Chris BirchardREALTOR® TREC The Real Estate Company

Downtown Commercial Core real estate market

Sold data through September 2026 · homes for sale through September 2026

From July to September 2026, apartments in Downtown Commercial Core sold for about 35% more than the typical Calgary apartment ($290,000), and slower: 80 days on market against 55 across the city. Of the 33 SW communities with enough apartments sold in those months for a typical price, Downtown Commercial Core's is the 5th highest.

Home types in Downtown Commercial Core

Downtown Commercial Core: typical sold price, change from a year earlier, days on market, percent of asking price and number of sales by home type, to September 2026
HOME TYPE TYPICAL SOLD VS YEAR AGO DAYS ON MARKET % OF ASKING SALES
Apartment July to September 2026 $390,000 +31.8% 80 93.5% 12

Medians · vs year ago: the same months a year earlier

Pricing & pace by home type

Apartment

Typical price and days on market · 60 months September 2026
Typical sold price Days on market

The grey bars are days on market. Apartments in Downtown Commercial Core sold slower than the seasonal norm (80 days over July to September 2026, versus 59 days on average for the same months in 16 earlier years).

The typical apartment in Downtown Commercial Core sold for about $390,000 (12 sales, July to September 2026), +31.8% from the same months a year earlier - per Pillar 9/CREB sales records analyzed by Chris Birchard, REALTOR®.

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Monthly apartment figures, 12 months to September 2026
Downtown Commercial Core apartments, monthly figures, 12 months to September 2026
MONTH 3-MONTH MEDIAN TYPICAL SOLD DAYS ON MARKET % OF ASKING
September 2026 $390,000 $435,000 111 93.6%
August 2026 $295,000 - - -
July 2026 $295,000 $390,000 77 93.7%
June 2026 $320,000 - - -
May 2026 $350,000 - - -
April 2026 $360,000 $355,000 27 96.4%
March 2026 $360,000 $365,000 69 97.3%
February 2026 $355,000 $400,000 100 96.6%
January 2026 $335,000 $345,000 141 95.5%
December 2025 $305,000 $330,000 28 98.2%
November 2025 $310,000 $370,000 112 95.1%
October 2025 $295,000 $280,000 53 97.1%

3-month median: every apartment sale in the 3 months ending that month (the chart line). The other columns are that month alone. - means fewer than 5 sales.

Buyer’s or seller’s market?

Months of supply for every home in Downtown Commercial Core. Under 2 months favours sellers, over 3 favours buyers. How it is worked out.

Months of supply · all home types · 36 months 2026-09
Now (September 2026)
7.8 mo
Buyer’s market
A year ago
6.5 mo
Buyer’s market
Homes for sale
31
−6 vs a year ago
Downtown Commercial Core Calgary

At the end of September 2026, Downtown Commercial Core had 31 homes for sale against about 4 sales a month over the last three months: 7.8 months of supply. A year earlier it was 6.5 months, a buyer’s market. Since then, homes for sale are down 6 and the sales pace is down 29%. Across Calgary it is 3.7 months.

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