Archived snapshot: August 2026 data, published 1 September 2026. For the latest numbers see the current market update.
Calgary’s benchmark price was $569,800 in August 2026, down 1.08 per cent from a year ago, the smallest gap in over a year. There were 1,660 sales and 3.92 months of supply, balanced but tilting toward buyers. Inner-city detached rose 2.24 per cent to $995,700, one of only two parts of the city where detached prices are up.
Source: CREB, as of August 2026.
Calgary by property type.
City of Calgary, August 2026. Benchmark prices and year over year change.
| Property type | Benchmark | Y/Y | Sales | New listings | Inventory | Months of supply |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | $744,300 | -1.09% | 875 | 1,635 | 2,969 | 3.39 |
| Semi-detached | $690,500 | 0.98% | 168 | 302 | 555 | 3.30 |
| Row | $415,200 | -5.44% | 284 | 505 | 1,094 | 3.85 |
| Apartment | $295,400 | -8.18% | 333 | 699 | 1,891 | 5.68 |
| Total residential | $569,800 | -1.08% | 1,660 | 3,141 | 6,509 | 3.92 |
How to read months of supply: about three is balanced. Higher favours buyers. Lower favours sellers.
Source: CREB, as of August 2026.
The inner city, community by community.
Every inner-city community, August 2026 sold data. Segment figures are median sold prices with the number of sales in brackets. DOM is the median days on market. Sold vs Orig. list is the average sold price as a share of the original list price. Active is current listings on the market.
| Community | Sold | Detached | Semi | Townhome | Condo | DOM | Sold vs orig. list | Active |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Altadore | 21 | $1,433,500 (8) | $1,228,500 (6) | $649,900 (7) | – | 17 | 96.8% | 43 |
| Banff Trail | 3 | – | $1,050,000 (3) | – | – | 6 | 95.7% | 28 |
| Bankview | 7 | $907,500 (2) | – | $560,000 (1) | $276,000 (4) | 32 | 95.8% | 32 |
| Bel-Aire | 1 | $2,408,889 (1) | – | – | – | – | – | 4 |
| Beltline | 25 | – | – | $315,000 (1) | $282,500 (24) | 58 | 91.7% | 260 |
| Bridgeland/Riverside | 5 | $877,000 (1) | – | – | $502,500 (4) | 27 | 96.8% | 52 |
| Cambrian Heights | 3 | $765,000 (3) | – | – | – | 16 | 93.3% | 5 |
| Capitol Hill | 7 | $750,000 (5) | $788,000 (1) | $600,000 (1) | – | 56 | 94.7% | 18 |
| Chinatown | 6 | – | – | $560,000 (1) | $310,000 (5) | 60 | 93.8% | 28 |
| Cliff Bungalow | 2 | – | – | – | $168,750 (2) | – | – | 15 |
| Crescent Heights | 12 | $711,944 (4) | – | $659,900 (1) | $250,000 (7) | 33 | 94.4% | 45 |
| Downtown Commercial Core | 2 | – | – | – | $227,500 (2) | – | – | 35 |
| Downtown East Village | 4 | – | – | – | $402,125 (4) | 86 | 94.2% | 49 |
| Downtown West End | 4 | – | – | – | $282,000 (4) | 91 | 87.9% | 32 |
| Eau Claire | 4 | – | – | – | $1,075,000 (4) | 61 | 93.5% | 39 |
| Elbow Park | 5 | $2,125,000 (5) | – | – | – | 10 | 99.1% | 12 |
| Elboya | 0 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 4 |
| Erlton | 3 | $750,000 (1) | – | $1,800,000 (1) | $385,000 (1) | 12 | 96.8% | 14 |
| Garrison Woods | 4 | $872,000 (1) | $688,750 (2) | – | $265,000 (1) | 54 | 95.8% | 15 |
| Greenview | 2 | $465,000 (1) | – | – | $125,000 (1) | – | – | 11 |
| Highland Park | 1 | – | $795,000 (1) | – | – | – | – | 30 |
| Highwood | 0 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 10 |
| Hillhurst | 5 | $949,250 (2) | – | $1,200,000 (1) | $305,500 (2) | 9 | 99.2% | 23 |
| Hounsfield Heights/Briar Hill | 6 | $1,332,500 (4) | – | – | $262,000 (2) | 22 | 98.2% | 14 |
| Inglewood | 6 | $932,500 (3) | $660,000 (1) | – | $297,500 (2) | 40 | 96.5% | 30 |
| Killarney/Glengarry | 11 | $1,300,000 (2) | $1,080,000 (6) | $305,000 (2) | $379,900 (1) | 16 | 98.0% | 57 |
| Lower Mount Royal | 10 | $1,095,000 (1) | – | – | $368,000 (9) | 23 | 94.9% | 34 |
| Mayfair | 0 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 |
| Meadowlark Park | 2 | $1,116,500 (2) | – | – | – | – | – | 2 |
| Mission | 11 | – | – | – | $305,000 (11) | 42 | 94.2% | 29 |
| Mount Pleasant | 6 | $1,636,500 (4) | $839,000 (2) | – | – | 48 | 96.6% | 36 |
| Parkdale | 2 | $1,550,000 (1) | – | – | $400,000 (1) | – | – | 19 |
| Parkhill | 6 | $1,327,500 (4) | $1,750,000 (1) | – | $380,000 (1) | 20 | 95.7% | 6 |
| Point McKay | 2 | – | – | $616,050 (2) | – | – | – | 12 |
| Ramsay | 2 | $804,250 (2) | – | – | – | – | – | 7 |
| Renfrew | 14 | $643,500 (4) | $1,064,000 (6) | $447,450 (4) | – | 15 | 98.2% | 38 |
| Richmond | 8 | $820,000 (7) | $859,250 (1) | – | – | 36 | 95.8% | 27 |
| Rideau Park | 3 | $3,587,500 (2) | – | – | $448,800 (1) | 86 | 84.7% | 2 |
| Rosedale | 2 | $1,417,500 (2) | – | – | – | – | – | 5 |
| Rosemont | 1 | – | $887,500 (1) | – | – | – | – | 7 |
| Roxboro | 0 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2 |
| Scarboro | 1 | $1,237,000 (1) | – | – | – | – | – | 3 |
| Scarboro/Sunalta West | 1 | $600,000 (1) | – | – | – | – | – | 2 |
| Shaganappi | 4 | $999,999 (3) | – | – | $146,500 (1) | 70 | 91.4% | 21 |
| South Calgary | 11 | $800,000 (1) | $880,000 (4) | $610,000 (3) | $357,500 (3) | 57 | 94.3% | 36 |
| St Andrews Heights | 3 | $1,105,000 (3) | – | – | – | 14 | 98.5% | 10 |
| Sunalta | 4 | – | – | $340,000 (1) | $215,500 (3) | 24 | 95.6% | 28 |
| Sunnyside | 7 | – | – | $635,350 (2) | $318,000 (5) | 23 | 96.8% | 26 |
| Tuxedo Park | 6 | $594,250 (3) | $880,000 (1) | $482,500 (2) | – | 24 | 92.2% | 30 |
| Upper Mount Royal | 3 | $1,650,000 (3) | – | – | – | 55 | 90.4% | 9 |
| West Hillhurst | 10 | $1,108,750 (6) | $822,500 (4) | – | – | 34 | 95.5% | 55 |
| Windsor Park | 10 | $966,500 (2) | $1,100,000 (1) | $678,500 (2) | $216,500 (5) | 26 | 94.1% | 28 |
| Winston Heights/Mountview | 7 | $861,000 (3) | $780,050 (4) | – | – | 37 | 95.9% | 21 |
| All inner city | 285 | $1,010,000 (98) | $930,000 (45) | $590,000 (32) | $295,000 (110) | 33 | 95.1% | 1401 |
Source: MLS sales data via Pillar 9, August 2026, covering the Centre City zone. These are medians, not benchmark prices. Communities with fewer than three sales show counts and medians only, because a handful of sales tells you direction, not decimals.
Our read on August.
August is always a sleepy month in Calgary real estate. This one was sleepier than most, and that turned out to be good news.
Sales were down 16 per cent from last August, which sounds alarming until you see that new listings fell almost as hard. Buyers took a break. So did sellers. Nobody was forced to chase anybody, and the benchmark barely moved: $569,800, down just 1.08 per cent from a year ago, the closest we have been to last year’s prices since this slide started (CREB, as of August 2026).
Meanwhile the inner city quietly crossed a milestone. The typical detached sale here is now a million-dollar sale: median $1,010,000, gone in 22 days at 95.8 per cent of asking (MLS sales data via Pillar 9, August 2026). Semi-detached was right behind at $930,000. Condos live in a different market entirely. A median of 44 days, 93.3 per cent of asking, and shelves that are still full. Condos were 39 per cent of August sales but 56 per cent of everything still listed.
The number we keep coming back to: inner-city detached is up 2.24 per cent on the year, at $995,700. In July it was the only district in the green. In August, west Calgary joined it, up 2.78 per cent (CREB, as of August 2026). When strength starts spreading instead of shrinking, we pay attention.
So what do you do with all this? Selling a detached or semi in the inner city, price it fairly and you will be gone in three weeks. Selling a condo, sharpen your pencil, because your buyer has 780 other doors to look at. Buying a condo? Take your time. For once, the market will wait for you.
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City of Calgary total residential benchmark price, month by month.
Source: CREB, as printed in each month’s statistics package. CREB revises its index from time to time, so current figures for past months may differ slightly.
The longer view is more useful than any single month. Calgary’s benchmark bottomed at $554,400 in January 2026 and has held between $569,000 and $573,000 since May (CREB, as of August 2026).
The year over year gap was 4.71 per cent in January. It is 1.08 per cent now. At this pace, it is a rounding error by Christmas.
Month by month
| Month | Benchmark price | Y/Y | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2026 | $569,800 | -1.08% | 1,660 |
| Jul 2026 | $569,200 | -2.05% | 1,904 |
| Jun 2026 | $572,500 | -2.07% | 2,197 |
| May 2026 | $570,500 | -3.03% | 2,162 |
| Apr 2026 | $568,800 | -3.46% | 2,104 |
| Mar 2026 | $565,600 | -4.18% | 1,881 |
| Feb 2026 | $560,500 | -4.40% | 1,526 |
| Jan 2026 | $554,400 | -4.71% | 1,234 |
| Dec 2025 | $554,700 | -4.71% | 1,126 |
| Nov 2025 | $559,000 | -4.64% | 1,553 |
| Oct 2025 | $568,000 | -4.14% | 1,885 |
| Sep 2025 | $572,800 | -4.0% | 1,720 |
Source: CREB, as of each month shown.
Past updates.
We have published this update every month since June 2026. Previous months stay online exactly as they were written.
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