Calgary Tax Sale Watch

When a Calgary property has property-tax arrears for more than one year, the City registers a tax-recovery lien on the property. If arrears go unpaid, the property is auctioned at the annual public real-estate auction (held each April). The City publishes the current auction list as a PDF at calgary.ca/publicauction, updated daily at 10:00 a.m. — as arrears are paid, properties drop off. This product parses that PDF into a structured Excel deliverable with municipal address, roll number, outstanding tax balance, and reserve bid (auction starting price).

- Distressed-asset investors and real-estate flippers (the obvious buyer — these are foreclosure-equivalent opportunities) - Mortgage / commercial lenders pricing risk on adjacent properties - Demolition + cleanup contractors targeting post-acquisition work (vacant properties often need extensive remediation) - Site-security / hoarding contractors (boarded-up auctioned sites) - Insurance brokers (post-purchase liability assessment) - Property managers offering turnaround services for new owners - Real estate brokers tracking distress signals in their farm area

This list shrinks daily as owners pay off arrears before the auction date. Pre-auction Q1 lists run ~150-200 properties; by auction day (late April) most have been paid down and only ~20-40 go to actual sale. Post-auction (May onwards), only unsold parcels remain. So: - Best signal volume: January-March (heavy list) - Best closing-data window: April auction day - Trickling residual: May onwards Buyers should subscribe to refreshes during Q1 to capture maximum list size; subscribers receiving in Q2 see the unsold residual. Out-of-pocket only collects municipal arrears. Owner may still have mortgages, federal tax liens, or other registered interests that survive the auction. Buyers MUST run a Land Titles search before bidding — this product is the FUNNEL, not the close. Source: https://www.calgary.ca/content/dam/www/ca/fs/documents/property-tax/property-tax-sale-list.pdf Free, no auth, daily refresh during auction season. Output: deliverables/specialty/Calgary_Tax_Sale_Watch_<DATE>.xlsx + .csv