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CMHC for Housing Industry Professionals and Community Groups November 2006

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2005 Canadian Housing Observer

Home to Canadians for the past 60 years.
 

Statistics and Data

  • Preliminary Housing Start Data (Monthly)
    Have the most up-to-date Canadian housing statistics as soon as they are released. CMHC produces these tables on the sixth working day of every month.

  • Housing Information Monthly
    Thirteen homogeneous modules contain more than 90 data-rich statistical tables on starts, completions, sales and prices in provincial markets and more than 100 local markets.

  • Monthly Housing Statistics
    Find out about housing starts, completions and expenditures as soon as the figures are released. Tables in this current-status report contain year-to-date and year-over-year data.

  • Canadian Housing Statistics (Annual)
    This comprehensive priced report is an annual sourcebook of Canadian housing statistics, bringing together a wealth of current and historical data and narrative summaries to help you identify and react to trends. Its numerous tables provide you with statistics on housing starts, completions, and dwellings under construction, as well as market absorption, rental market conditions, mortgage loan approvals, interest rates, estimated households served through social housing programs, and demographic data.

  • Consumer Intentions to Buy or Renovate a Home — Detailed data tables reports (Annual)
    A survey of approximately 4,000 households per city, asking respondents about their plans for purchasing or renovating. Detailed data table reports are available for Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Montréal, Halifax, Ottawa (for 2005 only) and all centres combined. A Major Market Highlight report is also available.

  • Housing Now — Regional (Quarterly)
    Provides a timely look at housing construction starts, completions and absorptions on a monthly basis. Broken down geographically, it includes average and median price data.

  • Housing Now — Major Centres (Monthly or Quarterly, depending on market)
    Summarizes local housing starts, mortgage rates, economic indicators, new home prices, absorption rates and unsold inventory by intended market, and quarterly provides topical analyses of economic and demographic developments.

  • Rental Market Reports — Major Centres (Annual)
    CMHC's Rental Market Reports cover 28 major centres and contain vacancy rate, availability, and rent data, plus detailed sub-market data, detailed analysis, and a forecast for the major centre covered.

  • Rental Market Provincial Highlight Reports (Annual)
    Each Provincial Highlights Report contains summary rental market information on average vacancy rates and rents for most urban centres over 10,000 population in each province. A report for Yellowknife, Northwest Territory is also available.

  • Housing Market Tables: Selected South Central Ontario Centres
    This priced publication, unique to the "Greater Golden Horseshoe Area" of Southern Ontario, includes statistical tables that provide data on the number of dwelling units started, under construction, completed, absorbed and completed yet unoccupied for all Municipalities in this area.  Data is presented by housing type, tenure and is available for each current month and year to date.

    • Call 1-800-668-2642 to purchase a single edition or subscribe in either electronic or printed format.
  • Residential Construction Digest (Prairie Region)
    This report is designed for industry professionals involved in the development of new subdivisions. It provides detailed monthly new construction statistics at a submarket level, for absorbed and unabsorbed single family homes by price range and house type.  Other new construction data, including average and median new home prices, and multi-family units by tenure and unite type is also included.

    Separate priced reports are available for Calgary, Edmonton, Regina, Saskatoon and Winnipeg.

    • Call 1-800-668-2642 to purchase a single edition or subscribe in either electronic or printed format.

  • Time Series Data
    Time series of housing market data is available electronically through many options. Housing data is available on Starts, Under Construction, Completions, Newly Completed and Unoccupied, Vacancy Rates, and Mortgage loan approval activity.