{"id":194,"date":"2016-07-11T18:46:35","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T18:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.realestateleads.ca\/blog\/?p=194"},"modified":"2023-09-27T15:12:37","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T15:12:37","slug":"home-construction-in-canada-is-soaring-faster-than-rises-in-home-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realestateleads.ca\/blog\/home-construction-in-canada-is-soaring-faster-than-rises-in-home-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Construction In Canada is Soaring  ( Faster than Rises in Home Prices )"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.realestateleads.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/RELP1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-195\" src=\"https:\/\/www.realestateleads.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/RELP1.jpg\" alt=\"RELP1\" width=\"665\" height=\"552\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.realestateleads.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/RELP1.jpg 665w, https:\/\/www.realestateleads.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/RELP1-300x249.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 665px) 100vw, 665px\" \/><\/a>The Canadian housing market is still hot and isn\u2019t showing any signs of cooling yet.  Spending on new residential construction totaled $4.2 billion in April, up 8.4% from the same month a year earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Statistics Canada published data recently on  the areas in Canada that are showing  high housing growth rates.<\/p>\n<p>Condo construction is up nearly 48% in a year in Vancouver. In Toronto that figure is up by 27%. Detached new home building is up 17% in Vancouver and 36% in Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>However, house prices in Vancouver have seen 30% growth and 15% in Toronto over the past 12 months.  The housing stat numbers are even bigger.<\/p>\n<p>But the numbers are very different in the oil producing provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, &amp; Newfoundland.<\/p>\n<p>Spending on new housing construction decreased in five provinces, with Alberta registering the largest decline, followed by Saskatchewan and Manitoba.<\/p>\n<p>In Alberta, decreased investment occurred in *all* dwelling types, although the decline was mainly attributable to lower demand and spending on single-family dwellings.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.realestateleads.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/REL-P2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-196\" src=\"https:\/\/www.realestateleads.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/REL-P2.jpg\" alt=\"REL-P2\" width=\"500\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.realestateleads.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/REL-P2.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.realestateleads.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/REL-P2-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This construction boom could wind up being good or bad news for Canada\u2019s real estate markets. It could create an oversupply or fulfill demand squarely.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Reasons for optimism<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>These numbers portray that Canadian developers are responding to continuously rising demand in Vancouver &amp; Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>Vancouver &amp; Toronto have also experienced unexpected high job growth in the past several years; which has pushed metropolitan population up; thereby increasing demand on housing.<\/p>\n<p>Large intakes of permanent resident immigrants (approaching a quarter-million per year) summed together with the economic calamity of oil-producing regions have bolstered population migration into Vancouver &amp; Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>For other reasons as well; real estate in those 2 cities is not likely to weaken over the coming years.  However, a continued upswing in new condo buildings could take some pressure off prices.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Bearish perspectives:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The current boom in condo construction is a sign that Canada\u2019s housing markets are getting stronger. Vancouver and Toronto have both seen a hot market in home sales, but some of which could be explained through foreign investment and house-flipping as spoken about in previous articles.<\/p>\n<p>So if indeed speculation is inflating demand today through overbuilding, then a correction could be more of a higher dive than in the past.  Why?  When house price growth slows, speculators rapidly start disappearing  from the scene,  exposing some of the \u201cvirtual demand\u201d \u201cdemand\u201d that wasn\u2019t so naturally there after all.<\/p>\n<p>So a constant boom in condo construction, resulting in slower price rises, then could end up sending prices lower than otherwise expected when the house-flippers and foreign speculators start to scatter elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Did you find this article enlightening?  If so, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realestateleads.ca\/contact\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">we\u2019d love to hear from you<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Canadian housing market is still hot and isn\u2019t showing any signs of cooling yet. Spending on new residential construction totaled $4.2 billion in April, up 8.4% from the same month a year earlier. Statistics Canada published data recently on the areas in Canada that are showing high housing growth rates. 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