54 Days, And Worth Every One
69 Canals Circle SW
The Canals, Airdrie. A three bedroom bungalow backing onto a walking path, with a greenhouse, a berry garden, and sellers who left the new owners a hand drawn map of every single thing growing in it.
The Part We’ll Say Out Loud
Fifty Four Days. That Is Slower Than Our Year, And We Are Not Going To Pretend Otherwise.
Our median across 2026 has been sitting around three weeks. This one took fifty four days. If you only ever read the fast numbers on an agent’s website you would think that never happens. It happens.
A bungalow is a narrower proposition than a two storey. The people who want single level living really want it, and everyone else is looking for stairs and a fourth bedroom. Add an unfinished basement, which is more than 1,300 square feet a buyer has to imagine rather than walk through, and the pool narrows again.
You have two options at that point. Cut the price until you reach whoever is left, or hold the number and wait for the buyer the home was always right for. The sellers chose to wait, and we backed that, because the home was not overpriced. It was specific.
Fifty four days of keeping a house permanently ready to show is genuinely hard. Anyone who has done it knows. They did it without complaint, through open houses and a steady run of showings, until the right buyer came through.
A slow sale and a bad sale are not the same thing. One is a timeline. The other is a discount you never needed to give.
What The Sellers Actually Did
Neutral Paint Is Not Exciting Advice. It Is Usually The Advice That Works.
The home had a lot of colour in it. Different shades in different rooms, chosen by people who lived there and liked them, which is exactly what a home should be while you are living in it.
The moment it goes on the market, though, colour stops being a taste question and becomes an arithmetic one. A buyer standing in a strongly coloured room is not admiring it. They are silently costing out primer, paint and a weekend, and that number gets subtracted from what they are willing to offer. It is nearly always larger than what the paint would actually have cost.
So they painted the whole thing neutral. Cleaned up. Took the pricing recommendation as given rather than negotiating it upward, which is rarer than it should be. Then held the house at showing standard for the better part of two months.
None of that is glamorous and none of it makes a good photograph. It is simply the work, and the sale is what the work bought.
On Possession Day
They Left Behind A Hand Drawn Map Of The Garden.
We leave a closing box for every buyer. Usually the sellers add a spare key and a note about which bin goes out on which week.
These sellers drew a map. Every shrub, every tree, every garden bed, marked and labelled, so the new owners would know what was already planted and what would come up as the summer went on. The strawberries, the raspberries, the asparagus. The point being that nothing would get pulled out by mistake in a first weekend of tidying.
Nobody asks for that. There is no clause in a contract about it and no advantage to be had, because by then the sale is done and the money has moved.
They did it because they had spent years on that garden and wanted it to survive them. It is the single nicest thing we have seen handed over in a closing box, and it tells you everything about why the house showed as well as it did for fifty four days straight.
The Home
What Buyers Walked Into.
- 1,406 sq ft bungalow, three bedrooms and two bathrooms, all on one level
- Open concept main floor with a gas fireplace and large windows through the living space
- Kitchen with ample storage, updated appliances and a motion sensor faucet, opening to a dining nook with patio doors to the rear deck
- A flexible front bedroom that works as a home office, guest room or studio
- Unfinished basement with more than 1,300 sq ft to develop
- Double attached garage
- Newer furnace and hot water tank, appliances replaced within four years, updated fixtures, fresh interior and exterior paint, new front fiberglass door and screen doors
- Smart home features: Google Nest thermostat, smart plugs, smart connectivity in the living room
- Fully fenced backyard backing directly onto a walking path, with a rear deck, garden beds and a greenhouse
- Established strawberry, raspberry and asparagus plantings
The Canals Airdrie Real Estate
Why The Canals Holds Its Appeal.
The Canals is built around water and pathways, and that is not decoration. Homes that back directly onto a path rather than onto another fence are a genuinely limited group within the community, and they behave differently on the market because a buyer cannot manufacture that view later.
Bungalows are the other limited group. They are a smaller share of the housing stock here than two storey homes, and the people looking for single level living are usually looking for it specifically, whether that is downsizing, accessibility, or simply not wanting stairs. That narrows the audience, which is why a bungalow can take longer, and it is also why the eventual buyer tends to be certain rather than curious.
Got A Home That Won’t Suit Everybody?
A bungalow, an unfinished basement, an unusual layout. A narrower buyer pool is not a problem to be solved with a discount, it is a timeline to be planned for honestly at the start. We’ll tell you what yours would realistically do, and we’ll tell you when it isn’t your moment.
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