Real Estate Market

real estate market: More one-percenters per capita call Calgary home than any other city in Canada, high-end retail stores are throwing open their doors for business and the real estate market saw more luxury homes go up for sale this year than any other year in the past, according to Huffington Post. More than 100,000 in-migrants came from other provinces in the past year to seek employment in one of the most desirable job markets in the world numbers even higher than the province's last oil boom of 2005-06 and Alberta, the land of plenty, is acquiring a taste for the high life. And it shouldn't really come as a surprise. Alberta currently leads the nation in salary increases and hourly pay . The province weathered the recent economic downturn well and consumer spending was the highest in the country last quarter. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.