Ready to Move homes helping Saskatchewan housing market

In 2025, a total of 6,150 homes started construction in Saskatchewan. In the first half of 2026, 3,083 homes were started and the province is on pace for 6,166 this year. In the time since the low point of only 2,427 homes built in 2019, the province has been seeing a steady increase.

Director of Home and Building Solutions for Lake Country Club (LCC) Brett Pisio agrees that there is a lack of labourers, but added that the location of homes being built has also played a factor. He said that by the end of the year, LCC will likely build and deliver around 75-80 homes, and that’s more than when they first started three years ago.

“Lack of trades and contractors is a big part into it. The distance to get to some of the northern communities, that’s the challenge always. So yeah, we’re pretty new to this as well, so I’m not sure what it was like five or 10 years ago, but all we’ve seen so far is just a steady increase (in homes built).”

One problem both companies share is that their build sites are located on the north side of the river. That means anyone wanting a home built in Prince Albert or south either needs to have their RTM ready to move across a bridge, or just have their home built on site.

For Lemeuix, they don’t plan to move any homes into Prince Albert any time soon.

“I don’t think we’re going to get any calls for in the city, nor would we want to do any necessarily in the city. But the lakes are really good, Emma, Christopher, Candle Lake, and then we’ve gone as far as La Ronge and north of La Ronge moving them as well. So yeah, anywhere in the rural area, all the First Nation reserves,” said Lemeuix.

And there’s plenty of room up north to be moving those homes. Pisio said that most of their clients have been some of the First Nations reserves, some of which were affected by last year’s wildfires. As a result, they’ve moved homes as far as 400 kilometres away.

“There’s 24 houses for Peter Ballantyne that burnt down in Denare Beach. So we just finished that up here this spring. I’d say as of right now, it’s probably the furthest we’ve gone,” said Pisio.

While LCC has already established their relationship with the First Nations of the area and are sending most RTMs there, the folks at Econo Lumber have been helping supply homes to people in other affected communities. He said that they’re already supplying homes to people who have lost them from the wildfire started this year.

With the current labour shortage and some of those homes going to wildfire affected communities north of La Ronge, it just wouldn’t be possible to build them on site.

“In an area when you lose 20 or 30 homes, it’s hard to find space, let alone to build one home, to build 20 or 30 in that certain area. It’s almost impossible to get all the required sub-trades to commit to go up in that area. So that’s where unfortunately a disaster plays well into the RTM business.”

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nick.nielsen@pattisonmedia.com

by Nick Nielsen

Ready to Move homes helping Saskatchewan housing market

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