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Hi, I’m Kelly Doody – licensed REALTOR®, 4th generation Calgarian, 20-year marketer and entrepreneur, and lifelong real estate diehard.

Ready to make the best move of your life? Whether you're buying, selling, or investing, your ideal outcome awaits. The right home changes everything. Whether you’re searching for your first home, next home, or forever home, I’m here to help you buy, sell and invest with strategy, clarity, and confidence. I bring a marketer’s eye, an analyst’s mindset, and an entrepreneur’s hustle to every transact

ion. I manage the moving parts with care and intention so you can focus on the exciting side of the equation, not the stress. My unparalleled commitment to your goals:
When you partner with me, I make it my mission to fulfill your real estate vision, while providing my utmost service, care and support every step of the way. Zero-pressure guidance that puts you first:
From our first meeting to final sign-off, my trusted eXp Realty brokerage and I are at the ready as your steady, seasoned guides, while you hold the keys. Local expertise and deep market knowledge:
I pride myself on offering expert insights and tailored solutions rooted in decades of experience as a renter, homeowner, landlord and real estate professional. A process that's as human as it is smart:
You'll love our lineup of cutting-edge tools that make everything from your initial home search to final sale as simple and seamless as possible.. Learn more about my process, plan and promise at https://kellydoody.com, or book a 30-minute discussion around your goals, timeline, and best path forward at https://calendly.com/kelly_doody.

24/04/2026

Curious what your neighbour's home sold for? And your own property's ever-changing equity, opportunity, and value? Your instant, no-obligation assessment awaits.

Thanks to my partnership with HonestDoor, the timely, accurate intel you've been looking for is here. Sold data, market trends and buyer activity in your city, neighbourhood and cul-de-sac, as it happens, direct to your inbox.

Step 1: Get the current market data 👉 https://kellydoody.com/snapshot
Step 2: Get your instant home report 👉 https://kellydoody.com/valuation
Step 3: Call me to discuss 😉

16/04/2026

Something every first-time home buyer in Calgary should know, and something I wish more agents were talking about.

The federal government has a rebate program that can return up to $50,000 to first-time buyers who purchase a brand new home. It’s called the First-Time Home Buyers’ GST/HST Rebate. It was introduced to make new housing more accessible, and it applies to purchase agreements signed on or after May 27, 2025.

The basics:
✓ First-time buyer (no home owned in the last 4 years)
✓ Brand new construction (condos, townhouses, detached, duplexes, even modular)
✓ Your primary residence
✓ Purchase price $1.5M or under (full rebate at $1M and under)

In Calgary, many new builds, especially in communities like Ambleton, Livingston, Glacier Ridge, and Belmont, are landing right in the sweet spot. At $500K–$900K, first-time buyers could be looking at a very meaningful amount of money back at closing.

I wrote a full breakdown on Substack, including criteria, timelines, and resources. https://calgary.kellydoody.com/p/the-quiet-50k-rebate

Read it, share it with someone who’s been talking about buying their first home, and drop a comment or send me a message if you have questions.

14/04/2026

It's been a long haul, but our beloved pool is finally back.

13/04/2026

Was blanket rezoning simply ‘repealed’ in Calgary? No, not exactly. Following City Council’s Wednesday vote to reverse the contentious 2024 zoning bylaw, a lengthy series of amendment debates ensued.

Surprisingly, the final consensus layered several new, stricter building stipulations in, while removing the pro-development parts.

This, despite assurances it was not a ‘repeal and replace’ proceeding, nor would on-the-fly, Council-conceived policy additions support the public trust rebuilding efforts at hand.

The 11th-hour amendment passed by Council added restrictions on building height, lot coverage and parking requirements, justified as a response to what 77% of pro-repeal Calgarians asked for throughout the 8-day pre-vote hearing.

The result is an unnamed policy that’s arguably tighter and more anti-development than what existed prior to 2024. We didn’t just swing back to the previous bylaw, known for being slow, costly and uncertain, we swung past it.

Is it a double win and necessary relief for residents who’ve witnessed the worst of rezoning unfold on their inner-city streets? Yes. But for developers, builders, and construction starts amid a housing crunch? Not so much.

Yes, the R-CG designation will be removed from 308,000 Calgary properties by August, but what slides into its place eagerly awaits more clarity and context. I’ve summarized every detail of what’s gone, what’s new, and what it means for Calgarians > https://youtu.be/FTdpcwCxzUo.

Let me know what you think, and how it affects you and your restored backyard views or dashed infill dreams.

12/04/2026

What has a natural perch high above the river valley with sweeping views of the Bow, Fish Creek Provincial Park, and on a clear Calgary day, the entire front range of the Rockies?

This place. Cranston Ridge. More formally: the Cranston Escarpment.

Named after the family who once homesteaded the land, Carma Developments (now Brookfield Residential) started building it out in 1999. Cranston has since grown into one of the most dynamic communities in the city, with more home transactions than anywhere else in Calgary for three years running.

While Brookfield shaped the land into a highly sought-after master-planned community, a handful of Calgary’s top builders, including Cedarglen Homes, Trico, Baywest, Calbridge and Albi, brought it to life.

Upper Cranston has schools, shops, and a massive Century Hall recreation facility. Lower Cranston, known as Riverstone, sits right along the Bow with the escarpment rising behind it. River, forest, wildlife, and every season doing its best work.

If you’ve written Cranston off as just another SE suburb, I dare you to cruise the ridge.

10/04/2026

I was supposed to host an open house last Saturday. It sold before I could get there.

It was my friend Ken Rigel Group 's listing, a detached 4-BR home in Lake McKenzie. Ken’s been selling homes in Calgary for 18 years, and he wasn't one bit surprised.

I decided to grill him on what the heck is actually happening this spring, why some homes are selling in record time at record prices, and what it means for buyers and sellers waiting in the wings.

Because right now, the headlines and the reality are not the same thing, and certain pockets of our city’s real estate market are quite literally on fire. Understanding why and leveraging the opportunities at hand is the key.

Catch the entire juicy interview on my YouTube channel (Kelly Doody Real Estate) at https://youtu.be/M3D2WV6aO2A, and find Ken at https://krgroup.ca.

08/04/2026

You've probably driven past it a hundred times without knowing it was there.

Perched on a limestone ridge above the Elbow River, on the edge of Erlton, a hand-hewn log building that most Calgarians have never set foot inside, or perhaps even noticed.

This is the Southern Alberta Pioneers Memorial Building.

Built by master craftsman Hobart A. Dowler, it was originally assembled at his Pigeon Lake property, then carefully dismantled log by log and reassembled on this ridge in 1954. It was dedicated on June 8, 1955, as part of Alberta's 'Golden Jubilee' 50th birthday.

The spot it sits on isn't just beautiful. It's historically charged. In the late 1800s, bull trains and Red River carts from Fort Benton, Montana, and stagecoaches from Fort Macleod passed below this bluff on their way north to Calgary. The earliest European settlers of the southern prairies travelled this very corridor.

The building honours the men and women who arrived in southern Alberta before December 31, 1890. Today, it's a designated City of Calgary Municipal Historic Resource, still hosting weddings, lectures, and community gatherings, and run by the Southern Alberta Pioneers' Foundation.

And that ridge? In my very unscientific opinion, it's one of the best sunset spots in inner-city Calgary. Mountains to the west. River below. City at your back.

Go find it.
📍 3625 4 St SW, Calgary

07/04/2026

Half of Calgary home buyers are convinced the market is cool and getting colder. They’re not necessarily wrong, but it's only half the story.

Here's what the data shows. If you're buying or selling a detached home, it’s a tight, competitive market, and getting hotter as we head deeper into spring. This is particularly the case in the West and SW quadrants of the city, where homes are selling fast and supply is low.

But condos? Opposite scenario. Sales are down and inventory is high, exacerbated by 18,000 additional units currently under construction, meaning buyers in the attached market hold the keys. For how long? Well, until more of them get off the sidelines, sales pick up, and supply levels return to normal. But as of now, choice and negotiating power are high for condos and townhomes.

YYC’s real estate market is not one cohesive picture at the moment. We're seeing two distinct storylines unfold, each requiring a different strategy with different realities and expectations.

Two markets, one city, and a wild spring ride underway. Drop me a line to discuss what it means for you and your plans.

06/04/2026

Meet Juno.. a California shelter pup from Joey’s House Rescue in Calgary. AKA Flopsy the Copsy, Junebug, Juney, Jubes, Juniper. 2 years after losing our Ruby, I’ve learned you can’t logic your way back into a dog. You just leap, and get blasted with love.

02/04/2026

Lori Dixon has been cutting my hair since 2008.

Eighteen years later, I'm standing in her newly renovated Bankview home, watching afternoon light fall on the Knoll Saarinen Tulip table her husband found secondhand for an absolute steal.

The house is now clad in Hardie board and blue. When they bought it in 2010 for $525,000, it was yellow and vinyl, with wraparound veranda, tree with a swing, and two distinct driveways on a rare corner lot just up from 17th Ave.

Lori walked by it each morning on her way to work, smiling as she passed. The day the for sale sign went up on the lawn, her husband called her on her cell.

"We're going to look at a house in Bankview tonight."

"Is it yellow?” she asked.

Fifteen years, three kids, and a massive inside-out renovation later, the house is a standout, and its inhabitants happier than ever.

Find out how this urban family of five played their cards and patiently developed their dream home, one impeccably selected piece at a time.

Read the full story on my Substack at https://calgary.kellydoody.com/p/loris-house

And catch Lori in her glory at https://www.instagram.com/colourtheoryhair
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Questions about Bankview or what a renovation like this can do for your health, happiness, and [ahem] resale value? Reply here or book a call – https://kellydoody.com/contact

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