{"id":44,"date":"2026-09-14T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/joeannsellshomes-ca\/2026\/09\/14\/canada-multifamily-market-tells-two-stories\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T17:00:00","slug":"canada-multifamily-market-tells-two-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeannsellshomes.ca\/blog\/2026\/09\/14\/canada-multifamily-market-tells-two-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada Multifamily Market Tells Two Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\"\n                src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/joeann-chabrol\/canada-multifamily-realities-0c96\"\n                frameborder=\"0\"\n                allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"\n                allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>Canada\u2019s multifamily vacancy rate sits near ~5% currently, but national numbers hide a split market: affordable units remain tight while higher-end supply is much looser.<br \/>\nCurrent vacancy is ~3% for lower-priced units versus ~15% for higher-end units, reinforcing that availability differs sharply depending on where renters land on price.<br \/>\nA new forecast expects absorption to start rising in Late-Q4 2026, one quarter earlier than previously expected, helped by pent-up demand and declining rent.<br \/>\nImproving absorption and a moderating pace of new deliveries are expected to push Canada\u2019s multifamily vacancy trend downward in the second half of 2027.<br \/>\nKey watchpoints remain trade and tariff uncertainty, higher fuel costs, population decline, and future immigration targets, all factors that could shape absorption timing.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada\u2019s multifamily vacancy rate sits near ~5% currently, but national numbers hide a split market: affordable units remain tight while higher-end supply is much looser. Current vacancy is ~3% for lower-priced units versus ~15% for higher-end units, reinforcing that availability differs sharply depending on where renters land on price. A new forecast expects absorption to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeannsellshomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeannsellshomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeannsellshomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeannsellshomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeannsellshomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeannsellshomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeannsellshomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeannsellshomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeannsellshomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeannsellshomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}