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Housing Watch (Jul.)

The pick-up in existing home sales this year has spread to the pre-construction market, with new home sales in Toronto rebounding strongly. Together with the surge in housing starts in June, that presents an upside risk to our forecast that new construction investment will fall during the rest of the year – another sign that the economy could avoid recession.

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