Sales activity in June eased relative to the past several months and with 2,842 sales, levels declined by 2% over last year’s record high. While sales activity has remained relatively strong for June levels, the decline was driven by a pullback in detached and semi-detached home sales.
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Calgary Market Insider June 2022
For the second month in a row, sales activity trended down after all-time record high sales in March. While activity in the market slowed down in May with 3,071 sales, levels are still slightly higher than last year’s record high and are far stronger than typical levels of activity recorded in May.
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Calgary Market Insider May 2022
Following an all-time record high month of sales in March, activity slowed down in April. However, with 3,401 sales, it was still a gain of 6% over last year and a record high for the month of April.
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Calgary Market Insider June 2021
With 2,989 sales, housing market activity hit a new May record. Despite strong levels of sales, they did trend down relative to last month. Additionally, there were 4,562 new listings, causing seasonally adjusted inventory levels to increase over last month.
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Calgary Market Insider April 2021
The initial impact of COVID-19 on the housing market began last March. One year later, it is not a surprise that March sales in 2021 were higher than in 2020. However, at 2,903 sales, this was the highest March total since 2007.
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Calgary Market Insider October 2020
September sales activity jumped to 1,702 units, the strongest September total since 2014.
New listings in September improved over last month, but levels remained comparable to the previous year. The increase in sales relative to new listings did prevent any monthly gains in inventory levels, but supply in the market is still down 12% compared to last year.
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Calgary Market Insider September 2020
Total residential sales in August were relatively stable compared to last year with year-over-year gains in the detached and row homes. These gains offset declines in the apartment and semi-detached types of homes.
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Calgary Market Insider July 2020
After three months where COVID-19 weighed heavily on the housing market, sales activity in June continued to trend up from the previous month, totalling 1,747 units.
Caution remains necessary, as monthly sales are nearly 2% lower than activity recorded last year. However, this represents a significant improvement compared to the past several months, where year-over-year declines exceeded 40%.
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Calagry Market Insider June 2020
Housing market activity in May remained slow, but sales exceeded the lows from April, which saw less than 600 sales in Calgary. May sales totalled 1,080 units, a 44% decline from last year’s figures.
“The initial shock of COVID-19 and social distancing measure is starting to ease. This is bringing some buyers and sellers back to the market. However, this market continues to remain far from normal and prices are trending down,” said CREB® chief economist Ann-Marie Lurie.
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Virtual Tours & Open Houses
For home sellers in the era of covid-19, showing off your home to potential buyers may seem like an impossible task. As people practice social distancing to help stop the spread of the virus, most open houses are on hold, and in-person home showings are limited across the country.
Not so fast! There are still ways to reach potential buyers and show your home in the best light—through virtual tours. A “virtual home tour” can be a vague descriptor for many different things.
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