Will A Major Apartment Development Help Lower Sackville Fight Zero Percent Vacancy? SACKVILLE — Three new apartment buildings could be coming to Lower Sackville as the area deals with a zero percent vacancy rate. Upland Studio has filed an application to pave the way...

More than 3,700 homes lost to short-term rentals across the province, Halifax group finds Support workers say housing crisis is worsened by rise of holiday rentals More than 3,700 homes in Nova Scotia aren't available to families seeking permanent housing because they...

Nowhere to go: Homeless man caught sleeping in stairwell of Dartmouth apartment building The concrete floor wasn’t soft, but it was somewhere out of the chilly night air. A man who was sleeping rough found his way into a Dartmouth apartment building Saturday night. He...

Negotiations on Shannon Park proposed redevelopment in final stages Canada Lands Company acquired about 33 hectares of the former Department of National Defence lands in 2014 Lengthy talks regarding the proposed redevelopment at Shannon Park in Dartmouth appear to be...

Halifax's transformations over the last decade A lot has changed in Halifax in just ten years A lot has changed in Halifax over the past decade. But you don't need to find old photos to see the transformation. Google Maps street view offers a quick option for viewing...

Vacancy control, rent caps ultimately harm B.C. renters The chief executive officer of LandlordBC notes that disallowing rental increases at vacancy would be the ‘death knell’ for new rental construction It has been suggested that vacancy control that would tie rent...

Minister vows to intervene as IRAC allows P.E.I.'s highest-ever rent hikes for 2023 Landlords' association says hike makes sense; housing advocates say it's unfair The Island Regulatory and Appeals Commission has set limits on maximum allowable rent increases that...

NOVA SCOTIA's ANNUAL POPULATION ESTIMATES AS OF JULY 1, 2022 As of July 1, 2022, Nova Scotia's population is estimated to be 1,019,725, an increase of 28,608 (+2.89%) over the revised July 1, 2021 estimate (991,117).  In absolute and percentage terms, Nova Scotia's...

N.S. housing crisis: How the fixed-term lease ‘loophole’ can be ‘easily abused’ “Fixed-term leases have always been an option available to rental housing providers, and there’s no data available to support comments that there’s an increase in the use of fixed-term...

Bluenose Inn and Suites landlord appeals tenant’s win after renoviction A Halifax-area landlord is taking a former tenant to small claims court after he was ordered to pay more than $13,000 for an illegal renoviction. Residential tenancies officer Jason Warham ordered...