Regina is one of the census metropolitan areas Statistics Canada surveys every quarter for its Building Construction Price Index. Contractors report what they would charge to build the same specified building, and the resulting series shows how that price has moved. This page is that series and nothing else.
An index answers one question precisely: has building got more or less expensive here, and by how much. It cannot answer what your building costs, and no arithmetic on this page tries to.
Residential building types
| Series | 2024 Q2 | 2026 Q2 | Movement |
|---|---|---|---|
| Residential buildings (composite) | 106.9 | 124.5 | +16.5% |
| Single-detached house | 107 | 124.5 | +16.4% |
| Townhouse | 106.7 | 124 | +16.2% |
| Apartment buildings | 106.9 | 124.8 | +16.7% |
| Low-rise apartment | 106.9 | 124.9 | +16.8% |
| High-rise apartment (5+ storeys) | 105.9 | 121 | +14.3% |
Index points, not prices. The index records how contractors' prices for the same building have moved; it is never multiplied into a dollar figure.
Six separately published series, shown as published. A row is present only where Statistics Canada has readings for it.
Non-residential building types
| Series | 2024 Q2 | 2026 Q2 | Movement |
|---|---|---|---|
| Non-residential buildings (composite) | 106 | 114.3 | +7.8% |
| Office building | 105.9 | 116.2 | +9.7% |
| Warehouse | 106.7 | 116.4 | +9.1% |
| Shopping centre | 105.6 | 112.1 | +6.2% |
| Factory | 107.3 | 118.1 | +10.1% |
| Bus depot | 107.8 | 116.7 | +8.3% |
Index points, not prices. The index records how contractors' prices for the same building have moved; it is never multiplied into a dollar figure.
Building types draw on different trades, so their movements diverge within the same quarter and the same city.
What the movement is good for
- Sanity-checking a quote you received a year ago against today's market direction.
- Understanding whether a budget set in an earlier quarter is still in the right neighbourhood.
- Comparing how residential and non-residential work have moved apart in the same city.
What it is not good for is producing a per-square-foot number. That requires a published rate for Regina, and no cost guide in our corpus prints one today.
Where Regina sits in our coverage
Our estimates quote published cost guides directly — the printed band, the publisher, the edition and the page. Regina has an index but no printed band, so it has a trend page and no dollar figures. That distinction is the whole point: a page exists because something publishable exists behind it, and it says exactly which kind.
If a cost guide adds Saskatchewan coverage, Regina bands appear cited to that edition and page — and this page will link to them rather than approximate them.
- Publisher
- Statistics Canada
- Edition
- Statistics Canada, Table 18-10-0289-01, Building Construction Price Index, quarterly
- Licence
- Statistics Canada Open Licence — reproduced and quoted with attribution.