Calgary Non-Residential Tax Ratio Hits 4.63. Edmonton Is Just Over 3.
Calgary businesses pay $4.63 in municipal property tax for every $1 a homeowner pays on the same assessed value. In Edmonton it is just over $3. Why the non-residential tax ratio belongs in every commercial pro forma.
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Calgary Rezoning Repeal and Edmonton Rollback: Who Carries the Risk
Calgary repealed blanket rezoning on August 4, 2026, returning 99% of properties to their previous zoning. On October 8 the province ordered Edmonton to roll back its own bylaw. Here is what it means for infill feasibility and land value.
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Calgary’s Housing Supply Gap: What the Airdrie, Chestermere and Cochrane Numbers Actually Show
Population in Calgary’s satellite communities is growing faster than almost anywhere else in Canada. But a closer look at the region’s building permit and housing start data reveals a Calgary’s housing supply gap that most market commentary is missing — and it matters directly for anyone running feasibility studies, site selection, or development underwriting in..
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Calgary vs Edmonton: What Two Opposite Zoning Bets Mean for Alberta Feasibility Studies
In 2024, Calgary vs Edmonton made the same regulatory bet: citywide upzoning, pitched as the fix for the same problem — a population growing faster than housing supply could keep up. Two years later, the two cities are running opposite plays, and the split has real consequences for anyone underwriting a construction or development project..
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Canada’s Productivity Super Deduction: What It Means
Canada just made its biggest capital-investment tax change in a generation — and most companies evaluating a manufacturing or industrial footprint in North America haven’t fully priced it into their numbers yet. On September 15, 2026, the federal government expanded the Productivity Super Deduction introduced in Budget 2025 into what officials are now calling the..
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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 Housing Infrastructure: Why $510M in Pipes Matters More Than Permit Reform
Alberta housing infrastructure just received the clearest signal in years about where the province will actually be able to build. On July 29, 2026, Canada and Alberta signed a new infrastructure agreement worth up to $510 million in federal funding, with the province contributing as much as $428 million on top of it, over eight..
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Calgary Condo vs Detached: Why Families Keep Choosing the House
A $300,000 condo or a $740,000 detached house: many families in the Calgary region keep choosing the more expensive option. Most people read Calgary’s falling condo prices as a sign of a weak market. It is better understood as a product problem. The condominium supply being built is often not the product that families, who..
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Construction Feasibility Checklist: Are Your Numbers Built for Today’s Alberta Market?
The question is not whether Alberta is growing. It is whether your project’s numbers were built for the market that exists now, not the one from 18 months ago. Since 2024, construction costs have risen, tariffs have affected metals, interest rates have moved, population growth has slowed and absorption has changed by segment. A feasibility..
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Feasibility Studies in Alberta: Why One Cost Scenario Is Not Enough
Most feasibility studies I review for Alberta projects share a hidden weakness: they are built on a single cost assumption. One construction budget, one sales price, one absorption rate, one outcome. When costs move, and in 2026 they do, that single scenario stops being a plan and becomes a liability. This article explains why single-scenario..
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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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