Sold In Evergreen, SW Calgary
70 Everwoods Park SW
A gorgeous two storey on a quiet Evergreen cul de sac, bought from British Columbia by a family who had never stood in it. Selling it took eighty nine days and two adjustments along the way. We are not going to round that down.
The Part We’ll Say Out Loud
Eighty Nine Days. And We Adjusted Twice.
This home was listed at the end of June and went firm in the middle of September. Eighty nine days. Along the way we adjusted the price twice, once in late July and again in the middle of August. Every bit of that sits on the record where any agent can pull it in under a minute, so there is no version of this page that quietly reports the sale and leaves the rest out.
We listed at a number we believed we could defend. The market disagreed, and it said so twice before a buyer agreed with us. That is not a comfortable sentence to write about your own listing, and it is the truest one on this page.
Neither adjustment was a panic. Each one was a decision made with the sellers, sitting in front of the actual feedback, about what the market was telling us rather than what we had hoped it would say.
Days on market is the easiest thing for an agent to leave out and the easiest thing for you to look up. We would rather hand you ours.
What Eighty Nine Days Actually Looks Like
Adjusting Is A Decision, Not A Retreat.
A listing gets most of its attention in its first two weeks. Every buyer already searching that price range and that part of the city sees it almost at once, and their response is the clearest information a seller will ever get. After that window closes you are no longer selling to the market, you are waiting for new buyers to enter it one at a time.
Which makes the real question, at week four and again at week seven, not what the home could theoretically be worth. It is what another month of waiting costs this particular family, set against what the market has already told you twice. For sellers who have a next move waiting on this one, that arithmetic is rarely close.
So we adjusted, deliberately, with the sellers in the room and the feedback on the table. The alternative is holding a number the market has already answered, and that is how a house sits for a hundred and eighty days instead of eighty nine, arriving at roughly the same place with a worse story attached.
What we will not do is let a seller list at a number to win the listing and then spend the summer walking them down to the number we should have recommended in June. If we think your expectation is wrong, you will hear it before the sign goes in, which is the only point at which hearing it is any use to you.
The Film
The Backyard Did A Lot Of The Work.
A newly built stone patio, a deck wrapped in privacy screens, and a cul de sac behind it. This is what buyers saw before they came, and on a quiet street in Evergreen it is the part photographs undersell most.
British Columbia To Evergreen
The Same Family, Twice.
When we first met this family they were living in British Columbia with a move to the Calgary area ahead of them. They sent us their criteria, we searched and walked homes on their behalf, and in 2024 they bought this one without ever standing in it.
Nobody should pretend that is the same as choosing a home in person. A criteria list captures square footage, bedrooms, budget and commute. It cannot capture what a street feels like on a Tuesday in February, or which parts of a city you will end up loving once you have actually lived here.
Two and a half years later they had learned Calgary properly: the communities, the commutes, the kinds of homes that suited them and the kinds that did not. When that added up to a change, they came back and asked us to handle both halves of it, selling this home and finding the next one. That second call is the only honest scoreboard on the first move.
They are among the kindest people we have worked with, and being asked twice by the same family is the part of this work that never shows up in a statistic.
The Home
What Buyers Walked Into.
- 1,917 sq ft above grade, two storey detached on a quiet cul de sac in Evergreen
- Three bedrooms up, plus a fourth room with its own door and an egress window, used as a bonus room
- Three and a half bathrooms, with a walk in closet and a four piece ensuite off the primary
- Open main floor anchored by a gas fireplace, a kitchen with a corner pantry, dining opening to the deck
- Fully developed lower level with a large recreation room and a four piece bathroom
- Newly built stone patio and a deck framed by privacy screens
- Newer roof, eaves and vinyl siding, plus motorized blinds in the main living areas
- Insulated double attached garage
Evergreen Calgary Real Estate
Why Evergreen Suits People Who Are New Here.
Evergreen sits at the southwest edge of the city against Fish Creek Provincial Park, with pathways through the ridge, schools and playgrounds inside the community, and Stoney Trail close enough that the rest of Calgary and the mountains stay easy to reach. It is established rather than new, which means mature trees, finished landscaping and streets that have already settled into themselves.
That combination is why it lands so often on a relocation shortlist, and why it holds up once people arrive. It is also a community where the specific street matters: a cul de sac is a different proposition from a through road, even a few hundred metres apart, and that difference shows up in how long a home takes to sell.
Want The Number Before The Sign Goes In?
We will tell you what we think your home will actually do, how long it is likely to take, and what waiting costs you. If this is not your moment, you will hear that too, because listing into the wrong number is how a summer disappears.
Tara Molina Real Estate Group · Royal LePage Benchmark · 403.809.4639