#3101, 4001C 49 Street NW

The Part We’ll Say Out Loud

Seventy One Days. We Are Not Rounding That Down.

This condo was listed in June 2026 and went firm on the fifteenth of August. Seventy one days. That is slower than most of what we sell, and there is no version of this page where we hide it behind a graphic.

Here is the part the timeline does not explain. Apartment condos were the slow corner of this market, and this one carried three further limits before a single showing was booked: a 25+ age restriction, two bedrooms rather than three, and one bathroom. Every one of those is a line through a section of the buyer pool.

And here is the comparison that actually means something. We listed this same suite in 2022, and it took 191 days to sell. In 2026 it took 71. Same building, same age restriction, same two bedrooms, in a market that had not got any easier.

Our seller knew all of that before he signed. He had a result he needed and a runway he could live with, and he chose to wait rather than chase the market down. Seventy one days is what that decision cost, and he would make it again.

The Film

910 Square Feet, Shown Properly.

Small homes are the ones photography flatters and misrepresents at the same time. Buyers want to know how the living room actually holds furniture, whether the second bedroom is a bedroom or an office, and what the balcony really looks out at. This is what they saw before they came.

2022

He Came Straight To Me. I Sent Him To Somebody Else.

The first time this condo sold, I was the listing agent. He saw it, he liked it, and he phoned me to write the offer.

I do not double end. When I am hired by a seller, that is who I am working for, all the way through, and a buyer on the other side deserves someone whose only job is him. So a teammate of ours represented him on the purchase, and I stayed exactly where I was, across the table.

Four years later, when it was his turn to sell, he did not interview anyone. He called the agent who had told him no.

Turning down half a commission is not a sacrifice. It is the reason the phone rings years later, from the person you could have squeezed and did not.

The Home

What Buyers Walked Into.

• 910 sq ft RMS, two bedrooms, one bathroom, in Varsity Villas, a well managed 25+ building
• Spacious living room anchored by a cozy gas fireplace, with sliding doors to a covered balcony
• Updated kitchen with practical workspace and a dining area that connects to the living space
• Newer in suite washer and dryer, plus a newer dishwasher
• Walk in closet, large entry closets, a dedicated storage room and further in suite storage
• Minutes to Market Mall, transit, parks and pathways
• Close to the University of Calgary, Foothills Hospital and the Alberta Children’s Hospital
• Established northwest Calgary location with quick access to major routes across the city

Varsity Calgary Real Estate

Why Varsity Still Works For Buyers Who Cannot Buy A House.

Varsity is one of northwest Calgary’s established neighbourhoods, and its condo stock does something the rest of the city has largely stopped doing: it puts an ordinary buyer inside a genuinely good location. Market Mall, the University of Calgary, Foothills Hospital and the Alberta Children’s Hospital are all right there, and so are the pathways and the mature trees that come with a community built decades ago.

It is also a neighbourhood where the building matters as much as the address. Age restriction, condo fees, reserve fund, what has been replaced and when: two units four blocks apart, identical on paper, do not sell the same way at all. That is the part a search portal cannot tell you, and it is where most of the work on a Varsity condo actually happens.