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How to price your Calgary home
Price is the one variable that can rescue a weak listing or ruin a strong one. Here is how a pricing conversation should go.
Comparable sales, not estimates
Pricing starts with recent sold comparables in your community: similar property type, size, age, condition and location. Active listings tell you what you're competing against; solds tell you what buyers actually paid. Online automated estimates use neither with enough local nuance to be relied on.
The cost of starting high
A listing gets its largest audience in its first two weeks. An over-ambitious starting price spends that attention proving the home isn't worth it, and the eventual sale price is often lower than if it had been priced correctly from day one.
Search-bracket pricing
Buyers search in round brackets. Pricing at $650,000 rather than $655,000 puts a home in front of everyone whose search caps at $650,000 — a meaningfully larger audience for a small difference in list price.
Reading the feedback
Lots of views but no showings usually points to price or photography. Lots of showings but no offers usually points to condition or to something specific in the home buyers keep raising. Both are fixable, but only if the feedback is being collected and reviewed weekly.
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How often should I review my list price?
Review activity weekly. If a home has had steady showings for two to three weeks without an offer, the price or the presentation needs to change.
Where to go next
Current listings
See what is on the market now.
Areas of Calgary
How pricing differs by quadrant.
Start your listing
Get a pricing conversation booked.
Keep reading
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- Flat fee vs traditional commission in Calgary
- How to prepare your Calgary home for sale
- Buying your first home in Calgary
- Buying a condo in Calgary: what to check before you write
- New build vs resale in Calgary: how to choose
- How to make an offer on a Calgary home
- Getting a mortgage in Calgary: pre-approval to funding
- Why Torontonians are moving to Calgary
- Why Vancouver residents are moving to Calgary
- Why Montrealers are moving to Calgary
- Why Edmontonians are moving to Calgary
- Why Winnipeggers are moving to Calgary
- Why Ottawa residents are moving to Calgary
- Why Haligonians are moving to Calgary
Contact
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Neville Thompson Jr. — Real Estate Broker
Future of Calgary · Real Estate Professionals Inc.
$3,999 listing fee plus applicable GST. Buyer brokerage compensation, if applicable, is separate. Terms apply. *The $3,999 listing fee applies to sale prices up to $400,000. Every additional $200,000 of sale price (or part thereof) adds $500 to the flat fee — for example $4,499 up to $600,000, $4,999 up to $800,000, and $5,499 up to $1,000,000.