Selling Your First Home in Calgary or Airdrie

Commission, legal fees, any investment you make before listing, and mortgage discharge or penalty if you’re breaking a term early. Commission in Alberta is negotiable and always has been: there is no set rate. You’ll have the full figure in writing before you commit to anything.

Entirely dependent on the market you’re selling into, which is why anyone answering confidently without seeing your house is guessing. For context: across every home we sold, the median was 71 days in 2018, 15 in 2022, and 26 in 2025, current as of 2026. Same team, same approach, different markets. We publish the whole record, including the slow ones.

Usually less than you think, and rarely the big renovation. Paint, decluttering, and the small broken things buyers fixate on will move the number further than a new kitchen, which seldom returns what it costs on the way out. We’d rather walk your house and name the three things worth doing.

We’ll bring in a stager and tell you honestly where it’s worth the investment. What we won’t do is pretend presentation is optional: one of our own listings took a hundred and five days largely because it couldn’t be presented properly, and that remains the clearest evidence we have that it matters.

You’ll hear why, and you’ll be brought options rather than left to ask for them. Sometimes it’s price, sometimes presentation, sometimes the wrong month. And occasionally a home comes off the market and sells anyway. One of ours did exactly that, months later, off market.

Usually, in a balanced or slower market: an offer conditional on selling your existing home is a weak offer. In a hot market with little inventory the maths can flip. It depends on your equity, your timeline and your appetite for risk, and it’s the whole subject of Smart Moves For Smart Families.

You counter, or you don’t. A low offer is information, not an insult. It tells you what at least one buyer thinks, and sometimes it’s the only honest feedback you’ll get that week. We’ll tell you whether it’s an opening position worth working with or a number that isn’t going anywhere.

When Tara is your listing agent, the person you hired stays on your side. If a buyer comes to us directly on your listing, a teammate writes their offer, so you and the buyer each have their own agent. Buyers are still welcome to call us about your home: we’ll show it, and anything else worth seeing. On every other home, Tara writes the offer herself.

Then talk to us now anyway. The useful conversation is the early one: what to fix, what not to bother with, and what your street has actually been doing. There’s no obligation, and our free Pre Sale Walkthrough is made for exactly this. We’re quite happy being useful a year early.

When the deal goes firm. Your house is not sold when you accept an offer. It is sold when the buyer’s conditions come off and the deal goes firm. Until then the buyer can still walk, so wait for firm before you book the movers.

A free walkthrough for anyone who may sell in the next year or two. We walk through your home and tell you which renovations, selections and colours make sense with resale in mind, so you can choose before you spend the money.

Yes. Our home evaluations are free, with no obligation to list or to work with us afterward. The only follow up from us is information about what is happening in the real estate market in your own community. No pressure, no sales pitch.