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2 days ago · Market Report Summary for September 2024. Updated October 10th, 2024. The average home price in Halifax was $575,075, 11% higher than last year and 0.9% higher than last month. The benchmark home price in Halifax was $538,100, 2.7% higher than last year and 1% lower than last month.
Halifax remains an attractive market to foreign buyers and move-over buyers who are returning to the region from other parts of Canada for cultural amenities and affordable home prices. First-time buyers and foreign buyers drove demand in 2019, with the most in-demand neighbourhoods for sales including north-end Halifax, Clayton Park, Bedford and parts of Dartmouth.
Oct 17, 2020 · There aren't enough houses to satisfy all of the buyers interested in Halifax right now. "If you asked me to find you a home three years ago, I would have been able to show you 2,800 different ...
Mar 25, 2022 · The Halifax Regional Municipality will soon be home to as many as 22,600 new residential units after Nova Scotia's housing minister designated nine special planning areas for development.
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Adsum is one of the operators of The Bridge, the province's newest and largest shelter, which will have 190 rooms in an old hotel space in Dartmouth. Many homeless people had already been staying at the hotel, in rooms rented by the government. Austin worries about the detrimental effects of staying in a hotel or shelter long-term, but said there a...
In December 2021, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Halifax-Yarmouth created 20 emergency shelters for people experiencing homelessness. Initially, the goal for the shelters was to help get unhoused people through that winter. But as the housing crisis has dragged on, many of those people have been unable to leave, and the archdiocese is adding fiv...
Krista Higdon, a spokesperson for the provincial Housing Department, said the wait-list time for public housing can vary based on a person's location and preference. "Clients who broaden their options by selecting more than ten buildings or more than two or three communities within a district, for example, are likely to be placed more quickly," she...
There were 4,657 housing-unit starts in 2023, up 37.5% from 2022. These new units are increasingly in multi-unit developments across the city. However, most of the new homes have not been completed, and there was a 3.5% decrease in housing completions in 2023. At present, there are not enough new units to stabilize the housing and rental markets.
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Apr 13, 2024 · A new report released on Friday by realtor Royal LePage said the aggregate price of a home throughout Canada has increased 4.3 per cent year over year to $812,100 in the first quarter of 2024.
