About High River
A foothills town on the Highwood River at the junction of Highways 2 and 23, south of Calgary — the filming town for Heartland, and Joe Clark's birthplace.
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What your home is worth
We do not publish a price figure for High River, because we do not have one we can stand behind — and a made-up number is worse than none when you are deciding what to do. A current opinion of value for your specific property is part of the free assessment.
High River knows what a hard year looks like. In 2013 nearly the entire town was evacuated by flooding. The community rebuilt, and there is no shame in needing help through a difficult stretch.
Where a High River foreclosure is actually handled
Foreclosures in Alberta run through the Court of King's Bench. For High River, that means Calgary Courts Centre, 601 5 St SW. Title records sit with Land Titles South.
Alberta has 11 King's Bench judicial districts served by 13 court locations — Calgary, Drumheller, Edmonton, Fort McMurray, Grande Prairie, High Level, Hinton, Lethbridge, Medicine Hat, Peace River, Red Deer, St. Paul and Wetaskiwin. Which one covers your property depends on the judicial district it sits in, and we would rather tell you how to check than guess: the court location finder on albertacourts.ca will confirm it, and any document already served on you names the judicial centre on its front page. One thing worth knowing either way — a local Court of Justice building is not the same thing. Foreclosures are heard only in the Court of King's Bench.
Worth knowing: Land Titles counter service has been closed to walk-ins since September 2025, with everything going by mail, courier or drop-box, and practitioners reporting registration turnarounds of roughly 100 days. That backlog is real and it affects how quickly anything involving title can move — plan around it rather than being surprised by it.
The full Alberta process, stage by stage →
Your options in High River
Which one fits depends on your equity, your income and how much time is left. Start with the one that usually leaves the most on your side of the table:
Selling before the court sale in High River
The same High River house sells for two very different numbers depending on who is running the sale, and whatever is left after the mortgage and the costs of the process is yours, not the lender's. What a properly marketed sale looks like →
The other routes, put honestly:
- A fast cash sale — speed, at a real discount. Worth comparing beside a listing, not instead of one.
- Reinstate, refinance or bridge — if income has recovered.
- Every other option, including the ones nobody profits from telling you about.
Free help you can call
These are independent organisations. We are not connected to them and we are not paid to list them.
- Calgary Legal Guidance — 403-234-9266. free legal help for low-income Albertans — office hours Monday to Friday, 9am to 4pm; phone to ask about clinic times
- Court Assistance Program (KB Amicus). free 30-minute volunteer-lawyer consults for self-represented civil litigants, walk-in at the Calgary Courts Centre
- Basic Needs Fund — call 211. emergency funds for rent arrears and eviction prevention
- Legal Aid Alberta — 1-866-845-3425
- Money Mentors — 1-888-294-0076. Alberta non-profit credit counselling, and the Orderly Payment of Debts programme — an Alberta-only court-ordered consolidation option
- 211 Alberta — 211. connects you to local financial and housing supports
If bankruptcy or a consumer proposal might be part of your picture, speak to a Licensed Insolvency Trustee — they are the only people licensed to advise on it.