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...

Three Towers Approved For Construction Next To Timberlea Golf Course TIMBERLEA—The developer behind Brunello Estates has been granted permission to build three new residential towers next to The Links At Brunello golf course in Timberlea. May 11, Halifax and West...

Here Are The Plans For The 20-Storey Tower At The Foot Of Macdonald Bridge DARTMOUTH — A Dartmouth property owner plans to build a 20-storey tower across the street from the Angus L. Macdonald Bridge. Alex Dunphy has submitted plans to the Halifax Regional...

91 King Street To Be Demolished To Make Way For New Development SAINT JOHN —A new development at 91 King Street will see the former Woolworth building demolished later this month. Percy Wilbur purchased both that building and 85 King next door and plans to knock both...

Clean Fuel Standard Regulations On March 2, IPOANS wrote the Federal Minister of the Environment and Climate Change, The Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson.  The letter's purpose was an attempt to obtain the actual cost of implementing the Clean Fuel Standard regulations...