Residential Tenancies Accepting "Application to Director" Filings Online   NEW: You can now submit your application to the Residential Tenancies Program to resolve a dispute between landlord and tenant online (Form J). It is fast and easy! Service Nova Scotia and...

Commission recommends against rent control, urges $25 million in spending to start solving affordable housing crisis Nova Scotia Affordable Housing Commission report: Wages have not kept up with rent increases, more Nova Scotians are being forced to spend a greater...

A Twist On Traditional Student Housing Comes To Halifax HALIFAX—Construction has begun on a 141-unit building in North End Halifax destined to be a new kind of student housing. The six-storey complex is going up beside the Dalhousie University campus on Seymour...

Killam buying 11 Kitchener-Waterloo apt. buildings for $190M Killam Apartment REIT (KMT-UN-T) has an agreement to acquire an 11-building portfolio on four properties in Kitchener and Waterloo, west of Toronto, for $190.5 million. In an announcement late Tuesday, the...

CCPA-NS report: more than 30,000 permanent affordable housing units needed in NS Policies should use intersectional lens to understand why certain groups are excluded from secure housing, author says What would it take to ensure that everyone has meaningful access to...

Crombie’s $100-Million Raise Will Help Fund Pivot Into Residential Real Estate HALIFAX — New Glasgow’s Crombie REIT recently raised $100-million by selling off stock to a syndicate of underwriters co-led by Scotiabank and BMO Capital Markets, as well as its long-time...

How Ron Lovett Plans To ‘Transform’ 1,000 Affordable Housing Units In N.S., N.B HALIFAX — Halifax real estate company Vida Living made headlines earlier this month when it bought more than 1,000 units of affordable housing in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick from an...

Builders' risk insurance market remains tight Despite some softening in other sectors across the country, Canada’s builders’ risk insurance market remains tight and higher deductibles and rates continue to reign. Cansure is looking to take brokers’ headaches away and...

Developer Hopes To Build 26 City Blocks On Shannon Park Site In Dartmouth HALIFAX – If all goes according to plan, Canada Lands Company is planning to spend “tens of millions of dollars” to develop the 87- acre Shannon Park area in Dartmouth into 26 city blocks. Under...

Why construction exclusion did not apply to this building under renovation Ontario’s Divisional Court will not hear an appeal from Intact of an earlier court finding that a building renovation does not necessarily trigger an “under-construction” exclusion. In Tataryn...