Compare markets
Side-by-side comparison across intensity, direction, mix and cost, trailing 12 months ending June 2026. Values a source does not publish are shown as not published rather than estimated.
What separates these markets
- Calgary currently starts more than twice as many homes per resident as Montréal (13.25 vs. 6.20 per 1,000 residents).
- Starts are moving in opposite directions: Montréal +36.4% and Calgary −12.8% versus the prior 12 months.
- Montréal is far more renovation-oriented than Calgary (58.3% vs. 18.6% of residential investment).
- Apartments make up 91.2% of starts in Montréal against 55.2% in Calgary.
- Montréal's residential permit value rose 10.0% nominally and approximately 2.3% after adjusting for construction prices.
Intensity
Starts /1,000
Completions /1,000
Under construction /1,000
Pending starts /1,000
Direction
Zero is at the centre; decreases extend left and increases extend right.
Permit growth, nominal
Permit growth, constant-dollar
Starts vs. prior 12 months
Completions vs. prior 12 months
Residential investment growth, nominal
Residential investment growth, constant-dollar
Mix
Renovation share of investment
Alteration share of residential permit value
Apartment share of starts
Single-detached share of starts
Rental share of starts
Cost
Zero is at the centre; decreases extend left and increases extend right.
Residential construction price growth
Published comparisons
- Calgary vs. Edmonton
- Calgary vs. Toronto
- Montréal vs. Toronto
- Montréal vs. Calgary
- Toronto vs. Vancouver
- Toronto vs. Hamilton
- Vancouver vs. Calgary
- Winnipeg vs. Regina
- Halifax vs. Moncton
- Québec City vs. Montréal
- Kitchener–Cambridge–Waterloo vs. London
- Saskatoon vs. Regina
- Victoria vs. Vancouver
- Ottawa–Gatineau vs. Montréal