{"id":26950,"date":"2026-01-07T11:11:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T19:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roryc.ca\/blog\/?p=26950"},"modified":"2025-12-15T09:25:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T17:25:29","slug":"the-fog-around-pre-construction-demand-delivery-is-finally-starting-to-lift-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roryc.ca\/blog\/2026\/01\/the-fog-around-pre-construction-demand-delivery-is-finally-starting-to-lift-in-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fog Around Pre-Construction, Demand &#038; Delivery is Finally Starting to Lift in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We expect 2026 will be a year of many shifts, but the overall theme will be \u201cthe way forward\u201d for the preconstruction market. As of Q4-2025, I think the bottom of the market has been reached. This is not to say there will not be sites with challenges and more cancellations. However, the industry can see a better picture of the economics, particularly what could work on their proformas relative to the demand environment.<\/p>\n<p>There are already signs that the GTHA has hit peak delivery of the current wave of condominium completions, which peaked just over 30,000 units at an annual clip by the end of Q3-2025. As 2026 progresses, the apartment market is going to move from an extreme high toward an unprecipitated low beyond 2027, as the market downturn has pulled at least two years\u2019 worth of potential condominium new supply off the slate.<\/p>\n<p>Rebalance will also be a theme in 2026. Right product, right buyers, meaning the heavy weighting towards investors will realign a share back towards end-user buyers once more. This would be welcome change, giving opportunity to a buyer group that has been relatively shut out of the market in the 2020-2023 market high era.<\/p>\n<p>However, investors have never been fully absent from the market, including in the 1990s, it has been overall reliance on this group that has helped elongate the present downturn. Overall, my outlook is positive for 2026.<\/p>\n<p><em>~ Pauline Lierman | Zonda Urban Vice-President | Market Research | Ontario\/Quebec Canada<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livabl.com\/articles\/news\/why-2026-could-mark-a-reset-for-canadas-preconstruction-market?edition=Canada\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Why 2026 Could Mark A Reset for Canada&#8217;s Preconstruction Market<\/a> by Erin Nicks | Livabl<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We expect 2026 will be a year of many shifts, but the overall theme will be \u201cthe way forward\u201d for the preconstruction market. 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