Calgary Multifamily Permit Activity: January–May 2026

Between January 19 and May 17, 2026, the City of Calgary issued 283 building permits meeting PropertyLabs’ multifamily definition: three or more residential units, or an explicit rowhouse, townhouse, apartment, or multiplex work description.

Together those permits approve 3,847 units and $638.3M in declared construction value. The pipeline is bimodal: half of all permits approve four units or fewer, while a short list of eight large developments accounts for nearly half of total declared value.

Activity accelerated through the reporting window. Q2’s first six and a half weeks recorded more declared value than all of Q1, which suggests Calgary’s next supply wave is broadening beyond one-off tower permits into a mix of suburban production housing and inner-city redevelopment.

Calgary’s multifamily activity splits along a familiar line: greenfield subdivisions where builders file dozens of small, similarly sized permits, and established inner-city communities where fewer, larger projects redevelop existing sites.

Rangeview, Sage Hill, Mahogany, and Ricardo Ranch lead on raw permit count, largely rowhouse and stacked-townhouse product from a small set of production builders. Tuxedo Park stands out for density, while Beltline and Manchester Industrial carry the largest single-project values in the window.

This report is built from the City of Calgary Open Data Portal Building Permits dataset, normalized into PropertyLabs’ unified permit schema.

A permit is classified as multifamily when it declares three or more residential units, or its work description names a rowhouse, townhouse, apartment, or multiplex typology and the unit count is not exactly one.

The analysis window covers permits issued between January 19 and May 17, 2026. Declared value is the applicant-reported construction value at filing, not an appraised or assessed value.