{"id":40300,"date":"2017-01-11T13:15:45","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T06:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/bc-housing-starts-hit-highest-level-in-decades-last-year\/"},"modified":"2017-01-11T13:19:06","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T06:19:06","slug":"bc-housing-starts-hit-highest-level-in-decades-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/bc-housing-starts-hit-highest-level-in-decades-last-year\/","title":{"rendered":"BC housing starts hit highest level in decades last year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nBy Emma Crawford Hampel<\/p>\n<p>Housing starts in British Columbia, Canada increased to 41,800 units on an annualised basis in December, according to Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, giving last year the province\u2019s highest yearly total since 1993.<\/p>\n<p>In Vancouver alone, starts reached 26,500 annualised units in December, which is up from 22,400 in December 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Across Canada, starts increased to 207,000 annualised units in December, compared with 170,900 units in December 2015. BMO&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : South China Morning Post&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/property\/international\/article\/2061199\/bc-housing-starts-hit-highest-level-decades-last-year\" target=\"_blank\">BC housing starts hit highest level in decades last year<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; By Emma Crawford Hampel Housing starts in British Columbia, Canada increased to 41,800 units on&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-au0","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41212,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/us-housing-starts-beat-forecasts-in-december\/","url_meta":{"origin":40300,"position":0},"title":"US housing starts beat forecasts in December","date":"January 19, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Builders broke ground on more US homes than forecast in December as a jump in apartment construction helped cap the seventh consecutive yearly increase, a report from the Commerce Department showed on Thursday. 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