Saskatchewan housing starts rank in top two for third month

Saskatchewan housing starts climbed 65.5 per cent in August 2026 compared with August 2025, according to data released by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation and cited in a provincial government release issued September 16.

Multiple-unit housing starts rose 116.7 per cent over the same one-year stretch, the release says. Housing starts count new builds where construction has begun.

The release states Saskatchewan has ranked first or second among the provinces for year-over-year housing start growth in each of the past three months.

Trade and Export Development Minister Warren Kaeding said the province’s population growth is being supported by its construction sector. “More and more people are choosing to live, work and raise a family here in our province because of the robust growth we are experiencing in our economy,” he said. He added that the construction sector “continues to build housing at a rapid pace to help protect Saskatchewan and its people.”

Statistics Canada found Saskatchewan’s 2025 real GDP reached $85.4 billion, an increase of 2.2 per cent that put the province ahead of the country’s overall growth rate of 1.7 per cent.

Private capital investment in the province increased 12 per cent last year to $13.6 billion. The release says that result ranks first among the provinces but does not specify whether the ranking applies to the rate of growth or the level of investment. The government says its investment attraction strategy is driving that momentum, though the release does not quantify the strategy’s effect on housing construction.