Seller Advice
Calgary Bottomed In 2024. Airdrie Bottomed In 2022.
Two markets forty minutes apart, on opposite clocks for four years. If you are taking selling advice from a friend in the other city, this is why it does not fit.
The short answer. In Airdrie our median days on market bottomed at 15 days in 2022 and has risen every year since, to 29 days so far in 2026. In Calgary it kept falling until 12 days in 2024, then rose to 29 in 2025 and sits at 19 days in 2026. The two cities have not moved in step for four years. Figures are our own 258 Airdrie and 193 Calgary sales, data current to 2 October 2026.
Hello, Gorgeous! We publish our own day counts rather than board averages, and when we put Calgary and Airdrie side by side this week, something turned up that we had not noticed in eight years of doing this.
The two markets have been moving in opposite directions since 2022.
Median Days On Market, Side By Side
Our own closed sales, grouped by the year the sale closed
| Year | Airdrie | Calgary |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 40 | 76 |
| 2021 | 21 | 25 |
| 2022 | 15 | 17 |
| 2023 | 16 | 14 |
| 2024 | 20 | 12 |
| 2025 | 24 | 29 |
| 2026 (so far) | 29 | 19 |
258 Airdrie sales and 193 Calgary sales, on either side of the deal, counted as days on market on the MLS® listing. Data current to 2 October 2026, published 7 October 2026. 2018 and 2019 are left out of this table because our Calgary count those years was six and three, which is not a sample. Individual sale prices are not published.
Read The Two Columns Downward.
Airdrie hit bottom in 2022 at 15 days and has slowed every single year since. Sixteen, then twenty, then twenty four, then twenty nine. Four consecutive years in one direction is not noise.
Calgary kept speeding up for two more years. It reached 12 days in 2024, the fastest year we have ever recorded in either city, then jumped to 29 in 2025 and settled back to 19 so far this year.
So in 2022, Airdrie was faster than Calgary. By 2024 Calgary was nearly twice as fast as Airdrie. In 2025 they swapped again. They have not been in step since the pandemic years.
If your friend sold in Calgary in 2024 and told you it took twelve days, they are not describing your market. They are describing the fastest year we have ever had, in the other city.
What We Think Is Behind It.
This part is opinion rather than data, and we will say so plainly rather than dress it up.
Airdrie is a narrower market. It is heavily detached, heavily family, and heavily commuter, which means it rises and falls with one kind of buyer. When that buyer gets more cautious, the whole city slows together.
Calgary is many markets at once. Inner city infill, suburban family homes, apartment condominiums and age restricted buildings all move at their own speed, and the city median is an average of all of them. A shift in one segment can pull the whole number without the others changing at all.
We are not going to tell you which effect dominated which year, because we do not know, and an agent who gives you a confident causal story about a market is guessing with a straight face.
Where This Claim Does Not Hold.
Three limits, because a number without its limits is a sales pitch.
This is our book, not the market. We sold 258 homes in Airdrie and 193 in Calgary. CREB® publishes figures for both whole cities and those are the right source if you want the market rather than us.
The yearly counts are modest. Each year in that table rests on roughly twenty to forty sales per city. That is enough to show a four year direction. It is not enough to call a single year’s move precisely.
Calgary is very large and we are not evenly spread across it. Our 193 Calgary sales sit across 94 communities. Our Airdrie book is far deeper, which is why we publish community medians there and not here.
What To Do With This.
If you are selling in Airdrie this autumn, plan around four weeks rather than two, and treat any advice built on 2022 as out of date by four years.
If you are selling in Calgary, the useful comparison is 2026 against 2025, not against 2024. Nineteen days is a normal market. Twelve was not.
And if you are moving between the two cities, which plenty of our clients do, understand that you are selling on one clock and buying on another. That is a sequencing problem, and it is worth planning before you list rather than after.
The full numbers, year by year, are on both pages: how long it takes to sell in Airdrie and how long it takes to sell in Calgary. For the homes we listed ourselves, counted from the listing contract date, see how long homes we list take to sell.
Which Clock Are You Selling On?
Tell us the address and what you are weighing up. We will tell you what we actually know about your side of the city, including when we think waiting is the better call.
We almost did not publish this one, because the Airdrie column is four years of our own market getting slower and that is not a flattering thing to put on your own website.
But you cannot plan a move around a number chosen to win a listing. You can plan one around this.
Cheers, Tara
REALTOR® CCS®, Tara Molina Real Estate Group | Royal LePage Benchmark. Proudly serving Calgary, Airdrie and surrounding area.
Figures are drawn from our own MLS® sold record, data current to 2 October 2026, published 7 October 2026. Past results are a record of what happened rather than a prediction of what your home will do. General information, not financial, tax or legal advice.
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