-starts-lag-nation-despite-overall-jump\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T09:01:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T14:01:25","slug":"gta-housing-starts-lag-nation-despite-overall-jump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realestategtatoday.ca\/index.php\/2025\/12\/16\/gta-housing-starts-lag-nation-despite-overall-jump\/","title":{"rendered":"GTA Housing Starts Lag Nation Despite Overall Jump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National housing starts saw a significant increase in November, jumping 9.4% according to the CMHC. However, the story in Ontario, including the GTA, tells a different tale. While Quebec and the Atlantic and Prairie provinces experienced a construction surge, Ontario and British Columbia continue to struggle, impacting the overall six-month trend which saw a decline. <\/p>\n<p>Despite a national year-to-date increase of 4% in actual starts in centres with populations of 10,000 or more, CMHC&#8217;s deputy chief economist Kevin Hughes notes a slowing momentum in residential construction, particularly in Ontario. The federal government&#8217;s ambitious goal of 500,000 new homes annually remains a challenge. For a deeper dive into the national figures and expert analysis, read the full article on mpamag.com.<\/p>\n<p><em>Read the original story here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mpamag.com\/ca\/mortgage-industry\/market-updates\/canada-housing-starts-jump-in-november\/560146\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.mpamag.com\/ca\/mortgage-industry\/market-updates\/canada-housing-starts-jump-in-november\/560146<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian housing starts jumped in November, but Ontario, including the GTA, continues to lag behind other provinces, impacting the overall construction trend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[178,206],"tags":[313,182,324,193,387,207],"class_list":["post-874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-market-data","category-residential","tag-cmhc","tag-gta","tag-housing-starts","tag-market-trends","tag-new-construction","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realestategtatoday.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874","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=874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.realestategtatoday.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realestategtatoday.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realestategtatoday.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realestategtatoday.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realestategtatoday.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}