Calgary vs Canmore Real Estate: Two Alberta Markets Moving in Opposite Directions (2025)
Look at Calgary vs Canmore real estate side by side and you would assume you are reading one story: two Alberta markets, one hour apart, both riding the same provincial economy. You are not. In 2025 they moved in opposite directions — Calgary’s benchmark price fell while Canmore’s detached homes climbed almost 10%. The numbers below show..
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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 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 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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Alberta Construction Labour Shortage: Who Will Build the Pipeline?
When Meta confirmed its $13 billion data centre near Edmonton in July 2026, the headlines focused on investment. Few asked who is going to build it. That one project needs more than 3,000 construction workers at peak. It will compete for the same electricians, pipefitters, ironworkers and equipment operators as hospitals, schools, energy projects and..
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Alberta Construction Is Rotating: Where Demand Is Moving in 2026
If you only track Alberta’s residential slowdown, you are watching the wrong market. Housing starts in the province are falling from their 2025 record, but construction demand has not disappeared. It is moving. Capital, crews and civil capacity are shifting from housing toward power, industrial and institutional work: hospitals and schools, energy infrastructure, data centres..
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National Housing Starts Fall 5.2% in May 2026: What the Regional Data Means for Alberta
On June 15, 2026, CMHC reported that actual housing starts in Canadian centres with populations of 10,000 or more fell 5.2% year over year in May, to 22,633 units. Many readers will take that headline to mean residential construction is slowing everywhere at the same pace. It is not. The disaggregated data show sharp regional..
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Fort Worth Real Estate: Reading the Texas A&M Campus Demand Wave
On August 5, 2026, Texas A&M University-Fort Worth opened its first academic building in downtown Fort Worth and broke ground on the next phase of the campus. When fully built, the Texas A&M-Fort Worth district is projected to support more than 25,000 direct and indirect jobs and generate more than $3 billion in annual economic..
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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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