Mini-boom? Local housing starts well ahead of last year's pace

Written By Gina Read

Windsor Essex Home Builders' Association Brent Klundert looks over site plans for a triplex project in Windsor on Monday, Aug. 19, 2024. Photo by Dave Waddell/Windsor Star

The Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corp. reports there has been 535 more new home starts through the first seven months of this year compared to the same period in 2023 in the Windsor census metropolitan area (CMA).

Through July, there have been 1,251 home starts versus 715 last year. The Windsor CMA also includes Lakeshore, Tecumseh, LaSalle and Amherstburg.

“I think this is a result of developers changing their product offerings,” said Windsor Essex Home Builders’ Association president Brent Klundert of the 57 per cent jump in new home starts in the year to date.

“Builders, since things started to dip in late 2022, have been working at changing their product offerings to meet the market’s need for more affordable housing. It takes a little time, a year or so, to get through the planning process so there has been a lag, but now product is starting to move.”

 
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