Canmore Alberta Real Estate Agents, Richard Greaves & Darcy Chilton with REMAX Alpine Realty

It’s becoming a tradition in our family that sometime after Christmas we grab our skis and snowshoes and head into the back-country for a couple of days to relax, unwind and enjoy a winter camping experience with a few other local families in one of the Alpine Club of Canada’s back country huts.  Last year we chose a fairly easy trip and stayed at Wheeler Hut for a couple of nights last March.  This year we decided to kick it up a notch and see how the kids would handle a 12km ski up over a mountain pass and into a hut.  On January 9th my two boys and myself stuffed a back pack each full of clothes, food and sleeping bags and headed from Canmore to the Lower Kananaskis Lakes to start our trip into Elk Lake cabins with four other Canmore families.  My wife decided that she’d let the boys and myself go by ourselves this year (I think she just wanted to spend some time by herself after a busy Christmas at home with the three of us). Read the rest of this entry »

So another year comes to an end for the Canmore real estate market and 2011 turned out to be a much more challenging year for Sellers than I think any of us anticipated coming into the year.  Looking back at 2010 our market continued to recover from the drastic down turn we saw in 2008 and 2011 was looking promising to continue on the road to recovery.

Then January hit and the market came to a standstill.  If you can remember back to last January and February I’m sure you will remember the battering we got from all the storms throughout those two months.  Every weekend, starting on Friday, we’d receive a wicked snow storm that basically made the highways unsafe for travel and stopped all but the most determined skiers from making it to Canmore for the weekend.  Once the storms stopped and the weather slowly improved it felt as though Buyer’s had lost interest in the process, gotten busy with life and all of a sudden we were left wondering what would happen to our real estate market once again. Read the rest of this entry »

What a way to ring in 2012 in Canmore!

New Year’s Eve was a great night at the pond for the kids with fireworks at 9:30pm for them and then another incredible light show at midnight, I have to say, the Town of Canmore always does an incredible job organizing the big events and the fireworks seem to get better and better every year! Thank you Town of Canmore for such a great job and making everyone in town proud to call Canmore home. Read the rest of this entry »

Wishing all our Canmore friends, clients and partners a very Happy New Year and a Healthy, Prosperous 2012

November in the Canmore Real Estate Market started off slowly but gathered a little pace towards the end of the month finishing the month with a respectable (for 2011 at least) 20 sales in town.  The momentum of a busy September and October more likely the reason than there suddenly being another large influx of Buyer’s coming into town to purchase before Christmas.  Apartments and Single Family homes being the popular choice of real estate to purchase in Canmore this month as buyer’s of town homes came to a grinding halt. Read the rest of this entry »