Housing Starts and Sales in Atlantic Canada Will Decline Further Until 2016


HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA--(Marketwired - Oct. 30, 2014) - According to Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation's (CMHC's) Quarterly Housing Market Outlook - Atlantic report, housing starts in Atlantic Canada are expected to decline 20 per cent in 2014 and eight per cent in 2015, before recovering modestly in 2016, with a four per cent increase.

"Moderate economic growth close to one per cent and continuing negative net migration, will result in lower demand for housing, leading to fewer housing starts and sales in Atlantic Canada in 2014 and 2015," said Alex MacDonald, Regional Economist with CMHC's Atlantic Business Centre. "By 2016, an improving economic outlook will support a modest increase in housing starts of four per cent and relatively stable MLS® sales activity."

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