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Ottawa-Gatineau housing starts fall 12% in March: CMHC

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Builders in Ottawa continued to start new homes at a brisk pace in March while starts on the Gatineau side of the River fell significantly

Ottawa-Gatineau housing starts jump 45 per cent in February: CMHC

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Bucking the national trend, housing starts in Ottawa-Gatineau surged last month compared with a year earlier, the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. reported Monday. Builders

January housing starts more than double year-over-year in Ottawa-Gatineau: CMHC

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Developers in Ottawa-Gatineau continued to rev up housing starts in January in an effort to respond to unrelenting demand for new inventory

Gatineau builders fuel surge of multi-res housing starts in December

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Ottawa-Gatineau’s apartment-building bonanza continued to drive the local housing construction market in December, with the number of multi-unit starts nearly doubling year-over-year

Ottawa-Gatineau housing starts up 47% in November: CMHC

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Builders working largely on apartments and other multi-unit builds fuelled a 47 per cent increase in Ottawa-Gatineau housing starts last month, according to new data

Gatineau housing starts surge in October as Ottawa regresses: CMHC

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Gatineau homebuilders had their busiest month in nearly 50 years in October while Ottawa saw a substantial decrease in housing starts as compared with 2018

CMHC says housing market stabilizing, moderate vulnerability remains

Canada & World

CMHC says cities including Ottawa, Montreal, Quebec, Moncton, Halifax and St. John’s show a low degree of vulnerability

Rental buildings making a comeback as housing crunch pushes demand, returns

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Decades of under-investment made dedicated rental buildings an afterthought for many, but the industry has been quietly gathering momentum and attracting deep-pocketed investors

Ottawa-Gatineau housing starts drop 39% in August

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Ottawa-Gatineau homebuilders slowed their pace of new projects in August while a lack of inventory in the National Capital Region continues to drive housing prices