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Buying & selling in Calgary

The process, the costs and the programs — for the move most people are making.

Selling a homeSelling your home in Calgary: the process, the timeline and the costsMost sales aren’t complicated. They still reward preparation — and most of the money a seller leaves on the table is lost in the first two weeks, to a price or a presentation that wasn’t ready.Read the guide →Buying your first homeBuying your first home in CalgaryThe first purchase has the most unknowns and the least room for a mistake. Here’s what it really takes in Calgary — the money, the programs, the steps, and the things a listing won’t tell you.Read the guide →Moving to CalgaryMoving to Calgary: a practical guideWhether you’re coming for a job, for family, for more space or for the mountains an hour away, the move has a checklist and the city has a shape. Here’s both — and how to buy a home here without flying back and forth.Read the guide →Rezoning repealCalgary repealed blanket rezoning. What does it mean for your property?For two years, most low-density lots in Calgary allowed rowhouses and townhouses. As of August 4, 2026, almost all of them are back to the zoning they had before. Here’s what changed, what didn’t, and how to check your own lot.Read the guide →

Complicated sales & life transitions

Tenants, estates, downsizing, separations and listings that didn't sell — the moves that need more than a sign on the lawn.

Selling with tenantsSelling a tenanted property in CalgaryA tenanted property is not an unsellable property. It is a property with a second set of interests in it — and most of the damage I see was done by an agent who treated the tenant as an obstacle instead of a party to the transaction.Read the guide →Estate & probate salesSelling a home through an estate in CalgaryNobody applies for this job. You are the personal representative because someone trusted you, usually at the worst possible moment, and now a house with forty years of a life in it is on your to-do list.Read the guide →Executors living elsewhereSelling a parent’s Calgary home when you live out of provinceYou’re grieving, you’re the executor, and the house is a two-hour flight away. Most of this can be done from where you live — with the right lawyer, and someone in Calgary you trust to be your eyes and hands.Read the guide →DownsizingDownsizing in Calgary: leaving the family home, at your paceLeaving the house you raised a family in isn’t a smaller version of an ordinary sale. It’s two moves, a lifetime of belongings and a long list of decisions all at once — and it deserves more patience than the market usually gives it.Read the guide →Divorce & separationSelling the home during a divorce or separation in CalgaryThe house is often the largest asset and the loudest argument. My job in these files is narrow and useful: be the one party in the transaction who is not on anyone’s side, and get the property sold properly so that the rest can be settled.Read the guide →Homes that didn’t sellYour listing expired. Now what?A home that did not sell is not a home nobody wants. It is a home the market was not asked the right question about. There are only a handful of reasons a listing expires, and they are all fixable.Read the guide →Selling as-isSelling as-is in Calgary: cash offer or listing?Sometimes a quick cash sale is exactly right. Sometimes it costs a family tens of thousands of dollars they didn’t need to lose. The difference is usually whether anyone showed them the other number.Read the guide →

Acreages & land

Country homes, building lots and raw land anywhere in Alberta — the well, the septic, the land use and what you're allowed to build.

AcreagesBuying or selling an acreage in AlbertaAn acreage is a house, a small water and sewer utility, and a piece of land governed by county rules — all on one title. Buying one well means checking all three. Selling one well means answering for all three before the buyer has to ask.Read the guide →Bare landBuying or selling bare land in AlbertaWith bare land, you aren’t buying what’s there. You’re buying what you’re allowed to do with it, and what it will cost to get there — and those two answers decide the value, for buyers and sellers alike.Read the guide →

These guides are general real estate information for Alberta, not legal, tax or mortgage advice. Rules, programs and timelines change — confirm anything that matters to your situation with your lawyer, accountant or lender.