{"id":9,"date":"2026-09-13T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/shankhurrum-com\/2026\/09\/13\/toronto-starts-fall-short-of-target\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T13:00:00","slug":"toronto-starts-fall-short-of-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shankhurrum.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/13\/toronto-starts-fall-short-of-target\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Starts Fall Short of Target"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/shan-khurrum\/housing-starts-fall-remotion-videos-5d8c\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>Toronto\u2019s housing start numbers are down 10% compared to last year, which is a clear signal that construction activity has slowed in our city\u2019s core. Currently, there are 37 building permits representing 6,600 condo apartment units where shovels haven\u2019t hit the ground yet. While this slowdown might raise questions, it\u2019s important to remember that some of these projects are still likely to move forward, especially if pre-sales were secured before the recent dip in sales activity. Housing start figures often lag behind what\u2019s really happening on the ground, since Toronto\u2019s larger developments move through many stages\u2014planning, pre-sales, permits\u2014before construction officially begins. As someone who\u2019s worked across residential, commercial, and investment properties in the GTA for years, I know how important it is to read between the lines of these reports. The reality is, today\u2019s housing start data may not capture all the momentum building in the background. Some of those permitted condos could still break ground soon, as the pipeline progresses.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto\u2019s housing start numbers are down 10% compared to last year, which is a clear signal that construction activity has slowed in our city\u2019s core. Currently, there are 37 building permits representing 6,600 condo apartment units where shovels haven\u2019t hit the ground yet. While this slowdown might raise questions, it\u2019s important to remember that some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":484,"featured_media":10,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shankhurrum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shankhurrum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shankhurrum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shankhurrum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/484"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shankhurrum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shankhurrum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shankhurrum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shankhurrum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shankhurrum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shankhurrum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}