Calgary real estate, by the numbers
Thinking about selling? Start with the data, not a sales pitch.
I’m Chris Birchard - a Calgary REALTOR® sitting on fifteen years of local sales data, modelled the way most agents never bother to. No inflated estimates, no pressure. Just an honest read on what your home is doing, backed by numbers you can check.
2025 · TREC Top Producer
Petroleum geologist turned data scientist
The market right now
Detached homes · 3-month smoothed
$712K
typical sale · −2.2% YoY
20d
typical time to sell
97.8%
of asking achieved
source: Pillar 9 / CREB · not an appraisal
One city, four different markets.
City-wide averages hide more than they show. The four quadrants trade at different prices, move at different speeds, and don’t recover at the same pace. Whatever you’re planning, the number that matters is the one for your community, not the city’s. That’s the level I work at.
The monthly read
The market teardown, in your inbox the day the month turns.
CREB publishes city-wide averages. I go deeper: community-level prices, pace, and negotiating leverage - what actually changed, where, and what it means if you’re buying or selling this year.
Delivered the first of the month, while the numbers are still fresh - not weeks later.
Community-level detail the generic CREB stats never show: prices, days to sell, and leverage by neighbourhood.
A plain-language read on what changed and why - so you understand the market you're moving in, whenever you move.
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Not a brochure. A set of tools built on data nobody else publishes.
What are homes like mine doing?
Real velocity and pricing on homes like yours. Not a bogus automated estimate - the honest version, with the data behind it.
Market insights, by community
Price, leverage, and liquidity for every Calgary community - the same dashboards I run, made public and readable.
New to Calgary? Find your fit.
Your budget and what matters to you, matched against which communities actually fit - each with the numbers behind it.
Community deep dives
Browse all 199 →Prices, pace, and negotiating leverage for every Calgary community. These six were the busiest last month - the data picks them, not favouritism.
“I spent 25 years turning messy subsurface data into drilling locations. I bring the same discipline to your biggest asset - and I’ll show you the numbers behind every recommendation.”
Chris Birchard
25 years in Calgary’s energy sector · data scientist · REALTOR®, TREC