Canaan
One of 379 areas · 580 parcels · Updated weekly
Among the faster-rising areas in Nova Scotia.
Canaan's price per square foot rose 23% over two years — versus +13% across Nova Scotia, on 27 recent and 30 prior sales. This is an area-wide read, not a per-home estimate or a forecast.
A community within Kings, on Nova Scotia's official governance map.
Sells in a median 13 days — faster than 82% of Nova Scotia areas · 21 sold
Sells for a median 99% of original asking — 38% at or above ask · 21 sold
0% cut their price before selling · 21 sold
Market conditions among homes that sold over the last 24 months.
Locate your home within Canaan
Type your address — we'll take you to your own area's honest market read. No sign-up, no per-home estimate.
We use your address only to find your area — we never store a per-home value or your exact address. How we handle your data.
PVSC + MLS · Area aggregate
Single-family homes here typically sold around $475,000 over the last 24 months — +23% on a mix-controlled price-per-square-foot basis over two years (Nova Scotia as a whole: +13%). Assessed values moved +51% over three years.
As of the 2021 Census, about 1,780 people live here, with a median household income near $65,000. 65% of homes are owner-occupied and 62% are single-detached.
Roughly 28 homes were added in the last five years — about 5.2% of the stock.
Most recent sales landed between $238,000 and $774,000 (10th–90th percentile).
The blue dot marks Canaan; where a province-wide percentile exists it is shown, otherwise the Nova Scotia figure is given for reference.
About 28 new homes were built in Canaan over the last five years — roughly 5.2% of its homes. Counts detached, semi, townhouse and small multi-unit homes only — apartment and commercial development are tracked separately, so this is not a count of all new housing units.
Assessed value per ft², by era built
Recent sale price per ft², by home type
Where recent sales landed
| 2026-07-15 | 304 Highbury School, Canaan | $385,000 |
| 2026-07-13 | 18 Mallard, Canaan | $600,000 |
| 2026-07-02 | 305 Lemarchant, Canaan | $318,000 |
| 2026-05-27 | 165 Canaan Mountain, Canaan | $534,900 |
| 2026-05-15 | 393 Meadow, Murphy Lake | $125,000 |
| 2026-02-26 | 509 English Mountain, Canaan | $310,000 |
| 2025-11-21 | 216 Canaan Mountain, Canaan | $220,000 |
| 2025-11-14 | 637 White Rock, Canaan | $800,000 |
| 2025-11-14 | 616 English Mountain, Canaan | $1,100,000 |
| 2025-10-31 | 8 Mallard, Canaan | $577,000 |
| 2025-10-30 | 929 Canaan Mountain, Canaan | $370,000 |
| 2025-10-23 | 169 Murphy Lake, Murphy Lake | $630,000 |
Source: PVSC sales records — single-parcel transfers of $50,000 or more. Multi-parcel conveyances and nominal family transfers are excluded because they aren't market sales.
Census figures are apportioned from 2021 dissemination areas to this boundary by parcel share — an honest approximation, not a direct count.
| Canning | $345,000 | +22% | 1,321 |
| Centreville | $374,950 | +20% | 1,225 |
| Kingston | $405,000 | +11% | 1,225 |
| North Kentville | $367,500 | +21% | 1,216 |
| Coldbrook | $432,500 | +15% | 1,203 |
| Aylesford | $365,000 | +28% | 1,072 |
| Aylesford Lake | $390,000 | +27% | 959 |
| Waterville | $358,000 | +16% | 928 |
| Greenwich | $399,950 | +12% | 918 |
| New Minas | $410,000 | +17% | 880 |
| Greenwood (Kings) | $350,500 | +7% | 816 |
| Harbourville | $367,000 | +1% | 647 |
Own a home in Canaan?
Start with its own record — the assessment ledger, the recorded sales, the lot, twenty-one years of it, free and without an account. If you want the written read of what that means, a person prepares it.
Find your home’s recordHow to read this profile
An area profile for Canaan— how the area has moved, never a per-home estimate or a forecast. Market figures cover the last 24 months of arm's-length single-family sales (Property Valuation Services Corporation); the trend is on median price per square foot, which controls for which homes happened to sell. Where recent sales are too thin to be reliable, the typical-price figure is suppressed and the assessed-value movement is shown instead. New-build premiums hold home size constant. Demographics are from the 2021 Census of Canada, apportioned from dissemination areas to this boundary by parcel share.
Sources — PVSC (sales & assessment) · Statistics Canada, 2021 Census (Open Government Licence – Canada) · governance boundaries © Open Data Nova Scotia & HRM (OGL) · market data as of August 2026.