Photo: Silver Dovelet · CC BY-SA 4.0A home in Lakeview is worth 68% more than the middle of Alberta’s towns
In figures: $670,000 for the median home in 2021, $400,000 for the middle of Alberta’s towns. For Lakeview there is no published sale price, as for every town in Alberta. For 2024, the median assessed value of a residential property is $525,000. Lakeview doesn’t get its own assessed values, values by property type and building permits figures; the ones here come from the city of Calgary.
Two ways to price a home in Lakeview
Each source sits beside its own median for Alberta’s towns; none compares across provinces, which value homes in their own ways. The values date from May 2021 and are what owners thought their homes were worth, not sale prices.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $839K
- Owners
- 3,805
- Alberta’s towns
- $400K
- The typical Canadian town
- $406K
all residential
- Alberta’s towns
- $297K
Census 2021 (Statistics Canada); Canadian Housing Statistics Program, tables 46-10-0099 and 46-10-0093; Québec rôle d’évaluation foncière 2026 (MAMH).
Calgary’s detached houses are assessed 88% above the median of Alberta’s towns
Of Calgary’s 483,605 residential properties on the 2024 roll, 62% are detached houses and 18% are condos.
Median assessment by type, 2024 the tick is the median of Alberta’s towns
Canadian Housing Statistics Program, table 46-10-0093 (2024): residential properties on the assessment roll, vacant land left out. The ticks are the median of Alberta’s towns with their own figure; assessments compare within a province only.
How Lakeview’s homes break down, by age and kind
At the 2021 census, 70% of Lakeview’s 5,050 occupied homes were single-detached houses. At least half predate 1981. Summed from small census areas, a neighbourhood’s parts may add up to a little less than its total.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Alberta’s towns
Homes by kind
| Lakeview | Alberta | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 11% | 15% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 5% | 5% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 2% | 4% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 8% | 8% | 7% |
Census 2021 (Statistics Canada): occupied private dwellings; core housing need as Statistics Canada defines it. Ticks and columns are medians of the towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more.
26.6 new homes a year per 1,000 in Calgary: more than Alberta’s towns (7.5)
Over 2018–2023, 77,275 homes were permitted in Calgary, close to 12,879 each year. Single-unit buildings took 26%, the rest buildings of two or more, against 69% for Alberta’s towns.
The busiest year: 2023, with 18,187 new homes
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
Steady: 26,142 new homes in the year to August 2026
Shared with the rest of the Calgary metro area: monthly permits
Statistics Canada, tables 46-10-0087 (building permits by census subdivision, 2018–2023: dwelling units created, new construction and conversions) and 34-10-0292 (monthly, metro areas). Per 1,000: units a year over 2019–2023 against occupied homes in 2021.
Lakeview is dearer than most of Alberta’s towns: 68% above their $400,000 median
478 of Alberta’s towns (2,500 people or more), by median value at the 2021 census, dearest first.
Census 2021, owners’ estimates; towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, no city as a whole, no reserve.
Lower values near Lakeview: Currie Barracks, Garrison Woods and Kingsland
Next to Lakeview: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lakeview | $670K | $839K | 75% | |
| Currie Barracks | $628K | $601K | 49% | 2 |
| Garrison Woods | $600K | $631K | 77% | 2.3 |
| Altadore | $860K | $940K | 70% | 2.4 |
| Windsor Park | $700K | $911K | 48% | 2.6 |
| Kingsland | $488K | $440K | 34% | 2.8 |
| Oakridge | $528K | $552K | 87% | 3.4 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Lakeview
Is Lakeview expensive for Alberta?
Dearer than the middle: Alberta’s towns come to $400,000, Lakeview to more.
How many households in Lakeview are in core housing need?
In line with Alberta’s towns (8%): 8% in Lakeview, counting the households whose home falls short on cost, size or repair.
Sources: Statistics Canada, Census of Population 2021 · Statistics Canada, Canadian Housing Statistics Program · Statistics Canada, building permits (tables 46-10-0087 and 34-10-0292). Under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).