-
Canada Residential Building Permits: January 2018
New housing construction investment in Canada totalled $4.4 billion in January, up +9.4% compared with January 2017. Investment was up for all dwelling types, said Statistics Canada Wednesday. Spending rose in eight provinces, led by Quebec (+$139.1 million), British Columbia (+$128.3 million) and Alberta (+$82.6 million). The increase in Quebec was driven by investment in apartment building construction. Canada Construction Investment:…
-
New Housing Price Index, Canada: December 2017
Nationally, prices for new houses in Canada were unchanged in December, while showing limited growth in some markets, according to Statistics Canada February 8. In December, new house prices in Canada were unchanged for the first time since April 2015. Buyers in 15 of the 27 census metropolitan areas surveyed saw no price change. Increases…
-
Canada Building Permits, Construction Investment: 2017
The value of building permits issued by Canadian municipalities declined 7.7 per cent to $7.7 billion in November, said Statistics Canada Monday. CANADA CONSTRUCTION INVESTMENT AND BUILDING PERMITS: 2017 Investment in non-residential building construction in Canada totalled $13.7 billion in the fourth quarter, up 1.6 per cent over the previous quarter, marking a third consecutive…
-
US Construction Job Openings: September 2017
The open position rate (job openings as a per cent of total employment) for September softened to 2.8 per cent. On a smoothed twelve-month moving average basis, the open position rate for the construction sector held steady at 2.6 per cent, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey…
-
Building Permits, Canada: August 2017
Canadian municipalities issued $7.5 billion worth of building permits in August, down 5.5 per cent from July, according to Statistics Canada Tuesday. This was the second consecutive monthly decrease. Despite these declines, the year-to-date value of building permits (January to August) is up 8.7 per cent compared with the same period in 2016, reflecting a…
