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REMI Network
CMHC forecasts gradual housing market recovery
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) predicts average home prices will likely decline in 2026 and then slowly rise, while housing starts will continue to fall throughout 2027 and 2028.
REMI Network
CMHC launches 2026 Housing Research Awards
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation launched a new round of the annual Housing Research Awards competition.
REMI Network
Rental starts dominate new construction
Record-high rental construction and more missing middle housing contributed to a notable increase in residential starts in 2025.
REMI Network
Housing costs remain elevated in urban centres
Unaffordable housing costs persist in several urban centres across Canada despite recent improvements. Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation’s (CMHC) latest Housing Affordability Composite Index (HACI)
Canadian Apartment Magazine
CMHC forecasts prolonged slowdown for homebuilding sector
Canada’s homebuilders are bracing for continued challenges due to higher construction costs, softer demand, and rising inventories in most markets.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Vacancy rates rise in 2025 amid record supply
CMHC's 2025 Rental Market Report reveals rising vacancy rates in Canadian cities despite increased supply, citing slower population and economic growth as contributing factors.
REMI Network
Mississauga launches CMHC’s housing design catalogue
Mississauga has teamed up with CMHC to accelerate diverse affordable housing through standardized design plans.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Navigating CMHC’s MLI Select requirements
In late 2024, CMHC significantly tightened its enforcement of surety bond requirements under MLI Select, a move with implications for rental project timelines and feasibility.
CondoBusiness
Condo downturn “less severe” than 1990s crash
Toronto’s once-booming condo market has been deteriorating over the past year, echoing the condo crash of the 1990s. However, a new report from Canada Mortgage Housing Corporation suggests a less severe outcome this time around.
REMI Network
Housing supply report reveals regional differences
Toronto is on track for its lowest annual housing starts total in 30 years.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Canada’s rental housing market in transition
CMHC expects the housing market to continue cooling through 2025, as trade tensions, economic uncertainty, slower population growth, and rising unemployment converge to dampen activity.
Construction Business
Prize-winning housing tech set to build scale
Artificial intelligence and robotics are central to prize-winning technology tapped to accelerate new housing production on a nationwide scale.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
CMHC honours leaders in housing innovation
Four winners of CMHC’s Housing Supply Challenge (HSC) were recently celebrated for their ground-breaking solutions aimed at accelerating housing development.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Poor conditions prevalent in subsidized housing
Canada’s social and affordable rental housing stock is increasingly falling into disrepair as it ages, while vacancy rates are generally tightening.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Canada announces $1.7M to advance housing research
Administered through CMHC, 15 new housing research, planning and knowledge mobilization initiatives have been selected for funding.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Housing trickling onto surplus federal land
The effort to unlock surplus federal land for housing is further away from welcoming new residents than the reported numbers may suggest, but the Auditor General of Canada concludes there has been progress.
CondoBusiness
Condo market data reveals long-term risks
CMHC found that sales declined by 75 per cent in Toronto and 37 per cent in Vancouver over the past three years.
