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Market Updates

NOVEMBER 2024 HOUSING MARKET UPDATE
Market Knowledge

NOVEMBER 2024 HOUSING MARKET UPDATE

December 2, 2024 Supply on the rise, but not across all price ranges As we transition into winter, Calgary's housing market is following ...

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OCTOBER 2024 HOUSING MARKET UPDATE
Market Knowledge

OCTOBER 2024 HOUSING MARKET UPDATE

Supply levels improving for higher-priced homes November 1, 2024 Sales and Price Range Dynamics | Sales of homes priced above $600,000 ...

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Top-Tier Real Estate: 2024 Fall State of Luxury Report*
Market Knowledge

Top-Tier Real Estate: 2024 Fall State of Luxury Report*

Canada’s housing market continues to balance the effects of population growth and declining mortgage rates against a slowing economy, ...

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SEPTEMBER 2024 HOUSING MARKET UPDATE
Market Knowledge

SEPTEMBER 2024 HOUSING MARKET UPDATE

New listing growth driven by higher-priced homes October 1, 2024 Sales Decline in Lower Price Ranges | Despite rising sales in higher ...

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Style & Design

Things To Do This Month FOR FREE in Calgary

Posted by Steven Hill on Dec 12, 2023

Times Are Tough, But Finding Low-Cost Fun Shouldn't Be Here Are Things To Do This Month FOR FREE Legacy’s ...

10 Halloween Safety Tips For Your Home

Posted by Steven Hill on Oct 03, 2023

Home safety for trick or treaters As a responsible homeowner, making your property safe for young trick-or-treaters ...

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CREB® | Market Forecast Report

CREB® delivers a market forecast twice annually—once at the beginning of the year (typically the second week in January) and again around the mid-point (July/August).

The forecast report provides a comprehensive look at key economic indicators that influence housing within CREB®’s region boundaries, from energy prices to employment and population trends, to name a few.

It also examines each market sector, explores housing by property type and clarifies how supply and demand is functioning at the district level. 

To learn more and view CREB®’s latest forecast report, please click here more information.

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Sotheby's Top-Tier Real Estate Report
2016 Year End Report


Sotheby’s International Realty Canada's recently released 2016 Year-End Top-Tier Report for Canada's major metropolitan centres has been featured in major media across the country, including Business News Network (BNN), Globe & Mail, CBC News, Toronto Star, Montréal Gazette, Calgary Herald and Vancouver Sun. The release was spotlighted in over 100 print, TV and radio media outlets from coast to coast.
 
The report revealed significant shifts in the performance of key Canadian top-tier real estate markets in 2016. The country’s four major metropolitan centers reflected resilience in spite of major domestic and global changes, as local market fundamentals emerged as the dominant forces in reshaping market performance across the country.
 
“Toronto’s luxury real estate market shattered previous performance records for the second straight year and defied industry expectations,” says Brad Henderson, President and CEO of Sotheby’s International Realty Canada. “At the same time, in light of the unexpected and unrelenting changes that rippled across the housing industry in 2016, the top-tier real estate markets in Vancouver, Calgary and Montreal demonstrated tremendous resilience, and in many cases sheer defiance, to post healthy performance across the board.”
 
According to Henderson, local market factors such as inventory constraints or oversupply, regional economic performance, levels of local consumer confidence and domestic demand, prevailed in shaping the top-tier real estate market even as major changes in municipal, provincial and federal policy directly impacted the sector and the housing finance system in 2016. Similarly, global political and economic headwinds were tempered by regional trends and hyper-local real estate conditions.

 Calgary Highlights:

Top-tier sales activity in Calgary over $1 million stabilized in 2016 compared to 2015. Motivated sellers were propelled into the market with lower price expectations and homes previously listed for extended periods of time were relisted at lower prices.

  • In total 542 properties (condominiums, attached and single family homes) sold over $1 million in  2016, representing a 19% year-over-year increase.
  • Annual sales volume increased incrementally across the $1 – 2 million and $2 – 4 million price categories by 16% and 47% respectively.
  • The sales of real estate over $4 million increased to four units in 2016, compared to one unit in 2015.

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Latest Blog Posts

NOVEMBER 2024 HOUSING MARKET UPDATE

Posted by Steven Hill on Dec 02, 2024

December 2, 2024 Supply on the rise, but not across all price ranges As we transition into winter, Calgary's ...

OCTOBER 2024 HOUSING MARKET UPDATE

Posted by Steven Hill on Nov 01, 2024

Supply levels improving for higher-priced homes November 1, 2024 Sales and Price Range Dynamics | Sales ...

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