The owner of a Calgary, Alta., house where five young people were killed says he's selling it because he just wants to move on.

Geoff Heal once lived in the now-notorious Brentwood home, long before five young people were stabbed to death there during a university party last April. Heal still owns the home, and now he's faced with convincing somebody else to live there, either as a tenant or a new owner.

"It's a good house, and it's for sale," he told CTV News, explaining that he's been working hard at the now-empty four-bedroom house, cleaning up and adding a fresh coat of paint.

"I have to do something, I can't do nothing. It can't sit here," he said.

The house at 11 Butler Crescent N.W. went up for sale earlier this month at a listing price of $489,900. The initial listing does not mention that the house was the site of the worst mass murder in Calgary's history. However, the realtor will tell interested parties about its history through a private note.

There have been calls for the city to buy the property and turn it into a park, but Heal said he'd rather fix up the house for someone to live in.

"The idea of a park has been thrown around, but I think you've got to make sure everybody who lives around here would want a park," he said. "Some neighbours aren't real keen on that idea."

Heal said despite the home's recent history, it's sat dark long enough. "It's been sitting here for three months," he said. "Maybe I'll rent it out, maybe not, but I've got to start moving."

Quebec is the only province in Canada to have a disclosure law where a seller must reveal if a murder or a suicide occurred in a home.

In most other provinces, realtors say that they will reveal that information -- if they’re aware of it.

“The first thing we tell them, after (potential buyers) ask us general questions about price and size, is: ‘I have to tell you, at this house there was a murder, or there was a suicide,’” said Lorne Weiss, of the Manitoba Real Estate Association.

In some cases, homes where such a tragedy has taken place are never sold, but instead destroyed.

The St. Catharines, Ont. home owned by schoolgirl killers Paul Bernardo and his former wife Karla Homolka was torn down, as was the farm of B.C. serial killer Robert Pickton.

Jeff Shwaluk, the owner of a Winnipeg rooming house where three people have been murdered in the past six years, says the home’s reputation has put off buyers.

Despite making the residence safer, Shwaluk said he will now only sell the house, which is known as the “Murder Mansion,” for demolition.

“If someone wants to take it, then I want them to redevelop it and do something new here,” Shwaluk said.

With files from CTV’s Jill Macyshon