{"id":430560,"date":"2026-05-15T19:40:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T12:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/05\/canada-housing-starts-for-april-279-3k-vs-240-0k-estimate\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T19:40:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T12:40:05","slug":"canada-housing-starts-for-april-279-3k-vs-240-0k-estimate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/05\/canada-housing-starts-for-april-279-3k-vs-240-0k-estimate\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada housing starts for April 279.3K vs 240.0K estimate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Prior month 239.7K (revised higher from 235.9K)<\/li>\n<li data-section-id=\"gp9i4q\" data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"142\">Canada housing starts surged 17% in April to a seasonally adjusted annualized rate of 279,317 units, up from 239,747 in March.\n<\/li>\n<li data-section-id=\"1jqrxo5\" data-start=\"143\" data-end=\"291\">The sharp monthly increase highlights the volatility in housing starts data and why month-to-month changes should be interpreted cautiously.\n<\/li>\n<li data-section-id=\"7x3rw\" data-start=\"292\" data-end=\"391\" data-is-last-node=\"\">Rural housing starts were estimated at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 13,694 units.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The 6 month trends showed: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-section-id=\"grx4lk\" data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"85\">The trend in Canadian housing starts rose 3.2% in April to 256,777 units.\n<\/li>\n<li data-section-id=\"p31i4u\" data-start=\"86\" data-end=\"238\">The trend measure reflects a 6-month moving average of the monthly seasonally adjusted annual rate (SAAR) of total housing starts across Canada.\n<\/li>\n<li data-section-id=\"yp7ofr\" data-start=\"239\" data-end=\"409\">Actual housing starts fell 1% year-over-year in centres with populations over 10,000, with 21,805 units started in April 2026 versus 21,938 in April 2025.\n<\/li>\n<li data-section-id=\"1uz914f\" data-start=\"410\" data-end=\"525\">Toronto housing starts jumped 34% year-over-year, driven primarily by stronger multi-unit construction.\n<\/li>\n<li data-section-id=\"z2x8js\" data-start=\"526\" data-end=\"649\">Vancouver housing starts declined 30% year-over-year due to weaker multi-unit and single-detached construction.\n<\/li>\n<li data-section-id=\"soggwu\" data-start=\"650\" data-end=\"754\" data-is-last-node=\"\">Montr\u00e9al housing starts increased 21% year-over-year, supported by stronger multi-unit starts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>                            This article was written by Greg Michalowski at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prior month 239.7K (revised higher from 235.9K) Canada housing starts surged 17% in April to a seasonally adjusted annualized rate of 279,317 units, up from 239,747 in March. The sharp monthly increase highlights the volatility in housing starts data and why month-to-month changes should be interpreted cautiously. Rural housing starts were estimated at a seasonally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-430560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}