Guides by Vishnu Gabbula
Offer strategy: writing a competitive offer and negotiating it
Most offer advice is price advice. Price is one of several negotiable terms, and often not the one that decides who wins. This is how our team thinks about building an offer and negotiating it.
September 22, 202612 min read
How offers work in Alberta: the contract, the deposit and the conditions
An offer in Alberta is a contract, not a gesture. Here is what it contains, who holds your deposit and under what rules, what a condition does, and why the deadline on a condition matters more than most buyers are told.
September 22, 202614 min read
Types of homes in Alberta, and why condo is not the opposite of freehold
Detached, semi-detached, row, duplex, apartment, bare land condo. What each one actually is, what you own in each, and why the condo versus freehold framing you have been given is wrong.
September 16, 202612 min read
Is now a good time to buy in Calgary? We will not answer that
We are a brokerage. We get paid when you buy. That is exactly why we are not going to tell you whether now is a good time. Here is what can actually be known, and the six questions that decide it for you.
September 16, 202610 min read
Renting or buying in Calgary, with the actual numbers on both sides
Renting is not throwing money away, and buying is not automatically building wealth. Here is the comparison worked properly, using Calgary rent and Calgary benchmark prices, including the case where renting wins.
September 16, 202613 min read
The Alberta home buying timeline, stage by stage
Nobody can tell you how many weeks it takes. What they can tell you is the order, what has to be true before each stage starts, and which decisions get expensive to reverse once you pass them.
September 16, 202613 min read
How Calgary is laid out: quadrants, districts and the towns around it
Quadrants are an address convention. Districts are what price actually tracks, and the two do not line up. Here is the map a Calgary buyer needs before looking at any single community.
September 16, 20269 min read
Searching, showings and open houses: what we actually look at
Most viewing checklists are contractor checklists in disguise. This is what our team actually looks at during a search and inside a showing, what you can genuinely judge yourself, and what you cannot.
September 16, 202612 min read
Builder homes and resale homes: what you can actually check
Most comparisons of new builds and resale homes are about feelings. This one is about what Alberta lets you verify: a builder's licence status, a specific home's warranty coverage, and what a caveat on title means.
September 16, 202611 min read
Capital gains tax when you sell your home, and why most sellers owe nothing
If the home you sold was your principal residence for every year you owned it, the gain is not taxed. That covers most sellers. The exemption is not automatic though, and four situations quietly take it away.
September 4, 202613 min read