Best Calgary Neighbourhoods for Condos

The office core, Stephen Avenue and the free-fare 7 Avenue CTrain on your doorstep. Downtown Calgary's two residential communities sit on the south bank of the Bow River: the Commercial Core, with Stephen Avenue and most of the office towers, and the high-rise Downtown West End beyond 9 Street SW.

Calgary's most walkable neighbourhood and its largest condo market. Directly south of downtown across the CPR tracks, the Beltline joined the historic Connaught and Victoria Park districts in 2003 and takes its name from an early streetcar route.

A riverfront district rebuilt from the ground up, with the Central Library and Studio Bell next door. East Village sits where the Bow and Elbow rivers meet, beside the site of Fort Calgary, and declined for decades after the Second World War.

Riverside towers between the office core and Prince's Island Park. Eau Claire lies between the downtown office towers and the Bow River, on land once used by the Eau Claire lumber mill, which ran until 1944.

A historic mission village on the Elbow River, with 4 Street SW's cafés and patios. Mission began as an Oblate Catholic mission on the Elbow River in 1875, was incorporated as the village of Rouleauville in 1899 and was annexed by Calgary in 1907.

The Kensington shopping village, a CTrain station and the Bow River at the door. Across the Bow from downtown, Hillhurst and Sunnyside were among the first areas settled north of the river, and the Kensington shopping district straddles the two along Kensington Road and 10 Street NW.

A village-style main street and newer condos, one CTrain stop from downtown. Settled in the 1880s by Russian-German immigrants, when it was known as Germantown, and later home to many Italian and Ukrainian families, Bridgeland-Riverside sits on the north bank of the Bow just east of downtown.

Calgary's oldest neighbourhood, with an independent main street on 9 Avenue SE. Established in 1875 as East Calgary, across the Elbow from Fort Calgary, Inglewood is the city's oldest neighbourhood, and 9 Avenue SE, once Atlantic Avenue, keeps some of Calgary's best-preserved main-street architecture.

A new walkable community on University of Calgary land, with its first residents in 2018. University District is a master-planned community on about 200 acres of West Campus land that the province transferred to the University of Calgary in 1995.