When selling your home, REALTORS® will sometimes hold an open house. Open houses are a way to market and expose the property for you, the seller. While an open house is taking place at your property there are more than enough Calgary and area activities to keep you busy while away for the two to three hours an open house lasts. Here's CREB® Real Estate News' top five.

Home prices in Calgary showed a slight increase in July, according to Teranet's National Bank National Composite House Price Index. The index, which tracks observed or registered home prices over time, showed month over month prices in the city rose by 0.2 per cent in July, increasing by 1.1 per cent on a year over year basis.

Yesterday CREB® released its monthly stats package for August 2012. On the first business day of every month CREB® releases statistics on sales, prices, inventories and more pertaining to Calgary, town and country residential single-family homes, townhomes and condominiums.

CREB® has taken on the vital responsibility of keeping our member REALTORS® and the citizens of Calgary and Southern Alberta up to date of what is going on in the real estate industry. Our CREBNow conglomerate of: