Posts Tagged ‘Housing market index’
Low builder confidence illustrates need for sustained federal action plan focused on homeownership housing
CHBA’s Q1 2026 Housing Market Index (HMI) shows near record-low builder confidence in the single-family market and a new record low in the multi-family market—signalling fewer housing starts for homeownership ahead without focused policy action. Even regions like Atlantic Canada and the prairies that had been weathering the trade-war storm are now slowing, with dropping builder confidence from coast to coast.
Read MoreHomeownership Dreams Dimming as Policy Gaps and Layoffs Shake Industry
CHBA’s Q3 HMI shows Canada’s housing market faces record-low builder confidence, declining homeownership starts, and rising layoffs, as policy gaps and economic pressures shake the industry.
Read MoreCanada’s new home construction challenges ongoing amid economic uncertainty
CHBA’s 2025 Q2 Housing Market Index (HMI) saw little change since last quarter, with builders remaining decidedly pessimistic about sales conditions. CHBA’s single-family HMI is 24.9 (out of 100), and the multi-family HMI is 22.8 – both at near record lows, and firmly in negative builder sentiment territory for the twelfth straight quarter.
Read MoreDim outlook for new home construction in Ontario and BC as sentiment in Canada’s new home construction industry stays in near record-low territory
CHBA’s 2025 Q1 Housing Market Index (HMI) is in its eleventh quarter of negative sentiment since dropping from the post-pandemic highs in 2021 and early 2022. While industry sentiment has been low for eleven quarters, builders have typically remained optimistic that future sales would be an improvement over their current sales conditions (though still in negative territory). However, that optimism has dissolved.
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