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Development
New Plan For Dartmouth Waterfront Includes Cruise Ship Berths DARTMOUTH – Early plans for a significant redevelopment of Alderney Landing and the Dartmouth waterfront include cruise ship berths and a pedestrian trail connecting King’s Wharf and Ferry Terminal Park. At...
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 progress. The...
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 population grew at a...
2022 Year End review
Year In Review: Kevin Russell On The Challenges N.S. Landlords Faced In 2022 Q: As somebody who speaks on behalf of landlords and property investors in Nova Scotia, when you look back at 2022, what comes to your mind? This year unfolded the way we predicted it would,...
Media Release
For Immediate Release December 14, 2022 Rental housing providers continue to be ignored by the Houston government Today’s cost of living announcement by Premier Tim Houston continues to ignore small rental housing providers who are struggling with the double-whammy of...
Heating Assistance Programs
$100M in funding announced for home heating rebate for Nova Scotians Eligibility will also be expanded to include household incomes of up to $85,000 The Nova Scotia government says it is adding more than $100 million to its heating rebate program to help residents...
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