Found 3 blog entries tagged as First-Time Home Buyers Canada.

If you want to understand where Canadian real estate is headed, the best place to start is where it's been. Forty-seven years of annual price data from the CREA MLS dataset, covering 1980 all the way through 2026, tells a story that's more reassuring, more nuanced, and more useful than anything you'll read in today's headlines. And once you see the full picture, the current soft correction looks a lot less alarming.

The Opening Chapter: 1980 to 1995

The story starts with a bang. Canadian home prices jumped +18.9% in 1981, one of the strongest single-year gains in the entire dataset. But what goes up in an overheated market often pulls back, and 1982 brought a -2.7% correction as interest rates spiked dramatically. Sound familiar?

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That headline isn't an exaggeration. It's data straight from CMHC. Canadian ownership housing starts have fallen to approximately 100,000 units on a 12-month rolling basis in 2026, matching the lowest level ever recorded in the dataset. The last time the Canadian residential construction sector was here was 2010, right after the global financial crisis. And what happened in the years that followed should be on every buyer's and seller's radar right now.

What "Housing Starts" Actually Means, And Why It Matters

A housing start is counted when construction begins on a new residential unit. The figure CMHC tracks as "ex-rentals" measures specifically the condos and single-family homes that will eventually be available for Canadians to buy, not…

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1 in 6 Canadian Renters Plan to Buy in 2026

About 1 in 6 Canadian renters plan to purchase a home within the next 12 months. That's a real number, not a projection, not a forecast. It's pent-up demand quietly building beneath a market that, on the surface, looks calm.

But here's what the national headline misses.

According to the Bank of Canada's Q1 2026 Survey on Renter Buying Intentions, that demand is wildly uneven across Canada's provincial housing markets. And the gap between the most and least motivated provinces is wider than most buyers and sellers expect.

Manitoba sits at approximately 21% of renters planning to buy. BC sits at just 6.5%. Same country. Same survey. Completely different housing market realities.

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