The correction in the housing market, fall in interest rates and growth in house hold income has brought the affordability of Calgary homes better than ever before. However, the degree of housing affordability has improved far better than the 1980’s cycle. The present growth is found to be similar with that of early 1990’s real estate cycle. Record lows are spotted as another important reason for the increase in affordability and still further lowering is expected. Calgary agents instruct people to budget for higher interest rates to stay away from excessive risks. Speaking about the market, there are three individual yet connected types of real estate markets are available. They are Rental Market, Resale Market and the Construction Market.
One of the intelligent ways to evaluate your assets is just by comparing them with safe investments. However, Government bonds are considered to be the safest investments but at the same time real estate investments also have got some significant advantages over the bonds. One of the best features of real estate investments is the growth of dividend and appreciation of the asset value with time. The new house price index for Calgary is showing a steady rise since 2008 whereas the resale market conditions were not so smooth but however, showed peak positive results in 2007. Looking on to the current trends of market conditions, the Calgary realtors say that they are experiencing a decline every year which is about 1.6% from the year of 2008. Also the single family home prices dropped up to 44%. But there was a considerable rise in the sales of high end houses for sale in Calgary.
Generally low employment and high inflation rates are two factors that support real estate growth. Looking back the history the market, during the period of 1973-1983 there was a steep rise in home prices only because of the two factors mentioned above which Unemployment and Inflation were. However, things changed after 1983 when the unemployment rate cooled off significantly to lower rates which lead to the fall in home prices. If we take the period of 2005-2006 into consideration, a ratio of 50% sales to new listings ratio kept prices in balance. The current Calgary market conditions reports, an approximate value of 3.6% unemployment rate and an inflation rate of about 4.3% and undoubtedly, these two are spotted as the main reasons for the conservative optimism prevailing in the current Calgary real estate market.
