{"id":16,"date":"2026-09-12T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/girlsonthegorealestate-com\/2026\/09\/12\/housing-starts-and-construction-data-for-july-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T16:00:00","slug":"housing-starts-and-construction-data-for-july-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.girlsonthegorealestate.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/12\/housing-starts-and-construction-data-for-july-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Housing starts and construction data for July 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>We\u2019re always keeping an eye on housing activity that impacts the Medicine Hat area and beyond. The latest numbers for July 2026 show Canadian housing starts held steady, with only a slight 0.5% dip to 247,377 units. Interestingly, urban starts are down 19% compared to last year, yet completions are up 8.1%. While new project launches have slowed, ongoing building efforts are continuing to support the overall housing supply. Staying on top of these trends helps us guide our clients with the most current insights\u2014whether you\u2019re considering buying, selling, or simply watching the market. As always, our focus is making sure you have the information you need to make confident real estate decisions in Medicine Hat and surrounding communities.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/ca.finance.yahoo.com\/news\/housing-starts-construction-data-july-121500775.html\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re always keeping an eye on housing activity that impacts the Medicine Hat area and beyond. The latest numbers for July 2026 show Canadian housing starts held steady, with only a slight 0.5% dip to 247,377 units. Interestingly, urban starts are down 19% compared to last year, yet completions are up 8.1%. While new project [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":45,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.girlsonthegorealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.girlsonthegorealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.girlsonthegorealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.girlsonthegorealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.girlsonthegorealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.girlsonthegorealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.girlsonthegorealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.girlsonthegorealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.girlsonthegorealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.girlsonthegorealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}