After a few months of weakness, the data this week showed increases in residential building permits and housing starts around the turn of the year. As new home sales in Toronto have now fully recovered from the weakness seen a year ago and building permits remain relatively strong, housing starts seem likely to remain above 200,000 for the first half of the year at least.
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