Housing & Affordability
Canada's housing market through prices, costs, and supply — the New Housing Price Index, year-over-year shelter inflation split into rent and mortgage interest cost, and CMHC housing starts. Based on Statistics Canada data and refreshed automatically.
Updated July 20, 20264 charts
Prices
Builders' selling prices for new homes (house and land), CanadaData through May 2026
PricesUpdated
Year-over-year CPI change for shelter, rent, and mortgage interest costData through Jun 2026
PricesSupply
Updated
CMHC housing starts, seasonally adjusted at annual ratesData through Jun 2026
SupplyOriginal analysis
Housing starts per 1,000 new residents — construction relative to population growthHow to read: Above the shaded band, home-building keeps pace with population growth (roughly one new dwelling per 2–2.5 new residents); below it, the housing shortage deepens.Data through Q4 2025
Supply