Alberta

Brookfield Office Properties says it will soon begin construction of Calgary’s tallest office tower, a 56-storey high-rise that will anchor a block-big, 2.8 million-square-foot downtown development.

Growth potential in suburban Sherwood Park, just east of Edmonton in Strathcona County, got a boost in May when work started on a new $23 million transit terminal on Bethel Drive.

Calgary, Edmonton and Fort McMurray are experiencing a surge in industrial real estate demand, with land prices hit eye-popping levels.

While growth in the Edmonton region is evident in some of the latest numbers from the suburbs, the demand for industrial space remains steady. According to Colliers International, the Edmonton region's current industrial vacancy rate remains at 3.

International tax expert Roy Berg of Calgary says Canadians who own U.S. real estate should consider that tax traps could be coming as the U.S. Congress looks at allowing Canadians to stay south of the border for a longer period of time.

A joint venture involving Telus, Allied Properties Real Estate Investment Trust and Westbank will push another Calgary landmark tower into the sky in the city’s downtown core.

Despite City Hall efforts to increase densities in many of its existing core neighbourhoods, Calgary will continue to have growth largely focused in its suburbs, says a new report from the City of Calgary.

Retail giant Costco will we setting up shop in the Edmonton suburb of St. Albert before the end of 2013, and there's more commercial development expected to follow.

The Town of Cochrane, population 17,000, has received an award for excellence in government finance from the Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada.

Recent Statistics Canada studies show that B.C. is losing people at a fast pace, and nearly all of them are heading for Alberta. Since the second quarter of 2011, 12,430 more people moved from B.C. to Alberta.