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Investment in residential building construction, September 2020

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The title of the infographic is "Investment in residential building construction, September 2020"

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Figure 1: Month-to-month change in residential construction investment (seasonally adjusted).

This is a map of Canada by province and territory showing the month-to-month percentage changes for investment in residential construction. Green arrows represent an increase, while red arrows represent a decrease.

Investment in residential construction for Canada increased 1.6% compared with August 2020. Newfoundland and Labrador was up 3.2%, Prince Edward Island was up 3.3%, Nova Scotia was down 5.5%, New Brunswick was up 15.4%, Quebec was up 2.5%, Ontario was up 0.6%, Manitoba was up 22.3%, Saskatchewan was down 0.9%, Alberta was up 0.5%, British Columbia was down 1.9%, Yukon was up 3.4%, Northwest Territories was down 91.9%, Nunavut was too unreliable to be published.

Table 1: Total investment in millions of dollars (seasonally adjusted).

Total investment for Canada was $10,700.5 million, total investment for Newfoundland and Labrador was $125.5 million, total investment for Prince Edward Island was $60.5 million,total investment for Nova Scotia was $221.4 million,total investment for New Brunswick was $208.9 million, total investment for Quebec was $2,284.1 million, total investment for Ontario was $4,152.9 million, total investment for Manitoba was $504.1 million, total investment for Saskatchewan was $155.7 million, total investment for Alberta was $1,307.1 million, total investment for British Columbia was $1,653.0 million, total investment for Yukon was $26.1 million, total investment for Northwest Territories was $0.1 million, total investment for Nunavut was too unreliable to be published.

Figure 2: Investment in residential construction, market share and year-over-year change (not seasonally adjusted).

Single homes: Market share was 41.7%, total investment totalled $2,381.1 million, representing a year-over-year increase of 2.7% or $63.6 million.

Semi-detached homes: Market share was 4.5%, total investment totalled $255.1 million, representing a year-over-year increase of 26.1% or $52.8 million.

Row homes: Market share was 9.5%, total investment totalled $544.6 million, representing a year-over-year decrease of 8.5% or $50.3 million.

Condo and rental apartments: Market share was 44.3%, total investment totalled $2,529.8 million, representing a year-over-year increase of 11.3% or $256.0 million.

Source: Table 34-10-0175-01.