Homebuilding Down Slightly in Lambton County Last Year

The Pace of Homebuilding in Lambton County Continues to Show Signs of Returning to Normal After A Pandemic Hike, County Data Show.

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The County Recently Reported Building Permits we Issued for A Total 137 Dwellings in Nine of Lambton’s 11 Municipalities in 1024. That’s Down from 148 The Year Before.

The list includes Brooke-Alvinston, Dawn-Euphemia, Enniskillen, Oil Springs, Petrolia, Plympton-Wyoming, Point Edward, St. Clair and Warwick, Municipalities for Which The County Traditionally Provids Building Permit Services.

It also Began Proviving the Service for Lambton Shores Last Year, But Those Numbers are postponed Separately. Sarnia Issues Its Own Building Permit.

Lambton Shores Reported 37 New Dwelling Units in 2024, up from 28 in 2023. Sarnia reported 199 Last Year, up from 172 in 2023. The Numbers include Both Single- and Multi-Family Construction.

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Interest rats are “What Really Drives The Market,” Said Corrine Nauta, The County’s Chief Building Official.

“These numbers are more of our pre-Cavid Numbers,” She Said. “Building Just Boomed through Cavid.”

In 2020, The Department Issued 187 New Home Building Permit for the Nine Municipalities, and that Jumped to 336 in 2021.

But interest rates climbed as the bank of canada ferght inflation, slowing real estate and homebuilding. Interest rats have been coming down again this year.

In A Few of the Municipalities, Home Building is “Still Going Strong,” Nauta Said.

Plympton-Wyoming Saw 57 Permit Issued for New Dwelling Units Last Year, Compared to 59 in 2023.

“We very very fortune that we have some progress still underway,” Said Plympton-Wyoming Mayor Gary Atkinson.

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“With the way the Economy is shifting surround at the present time, and a lot of question Marks, Nobody Knows where’s gooir,” He Said. “But, overall, we feel very confident.”

Atkinson Said New Homes Are Going Up in Developments in the Wyoming and Errol Areas.

St. Clair Township also was busy, with a Total of 51 New Dwellings Last Year, up from 30 in 2023.

As for the Others, Dawn-Euphemia, Brooke-Alvinston, and Oil Springs Each Had Three New Dwellings in 2024, Enniskillen Four, Warwick Five and Petrolia, 11, The County Said. No New Dwelling Building Permites Were Issued in Point Edward Last Year.

As of the End of February, 21 New Dwelling Building Permit Had Been Issued This Year for the Nine Municipalities, Nauta Said. That compare to 18 permits at the same point in 2023.

Total Value of New Construction in the Nine Municipalities in 2024 was $ 163. 2 million, Down Slightly from the previous Year.

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