Tag: construction

  • Housing Starts Canada: May 2016

    Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corp said Monday the seasonally adjusted annualized rate of Canadian housing starts rose to 218,333, or 17 per cent, in June from a revised 186,709 in May.   Canada Housing Starts  Housing starts in Toronto totalled an annualized 45,848 in June, the highest since March, said CMHC. Vancouver re– corded a…

  • Canada Housing Construction Investment: March 2016

    Investment in new Canadian residential construction totalled $3.8 billion in March, up 9.7 per cent from the same month a year earlier, said Statistics Canada Friday. At the national level, higher spending on apartment and apartment-condominium buildings, which rose 19.9 per cent to $1.4 billion, and single-family dwellings, which increased 5.9 per cent to $1.9…

  • CMD Construction Spending Forecast

    This week was held another excellent conference call at CMD (formerly Reed Construction Data) on the near- to mid-term US Construction forecast. Analysts Kermit Baker and Ken Simonson, out of the American Institute of Architects and Associated General Contractors respectively, and Canadian Alex Carrick of CMD. CMD US Construction Spending Forecast As always starting with…

  • US Residential Construction Spending: February 2016

    Private residential construction spending reached the highest rate since November 2007, said the National Association of Home Builders Friday. US Private Residential Construction Spending: February 2016 NAHB analysis of Census Construction Spending data shows that total private residential construction spending for February increased to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of US$448 billion, up by 0.9…

  • US Residential Construction Spending: February 2016

    Private residential construction spending reached the highest rate since November 2007, said the National Association of Home Builders Friday. US Private Residential Construction Spending: February 2016 NAHB analysis of Census Construction Spending data shows that total private residential construction spending for February increased to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of US$448 billion, up by 0.9…