Canmore Home Sales and Sold Prices

If you have searched for Canmore home sales and found a wall of "estimated value" badges and listings marked "sold" with no price, you have run into the Alberta problem. Sold prices here are not openly published the way they now are in Ontario or British Columbia, so most of what you see online is inference. This page explains how Canmore sold prices actually work, what homes have been selling for by property type and neighbourhood, how far below asking sales typically land, and how to get real comparable sales from a local REALTOR® before you make an offer or set a price.

How sold prices work in Alberta

Sold prices in Alberta are recorded in two places, and neither is a public website. The first is the MLS® System operated by the local real estate board, which logs the final price, closing date, days on market and the conditions of every brokered sale. Licensed REALTORS® can search it; the public cannot. The second is the land title. When a property transfers, the new title records the consideration paid, and anyone can order a copy from Alberta Land Titles for a fee, CBC put a full title at about $10 online in its guide to looking up sale prices. The province’s SPIN2 mapping system shows a limited amount of title information free, but it is slow and not designed for browsing.

That is different from Ontario, where a 2018 Competition Tribunal decision forced the Toronto board to let portals display sold data, and from B.C., where the assessment authority publishes recent sales. Alberta has no equivalent, which is why HouseSigma, Zolo, Wahi and HonestDoor can show medians and trends for Canmore but only partial, and sometimes modelled, individual sale prices.

Canmore home sales: what homes sold for recently

The most reliable public figures are the portal medians for closed sales, cross-checked against the local year-in-review, which draws on board data.

Full-year 2025 averages rose about 8% for detached homes, townhouses and apartments, and 16% for half-duplexes. The market overview tracks these figures month by month, and the August 2026 report has the current detail.

Sold-to-list ratios: how much below asking

Canmore sellers hold their price better than the days-on-market figure suggests. In July 2026 the median sale closed about $9,987 below asking (Wahi), roughly 1% on a $1M home. Zolo puts the town’s selling-to-listing price ratio at 97.8% (accessed August 2026), with homes selling in roughly 47–68 days depending on the source and period.

The average hides a split. Townhomes priced on recent comparables routinely sell at or within 1% of list inside a month. Where the bigger discounts happen is at the two ends: tourist-home condos whose owners bought at 2022 prices and are now facing non-residential tax and a fixed zoning stock, and estate homes above $3M, where the buyer pool is thin and a 5–10% reduction from an ambitious list price is normal. The gap between list price and sale price tells you which kind of listing you are looking at, which is exactly why you want the real number.

Recent sale ranges by neighbourhood

Prices here are qualitative, sourced ranges by neighbourhood require the MLS® System data that a local REALTOR® provides on request, the pattern, though, is consistent and worth knowing before you shortlist.

Compare these ranges with the neighbourhood guide, which adds sun exposure, walkability and short-term rental status for each area.

The most expensive homes sold in Canmore

The town record is $7.5 million for a six-bedroom detached home on about half an acre at 147 Cairns Landing in Three Sisters, sold against a $7,988,000 list price, roughly $959 per square foot (Rocky Mountain Outlook). It sold in April 2024, replacing the $6.2 million sale of a four-bedroom home at 113 Spring Creek Lane in December 2023, which had been listed at $6.7 million (The Globe and Mail). Both dates come from the press reports of the sale, not from a registered transfer date; Alberta Land Titles is where you confirm the day a deal actually closed. Record sales are worth knowing about mainly for what they do to averages: a single $7.5M closing adds more than $150,000 to a month’s detached mean. The blog post on record sales has the longer list.

How to request comparable sales

A local REALTOR® prepares comparable-sales reports for buyers and sellers at no cost. Here is what to send and what comes back.

1. 1Tell us the property or the targetAn address, a building name or a brief, “two-bedroom condo in Spring Creek that allows pets, under $900K”. For sellers, the address and any recent upgrades.
2. 2We pull the MLS® System salesClosed sales in the same building or street from the last six to twelve months, with sale price, list price, days on market, size, fees and zoning. Expired and cancelled listings too, since they show what the market refused.
3. 3We adjust for what portals missSun exposure, floor level and view, tourist-home vs residential zoning, condo fee level and reserve fund health, renovation state. In Canmore these swing value more than square footage does.
4. 4You get a range, not a numberA low, likely and high figure with the reasoning, usually within 24 hours, so you can set an offer or a list price with real evidence behind it.

For sellers: pricing on real comparables

If you are selling and wondering what is my Canmore home worth, the same data is the basis of a free, realtor-prepared evaluation. Days on market in Canmore rise steeply once a listing is perceived as overpriced; the sales that close near list are the ones priced on the last three comparable sales rather than the neighbour’s asking price. Our guide to selling a house in Canmore covers strategy, commission norms in Alberta and timing.

What this means if you’re buying

Do not write an offer in Canmore on the strength of a portal estimate. Ask for the comparable sales, solds and expireds, for the specific building or street, and let those set your number. Expect to pay within a couple of percent of list on a well-priced townhome or family home, and expect real room on tourist homes and high-end listings that have been sitting. Sold data is the one clear advantage a local buyer’s agent gives you here, and it is free to ask for. The market overview has the month-by-month context.