Calgary, Alberta
Calgary publishes what every one of its 605,597 parcels is worth but never who owns it: the assessed value is a free API call, the owner's name is a logon-gated, fee-bearing certificate of title from Alberta's SPIN2.
8 buildings · 4 with an owner established · 12 sources · 4 tier B · 4 tier A · prepared 2026-09-27
Alberta's land titles register is a Torrens system run by Service Alberta, and a certificate of title does name the registered owner. But the only search route is SPIN2, the Land Titles and Surveys Spatial Information System, which requires a logon name and password, runs only inside published service hours, and charges per copy of title. There is no bulk ownership product at any price, and no open dataset anywhere in Alberta carries an owner name. The City of Calgary compensates on the value side: its Current Year Property Assessments dataset gives every parcel's assessed value, land size, year built and land-use designation through an open API, with no owner field at all. A transfer of land in Alberta is accompanied by an Affidavit Re Value of Land, so the price is captured at registration — it is simply never published as a dataset.
- data.calgary.ca — “The dataset's licence field states only "See Terms of Use" (licenseId SEE_TERMS_OF_USE, attribution "The City of Calgary"); the linked Open Calgary Terms of Use renders as a Socrata story shell whose text could not be extracted, so no permission to redistribute rows can be relied on.”
The marquee buildings
The towers that set the tone of the core, and who holds them. A price is the price a document states, on the date it states — not an estimate of what the building is worth now.
| Building | Use | Owner | Owner type | Last price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Bow 500 Centre Street SE 2,000,000 sq ft |
Office | Oak Street Real Estate Capital H&R REIT retained a 15% interest in the net rent payable for the remainder of the Ovintiv lease H&R REIT agreed to sell the two-million-sq-ft tower at 500 Centre Street S to Oak Street Real Estate Capital; H&R kept an option to repurchase 100% of land and building at $368 per sq ft and a 15% net-rent interest to the Ovintiv lease expiry in May 2038. Calgary's 2026 roll assesses the parcel at $771,000,000. |
Private equity | CAD $1,216,000,000 2021-08 Announced 3 August 2021 as part of a $1.67B two-asset deal; the Bow was valued at $1,216,000,000 and the Mississauga Bell Campus at $457,000,000. B |
| CF Chinook Centre 6455 Macleod Trail SW |
Retail | Cadillac Fairview Cadillac Fairview's own retail site serves the centre as 'CF Chinook Centre | Calgary's Largest Shopping Mall' under CF corporate branding. At $1,038,950,000 it is the highest-assessed commercial parcel in Calgary's 2026 roll, on 214,923.6 m2, built 1973. |
Pension fund | —B |
| CF Market Mall 3625 Shaganappi Trail NW |
Retail | Cadillac Fairview Served from Cadillac Fairview's own shops domain as 'CF Market Mall'. Assessed at $503,920,000 on 226,900 m2, built 1970 — the third-highest commercial parcel on the 2026 roll. |
Pension fund | —B |
| Calgary City Centre 215 2 Street SW |
Office | Cadillac Fairview Named as a Cadillac Fairview building on CF's own Calgary office availability search, which lists live vacancies in it by suite. Assessed at $355,500,000 on 5,288.2 m2 in Eau Claire, year of construction 2013. |
Pension fund | —B |
| Brookfield Place Calgary 225 6 Avenue SW |
Office | Not established a paid title search would answer it Calgary's tallest tower carries a developer's name but no document we could open states its current owner: brookfieldproperties.com 404s every property path in favour of a BGRE redirect notice, and bgre.com publishes no per-asset pages. The 2026 roll assesses it at $567,500,000 on 7,520 m2 in the Downtown Commercial Core. The owner is on a certificate of title behind the SPIN2 logon. |
Not established | —A |
| Eighth Avenue Place West Tower 585 8 Avenue SW |
Office | Not established a paid title search would answer it Assessed at $307,100,000 on 4,156 m2, year of construction 2014. No opened filing or corporate page names the owner; EDGAR full-text search returns only Calgary energy tenants citing it as their head-office address, never a landlord. |
Not established | —A |
| TELUS Sky 685 Centre Street SW |
Mixed use | Not established a paid title search would answer it Assessed at $161,950,000 on 2,245.5 m2, year of construction 2014. Allied Properties REIT's Q2 2026 quarterly report discloses a Calgary segment but names no individual Calgary asset, and EDGAR full-text search returns no real-estate filer for 'TELUS Sky'. |
Not established | —A |
| Foothills Medical Centre 1403 29 Street NW |
Mixed use | Not established a paid title search would answer it The single highest-assessed parcel in Calgary at $1,992,480,000 — 262,000 m2 in St. Andrews Heights, year of construction 1961, land-use designation S-CI (special purpose community institution). The roll states the value and the use but not the owner. |
Not established | —A |
The core land
The most valuable ground in the city, and what the public record says about it.
Calgary is the rare city where the value side of the record is completely open: the 2026 assessment roll is queryable parcel by parcel over an API, so the concentration of value can be measured exactly. What it cannot tell you is whose it is.
Who builds the houses
New-home building in this market: the volume, and the firms behind it. Ownership of a builder matters as much as its volume — a private-equity platform and a family firm behave differently.
Calgary is the only city in this section with an official, open, builder-level league table: the City's Building Permit Builders Report names the applicant on every permit and states the housing units it creates, 1999 to date. Permits applied for since 1 January 2024 total 59,026 new housing units across 32,841 permits. The caveat is that on multi-family projects the applicant is often the architect rather than the builder (NORR Architects Engineers Planners appears with 5,711 units on just 144 permits), and 13,084 units since 2024 carry no applicant name at all — so the table below is builders only, and undercounts apartment developers who file through consultants.
| Name | Type | New housing units on permits applied 2024-01-01 to 2026-09-25 |
|---|---|---|
| Truman Homes Applicant name 'TRUMAN HOMES 1995'. The largest named builder in Calgary since 2024 on the City's own permit record, and the only one whose units-per-permit ratio (8.0) shows a genuinely multi-family book. |
Private company | 4,480 units / 562 permitsA |
| Deveraux Developments 101 units per permit — a purely apartment-scale developer, invisible in any single-family league table. |
Developer | 1,519 units / 15 permitsA |
| Jayman BUILT Essentially one unit per permit: the archetypal Calgary single-family volume builder. |
Private company | 1,323 units / 1,268 permitsA |
| Mattamy Homes Calgary Applicant 'MATTAMY HOMES CALGARY'. Canada's largest privately held homebuilder operating as a local applicant entity. |
Family / private | 1,263 units / 1,042 permitsA |
| Shane Homes Calgary-founded single-family builder; one unit per permit. |
Family / private | 1,204 units / 1,188 permitsA |
| Brookfield Residential (Alberta) The land-developer-plus-builder model inside a listed parent, behaving on the permit record almost identically to the local family firms. |
Public company | 1,075 units / 988 permitsA |
Commercial landlords
The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.
No Canadian body publishes a Calgary landlord league table by floor area, and the two biggest office owners' own websites have stopped publishing per-property pages. What can be established from opened sources is a small number of landlords who name their own Calgary assets.
| Name | Type | Calgary presence |
|---|---|---|
| Cadillac Fairview CF's own office availability search names Calgary City Centre, 400 - 4th Ave. SW, Market Mall Executive Professional Centre and Chinook Professional Tower; its shops domain serves CF Chinook Centre and CF Market Mall. Those two retail parcels alone are assessed at $1.54B on the 2026 roll. |
Pension fund | 6 named Calgary propertiesB |
| Oak Street Real Estate Capital The Bow, bought from H&R REIT in a deal announced 3 August 2021 at a stated $1,216,000,000 — the single largest office asset in the city. |
Private equity | 2,000,000 sq ftA |
| Allied Properties REIT Allied's Q2 2026 quarterly report states it 'operates in five urban markets, which are Montreal, Toronto, Kitchener, Calgary and Vancouver', with Calgary & Edmonton at 3.8% of total NOI; the portfolio overall is 179 rental properties valued at $6.8B. No individual Calgary asset is named. |
REIT | $2,895k Calgary NOI, Q2 2026A |
| BGRE (formerly Brookfield Properties) The only figures the successor site publishes are global. It names no Calgary building, although two of the city's landmark towers carry the Brookfield name. A Calgary-specific figure is not obtainable from an open source. |
Institution | 330M+ sq ft managed, 1,400+ properties globallyA |
Looked for and not found
Claims this page would have made if a source could be opened. They are left out rather than guessed.
- Ownership of Brookfield Place Calgary, Eighth Avenue Place, TELUS Sky, Suncor Energy Centre and Bankers Hall. Brookfield Canada Office Properties filed Calgary property schedules with the SEC but stopped in 2014, which is too stale to publish as current ownership.
- Whether Oak Street Real Estate Capital still holds The Bow. Its successor Blue Owl Real Estate Net Lease Trust's FY2025 10-K Schedule III shows exactly one 'Calgary, AB, Canada' property acquired in 2022 at a $436,933 thousand gross carrying amount, but it is filed under Industrial Properties and the filing never names the asset, so the identification cannot be made.
- The Open Calgary Terms of Use text, and therefore whether the assessment roll may be redistributed rather than merely cited.
- Titled parking stalls, storage units, machinery and equipment and linear property are excluded from the Calgary assessment dataset — a coverage hole for downtown parkades and industrial assets.
- No sale-price dataset exists for Calgary or Alberta at any access level below a per-parcel title purchase.
- The Alberta title-search fee was recorded as unavailable when this record was first written; it was later established at $10.00 from SPIN2's own public fee schedule and product catalogue (source s12), which is reachable without a logon. The earlier conclusion that no tariff was publicly posted was wrong.
Sources
- Current Year Property Assessments (Parcel), roll year 2026 — City of Calgary / Open Calgary · openA
- SPIN 2 — Alberta Land Titles and Surveys Spatial Information System (logon page, v4.15.0) — Service Alberta, Government of Alberta · registrationA
- Land titles — Government of Alberta · openA
- Land Titles Assurance Fees — Government of Alberta · openA
- Calgary's iconic Bow tower to be sold as part of $1.67 billion deal — Daily Hive Urbanized · openA
- CF Chinook Centre and CF Market Mall property sites — Cadillac Fairview · openA
- Find the Perfect Office — Calgary availability search — Cadillac Fairview · openA
- Building Permit Builders Report — City of Calgary / Open Calgary · openA
- Q2 2026 Quarterly Report — Allied Properties REIT · openA
- BGRE — Brookfield Properties is now BGRE — BGRE · openA
- Blue Owl Real Estate Net Lease Trust FY2025 Form 10-K (Schedule III) — U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission / EDGAR · openA
- SPIN 2 Fee Schedule and Product Catalogue — Service Alberta, Government of Alberta · openA