Excel’s First Time Homebuyer Resource Guide

A new home is the biggest purchase you’ll ever make. Whether you’re buying your first home ever – or your first home in greater Calgary – we have a suite of handy resources and tools to help you through the home buying process. You’ll find Excel’s Guide For First Time Homebuyers, mortgage calculator and answers to a host of frequently asked questions.

By taking away some of the unknown and arming you with a toolkit of practical resources, we can help make your biggest purchase worry-free – leaving you to focus on all the excitement that comes with owning a new home!

• Excel’s Guide for First Time Homebuyers walks you step-by-step through the home buying process. We discuss topics like owning versus renting, financing, purchasing considerations (size, style, preferred location, desired move-in date), as well as some important questions you may want to ask during your search (warranty coverage, build time and design and colour selections)
• We think Calgary is a pretty cool place to live and feel privileged to have been building here for more than 26 years. The city is continuously growing as families move here from across the country to plant roots. Our Guide for New Calgarians offers helpful links to community and economic resources. We promise that it won’t take too long before Calgary feels like home.
• Determining your budget and knowing what you can afford to spend on a new home is critical. Excel’s Mortgage Calculator and Resource Center offers some helpful financial tools to help you calculate your budget.
• Bust through any potential new home construction questions and language barriers with Excel Homes’ Glossary of Terms and FAQ responses. We address some common queries including explaining what laned and spec homes are.