Calgary Real Estate Blog

For many years now, Calgary Realtors and their customers have relied on the MLS System for the most accurate and timely information on homes for sale in our city. Now the Calgary Real Estate Board (CREB) has chosen to align its MLS naming conventions with the City of Calgary’s official terms for communities.

In some cases, the changes are as simple as corrected spelling: Bel Aire becomes Bel-Aire, Saddleridge becomes Saddle Ridge. In others, neighbourhoods are consolidated: Varsity Acres, Varsity Village, and Varsity Estates become, simply, Varsity.

Zone names are also being changed from four quadrant letters, A, B, C & D, to eight more meaningful names titles: North, Northwest, Northeast, Centre, West, East, South and Southwest.

What will this mean to you as you use the MLS System? It means the community names referred to by the City of Calgary will now correlate directly with those in the System, making for an easier, more straightforward experience. A database is only as reliable as its data, and so CREB should be applauded for taking this step to start 2016 off right.

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The 35 year-old community of Edgemont, in Calgary’s northwest quadrant, is one of the city’s largest, boasting a population of nearly 16,000 in 2012. Butting right up against the formidable Nose Hill Park, Edgemont residents have access to some of the most extensive hiking trails available within the city limits of any North American community.

Edgemont has an active community association, hosting business expos, craft sales, a skate park, and hall rentals. Kids in Edgemont attend one of three schools in the community through junior high, then move on to nearby Sir Winston Churchill and Saint Francis high schools.

Median household income in the community is on the high side, about $88,000, with about a third of the residents having immigrated from other countries.

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The northwest community of Bowness has a pretty fascinating history, being one of a few Calgary neighbourhoods that was originally a town unto itself before becoming amalgamated into the city proper. Indeed, there is evidence of native peoples inhabiting the Bowness area more than 10,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age.

In the early 1900s, after changing hands several times, Bowness was purchased by an English inventor who developed the land, put in a bridge, and arranged for transit service to Calgary in exchange for donating what is now known as Bowness park to the city. The community grew, slowly, until it became part of Calgary in the early 1960s.

Bowness is now a thriving and diverse community, home to more than 11,000 people with a median household income of just over $40,000. About a third of the residents live in condos or townhomes. Those who call Bowness home enjoy the many recreation opportunities available at the Bowness Community Hall and Sportsplex, which includes an ice rink, meeting rooms, and one of the largest halls in Calgary. Outdoors, there’s the aforementioned Bowness park and the Bowness Golf and Country Club.

The community is close to the mountains, but also adjacent to 16th Avenue for easy travel downtown, or connection to southern routes like Sarcee Trail. 

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