Doug Hovde Reviews

Amazing experience! Knowledgeable, patient, and truly cared—guided our family every step to find a perfect home. Highly recommend their expertise!

Always ready to extend a helping hand, have a lot of patience and present himself always in a professional manner.

It is an honour to share my experience with Doug as my agent. Doug from day one was very consistent and honest with his thoughts regarding the property. In the beginning I told Doug I was not to savvy with many things that go along with selling a property. This property for me was apart of a settlement so I was very unaware of the many differences in selling a condo unit. Doug so to speak held my hand through this process and went well above what I feel any agent may do for someone. He provided everything I needed for me and in the end its a success. I was able rest easy knowing Doug was doing what he needed to do to nail this down. I would recommend Doug to any newbie buying or selling a property or any one looking for an honest hardworking agent. I know already he is my guy when I start looking for my next property. Thank you Sir!

My husband relocated to Calgary from Whitehorse, Yukon after we got engaged to my 525 sq. ft. condo in downtown Calgary. Although we both work away for three weeks at a time, the three weeks that we were trying to co-exist in such a tiny space was an added challenge to a new marriage. We knew we wanted to leave the downtown area of the city and both of us ideally want to be closer to the mountains, with easier access to the outdoor activities we love - fishing for him, paddleboarding for me. We started looking online at homes in Cochrane, initially thinking a low maintenance condo or townhouse would be the best choice given our work rotation. Doug was the first agent to reach out after I selected the option for a property viewing, and we set up a meeting shortly thereafter to look at a few properties. Doug sat with us before we went to view properties to go over the process, including securing a pre-approval, viewing as many properties as we could to determine our needs, and figuring out when we planned on moving. We were in a lease in the condo until the summer but our frustrations with the small space and various building malfunctions were mounting and we decided paying the lease payout was favourable while we got more serious about our property search. We were pre-approved for more than we had anticipated and expanded our search to duplexes and a few smaller detached homes. Doug was always available for us and flexible, especially when urgent things came up and we had to change viewing appointments last minute. He was not a typical real estate agent, doing and saying whatever he needed to in order to make a sale. We walked through properties and he looked at them as though he was the buyer, pointing out deficiencies and concerns, such as water damage in a brand new condo or cracks in the concrete floor of the basement. We viewed townhouses, duplexes, and single detached homes in multiple areas of town, all of which Doug was able to provide detailed neighborhood pros and cons and future development plans. We explored the option of new builds and viewed show homes, while Doug shared transparent information and knowledge about builders, quality, and potential challenges. On only our third trip to look at properties, we walked through a well maintained pre built single detached home that was fully finished and bright with a small low maintenance yard and a detached garage. Nearly four times the size of what we currently have, we asked Doug to do a little research on our behalf about market prices and a potential appropriate offer price. On our drive back to Calgary, I got a message from Doug saying that another offer was expected on the house that night and he asked if we were serious enough about it to want to put an offer in. We decided that we were, and Doug jumped into action quickly, even though it was a Friday evening and he worked through the weekend for us as well negotiating on our behalf. He didn't pressure us to go above the price we were comfortable with offering. We ended up being the only offer and it was eventually accepted the following day. Since then, Doug has continued to provide support and guidance through every step through to our home inspection and the removal of financing conditions. The only item left is signing with the lawyers when we return home from work and then we take possession of our beautiful new home on February 27th. His referrals for mortgage brokers and home inspectors were also excellent and this has been as low-stress as we could hope for. We can't recommend Doug highly enough for his professionalism, honesty, and support throughout a fairly major and complicated life decision. We feel very grateful that he was the responding agent the day we poked our toes in the market.

Doug had great patience and helped me navigate the sale of our home while going through a split and mediation. Professional and to the point

Mine was a commercial deal, and I am so very glad that Doug was my realtor. From listing to negotiating, he really came through. He is very knowledgeable and so calm! I would definitely use Doug again!