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CHBA Launches Renovation Month Campaign
CHBA Launches Renovation Month Campaign OTTAWA – October 1, 2025 This October, CHBA launches Renovation Month, a campaign urging homeowners to renovate with confidence by choosing RenoMark-verified contractors. With the theme “Renovate Right. Renovate Now. RenoMark.”, the campaign emphasizes the importance of hiring professional, insured, and verified renovators who follow a strict Code of…
Read MoreWinners Announced for the 2025 CHBA National Awards for Housing Excellence
The Canadian Home Builders’ Association (CHBA) is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2024 CHBA National Awards for Housing Excellence, Canada’s premiere competition for new homes, home renovations, community development, and residential marketing.
Read More2025 CHBA National Awards for Housing Excellence Finalists Named
The Canadian Home Builders’ Association (CHBA) is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2024 CHBA National Awards for Housing Excellence, Canada’s premiere competition for new homes, home renovations, community development, and residential marketing.
Read MoreInitial interest rate lowering not enough to offset restrictive mortgage rules and other barriers to increase new home sales
The Canadian Home Builders’ Association (CHBA) released its 2024 Q2 Housing Market Index (HMI) today, which showed a very negative builder sentiment for a seventh consecutive quarter, prior to the release of the federal budget. The HMI is a leading indicator about the health of the residential construction industry in Canada, and its ongoing lows were a continuing signal for poor housing starts ahead, and the need for change in government policy.
Read MoreCanadian Home Builders’ Association Launches Project to Prepare Industry for Tiered Building Codes
CHBA has launched a new project to help prepare the industry for future building codes. The project, ‘Enabling Tiered Codes – Implementation and Market Preparedness,’ is funded by Natural Resources Canada under the Codes Acceleration Fund (CAF).
Read More2024 CHBA National Awards for Housing Excellence Finalists Named
The Canadian Home Builders’ Association (CHBA) is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2024 CHBA National Awards for Housing Excellence, Canada’s premiere competition for new homes, home renovations, community development, and residential marketing.
Read MoreCHBA Releases Strategy for Building 5.8 Million Homes
The Canadian Home Builders’ Association has released a strategy detailing changes and supports needed to enable the industry to build 5.8 million homes in the next decade to close Canada’s housing supply gap and improve housing affordability.
Read MoreRecord low builder sentiment foreshadows troubling housing starts, underscoring need for housing policy changes
The Canadian Home Builders’ Association (CHBA) Housing Market Index (HMI), a leading indicator about the health of the residential construction industry in Canada, reports that builders are increasingly worried about the state of industry conditions, and that housing starts will be further repressed in 2024.
Read MoreHousing supply outlook dim as builders continue to feel the effects of interest rate hikes
The 2023 Q3 Housing Marketing Index (HMI) was released by the Canadian Home Builders’ Association (CHBA) today, and the outlook is dim for Canada’s housing supply.
Read MoreRemoval of GST on Purpose-Built Rental Addresses Long-Standing Barrier
Removal of GST on Purpose-Built Rental Addresses Long-Standing Barrier OTTAWA – September 14, 2023 – The federal government’s move today to waive the GST on purpose-built rental addresses a long-standing issue that has prevented the construction of more rental housing for decades. The Canadian Home Builders’ Association (CHBA) has advocated for years about the need to…
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