Ottawa development tracker
What's being built in Ottawa, and what's coming
Every development application on file with the City, the housing pipeline from permits to completions, and the population, jobs and rate data you need to make your own forecast. Updated automatically; every number cites its source.
The housing pipeline
Applications become permits, permits become starts, starts become completions. Watching each stage shows what supply is coming 2–4 years out.
Source: City of Ottawa, Development Applications. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – City of Ottawa. Current year is partial.
Immigration context: Canada's 2026–2028 Immigration Levels Plan targets 380,000 new permanent residents a year nationally. Source: Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, 2026–2028 Immigration Levels Plan.
Download the data
Build your own forecast. Each file includes the full history we hold and the source citation.
- Housing starts, Ottawa (Ontario part) (201 points)
- Units under construction, Ottawa (Ontario part) (201 points)
- Housing completions, Ottawa (Ontario part) (201 points)
- New dwelling units in building permits, Ottawa (Ontario part) (104 points)
- Population, City of Ottawa (16 points)
- Population, Ottawa CMA (Ontario part) (16 points)
- Unemployment rate, Ottawa (Ontario part), 3-month moving average (190 points)
- Bank of Canada policy rate (target for the overnight rate) (203 points)
- Conventional 5-year mortgage rate (posted) (203 points)
- Projected population, Ottawa (census division) (27 points, projection)
- Canada permanent resident admission targets (3 points, projection)
Latest news
Ottawa Real Estate Board
- OREB’s Statement on the 2026 Federal Budget Nov 6
- Ottawa Home Sales Edge Higher in October as New Listings Ease Nov 5
- OREB Congratulates Mark Sutcliffe on Re-Election as Mayor of Ottawa Oct 27
- Ottawa candidates prioritize affordability, housing options and more efficient local government in OREB survey Oct 15
- Ottawa Home Sales Hold Steady in September as New Listings Rise Oct 5
Headlines and links from each publisher's public feed; articles remain on their sites.
CMHC housing reports
- Rental Market Report
- Housing Supply Report
- Housing Market Outlook
- Housing Market Information Portal (Ottawa)
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation publishes these reports; links open on cmhc-schl.gc.ca.
Development applications: City of Ottawa, Development Applications (geoOttawa) and devapps.ottawa.ca. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – City of Ottawa. Unit and storey counts are read from the City's application descriptions and may be incomplete. Statistics Canada data is adapted from Statistics Canada; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product. Bank of Canada data: Bank of Canada. Ontario projections contain information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Ontario. Nothing here is investment advice.