Find Calgary homes whose MLS® information indicates a legal secondary suite. These are search candidates: the category does not certify the property's approval, present condition or rental income.
Permission to propose a suite is different from approval of an existing dwelling. Verify the suite against City information, available permit records and the layout you inspect. If the listing describes future potential, budget and investigate it as a project.
How we classify each listing
Every listing arrives from the CREA DDF® feed with structured fields (zoning, subtype, bedroom counts) and free-text remarks. Our parser looks for explicit language ("legal secondary suite", "illegal suite", "non-conforming", "suite illegal") together with corroborating fields, and buckets each listing into legal, illegal / non-conforming, unclassified, or no-suite-indicated. Read the full method on the editorial policy.
Before you write an offer
- Confirm the property against the City's Secondary Suite Registry.
- Ask for the permit number and final occupancy inspection report.
- Have an Alberta-qualified inspector verify egress, separation and mechanicals.
- Confirm your lender will count suite income for qualification.
LegalSuites.ca reads CREA DDF® listing remarks and structured fields to interpret each listing's suite status. That is a lead for discovery — not a legal determination. Before writing an offer, confirm any suite against the City of Calgary secondary-suite information page and its Secondary Suite Registry, and engage a licensed REALTOR® and Alberta-qualified inspector.
