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Calgary Real Estate Market as of Jan 1, 2025

Thursday, January 2nd, 2025

What is really happening in the Calgary Real Estate Market?

 Following is a graph that shows the months of inventory for each housing sector. Looking at a one-year trendline gives you an indication of where things are really heading.

Months of Inventory for Calgary Real Estate Market

Graph showing Months of Inventory for Calgary Real Estate Market

 

Gord’s commentary for the month (just my opinion).

December 2024 Highlights

  • In December we saw a substantial decrease in our Inventory (decrease of 31.32% )
  • In December we saw a substantial decrease in sales (down by 26.43%)
  • With the decrease in Inventory outpacing the decrease in Sales our total months of inventory dropped again leaving us starting the new year with a lack of Inventory.

 Calgary Listing Inventory

The Calgary listing Inventory decreased in December by 1363 listings or 31.32%. A decrease in inventory in December is normal but this decrease is larger than what I would call a seasonal trend.

Calgary Sales:

Sales across all sectors except decreased in December.  This is what I would call a seasonal drop as during the holidays a lot of people move their focus from Real Estate to family.

 Sales Compared to 2023: 

Sales in December compared to December 2024 were up down by only 3% which tells me that this is just a typical seasonal trend.

  Jan Feb Mar Apr May June
2023 1198 1738 2135 2686 3117 3140
2024 1650 2135 2664 2881 3092 2738
Change +452 +397 +529 +195 -25 -402
% Change 37.7% 22.8% 24.8% 7.3% – .8% -12.8%

 

  July Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec
2023 2644 2716 2430 2169 1783 1362
2024 2380 2186 2003 2174 1797 1322
Change -264 -530 -427 5 14 40
% Change <10% 19.6% 17.6% .2% .8% 3.0%

 

Calgary Real Estate Benchmark Sales Prices:

The overall Benchmark price in December declined by $4,600. Or .78% This decline was fairly even across all sectors except Semi-Detached homes which saw an increase of $2500.

 

Calgary Real Estate Benchmark Year to Date Sales Price:  See chart below.

For 2024 the entire market has increased by $13,200 or 2.32%.  The amount of increase varied depending what sector you look at:

Sector                  Jan 1, 2024         Jan 1, 2025           Increasee         % Increase

Detached 697,400 747,500 50,100 7.18%
Semi Detached 627,100 677,600 50,500 8.05%
Attached – Row 425,100 447,400 22,300 5.25%
Apartment 321,400 332,400 11,000 3.42%
Total City 570,100 583,300 13,200 2.32%

 

Current Months of Inventory (Absorption Rate):  With our Inventory decreasing by more than our sales decreased Our Months of Inventory stayed declined by .16  This puts all sectors in a Seller’s Market with the exception of Apartment Condos which currently sit in a balanced market position.

My Prediction for what is ahead: 

First, I will say that anything could happen with the change in the US government and how the Canadian government will react with new laws – today this is anyone’s guess.

Putting that aside here is what it looks like to me. We are already in a tight (Seller’s market) to start off the new year.  This combined with lower interest (more to come) which increases demand.  In my opinion this indicates that we should have another busy year in Real Estate unless the Trump factor kicks in then it’s anyone’s guess.  By the end of February we should have a lot more certainty in what’s going to happen in 2025.

*Below is a summary of numbers in chart form. All numbers are taken from the Calgary Real Estate Boards monthly Stats package.

*All numbers vary by community and price ranges, if you would like stats specifically for your neighbourhood, please contact us.

Calgary Real Estate Market Snapshot – December 1, 2024

Wednesday, December 4th, 2024

What is really happening in the Calgary Real Estate Market?

 Following is a graph that shows the months of inventory for each housing sector. Looking at a one-year trendline gives you an indication of where things are really heading.

Months of Inventory for Calgary Real Estate Market

Graph showing Months of Inventory for Calgary Real Estate Market

 

 Gord’s commentary for the month (just my opinion).

November 2024 Highlights

  • A substantial decrease in inventory outpaced the smaller drop in sales bringing our Months of Inventory down again so we are heading more into a Sellers Market.

 Calgary Listing Inventory

The Calgary listing Inventory decreased in November by 614 listings or 12.36%. To put this number in perspective the decrease in inventory in October 2024 was only 119 which is more of a seasonal drop.

 Calgary Sales:

Sales across all sectors except Apartment condos decrease moderately this month. Sales of Apartment condos increase over October by 59 so it’s nice to see a little improvement there.

 Sales Compared to 2023: 

Sales in October compared to 2023 were up by 5. Typically, in October we will see a seasonal decline, so October was a good month. As you can see from below sales compared to last year have been way down from last year for the last 3 months, so this is showing some recovery.

 

  Jan Feb Mar Apr May June
2023 1198 1738 2135 2686 3117 3140
2024 1650 2135 2664 2881 3092 2738
Change +452 +397 +529 +195 -25 -402
% Change 37.7% 22.8% 24.8% 7.3% – .8% -12.8%

 

  July Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec
2023 2644 2716 2430 2169 1783  
2024 2380 2186 2003 2174 1797  
Change -264 -530 -427 5 14  
% Change <10% 19.6% 17.6% .2% .8%  

 

Calgary Real Estate Benchmark Sales Prices:

The overall Benchmark price in November declined by $4,600. Or .78% This decline was consistent across all sectors.

 

Calgary Real Estate Benchmark Year to Date Sales Price:  See chart below.

Year to date the entire market has increased by $17,800 or 3.12%. The largest increase has been detached homes at $52,700 while the smallest increase was in Apartment condos at $17,800.

 

Current Months of Inventory (Absorption Rate):  Our Months of Inventory stayed flat in all sectors except Apartment Condos which decreased by .53.

My Prediction for what is ahead: 

First, I will say that anything could happen with the change in the US government and how the Canadian government will react with new laws – today this is anyone’s guess.

Putting that aside here is what it looks like to me. We are already in a tight market and if December follows November’s direction, we will end the year in a very tight (low inventory) market. In my opinion this is likely and once the buyers come out in the new year it could be another crazy year with multiple offers and prices going up yet again.

 

*Below is a summary of numbers in chart form. All numbers are taken from the Calgary Real Estate Boards monthly Stats package.

 

*All numbers vary by community and price ranges, if you would like stats specifically for your neighbourhood, please contact us.

 

See Calgary Real Estate Stats  Below

 

Calgary Real Estate Board Stats Summary

This chart shows the number of listings, sales, Benchmark Price and Months of Inventory for all sectors of the Calgary Real Estate Market for the last 2 months along with the change. Numbers are taken from the Calgary Real Estate Board Realtors Stats package.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Calgary Real Estate Market Snapshot -Nov 1, 2024

Tuesday, November 5th, 2024

What is really happening in the Calgary Real Estate Market?

 Following is a graph that shows the months of inventory for each housing sector. Looking at a one-year trendline gives you an indication of where things are really heading. As you can see our months of inventory is has flattened out.

Graph showing Months of Inventory for Calgary Real Estate Market

Graph showing Months of Inventory for Calgary Real Estate Market

 

Gord’s commentary for the month (just my opinion).

October 2024 Highlights

  • Appears that the Market Slowdown has stopped.
  • Months of Inventory for Calgary only changed by .05 in October
  • Sales for October were 5 sales higher than last October.

 Calgary Listing Inventory

The Calgary listing Inventory decreased in October by 98 listings. It is important to note that listings over $1,000,000 increased and the Inventory of lower priced homes decreased.

  Calgary Sales:

Sales across all sectors remained flat from September, however sales of detached homes increased by 129 homes.

 Sales Compared to 2023: 

Sales in October compared to 2023 were up by 5.  Typically, in October we will see a seasonal decline, so October was a good month. As you can see from below sales compared to last year have been way down from last year for the last 3 months, so this is showing some recovery.

 

  Jan Feb Mar Apr May June
2023 1198 1738 2135 2686 3117 3140
2024 1650 2135 2664 2881 3092 2738
Change +452 +397 +529 +195 -25 -402
% Change 37.7% 22.8% 24.8% 7.3% – .8% -12.8%

 

  July Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec
2023 2644 2716 2430 2169
2024 2380 2186 2003 2174
Change -264 -530 -427 5
% Change <10% 19.6% 17.6% .2%

 

Calgary Real Estate Benchmark Sales Prices:

The overall Benchmark price in October declined by $4400.  What’s interesting is that detached homes declined by $3,200 and Apartment Condos decreased by $3300

Calgary Real Estate Benchmark Year to Date Sales Price:  See chart below.

Year to date the entire market has increased by $26,800 or 4.7% which is substantial.

 

Current Months of Inventory (Absorption Rate):  Our Months of Inventory stayed flat in all sectors except detached homes which decreased by .41

 

My Prediction for what is ahead: 

Yes, the market has slowed dramatically from last year however we are still in a very tight market and with things flattening out in October with a very low overall months of Inventory we could likely end off the year in a tight market. If this happens then once seasonal demand starts to increase again it could put us back into a frenzied seller’s market.

 

*Below is a summary of numbers in chart form. All numbers are taken from the Calgary Real Estate Boards monthly Stats package.

 

*All numbers vary by community and price ranges, if you would like stats specifically for your neighbourhood, please contact us.

Calgary Real Estate Board Stats Summary

Calgary Real Estate Board Stats Summary

 

Calgary Real Estate Market Snapshot – March 1, 2024

Friday, March 1st, 2024

What is really happening in the Calgary Real Estate Market?

 

Following is a graph that shows the months of inventory for each housing sector. Looking at a one-year trendline gives you an indication of where things are really heading.

Graph showing Months of Inventory for Calgary Real Estate Market

Graph showing Months of Inventory for Calgary Real Estate Market

 

Gord’s commentary for the month (just my opinion).

February 2024 Highlights

A booming start to 2024!

  • Inventory increased but only marginally.
  • Sales Increased
  • Prices increased!
  • Seller’s market continues….

 

Calgary Listing Inventory

Our listing inventory increased in February but only by 205 listings of which half of the increase is in the Apartment sector.

 

Calgary Sales:

Sales increased by 485 sales (or 29.4%).  This number is not surprising as the end of the year is always the low point and sales will normally increase from here until May or June.

 

Sales Compared to 2023: 

It is also important to look at sales compared to the Previous year. Sales for February beat sales from February 2023 by 397 or 22.8%.

 

  Jan Feb Mar Apr May June
2023 1198 1738
2024 1650 2135
Change +452 +397
% Change 37.7% 22.8%

 

Calgary Real Estate Benchmark Sales Prices:

The overall Benchmark price increased by $12,700 or 2.22%. Increases were seen in all market sectors with Detached homes leading (2.72%) followed by Attached Row (2.37%), then Semi-detached homes at (2.26%) and finally Apartment Condos at 1.73%

 

Calgary Real Estate Benchmark Year to Date Sales Price:  See chart below.

Year to date the entire market has increases by 2.61% with 2.22% of that being in February only.

Again, all sectors are up year to date.

 

Current Months of Inventory (Absorption Rate): 

Our Months of Inventory declined again by .20 putting us into an even deeper Sellers Market. The only sector that increased was the Attached Row sector and it increased by .01%

Keep in mind that anything below 2.5 is in a seller’s market position so we are deep in Seller’s market territory and prices will continue to rise.

 

My Prediction for what is ahead:  Anything below 2.5 months of Inventory is in a seller’s market position so at 1.1 month of inventory we are deep in Seller’s market and prices will continue to rise.

 

*Below is a summary of numbers in chart form. All numbers are taken from the Calgary Real Estate Boards monthly Stats package.

 

***All numbers vary by community and price ranges, if you would like stats specifically for your neighbourhood, please contact us.

Calgary Real Estate Board Stats

Calgary Real Estate Board Stats

 

Calgary Real Estate Market Snapshot for Jan 1, 2024

Tuesday, January 2nd, 2024

What is really happening in the Calgary Real Estate Market?

 

Following is a graph that shows the months of inventory for each housing sector. Looking at a one-year trendline gives you an indication of where things are really heading.

Graph of Months of Inventory

Graph of Months of Inventory

 

Gord’s commentary for the month (just my opinion).

December 2023 Highlights

The Calgary Market remains tight – exceptionally low in supply.

  • Sales declined by 11.06%
  • Sales are up from last December.
  • Prices declined marginally.
  • Seller’s market continues….

 

Calgary Listing Inventory

Our listing inventory remains extremely low with a total of 2164 listings on the market. This number decreased by 27.6% from November. It’s important to note that this number is only 55 listings lower than on Dec 31, 2022.  It is quite normal that the number of new listings declines at this time of year and I’m confident we will start seeing this number increase.

Calgary Sales:

Sales in December were down by 421 or 23.5% from November. The decreases were somewhat consistent in all sectors. This decline is very normal in December as Holiday celebrations trump Real Estate for many people.

As I have said many times what is keeping our sales down is our Inventory if there were more listings we would certainly sell more. It is interesting to note that Row Houses only decreased by 5.2%

 Sales Compared to 2022: 

It is also important to look at sales compared to the Previous year. Sales for December were up by 13.8% from last year. The demand is still extraordinarily strong so the more we can list the more we sell.

 

  Jan Feb Mar Apr May June
2022 2004 3305 4091 3401 3071 2837
2023 1199 1740 2432 2690 3120 3146
Change -805 -1565 -1659 -711 +57 +309
% Change -40.1% -47.4% -40.55% -20.9% +1.9% +10.9%

 

  July Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec
2022 2249 2133 1893 1855 1642 1200
2023 2647 2729 2441 2171 1785 1366
Change +398 +596 +548 316 143 166
% Change +17.7% 27.9% +28.9% +17.1% 8.7% 13.8%

 

Calgary Real Estate Benchmark Sales Prices:

The overall benchmark price decreased by $2,600 this month. The largest decreases were in the Attached-Row sector followed by Detached and then Semi-Detached. Price of Apartment condos increased by $1,300.

 

Calgary Real Estate Benchmark Year to Date Sales Price:  See chart below.

For all of Calgary in 2023, we saw an increase in all sectors of 9.89% or $51,300.

The lowest dollar increase was apartment condos at $46,600 followed by Attached Row at $66,800 then Semi-Detached at $64,100, and the highest sector is Detached homes at $77,800. It is important to note that this is a Calgary number and each community within Calgary will be different – some higher and some lower.

 

Current Months of Inventory (Absorption Rate): 

All sectors except Apartment Condos saw a small decrease in the Months of Inventory. Apartment Condos increased by .12. All sectors remain fairly deep in a seller’s market position.

 

My Prediction for what is ahead:  In 2024, I believe we are going to see more of the same. I know the demand is outpacing the supply by quite a but. What this means if we list more homes then it will increase our Sales not our inventory so we can expect a low inventory throughout 2024. Sales will either stay on pace or increase, and the months of inventory will remain low keeping us in a seller’s market ultimately increasing prices again.

 

**Below is a summary of numbers in chart form. All numbers are taken from the Calgary Real Estate Boards monthly Stats package.

 

*All numbers vary by community and price ranges, if you would like stats specifically for your neighbourhood, please contact us.

 

See Stats from the Calgary Real Estate Market Below

Calgary Real Estate Board Stats

Calgary Real Estate Board Stats

Calgary Real Estate Market Snapshot for dec 1, 2023

Friday, December 1st, 2023

What is really happening in the Calgary Real Estate Market?

 

Following is a graph that shows the months of inventory for each housing sector. Looking at a one-year trendline gives you an indication of where things are really heading.

Graph of Months of Inventory

Graph of Months of Inventory

 

Gord’s commentary for the month (just my opinion).

October 2023 Highlights

The Calgary Market appears to be slowing a little.

  • New listing in November were down 17% yet were up 38% from last year.
  • Sales declined by 18.2%%
  • Prices increased moderately.
  • Seller’s market continues….

 

Calgary Listing Inventory

Our inventory of listings declined in November by only 206 listings.  This is very normal as the normal trend is to see less new listings at this time of year.  When I look at last year the decline from Oct to Nov was 773 so the listing inventory change is much smaller this year.

Calgary Sales:

Sales in November were also down 382 Sales from October.  Seeing this decrease is very normal as moving towards the holiday season we typically see a slowdown.

Sales Compared to 2022: 

It is also important to look at sales compared to the Previous year. Sales for November were up by 8.8% from last year.  The demand is still very strong so the more we can list the more we sell.

 

  Jan Feb Mar Apr May June
2022 2004 3305 4091 3401 3071 2837
2023 1199 1740 2432 2690 3120 3146
Change -805 -1565 -1659 -711 +57 +309
% Change -40.1% -47.4% -40.55% -20.9% +1.9% +10.9%

 

  July Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec
2022 2249 2133 1893 1855 1642  
2023 2647 2729 2441 2171 1787  
Change +398 +596 +548 316 +145  
% Change +17.7% 27.9% +28.9% +17.1% 8.8%  

 

Calgary Real Estate Benchmark Sales Prices:

The overall benchmark price saw a slight increase in all sectors this month.  The overall benchmark price increased by $1,100 in November. The highest increase was $3900 in the Attached-Row sector followed by an increase of $3500 in the Apartment Condo sector. Detached homes gained $1,900 while Semi-Detached homes remained flat.

 

Calgary Real Estate Benchmark Year to Date Sales Price:  See chart below.

For all of Calgary year to date we have so far seen an increase in all sectors of 10.29% or $53,900.

Here are the dollar increases for each sector:

Detached: $79,900

Semi Detached: $65,700

Attached Row: $70,800

Apartment: $45,300

It is important to note that these are Calgary overall numbers and each community within Calgary will be different – some higher and some lower.

 

Current Months of Inventory (Absorption Rate): 

With the number of sales dropping less than the number of listings our Months of Inventory have been pushed up.  The largest change is in the Attached Row Sector which increased by .53.

While all sectors are increasing their months of inventory keep in mind that we are still very much in a seller’s market.

 

My Prediction for what is ahead:  Based on what I am seeing and taking history into account, I believe we will see the same slowing trend in December.  I believe this is going to be short lived and in January we will start to see the trend reverse pushing us into a deeper seller’s market.  This prediction is largely based on what is driving demand (immigration) and I do not see that changing any time soon, I predict sales are going to remain strong and prices are going to continue to trend upwards throughout 2024.

**Below is a summary of numbers in chart form. All numbers are taken from the Calgary Real Estate Boards monthly Stats package.

 

*All numbers vary by community and price ranges, if you would like stats specifically for your neighbourhood, please contact us.

 

See Stats from the Calgary Real Estate Market Below

Calgary Real Estate Board Stats

Calgary Real Estate Board Stats

Calgary Real Estate Market Snapshot – Aug 1, 2023

Tuesday, August 1st, 2023

What is really happening in the Calgary Real Estate Market?

 

Following is a graph that shows the months of inventory for each housing sector. Looking at a one-year trendline gives you an indication of where things are really heading.

Months of Inventory

 

 Gord’s commentary for the month (just my opinion).

July 2023 Highlights

The Calgary Market is maintaining its strength, although there are signs of change on the horizon.

  • Sales were the strongest July on record.
  • Months of Inventory increased by .22 for the month.
  • We remain in a deep seller’s market.

Calgary Listing Inventory

Our listing inventory remains very low with a total of 3488 listings on the market, an increase of 30 since July 1, 2023.  Its important to note that new listings are trending slightly up, but they are being absorbed so the inventory is not increasing at a pace we typically expect at this time of the year.

Calgary Sales:

Sales in July were 2647 making this the best July on record with the Calgary Real Estate Board.   Sales were down by 499 compared to June but it is normal that once we hit July sales decline every month until the end of the year.  What’s interesting is that sales were 309 higher than last year.

 

Sales Compared to 2022: 

It is also important to look at sales compared to the Previous year. Sales for April were 711 less than last year. Again, in my opinion this is simply due to not having enough Inventory on the market.

  Jan Feb Mar Apr May June July
2022 2004 3305 4091 3401 3071 2837 2249
2023 1199 1740 2432 2690 3120 3146 2647
Change -805 -1565 -1659 -711 +57 +309 +398
% Change -40.1% -47.4% -40.55% -20.9% +1.9% +10.9% +17.7%

 

Calgary Real Estate Benchmark Sales Prices:

The overall benchmark price continues to increase. The overall benchmark price increased by $3000 or .53%. The largest gain was in the Attached -Row sector with an increase of $7,500 which happens to be the same sector that saw the smallest increase in months of inventory.

 

Calgary Real Estate Benchmark Year to Date Sales Price:  See chart below.

For all of Calgary we have so far seen an increase in all sectors of 9.43% or $48,900. The lowest dollar increases so far has been apartment condos at $31,100 and the highest is Detached homes at $70,900.

 

Current Months of Inventory (Absorption Rate): 

Months of Inventory has increased for the second month in a row, which tells me that the direction is changing.  Our overall months of inventory is 1.32. Months of inventory below 2.5 indicates a seller’s market so we are still deep in a seller’s market.  The largest increase in Months of Inventory was in the Detached sector increasing by .35. Note the Attached-Row sector saw the smallest increase of .10.

 

My Prediction for what is ahead:  Based on what is driving demand (largely immigration) and I do not see that changing any time soon, I predict sales are going to remain strong and prices are going to continue to trend upwards although based on trends I see us slowly climbing out of the seller’s market.

*All numbers vary by community and price ranges, if you would like stats specifically for your neighbourhood, please contact us.

See Stats from the Calgary Real Estate Market Below

Calgary Real Estate Board Stats

Calgary Real Estate Market Snapshot, July 1, 2023

Tuesday, July 4th, 2023

What is really happening in the Calgary Real Estate Market?

 Following is a graph that shows the months of inventory for each housing sector. Looking at a one-year trendline gives you an indication of where things are really heading.

Months of Inventory

 

Gord’s commentary for the month (just my opinion).

May 2023 Highlights

The Calgary Market is continuing at a blistering pace!

  • Another new sales Record – 3146 Sales
  • Prices continue the upward trend.
  • New listings increased resulting in a sale increase.
  • Listing inventory remains very low.

 

Calgary Listing Inventory

Our listing inventory remains very low with a total of 3457 listings on the market, an increase of 251 since June 1, 2023.  Its important to note that new listings are trending slightly up, but they are being absorbed so the inventory is not increasing like we typically expect at this time of the year.

 

Calgary Sales:

Sales in June set another new record high with 3146 sales, an increase of 26 sales from May.  What is interesting is that sales in June were 309 above June sales which is 10.9% higher than last year. I still believe that one of the largest reasons for the continuous increase in sales in the increased level of immigration. For the time being I do not see anything that is going to change that trend so I predict we will continue to see strong sales at least through the end of this year.

 

Sales Compared to 2022: 

It is also important to look at sales compared to the Previous year. Sales for April were 711 less than last year. Again, in my opinion this is simply due to not having enough Inventory on the market.

 

  Jan Feb Mar Apr May June July
2022 2004 3305 4091 3401 3071 2837  
2023 1199 1740 2432 2690 3120 3146  
Change -805 -1565 -1659 -711 +57 +309  
% Change -40.1% -47.4% -40.55% -20.9% +1.9% +10.9%  

 

 Calgary Real Estate Benchmark Sales Prices:

The overall benchmark price continues to increase. The overall benchmark price increased by $7,700 or 1.38% All sectors increased fairly equally.

 

Calgary Real Estate Benchmark Year to Date Sales Price:  See chart below.

For all of Calgary we have so far seen an increase in all sectors of 8.85% or $45,900. The lowest dollar increases so far has been apartment condos at $28,400 and the highest is Detached homes at $65,500.

 

 Current Months of Inventory (Absorption Rate): 

Months of Inventory has finally started to turn the corner with an overall increase from 1.03 to 1.10 which still leaves us in a deep Sellers Market.

My Prediction for what is ahead:  Based on what is driving demand (immigration) and the fact I do not see that changing any time soon, I predict sales are going to remain strong and prices are going to continue to trend upwards.  One thing I am seeing on the street is even though we are still in a very strong sellers market, the  buyers are starting to act much more cautiously and while their offers are still often coming in above list price they are coming in only a little above list compared to what I was seeing a few months ago.

**Below is a summary of numbers in chart form. All numbers are taken from the Calgary Real Estate Boards monthly Stats package.

*All numbers vary by community and price ranges, if you would like stats specifically for your neighbourhood, please contact us.

 

Calgary Real Estate Board Stats

Calgary Real Estate Market Snapshot

Tuesday, May 2nd, 2023

What is really happening in the Calgary Real Estate Market? 

Following is a graph that shows the months of inventory for each housing sector. Looking at a one-year trendline gives you an indication of where things are really heading.

Months of Inventory

 

Gord’s commentary for the month (just my opinion)

April 2023 Highlights

The Calgary Market is continuing at a blistering pace!

  • New listings declined again. We had 3183 compared to 4885 last year.
  • Inventory is still Low – We are at our lowest inventory level since 2007.
  • Benchmark prices increased in all sectors for a total of $9,000.

  

Calgary Listing Inventory

Listing Inventory is identical to last month, this is concerning as normally at this time of year our listing inventory increases and this year it is remaining flat. It seems like everything we list is getting sold almost immediately.

 

Calgary Sales:

Sales increased over last year by 261 this month. Sales for Attached Row homes declined by 154 (again this is due to having no listings to sell). All other sectors increased marginally.

 

Sales Compared to 2022: 

It is also important to look at sales compared to the Previous year. Sales for April were 711 less than last year. Again, in my opinion this is simply due to not having enough Inventory on the market.

 

  Jan Feb Mar Apr May June July
2022 2004 3305 4091 3401 3071 2842 2254
2023 1199 1740 2432 2690
Change -805 -1565 -1659 -711
% Change -40.1% -47.4% -40.55% -20.9%

 

 Calgary Real Estate Benchmark Sales Prices:

The overall benchmark price increased in all sectors with the overall increase being $9,000 or 1.66%. The increase was similar in all sectors. It is my opinion that until our Inventory situation changes, we will continue to see increases like this.

 

Calgary Real Estate Benchmark Year to Date Sales Price:  See chart below.

For all of Calgary we have so far seen an increase of 6.17% or $32,000. The lowest dollar increase so far has been apartment condos at $24,600 and the highest is Detached homes at $42,300.

 

Current Months of Inventory (Absorption Rate): 

Months of Inventory decreased in the Detached and Semi-Detached sectors and increased slightly in the Attached-Row and Apartment sectors.

 

My Prediction for what is ahead:  Being that we are in a deep Sellers Market, we will continue to see prices increasing. As we have seen all new inventory get sold right away and no net gain, I have to predict this trend is going to continue for the next several months.

 

All numbers vary by community and price ranges, if you would like stats specifically for your neighbourhood, please contact us.

Below is a summary of numbers in chart form. All numbers are taken from the Calgary Real Estate Boards monthly Stats package.

Calgary Real Estate Stats May 1, 2023

Calgary Real Estate Market Snapshot – April 1, 2023

Monday, April 3rd, 2023

What is really happening in the Calgary Real Estate Market?

Following is a graph that shows the months of inventory for each housing sector. Looking at a one-year trendline gives you an indication of where things are really heading.

Months of Inventory

 

Gord’s commentary for the month (just my opinion).

April 2023 Highlights

The Calgary Market is continuing at a blistering pace!

  • We have a supply problem. Our inventory increased by only 483 listings in March however the total number of listings is only 73.6% of last year so we are very low on listings.
  • Multiple offers are being seen in all sectors with huge numbers of offers for Detached, Attached and Townhomes. Of course, they are selling well above list price.
  • Sales increased over February however if we had inventory sales would be much higher.

 

Calgary Listing Inventory

Listing inventory increased an overall of 17.56% in March with the highest increase in the Attached – Row sector (23.24%).  The lowest increase is in the Semi – Detached sector at 11.76.

 

Calgary Sales:

Total Sale in March increased by 692 or 39.77% over February, far outpacing the increase in inventory.  All sectors were above 23% with the highest increase in the Semi – Detached Sector at 55. %

  

Sales Compared to 2022: 

It is also important to look at sales compared to the Previous year. Sales for March were down 40.55% when compared to last March of 2022. Although this looks like a substantial number, if we had more inventory sales would have been higher – it is a supply problem not low demand causing lower sales.

 

  Jan Feb Mar Apr May June July
2022 2004 3305 4091 3401 3071 2842 2254
2023 1199 1740 2432        
Change -805 -1565 -1659        
% Change -40.1% -47.4% 40.55%        

 

  

Calgary Real Estate Benchmark Sales Prices:

The overall benchmark price increased by $10,900 or 2.05% in March. The highest increase was in detached homes at $13,900 up and the lowest increase is in the Apartment Condo Sector which was $7500.

 

Calgary Real Estate Benchmark Year to Date Sales Price:  See chart below.

For all of Calgary we have so far seen an increase of 4.43% or a $23,000 Increase

 

Current Months of Inventory (Absorption Rate): 

Once again our months of Inventory decreased by .25  This number is not going to change until we start seeing more listings hit the market.

 

My Prediction for what’s ahead:  Being that we are in a deep Sellers Market we will continue to see prices increasing.  My gut feeling is we will start to see an increase in inventory in April and will work towards a more balanced market over the next 6 months.  

 

Below is a summary of numbers in chart form. All numbers are taken from the Calgary Real Estate Boards monthly Stats package.

All numbers vary by community and price ranges, if you would like stats specifically for your neighbourhood, please contact us.

CREB Stats