Calgary bucks big-city trend with steep condo-price declines

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Since the first quarter of 2017, new condo prices have fallen by nearly 20 per cent, Statistics Canada said in a recent release

. Over that span, new condos are not only the weakest segment of Calgary’s housing market, but also the weakest area in any of the six major markets tracked by Statscan.

But by then, Calgary was already several months into an oil-price collapse that sent the province into recession, and from which it hasn’t entirely recovered. During the particularly bleak years of 2015 and 2016, more than 12,000 condo units were finished. Within the City of Calgary, the benchmark condo price was a touch over $250,000 in October, or down about 2 per cent from a year ago. It is still “firmly” a buyers’ market, CREB added.

On the demand-side of the equation, hiring has picked up in 2019, though the region’s unemployment rate is still high by historical standards at slightly more than 7 per cent.

 

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It’s Alberta. I think those prices will be dropping for the forseeable future.

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