That may be a bit risky. There are plenty of unsold condos ready for occupancy in recent projects like The Guardian, Verve, Park Point, Radius, Avenue West End.

The more I think about it, the more this strategy makes sense to me, given that it is a smaller project by a large developer. The arguments for a sales centre are:
1) pre-sales help underwrite the project financing,
2) pre-sales increase the total pool of potential buyers because you are selling to people that want to buy before construction is done, especially speculators that hope to flip their contract before closing.

For Anthem, they are doing projects 20x this size elsewhere. They don't need pre-sales to prove to their lenders that they know what they are doing or to make their cash flow work. Since there are only 93 units, putting them on the market all at once isn't material to the Calgary condo market as a whole. They will have to compete with Guardian, Verve, Park Point, Radius, and Avenue regardless of whether they are sold all at once or over time. Finally, market pessimism in Calgary means that pre-sale flippers are extremely rare right now - Battistella is trying to get Vancouver condo flippers interested in Nude but there's no sign of that strategy working.

Given this situation, pre-sales just cost money (sales centre rent, fit-out, staff salaries, etc...) that doesn't make a return.
 
While competing with Guardian, and Verve one could argue the location of this project is superior to those for an amenity rich area.

Park Point and Radius would be closer matched to it for livability of the neighbourhoods.
 
You can't beat the location for sure.
While competing with Guardian, and Verve one could argue the location of this project is superior to those for an amenity rich area.

Park Point and Radius would be closer matched to it for livability of the neighbourhoods.
 
That seems unnecessarily confusing as well (like Victoria on the Park in Kensington, which isn't in Victoria Park). When I hear that name, I think it is located in the community of Aspen Woods, along Bow Trail..... Anybody else? Just me?....
 
Agree, it's odd. It's not two buildings so why ____ & ____. It's also not in Kensington. It's in Hillhurst. I don't ever call Kensington, Kensington Village and I'm there every day. It's certainly not a village. It's two streets.

That seems unnecessarily confusing as well (like Victoria on the Park in Kensington, which isn't in Victoria Park). When I hear that name, I think it is located in the community of Aspen Woods, along Bow Trail..... Anybody else? Just me?....
 
This one has a name. Signage on the building says:
Aspen & Bow
Kensington Village

According to the community association newsletter, this will be rentals, with leases starting in December.
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I walked pass this place today, and I have to say it's turned out to be a good little development. I'll grab some pics next time.
 

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