Alberta Industrial Real Estate vs BC: The 2026 Numbers
Alberta Industrial Real Estate vs British Columbia: Where the Advantage Actually Flips in 2026 British Columbia sells industrial power at roughly half Alberta’s price. Alberta leases industrial space at roughly half British Columbia’s price. Both statements are true, both are quoted selectively, and neither one decides anything on its own. This article works through the..
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Development Charges by City: The Full Canadian Ranking
About $1,600 at one end. About $134,400 at the other. Those are municipal charges on a single high-rise unit, across the 23 municipalities the Canadian Home Builders’ Association benchmarked with Altus Group. Development charges by city is not a marginal line in a Canadian pro forma. It is frequently the largest single variable in it,..
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Calgary vs Edmonton Building Permits: The $128,000 Gap
The number nobody publishes The average Calgary building permit was worth $476,000 last year. In Edmonton, $348,000. Three hours up Highway 2. That figure is not published anywhere. It comes from dividing two numbers that are: total permit value, and permit count. Calgary recorded $7.4 billion across 15,559 permits in 2025. Edmonton recorded $4.9 billion..
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Development Charges in Alberta: The $57,000 Calgary Gap
$93,000 in Calgary. $36,000 in Edmonton. Same province. Same building code. Same labour market. Three hundred kilometres apart. And that figure is not the cost of building the house — it is the municipal fee for permission to build it. The gap is $57,000 per unit. Development charges in Alberta differ that sharply between its..
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Alberta Business Insolvencies Rose 35.6%. The Rest of Canada Went the Other Way.
Business insolvencies across Canada fell 9.7% over the twelve months to 30 June 2026. In Alberta, they rose. That divergence is the single most useful thing in the Office of the Superintendent of Bankruptcy’s second-quarter release, and it is almost entirely absent from the coverage — because the national headline reads like a recovery, and..
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Calgary Property Tax 2026: The City Raised 1.8%. The Province Raised 21%.
On a typical Calgary home assessed at $706,000, the municipal portion of the property tax bill went up $49 this year. The provincial portion went up $338. Same house. Same envelope. Two very different numbers. The Calgary property tax 2026 conversation has focused almost entirely on City Hall — on a November budget debate, on..
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DFW Population Growth 2026: Where Permits Aren’t Following
DFW population growth reached a point in 2026 where two datasets stopped agreeing with each other. One says the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex is absorbing residents faster than almost anywhere in the United States. The other says builders are pulling back from precisely the counties doing the absorbing. Both datasets are credible. Neither is wrong. The..
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Alberta Building Code 2025: What Part 10 Means for Retrofits
Maintenance is exempt. Replacement isn’t. That distinction sits inside the 2025 National Building Code, and it is the single most consequential provision the Alberta building code is likely to inherit once the province completes its review. If it is adopted as drafted, it will change how retrofit work in this province is scoped, priced and..
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Alberta Housing Accelerator Fund: 70,000 Homes Approved
The Alberta Housing Accelerator Fund story is usually told in two headlines — one for Calgary, one for Edmonton. That framing misses the point. In under two years, the federal Housing Accelerator Fund (HAF) helped fast-track close to 30,000 residential building permits — roughly 70,000 homes — across Alberta’s largest cities, and the ripple reached..
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Alberta Non-Residential Construction: The 2026 Shift to Watch
Alberta non-residential construction is quietly becoming the most important story in the province’s building sector — and it’s the one most people are still missing. While headlines fixate on housing, the data shows the money changing lanes: residential investment is set to peak in 2026, while non-residential activity keeps climbing through 2035. For any company weighing..
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Construction project manager with over 15 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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