Metropolitan Monthly Monitors: Metropolitan Housing Starts March 2012

Expectations continue to improve.

Document Highlights

• More CMAs have moved into the “up-up” quadrant, including Hamilton and Winnipeg.
• Overall, 17 of 27 markets now have positive short-term expectations, up from 14 last month.
• Only seven CMAs now have negative short- and long-term expectations. That is down from nine markets last month.
• The CMAs with the largest monthly increases in housing starts in February were Trois-Rivières, Hamilton, Kitchener–Waterloo, Oshawa, and Windsor.