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EDMONTON – Alberta is on a housing hot streak.

In 2025, the province delivered a second record year for housing starts, breaking several all-time records.

For the first time in Alberta’s history, more than 50,000 housing starts were reached in a single year, with more than 53,000 homes breaking ground in the past 12 months, states a release. This is 14 per cent higher than the previous record set in 2024.

Diving into the numbers, the second quarter of 2025 marked the strongest for housing construction in provincial history, with more than 17,000 starts.

For the second year in a row, the province also led the country in housing starts per capita. Alberta built almost a quarter of the housing starts across the country in 2025, and more than 80 per cent of all starts across the prairies.

Here’s a breakdown of some notable cities:

• Edmonton: 21,337 compared with 18,834 (up 16 per cent)
• Calgary: 27,684 compared with 24,396 (up 14 per cent)
• Red Deer: 405 compared with 354 (up 14 per cent)
• Grande Prairie: 366 compared to 194 (up 89 per cent)
• Medicine Hat: 317 compared to 193 (up 64 per cent)

The government is also highlighting the number of purpose-built rentals being developed in the province.

It “soared in 2025 to nearly 20,000 starts, almost triple the levels seen a decade ago,” the release says.

The government says in the last five years, Alberta has built more purpose-built rentals than in the previous 30 years combined.