Offering maintenance-free living, condominiums are both a great place to live, and a terrific investment opportunity. However, whether you are a current resident of Calgary or someone who has just moved here, it can be difficult to match up what’s available with what’s right for you. Luckily there is a company that can help. Millennium Condo Gallery can help you find a new home simply and efficiently.

As the name suggests, Millennium Condo Gallery offers a beautifully designed gallery which showcases a wide variety of condominium developments and resort properties. The first of its kind in North America, and assisting buyers for nearly three years now, this gallery eliminates the need to travel all over town looking for the perfect condo. Millennium provides prospective buyers with a staff of licensed realtors who exemplify excellence in customer service and utilize the gallery to ‘organize, simplify and clarify’ the search for a new home or property. This highly trained staff begins by finding out what the potential buyer is looking for. Whether it’s an inner city or suburban condo, a resort property, home or investment, the Gallery’s staff begins with what they call the ‘meet and greet board’, finding a starting point. From there, potential buyers are shown displays that feature different properties and through descriptions and images, are able to divine exactly what is desired. After this fine-tuning process helps the buyer or buyers find a property or home that suits their needs and wants, they are then shown to the Gallery Theatre where more in-depth information can be offered.

The Gallery Theatre allows interested parties to focus on the property they are most interested in, and in using power-point presentations, virtual video tours and other visual aids they are able to obtain more detailed information about that property or development. The Gallery Theatre offers a comfortable setting in which to receive a more comprehensive look at the proposed property, and quite often reaffirms that this choice is what the buyer wants. In the case of condominiums, if this is indeed something that the buyer is interested in, then staff can take the client out to the development or showsuite to see for themselves where it is located and what it will look like. By this point it is likely that the potential buyer is quite serious about this particular property, which is an advantage to both the buyer and the developers.

Calvin Buss, President and C.E.O of the Millennium Group, says that the gallery is an asset to both potential buyers and development companies. “We offer buyers a look at new and existing properties in varying price ranges and amenities, with licensed realtors whose qualifications lie in condominiums,” says Buss. “We take potential buyers from the curiosity level through the stages of sorting through information, and by bringing up the level of interest; we help them move to an investment level.” For developers of both condominium and resort properties Millennium Condo Gallery may be the only sales centre they have, or an augmentation to an existing centre. “Thirty to 40 per cent of new resort properties in the Okanagan and Vancouver Island are bought by people from Calgary,” says Buss. “We offer these developers a kiosk space here in Calgary, as well as highly trained staff.” Of course there are many other resort spots available, and Millennium Condo Gallery makes it possible for Calgarians to find out more about these great get-away spots, as well as investment opportunities outside the city.

Of course not everyone is in the market to buy, and realizing this, Buss says that the Millennium Group will soon be introducing Millennium Management, a great opportunity to showcase and manage condominium rentals. This is an avenue that will benefit both those looking to rent a condo, and those wishing to use their property as an investment. All in pursuit of the company’s goal of offering one stop shopping when it comes to condominium and resort properties. CL

The Millennium Condo Gallery is located at 1015 - 4th Street SW, and also offers a comprehensive and interactive website at http://www.condogallery.ca