Housing Market

Find out the latest in the housing market.

See the stories below to know what's going on, right now, in the Candian housing market. Our team interviews the people gathering the data in Canada's housing sector, and get the real answers you need to know.

Canada's housing market outlook turns in buyers' favour this fall

Softer home sales are handing buyers leverage in more markets – but not everywhere in Canada

Canada's housing market outlook turns in buyers' favour this fall

Canadians trade convenience for space as housing compromise deepens

REMAX survey finds buyers flexing on location and finances as buyer-favourable conditions spread

Canadians trade convenience for space as housing compromise deepens

Canada's homebuilding pace falls further behind 2025 levels

Starts are down 4% year-to-date as CMHC warns of continued weakness ahead

Canada's homebuilding pace falls further behind 2025 levels

Canadian housing starts fall as new projects dry up

Rising development costs and weaker buyer demand continued to keep new project launches under pressure

Canadian housing starts fall as new projects dry up

Alberta's new infrastructure plan: a gamechanger for housing?

Federal and Alberta governments commit $938M to clear housing infrastructure bottlenecks

Alberta's new infrastructure plan: a gamechanger for housing?

Northern housing costs squeeze supply despite affordability gains

CMHC data shows territorial construction costs running up to 1.5 times higher than in Calgary

Northern housing costs squeeze supply despite affordability gains

The takeaways you might have missed in CMHC's latest housing report

CMHC's city-by-city data reveals a housing market splitting further apart

The takeaways you might have missed in CMHC's latest housing report

CMHC cuts housing forecast as sales and prices set to slide

Canada's housing agency reverses its earlier outlook, now projecting lower sales and prices in 2026

CMHC cuts housing forecast as sales and prices set to slide

Canada's housing starts extend slide as builders pull back

CMHC data shows June starts fell from May as higher costs and weak demand continue to bite

Canada's housing starts extend slide as builders pull back

Mom and Dad say the early '80s were harder for homebuyers. They're not completely right.

Canadian rates peaked in 1981 at around 22% but the house cost three times income. Today's buyer in Toronto faces a huge hurdle

Mom and Dad say the early '80s were harder for homebuyers. They're not completely right.