The Alberta real estate market has over the last couple of decades gained a reputation for being lucrative, expensive and increasingly out of reach for a growing sector of the province's population. Calgary's real estate market is often described as being 'on fire' and commonly appears near the top of Canada's most expensive places to buy. Edmonton is close behind, with real estate in that city inching ever closer to Calgary's near-stratospheric levels. And when real estate is expensive to buy, all of housing options inch up accordingly, which is why Alberta is also considered one of the most expensive places to rent in Canada. In Alberta, the ever climbing cost of having a roof over ones head ensures that, like the weather, the topic is something that everyone talks about, and something that most residents of Wild Rose Country have strong opinions about. And MLS Calgary and MLS Edmonton, some people visit those sites more than a teenager visiting his/her Facebook page...