Top Dollar Per Square Foot In Bayside
360 Bayside Crescent SW
Bayside, Airdrie. Four bedrooms, 2,616 square feet, and an undeveloped basement. Every comparable home that sold in this community had a finished one. This is the one that got more per square foot than any of them.
The Part We’ll Say Out Loud
It Sold Under Asking. With No Basement. And No Canal.
We listed 360 Bayside Crescent SW at $889,900 in March 2026 and it sold for less than that. Read only the last line of the file and this looks like a home that missed.
Here is what the file does not show. Every comparable home that sold in Bayside had a developed basement. This one did not. Four of the five had between 850 and 1,100 more square feet of finished space. Three of them backed the canal, and one came with a private dock. 360 Bayside had a quiet street, mature trees, and 768 fewer finished square feet than the average of the homes it was measured against.
It sold within $8,100 of that average anyway.
Colleagues still ask us how we got that price for that home. Nobody asks that about a bidding war. They ask it when a house gives up a finished basement, a thousand square feet and a canal, and lands in the same place regardless.
The Only Fair Comparison
Per Finished Square Foot, Nothing In Bayside Came Close.
Price per square foot is the number every agent quotes and almost nobody uses honestly. Quote it on above-grade space and a home with a developed basement looks cheap, because you have counted the price of the basement and none of its square footage. Compare finished space to finished space and the picture inverts.
The comparable Bayside sales achieved between $240 and $301 per finished square foot. 360 Bayside Crescent SW achieved $334 — more than eleven percent above the strongest sale in the community and nearly forty above the weakest.
That is the whole answer. Not a bidding war, not a lucky weekend. A house that was worth more per foot than anything around it, priced by someone who could see that before it was listed, and defended to every agent who walked a buyer through the door.
And it went quickly. Eighteen days from listing to closing, against a comparable average of thirty-three days on market. On the day we priced it, the homes we were competing with were asking $899,000 after seventy-nine days and $895,000 after forty-one. Both were still for sale.
The Film
See What The Comparables Couldn’t.
A comparable sale is a row in a spreadsheet. It knows the square footage and the year built, and it knows nothing else. This is what buyers saw before they walked through the door — and it is a large part of why the number held.
2018
We Met At An Open House. It Was My House.
In 2018 they walked through an open house at 240 Coopers Park SW. It was our own home, and we were hosting it ourselves.
They were not buying it. They were looking, the way people look years before they move. We stayed in touch anyway — not with a mailing list, but properly, the way you do with people you liked meeting.
Eight years later they called. Not for a valuation, and not to interview three agents. They had already decided, a long time before there was anything to decide.
Airdrie To Calgary
We Sold The House That Didn’t Sit. Then We Bought The One That Did.
They were moving to Parkdale, in Calgary’s inner city. That is two markets, two sets of comparables and two clocks that have to line up. Sell too early and you are renting. Buy too early and you are carrying both.
The Parkdale house had been listed since December and was still available in the spring. Three months on the market gives a buyer something a fresh listing never will, and we used it — they bought below the asking price.
Bayside closed on the third of April. Parkdale closed on the twenty-second. Nineteen days apart. No bridge financing, no storage locker, no renting back from the people who bought your house.
It is the same read of the market, pointed in two directions. On the sell side you want to be the house that goes in eighteen days. On the buy side you want to be the buyer of the house that has been sitting since December.
The Home
What Buyers Walked Into.
- Built 2016 — 2,616 sq ft above grade, four bedrooms, two-and-a-half bathrooms
- Quiet street in Bayside, fully landscaped and fenced with mature trees
- Open-concept kitchen, dining and living area anchored by a fireplace, with pantry storage
- Dedicated main-floor office with upgraded glass inserts, plus a secondary family room at the rear
- Primary suite with walk-in closet, vaulted ceiling and a five-piece ensuite
- Spacious upstairs bonus room, three further bedrooms and upper-floor laundry
- Undeveloped basement with a large gym area and storage, ready for future development
- Hot tub (2018), pergola, new flooring, central air, and Gemstone exterior lighting with warranty remaining
Bayside Airdrie Real Estate
Why Bayside Holds Its Price.
Bayside is built around water. Canals, pathways and green space run through it rather than sit at the edge of it, and that is the reason the community keeps its appeal even when the wider Airdrie market softens. Schools, shopping and amenities are close, and the streets are quiet in a way that newer, denser builds struggle to be.
It is also a community where the specific house matters enormously. Two homes of the same size four streets apart do not sell the same way, and that gap is precisely where a pricing decision is either made or missed.
Think Your House Is Worth More Than The Comps Say?
Sometimes it is, and it takes someone who has walked the street to know. Sometimes it isn’t, and we’ll tell you that too — because listing above the market when the house hasn’t earned it is how a home sits.