Alberta Continuing Care Capital Cost: What $365,000 Per Space Tells Developers
Alberta has, for the first time in this cycle, put a public number on what it costs the province to add a continuing care bed. The Alberta continuing care capital cost implied by the April 2026 funding round is roughly $365,000 per space. Almost everyone in the sector read that announcement as health policy. It..
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Calgary Construction Costs vs Toronto: What the 2026 Data Actually Shows
For fifteen years the pitch has been the same in every boardroom west of Winnipeg: build in Alberta, it costs less than Toronto. In 2026 that sentence stopped being reliably true. Calgary construction costs now run above Greater Toronto on retail, warehousing and mid-rise residential, while remaining dramatically below the GTA on institutional, educational and..
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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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Alberta Construction Adjudication: 50 Cases, a Staggering Gap
Alberta construction adjudication — the province’s statutory fast track for payment disputes — was used 50 times between April 2025 and March 2026. The United Kingdom, running a near-identical model, recorded 2,264 referrals in its last reported year. That gap opened in a year when Alberta was the only province in Canada where business insolvencies..
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Alberta Construction Costs 2026: The Costly Escalation Mistake
Alberta construction costs rose 4.12% in Calgary this year. In British Columbia, private sector costs fell 3 to 5%. Same country, same year, same tariffs. Canadian construction costs split in two directions in 2026, and the split runs almost exactly along the line separating markets with work from markets without it. Altus Group put it..
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Alberta Construction Costs Rose 4% in 2026 While Toronto’s Fell
Alberta construction costs rose more than 4% in 2026. Over the same twelve months, Toronto’s fell. Same country, same tariff regime, opposite direction. That divergence is invisible in every national average published this year, and it is the reason most cross-border cost benchmarking produces a number nobody can build to. The comparison most people start..
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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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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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Alberta Construction Cash Flow: What Q2 2026 Insolvency Data Shows
Alberta Construction Cash Flow: What the Q2 2026 Insolvency Data Actually Says Alberta is the fastest-growing economy in Canada. It also just posted a 35.6% year-over-year jump in business insolvencies. Both statements are true, and the gap between them is where the Alberta construction cash flow story lives. Nationally, business insolvencies were essentially flat last..
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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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