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Newcomers are buying homes faster as Canadian-born ownership rates decline: StatCan

Posted on: June 17, 2026

Recent immigrants to Canada are increasingly becoming homeowners, with new data from Statistics Canada showing that homeownership rose between 2018 to 2021, even as rates declined among Canadian-born individuals. 

The findings, released Tuesday by StatCan, examined how immigrants admitted as permanent residents between 2017 to 2021 progressed toward homeownership in their first five years after arriving in Canada.

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