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Development

Dartmouth’s Shannon Park development finally takes step forward Proposal would see 3,000 new residential units on 34 hectares of lands The long-awaited Shannon Park development that would see a new community built on the Halifax Harbour is finally seeing...

HRM

HRM to consider KPIs, timeframes for development applications, permits This isn’t about blame, insists Coun. Waye Mason. At Tuesday’s Halifax regional council meeting, Mason (Halifax South Downtown) asked for staff to investigate a system of tracking key performance...

Economy

Halifax among fastest growing cities in Canada Kentville, Truro, New Glasgow and CBRM also saw growth, according to Statistics Canada Halifax was the second-fastest growing urban region in the country in 2022, after Moncton, N.B., according to new data from Statistics...

Property Assessements

Property values in Nova Scotia climb steeply this year due to hot market, pandemic Residential assessments up about 20% over last year, commercial properties up about 7% The value of Nova Scotia properties is rising steeply this year due to a hot housing market in...

Residential Tenancies

Tenant evicted from condemned Halifax apartment gets another hearing in the new year Tenant wants fines against landlord Stacey Gomez and Marcus Ranjbar will be back before a residential tenancies officer in January. The tenant and landlord have been in a months-long...

Nova Scotia Housing Crisis

Nova Scotia’s housing crisis: Why it’s getting tougher to keep a roof over your head “It is a piecemeal response to the crisis, not the all-hands-on-deck response needed, says Lovitt.” This crisis has been brewing for five decades. Halifax’s...