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"Calgary's resale housing market is seeing an uptick in activity as consumer confidence increases and we can expect a slow, steady return to stability over the coming months " says the president of Coldwell Banker Canada.

"The local resale housing market has slowed compared with last year because of the current economic conditions and the high inventory of new homes built during the past few years of the boom" said John Geha, who was in Calgary on Wednesday speaking to local professionals about the real estate market.

"The trend that we're seeing - the increase, the stabilizing - we see that continuing. And we really see the Calgary market starting to right side itself throughout the year and be back on track towards the end of the first quarter in 2010," he said.

"We see it on a continued basis. Not a major jump because you still have a lot of inventory out there, but we do see here in Calgary a stabilization of the market and a nice gradual increase in business."

So has the Calgary market hit bottom?

"I would say that we've come close to the bottom. I don't think that there's a slam down in the bottom."

"One of the things that's taking place (is) there's a lot of new buyers out there and that's what is really fuelling the consumer confidence as well," said Geha. "When you have a drop in value, a very low interest rate, stability in your financial markets, you've now expanded to a new buyer. That triggers the movement of the market."