South Calgary Homes For Sale In Calgary

South Calgary is vibrant, friendly and walkable, and close to everything you need.

This is where our families blended. Our first home all together was 2007 26 Avenue SW, right here in South Calgary. We bought it in 2019 and sold it in 2021. We sold Girl Guide cookies door to door, floated the Elbow River from Sandy Beach on summer days, and the kids took bike riding lessons at Richmond School, just across the community line.

South Calgary has more variety than most inner city communities. At the 2021 Census, about half of its homes were apartments in buildings under five storeys, about a fifth were single detached houses, and the rest were semi detached homes, row houses and duplexes. Households were split about evenly between owners and renters.

The Marda Loop shops run along 33 and 34 Avenues, South Calgary Park and the community hall are on 16 Street, and the Giuffre Family Library is on 14 Street.

The Marda Loop Communities Association, registered as a society in 1957, serves South Calgary along with Altadore, Garrison Woods and River Park. Its hall at 3130 16 Street SW sits in South Calgary Park, with tennis courts that double as pickleball courts, beach volleyball courts that become a boarded outdoor rink in winter, a bike pump track, a playground and a community garden.

The South Calgary Outdoor Pool is in the same park: a 25 metre pool with a zero entry area. Its basin was rebuilt, and it reopened in July 2022.

South Calgary was subdivided in 1906. Streetcars reached it in 1912, and the loop the line made around the area became known as the South Calgary loop. Building slowed through the war years and the Depression and picked up again in the 1950s.

The name Marda Loop came later, from the Marda Theatre. The sandstone King Edward School taught students from 1913 to 2001, and since 2017 it has been the cSPACE King Edward arts centre on 29 Avenue SW.

The Marda Loop main street runs through the community, so the blocks nearest 33 and 34 Avenues carry more traffic, more parking pressure and more noise, and more of them sit beside new mixed use buildings or build sites. Infill building is steady on the side streets too.

Homes here range from older originals to brand new infills and apartments, so two homes on one block can be very different purchases. Calgary’s 2024 citywide rezoning was repealed in 2026, effective 4 August 2026, and most lots went back to their earlier zoning, so check the current land use on any lot you are considering, and on the lots beside it. There is no public school inside the community, so check school designations for the exact address.