CIR Realty
We provide our Realtors with the best tools in the industry. From the latest and most sophisticated networked computer systems, to our own in-house Skills Upgrading courses. CIR Realty is the exclusive Calgary and area member of Q-net, Canada’s fastest growing coast to coast referral network. As a result, we attract a steady supply of buyers and sellers.
A Personalized Client Database Management System is available to all our Realtors. This allows them to provide a superior level of communication and information to all their clientele. Get the results you want by putting our winning combination of professional people and a strong, progressive company on your side.
First and foremost, Real Estate is a people business. That is why we choose to surround ourselves with the best people in the industry. As a client of CIR Realty, we want you to be assured that you are working with the best. Our professional team includes over 650 dedicated Realtors. They are supported by a full complement of helpful staff and knowledgeable non-selling managers. CIR Realty is a family owned and operated business with true hands-on commitment. Everyone is 100% behind our Realtors so that our Realtors can be 100% behind you.
Trust is the foundation. We believe trust should be the first … and last word in Real Estate because you depend on sound, honest advice. At CIR Realty, your ambitions and dreams are important to us. We want to earn your respect by becoming your knowledgeable and trustworthy partner.
Highly trained and professional, our Realtors embrace the commitment and desire necessary to help turn your dreams into reality.
History of CIR
The early 1980′s were not kind to Alberta. The national recession, coupled with the federal government’s newly introduced National Energy Program and the sky high interest rates all hit the province hard. Many Real Estate offices were closing their doors, but one Calgary brokerage chose this time to open for business.
In early 1983, Calgary Independent Realty Ltd. (CIR Realty) grew out of the former operations of another real estate company. Principals Brian Fossard and Jim Demare staffed their new company with a dozen agents from their former office. That was also the same year Karl Stader chose to leave the home building trade and became a real estate agent.
Karl was working for a large real estate company when he read a newspaper article about Calgary Independent Realty. He decided to check them out. Karl liked what he heard when he visited the company’s office near downtown. CIR’s commission plan at the time charged their agents on a decreasing scale, based on the number of sale transactions they achieved each month. That got Karl’s attention since he had always been very entrepreneurial. This gave CIR’s agents more choice on where to spend some of their earnings, like print advertising, photocopying, bus bench advertising, etc. CIR had more of a user-pay approach and that really appealed to Karl.
CIR’s two other founding owners liked what they saw in Karl too. They soon asked him to join as a silent owner/partner and help finance their expansion plans. Karl decided to invest in this new and growing company and this allowed CIR to open a second office, in South Calgary. Soon after that, CIR opened a third office in Northeast Calgary.
Son Ron joined the company in 1988 and his brother Ray joined the company in 1994. Today, owners Ron and Ray are proud that CIR has become Canada’s largest Independent Real Estate Company. CIR currently has over 660 agents associated with their 4 Calgary based offices plus 10 satellite offices in communities surrounding Calgary.
The hard working, energetic and talented management team and support staff group at CIR Realty plan to continue building upon the company’s past success. Further expansion plans are seriously being considered and the company’s growth prospects look very good.
