Alberta Housing Market

• Calgary housing market closed out 2025 with 14% fewer home sales in December: board

  Home sales in the City of Calgary fell 14.2 per cent in December compared with a year earlier as prices decreased to close out the year.

  Consumer

  Jan 2
  
• Alberta sets record for new housing starts: ‘Not just a blip’

  According to the BILD Alberta Association, July 2024 marked the most active month for housing starts ever recorded in Alberta.

  Economy

  Aug 27, 2024
  
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• Province launches ‘Alberta is calling’ talent recruitment campaign

  The Alberta government is launching a $2.6-million advertising campaign called "Alberta is Calling," aimed at recruiting workers to the province.

  Politics

  Aug 15, 2022
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• Calgary home sellers go it alone in a hot market — with a little help from a local company

  A Calgary couple decides to navigate the city's red hot housing market on its own with a little help from a local online real estate marketplace.

  Economy

  Feb 18, 2021
• ‘Dangerous’ oversupply of new, single-family homes in Calgary and Edmonton: Moody’s forecast

  Home prices across Canada could tumble about seven per cent in 2021, as unemployment dampens the hot real estate market, according to a forecast by Moody's Analytics Inc.

  Canada

  Sep 24, 2020
• Most of Canada’s housing market likely to be fertile ground for bidding wars in 2020

  Revamped demand from buyers, along with long-term supply pressures in the resale market, will likely bring heated competition for new listings.

  Money

  Jan 16, 2020
• Jason Kenney wants Alberta exemption on housing stress test

  Jason Kenney, in a speech to realtors, says so-called stress tests for home-buyers are unfair.

  Economy

  Jan 30, 2019
• Alberta remains affordable for homeowner hopefuls: study

  A new study suggests homes remain affordable for the average Albertan in the province's 25 largest markets.

  Consumer

  Nov 22, 2018
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• Home prices to remain flat across Canada in 2018, says RBC – is this the new normal?

  A new report offers a glimpse of what the housing market might look like if interest rates start lifting from historic lows.

  Money

  Jul 4, 2017
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• Troubled mortgage loans on the rise in Alberta and Saskatchewan

  Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation says in its second-quarter report that payments on 1,487 mortgages in Alberta were three months or more overdue as of June 30.

  Money

  Aug 29, 2016