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Ross McCredie, president and chief executive of Sotheby’s in Canada, says 2015 could continue to be a strong year for real estate if interest rates remain low. The Bank of Canada has not raised its overnight lending rate for more than four years.

Alberta is the one place where there is a lot of wait-and-see right now

“There’s nothing that I’ve seen from any of the banks [indicating that the Bank of Canada is going to raise rates] and even if it went up one, two or three percentage points, that’s cheap money historically,” said Mr. McCredie. The prime rate at most financial institutions, which variable rate loans are tied to, is 3% and most consumers are able to negotiate discounts off that rate.

The exception to the Sotheby’s forecast might be Calgary where $1 million-plus sales were up 16% in 2014 from a year earlier. “Alberta is the one place where there is a lot of wait-and-see right now. This time last year no one saw this,” said Mr. McCredie, referring to the drop in oil prices. “For most of our clients, they’re upper end [and] they’ve really made a lot of money. There’s a lot of blue-eyed sheiks coming out of Alberta. They’ve diversified in their investments and you won’t see a panic.”

The Calgary Real Estate Board said last week that 2014 sales jumped 9.3% from a year earlier. The average sale price for the year was $483,079, a 5.8% increase from a year earlier.