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Across Europe, banks are trying to figure out how to handle a growing risk lurking in residential mortgage portfolios: energy consumption.
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Jan 10, 2017
The Canadian Press
OTTAWA -- Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says the seasonally adjusted annual pace of housing starts in December came in at 207,041 units, up from 187,273 in November.
The increase came as the rate of urban starts climbed 11.8 per cent to 187,621 for the final month of 2016.
Multiple urban starts increased by 13.9 per cent to 120,750, while single-detached urban starts grew 8.1 per cent, to 66,871.
Regionally, the annual pace of urban starts increased in Ontario, Quebec and the Prairies, but decreased in British Columbia and in Atlantic Canada.
Rural starts were estimated at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 19,420 units.
The six-month moving average of the monthly seasonally adjusted annual rate of housing starts in Canada stood at 198,053 units in December compared with 200,105 in November.
In a separate release, Statistics Canada said municipalities issued $7.8 billion worth of building permits in November, down 0.1 per cent from October.
The value of residential building permits fell 1.6 per cent to $5.1 billion in November, while non-residential building permits climbed 3.0 per cent to $2.6 billion.