Thunder Bay Housing Starts Up Through August

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Thunder Bay Real Estate and Mortgage Planning
Thunder Bay Real Estate

Thunder Bay Real Estate and Mortgage Planning
Thunder Bay Real Estate
THUNDER BAY – REAL ESTATE – Housing starts in Thunder Bay, Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) were trending at 225 units in August, up from 178 units in July according to Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC). The trend is a six month moving average of the monthly seasonally adjusted annual rates (SAAR) of housing starts.

“The momentum of the past several months continued to push up the starts trend in August. However, continued weakness in employment and the trend to a cooler resale housing market will limit further growth in the housing starts trend,” said Warren Philp, CMHC Market Analyst for the Thunder Bay CMA.

CMHC uses the trend measure as a complement to the monthly SAAR of housing starts to account for considerable swings in monthly estimates and obtain a more complete picture of the state of the housing market. In some situations, analysing only SAAR data can be misleading in some markets, as they are largely driven by the multiples segment of the markets which can be quite variable from one month to the next.

The standalone monthly SAAR was 290 units in August down from 413 units in July. This decline in the monthly SAAR occurred since there were no apartment starts this month after a relatively high number in July.

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