Media Advisory: CMHC to communicate monthly housing starts with single release


OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - March 6, 2017) - Beginning in March 2017, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation will change how it uses news releases to report monthly housing starts.

To date, CMHC has produced and disseminated a news release for each housing market reporting monthly starts. Starting with the February housing starts to be released on March 8 2017, CMHC will produce a single, comprehensive release as a "one-stop shop" for monthly housing starts data.

The new release will include national data, 4 to 6 storylines on select markets, a table with data for all markets as well as links to Preliminary Housing Starts and the Housing Market Information Portal.

This change represents a repackaging of the information in an ongoing effort to modernize our news releases and improve our reporting. It's important to note that this change will not result in a loss of data, information, insight or analysis.

As always, our market analysts are available to provide further analysis and insight into their respective markets.

Follow us on Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn and Facebook.

Contact Information:

Karine LeBlanc
CMHC Media Relations
(613) 740-5413
kjleblan@cmhc-schl.gc.ca