{"id":93,"date":"2026-10-10T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shahins.ca\/blog\/?p=93"},"modified":"2026-10-10T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T17:00:00","slug":"cmhc-housing-starts-remain-steady-despite-august-dip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shahins.ca\/blog\/2026\/10\/10\/cmhc-housing-starts-remain-steady-despite-august-dip\/","title":{"rendered":"CMHC: Housing Starts Remain Steady Despite August Dip"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>Drawing on more than 20 years of consulting experience and a master&#039;s degree in business, I pay close attention to subtle shifts in the housing market. The latest CMHC data shows Canada&#039;s annual housing starts edged slightly lower in August, coming in at 229,046 units compared to 229,360 in July. While urban starts saw a dip and rural starts reached 11,224, the six-month average also declined by 1.3%. Notably, gains in Quebec and Alberta helped counterbalance declines in Ontario. These numbers remind us how regional dynamics shape the national market\u2014details I always consider when providing thorough market analysis for my clients in Greater Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMisgFBVV95cUxPbEU1Y2lDNS1tY0ZXOF9WVXF3eFA0eFhIdUJqNFlzaElramdsb1hxcFhWTzhJVFZMN2JhcXdEUW0zSVVMZThEYzhYUGdETTJOdzNXbW5IS3U3d0h6Z2YzQll2YnJzWXhBb0wwSEQwTDRDTTh4ZEZ4RUUyeUNINUVHaDRBQ0dXdXpHb0thc25lWHJYcGJoSVpUdXRRYzNEVDR1SjJDRGh4QlBwOGNLQWM0S2l3?oc=5&amp;hl=en-US&amp;gl=US&amp;ceid=US:en\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drawing on more than 20 years of consulting experience and a master&#039;s degree in business, I pay close attention to subtle shifts in the housing market. The latest CMHC data shows Canada&#039;s annual housing starts edged slightly lower in August, coming in at 229,046 units compared to 229,360 in July. While urban starts saw a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":370,"featured_media":94,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shahins.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shahins.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shahins.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shahins.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shahins.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shahins.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95,"href":"https:\/\/www.shahins.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions\/95"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shahins.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shahins.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shahins.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shahins.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}