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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Alberta Rural Entrepreneur Stream: 90 Spots, 242 Applicants, and the Towns Left Out
90 spots. 242 applicants. And not one of them can set up shop in Calgary’s fastest-growing suburbs. The Alberta Rural Entrepreneur Stream is one of the most overlooked forces shaping where investment capital lands across the province — and almost no one in development is pricing it in. Here is the mechanism, and why it..
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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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Edmonton vs Calgary Real Estate: The $186K Gap in 2026
$669,519 vs $483,600. That’s the average home price in Calgary vs Edmonton this June — a $186,000 gap inside the same province. Two days ago I posted that Edmonton had overtaken Calgary in interprovincial migration. The obvious next question: what is that doing to the two housing markets? The answer isn’t what the price tags..
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Alberta Construction Market 2026: Edmonton Overtakes Calgary
Alberta Construction Market 2026: Why Edmonton Just Overtook Calgary The Alberta construction market entered 2026 with a shift that most planning assumptions have not yet caught up to. Edmonton overtook Calgary as Canada’s leading destination for interprovincial migration, recording 11,742 net arrivals in 2024/25 against Calgary’s 11,195. The margin is small. The implication is not…
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Calgary Office Vacancy: Why 30.3% Won’t Fix Itself
Calgary’s office vacancy is falling. Not because tenants are coming back — because we’re deleting the buildings. Downtown vacancy sat at 30.3% in Q2 2026, down from 30.4%. Progress, technically. But absorption in the same quarter was negative 110,572 sq ft. Fewer tenants. Less occupied space. And the rate still went down. That only works..
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Calgary Office Conversion: Why 13 of 21 Projects Stall
Calgary has funded 21 office conversions. Only 8 are finished. That gap is the most useful number in the city right now. Most people read Calgary’s downtown story as a real estate story — 30.4% vacancy, 41 million sq ft of office space, a city with a problem. It isn’t a real estate story. It’s..
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Most people read Calgary’s 9% condo price drop as a weak market.
$300K condo. $750K detached. The family keeps choosing the $750K one. Here’s why that isn’t irrational. Most people read Calgary’s 9% condo price drop as a weak market. It’s not. It’s a product problem. Line up the three options a family is actually choosing between: → Apartment condo — benchmark ~$300K. But it’s a one..
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Alberta Real Estate Market 2026
Six months ago, every conversation in Alberta construction started the same way: groundbreaks, cranes, record pipelines. This week, the same people are asking different questions. The conversation has shifted. Here’s what the data is showing right now: → Condo presales are down → Unsold inventory is rising → Builder confidence is at its lowest point..
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Alberta is the most affordable major market in Canada in 2026.
Alberta is the most affordable major market in Canada in 2026. And yet, half the projects being evaluated here don’t survive a real feasibility check. Ontario and B.C. are slowing down on affordability. Alberta is holding — stronger demographics, lower entry point, more room to move. The headlines are positive. The detail is where it..
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Eros belotti
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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