According to Statistics Canada, investment in new housing construction totaled $3.5 billion in January, up 4.6 percent from the same month in 2014.
Higher investment in all dwelling types was responsible for the increase in total investment in new residential building construction. Spending in apartment and apartment-condominium building construction led the advance, up 6.4 percent to $1.1 billion.
Single-family dwellings followed with a 2.3 percent increase to $1.9 billion. Row houses (+8.7 percent to $335 million) and semi-detached dwellings (+10.7 percent to $200 million) also contributed to the gain observed at the national level.