Tara Molina, Calgary and Airdrie REALTOR® CCS®
Team lead of Tara Molina Real Estate Group at Royal LePage Benchmark. 500+ homes sold across Calgary and Airdrie since 2017, and every one of them published, including the ones that took a while.
Tara Molina is a REALTOR® CCS® (Certified Condominium Specialist) in Calgary and Airdrie, Alberta, and the team lead of Tara Molina Real Estate Group, brokered by Royal LePage Benchmark. Licensed in May 2017, she and her team help people buy, sell and value homes in Calgary, Airdrie and all surrounding communities, with 500+ homes sold since 2017.
By Tara Molina, REALTOR® CCS (Certified Condominium Specialist)
Why Did Tara Molina Become A REALTOR®?
I started as the client. Twice. Both went badly.
A Tuscany home in 2003, then a Rocky Ridge condo in 2004. Both taught me what it feels like when nobody explains the process.
I had been a paycheque. When I got my licence, I brought that feeling with me, and built a team around not doing that to anybody.
The Whole Story: Two Purchases, Two Lessons.
What went wrong in Tuscany and Rocky Ridge, and what it changed.
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The Whole Story: Two Purchases, Two Lessons.
What went wrong in Tuscany and Rocky Ridge, and what it changed.
I came to Calgary in 2003 thinking I’d stay one summer. I bought my first home that year, in Tuscany, and sold it in 2004. By the usual measure, the sale went brilliantly: well above asking. What I didn’t get was an agent who asked what I thought. He was aggressive and enormously sure of himself, and once the deal went firm he vanished, leaving an instruction to hire a cleaning service and pay for it myself. I don’t remember receiving a single useful piece of information after that day.
Later that same year I bought again, a Rocky Ridge condo, this time entirely on my own. That agent pushed a quick sale, waved off the inspection, and never explained the difference between titled and assigned parking. I found that out later, the expensive way.
I had been a paycheque. When I got my licence, I brought that feeling with me, and built a team around not doing that to anybody.
How Does A Marketing Background Help You Buy Or Sell?
Fifteen years owning a marketing agency, then real estate.
Meet Tara Molina
That audience is a distribution channel, and it’s why a listing of ours reaches people who aren’t scrolling MLS® that week. The pitching taught negotiation.
An opinion of what your home is worth, from someone who wants your listing, deserves to be weighed carefully. That includes mine.
Negotiation, Marketing And The Selling Side.
What fifteen years of agency work looks like on a buyer’s offer and a seller’s listing.
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Negotiation, Marketing And The Selling Side.
What fifteen years of agency work looks like on a buyer’s offer and a seller’s listing.
Before I was a REALTOR®, I owned a marketing agency for fifteen years and ran it day to day for eleven, and built an audience of more than 40,000 people from scratch. That’s not a personality trait. It’s a distribution channel, and it’s the practical reason a listing of ours reaches people who aren’t scrolling MLS® that week.
Agency work is competitive in a very particular way. You pitch against three other firms for the same account, in the same room, on the same afternoon, and you either read what the client actually cares about and adjust, or you lose. I did that for eleven years. That is negotiation, and it’s the part of representing a buyer most people never see: knowing when to push, when to concede something that costs you nothing, and when the other side is bluffing.
The selling side is the same skill pointed differently. I don’t list a home and wait for buyers to arrive. The job is bringing your home to buyers who weren’t looking for it yet. Photography, film, floor plans and a real campaign behind it, aimed at the audience I’ve spent since 2006 building. That’s what a listing strategy is, and it’s why presentation isn’t optional here.
What Will Tara Molina Put In Writing?
Not adjectives. Policies: the kind you can hold me to.
Each Side Gets Their Own Agent
Buyers, call me about any home I have listed. I’ll show it to you, tell you what I know about it, and show you anything else worth seeing. If you decide to write an offer on one of my own listings, a teammate writes it, so you and the seller each have an agent working for you alone. On every other home, I write the offer myself.
I Publish The Slow Ones
Every sale is on this site, including the home that sat 105 days and the one that didn’t sell at all. See the whole record.
An Honest Range, Not A Promise
I won’t name a high number just to win your listing. A number like that gets found out six weeks later, when a price drop is the only move left. You’ll get a range and the reasoning behind it.
I’ll Tell You Not To Move
If the numbers don’t work, or it isn’t your moment, you’ll hear that instead of a listing presentation. Sometimes the honest answer is next year.
What Is My Home Worth, And Is Now My Moment?
You get a range, the comparables behind it, and a straight answer about timing. Home evaluations for Calgary, Airdrie and all surrounding communities are free, with no obligation, whether you are selling this year, in a couple of years, or not at all.
Afterward, the only thing you will hear from us is what is happening in the real estate market in your own community. No pressure, no sales pitch.
Free Home Evaluation
A realistic range and the reasoning behind it, for a sale, a mortgage renewal, or simple curiosity.
Free Pre Sale 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, before you spend the money.
Buying? Call About Any Listing
Tara will show it to you, and anything else worth seeing. Call or text 403.809.4639.
Who Does Tara Molina Help In Calgary And Airdrie?
Every move has a different problem at the centre of it. Here’s where each one starts.
Sellers
Pricing, preparation and what it actually costs to sell. If it’s your first time, start here.
Buyers And First Timers
What you need, what you don’t, and the questions nobody slows down to answer. See the first time buyer guide.
Move Up Families
Selling and buying at once is the genuinely hard one: bridge financing, conditional offers, possession dates.
Relocating And Investors
I made this move myself in 2003. Start with the relocation guide, then the community guides for the streets themselves.
Not Ready To Call Yet? Start Here.
You don’t need everything figured out before you reach out. If you use these and never call me, that’s a perfectly good outcome.
What’s My Home Worth?
Not an instant algorithm number: a range, the comparables behind it, and a straight answer about whether this is your moment.
Ask for the range →Search Every Listing
Live MLS® listings across Calgary, Airdrie and all surrounding communities, updated as they come to market.
Search homes →Read The Reviews
Clients in their own words, including the video ones, which are harder to fake than a star rating.
Client reviews →
Who Else Is On Tara Molina’s Team?
Tara Molina Real Estate Group is brokered by Royal LePage Benchmark. Tara Molina, REALTOR® CCS®, leads the team, and Shauna Allen, REALTOR®, works with buyers and sellers across Calgary, Airdrie and Edmonton.
Questions People Ask About Tara Molina.
Who is Tara Molina?
Tara Molina is a REALTOR® CCS® (Certified Condominium Specialist) in Calgary and Airdrie, Alberta, and the team lead of Tara Molina Real Estate Group, brokered by Royal LePage Benchmark. She was licensed in May 2017, and she and her team have sold 500+ homes since then. Top 2% in Canada with Royal LePage in 2025. Top 1% in 2022 and 2024.
What areas do you serve?
Calgary, Airdrie and all surrounding communities, including Cochrane, Okotoks, Carstairs and Foothills County. Most of our work sits in Calgary and Airdrie, and you can see exactly where on the community guides. For Airdrie in particular, see Tara Molina, Airdrie REALTOR®.
What does CCS® mean?
Certified Condominium Specialist, a designation for agents who’ve done additional training on condominium transactions: reserve fund studies, condo documents, board minutes, bylaws, and the difference between titled, assigned and rented parking. It matters because a condo purchase turns on paperwork most people never see until it’s too late. My first condo purchase was in Rocky Ridge in 2004, and nobody explained any of it to me.
When was Tara Molina licensed, and what did she do before real estate?
Tara was licensed as a REALTOR® in May 2017. Before that, she owned a marketing agency for fifteen years, until 2021, and ran it day to day for eleven of those years.
How many homes have you sold?
500+ since 2017, and every one is published on this site, the eight day sales and the ones that took months. That is $270M+ in homes sold. Top 2% in Canada with Royal LePage in 2025. Top 1% in 2022 and 2024.
Will you represent the buyer on my listing too?
When I am your listing agent and a buyer comes to me directly, a teammate writes their offer, so you and the buyer each have your own agent and the person you hired stays entirely on your side. Buyers are always welcome to call about any of my listings. I’ll show it, and anything else worth seeing, and on every other home I write the offer myself.
Do you work with first time buyers and smaller price points?
Yes. My own first condo purchase went badly enough that first time clients get particular attention. There’s a full first time buyer guide and a first time seller guide, both free and both without a form.
What if I’m not moving for a year?
Then talk to me now anyway. The useful conversation is the early one: what to fix, what to leave alone, and what your street has actually been doing. That is what the free Pre Sale Walkthrough is for. There is no obligation, and the only follow up is market information for your own community.
Who else is on the team?
Tara Molina Real Estate Group is brokered by Royal LePage Benchmark. Meet Shauna Allen, read the team’s story, or see the trades and lenders we recommend.
Which brokerage is Tara Molina with?
Royal LePage Benchmark. Tara is the team lead of Tara Molina Real Estate Group, and the team’s Calgary office is at 7220 Fisher St SE #110, Calgary, Alberta.
Let’s Make Your Next Move A Positive One.
Ask me the question you’ve been googling at midnight. I’ve heard it before, I’ve asked it myself, and there’s no pitch attached to the answer.
Tara Molina Real Estate Group | Royal LePage Benchmark