Canmore Real Estate Market: Why Capital Buys Where People Leave
The Canmore real estate market did something in 2025 that looks impossible on paper: it kept setting price records while the town lost residents. One hour east, Calgary gained people yet watched prices soften. Same province, opposite logic — and the gap explains where money is really moving in Alberta. Two Alberta markets, one hour apart Most..
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Alberta Rural Entrepreneur Stream 2026: Who Qualifies and Where Capital Can Land
The Alberta Rural Entrepreneur Stream is one of the smallest immigration programs in the province, but it has an outsized effect on where new businesses and private capital can land. It offers a path to permanent residence to foreign business owners who invest in and run a business in rural Alberta. Because of how eligibility..
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Canada Start-Up Visa 2026: What the Pause Really Costs
The Canada Start-Up Visa 2026 pause is the most important immigration decision almost no one is talking about. On December 31, 2025, Canada closed its flagship entrepreneur programme to new applicants. The replacement — a “targeted entrepreneur pilot” promised for 2026 — still has no criteria and no launch date. At the same time, the country..
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Calgary Suburbs Growth: Where the Region Is Really Expanding
Calgary just posted the fastest population growth of any major metro area in Canada — but the most important part of that story isn’t happening inside the city. Calgary suburbs growth is quietly redrawing the map of the region, pulling tens of thousands of new residents into the collar towns of Airdrie, Cochrane, Okotoks and..
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Alberta Construction Market 2026: Why Growth Is Shifting, Not Slowing
If you only read the residential headlines, you might conclude that the Alberta construction market in 2026 is cooling. Housing starts are down from the record set in 2025, and both Calgary and Edmonton are building fewer homes than a year ago. But the data behind those headlines tells a more useful story. Construction activity..
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Alberta Industrial Heartland: The $80B Construction Opportunity
Alberta’s Industrial Heartland, northeast of Edmonton, is one of the largest concentrations of industrial capital in North America. Around $50 billion is already invested there, about $30 billion more is under construction, and the region is expected to reach roughly $80 billion in total investment by the early 2030s. Most of the coverage frames this..
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Edmonton vs Calgary Real Estate: The $195K Gap in 2026
In June 2026 the average home price in Calgary was about $659,400; in Edmonton it was about $464,900, according to Sagen’s Alberta housing market update. That is a gap of nearly $195,000 inside the same province. With Edmonton now attracting more interprovincial migrants than Calgary, the obvious question is what these different price levels mean..
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Edmonton Overtakes Calgary in Interprovincial Migration: What It Means for Construction
For years, Calgary was the default answer to the question of where Canadians were moving within Alberta. That changed in the most recent annual data. According to Statistics Canada figures summarised by StrategyCorp, Edmonton recorded 11,742 net interprovincial migrants between July 1, 2024 and July 1, 2025, overtaking Calgary’s 11,195 to become the leading destination..
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Alberta Construction Market: Why -5% Hides CA$13B
Alberta Construction Market: Why -5% Hides CA$13 Billion The Alberta construction market is sending two signals at the same time, and most people are only reading one of them. In March 2026, CMHC reported 46,064 annualized housing starts across the province — down 5% year over year. In July, Meta broke ground northeast of Edmonton..
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Alberta Population Growth 2026: Canada Shrank, Alberta Didn’t
In the first quarter of 2026, Canada’s population shrank. Statistics Canada estimated a decline of 55,025 people, about 0.1%, to 41,417,056 on April 1, 2026. Ontario, Quebec and British Columbia each fell by about 0.2%. Alberta grew by about 0.2%, reaching 5,057,077 residents, and was the only one of Canada’s four largest provinces to grow..
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Eros belotti
Construction project manager with over 20 years of experience in Europe and the Canary Islands. Specialized in modular housing, container construction, real estate development and international project management. Founder of Reforma Vivienda Tenerife and Donkey Lab.
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