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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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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Alberta Housing Starts Fell 21% in 2026. Here’s Why That’s Not the Whole Story
The Alberta housing starts 2026 data tells two opposite stories at once. Starts fell 21% in the first half of the year — the sharpest drop of any province in Canada. At the same time, the province has 44,509 homes under construction, an all-time high. Both figures come from the same CMHC report. Here is..
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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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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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Construction Budget Overruns: 3 Decisions Made Before Breaking Ground
Alberta residential permits are down 15%. Institutional permits are up 440%. Read that again. If you only track the residential slowdown, you’re watching the wrong market. Here’s what the 2026 numbers actually say about where construction demand in Alberta is moving: → Residential permit values: -15% province-wide (Red Deer -50%, Edmonton -19%, Calgary -11%) →..
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Alberta Construction Project Management: The Real Bottleneck Is Coordination
$50 million. 5% rework. $2.5 million lost. That is why I do not think the real bottleneck in construction is labour. It is coordination. Alberta has more than $180 billion in proposed construction, and the province is still facing a shortage of about 59,000 workers over the next decade. On paper, that sounds like the main problem. In reality,..
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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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Texas Housing Market 2026: Austin vs Dallas, Decoded
Everyone keeps calling the 2026 Texas market a slowdown. The data says it’s a product problem. “Prices are down.” “Inventory keeps building.” “Homes sit for months.” A slowdown? Demand didn’t leave. Sales are UP year over year in both metros. What changed is the buyer — and most operators haven’t changed the product. Look at..
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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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