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Canada's Housing Market

The New Housing Price Index (NHPI) measures the change in selling prices of new residential houses over time. Base 100 = December 2016 — a value of 150 means prices are 50% higher than in December 2016. It covers 27 census metropolitan areas (CMAs) and is published monthly by Statistics Canada. Combined with household income data, it tracks affordability trends across Canada's major cities over 15+ years.

Source

Statistics Canada — Open Government Portal

Frequency

Monthly

Coverage

2007 – present

Columns

6

Stories

Dataset quality · 4 good · 2 fair · 0 poor

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2007 – 2024 · Canada

The Price of a Roof

Canada's housing boom, city by city — who ignited it, who got priced out, and what the rate shock revealed.

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2015 – 2023 · Canada

The Migration Wave

How demand spread from Vancouver to Toronto to the rest of Canada — and what the rate shock revealed about where it actually went.

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2022 – 2024 · Canada

The Rate Shock Anatomy

The Bank of Canada raised rates at the fastest pace in 40 years. Who fell hardest — and who barely noticed.

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2007 – 2024 · Canada

Two Canadas

Resource cities run on oil prices. Gateway cities run on immigration. Canada's national housing index hides both.

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Schema

temporal

ref_date

date

Reference month (YYYY-MM)

geography

geo

string

Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) or national aggregate

price

nhpi_total

number

New Housing Price Index — total (base 100 = Dec 2016)

nhpi_house

number

NHPI — house component (land + structure)

nhpi_land

number

NHPI — land component

affordability

income_median

number

Median household income — used to derive price-to-income ratio (annual, interpolated monthly)

Source

Statistics Canada — Open Government Portal ↗