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Canada Investment in New Housing Construction
New housing construction investment in Canada totalled $4 billion in February, an increase of 6.4 per cent compared with the same month in 2016, said Statistics Canada Friday. Spending on single-family dwellings led the ad- vance at the national level. Spending was up in five provinces in February, compared with the same month one year…
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Canada Housing Starts
Canadian housing starts cooled more than expected in August, while the previous month was also revised slightly lower, data showed on Tuesday. A report from the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp showed the seasonally adjusted annualized rate of housing starts slipped to 192,368 last month from a downwardly revised 199,813 units in July. The small…
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Japan Housing Starts
February housing starts in Japan totalled 69,689 units, a 1 per cent increase over February last year and a consecutive 18-month improvement, said the Japan Lumber Reports Friday. Seasonally-adjusted starts were 919,000 units, a 6 per cent decrease over January. Housing Starts, Japan Japan’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transportation commented that the stable economic…
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Lumber News Archives: Oct 2010
Biomass Fuel ; Canadian Rail Problems ; US Mortgages, Continued Trouble ; USDA referendum ; Nova Scotia Biomass Funding ; More Funds from Green Transformation Program ; WFP Another CEO Change ; US Requests Canadian Softwood Lumber Consultation ; Log Prices and Timberland Values ; Madison’s Timber Preview: US Foreclosure Freeze ; Housing Starts, Canada…
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Canada Housing Starts
The pace of Canadian housing starts slowed in January with a steep drop in multiple-unit homes, an indication builders are adjusting to a slowdown in buyers, according to Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) Monday. The agency estimates there were 11,737 actual housing starts in January and that is extrapolated to a seasonally adjusted annual…
