Canso · Guysborough
One of 379 areas · 729 parcels · Updated weekly
PVSC + MLS · Area aggregate
Cooling — prices have eased over the past two years.
Canso's price per square foot fell 5% over two years — versus +13% across Nova Scotia, on 19 recent and 17 prior sales. This is an area-wide read, not a per-home estimate or a forecast.
A community within Guysborough, on Nova Scotia's official governance map.
Sells in a median 263 days · 11 sold
Sells for a median 76% of original asking — 9% at or above ask · 11 sold
Market conditions among homes that sold over the last 24 months.
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Single-family homes here typically sold around $160,000 over the last 24 months — -5% on a mix-controlled price-per-square-foot basis over two years (Nova Scotia as a whole: +13%). Assessed values moved +73% over three years.
As of the 2021 Census, about 1,197 people live here, with a median household income near $56,000. 88% of homes are owner-occupied and 86% are single-detached.
Roughly 10 homes were added in the last five years — about 1.8% of the stock.
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Recorded sales
Registry of deeds · ungated| JUL 27 2026 | 51 Centennial Street, Canso | $190,000 |
| JUN 25 2026 | Whitehead Road, Lower Whitehead | $110,000 |
| APR 21 2026 | 2143 Highway 316, Port Felix | $130,000 |
| OCT 24 2025 | 1888 Highway 316, Whitehead | $185,000 |
| SEP 12 2025 | 722 Union Street, Canso | $55,000 |
| SEP 11 2025 | 101 Telegraph Street, Canso | $151,500 |
| SEP 10 2025 | 244 Water Street, Canso | $150,000 |
| SEP 05 2025 | 1080 Dover Road, Little Dover | $50,000 |
| AUG 29 2025 | 1089 Highway 316, Upper Whitehead | $488,000 |
| AUG 20 2025 | 870 Union Street, Canso | $100,000 |
| JUL 28 2025 | 27 Cook Street, Canso | $200,000 |
| JUL 11 2025 | 257 Half Island Cv Road, Half Island Cove | $395,000 |
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.
The figures · three reads
PVSC ROLL · REGISTRYAssessed $/ft² by era built
Pre-19602018+
Sale $/ft² by home type
Detached
Where recent sales landed
Under $300k$300–500k
Price-per-square-foot trajectory PVSC · Sales
Most recent sales landed between $48,000 and $269,400 (10th–90th percentile).
How Canso compares to Nova Scotia PVSC + Census · vs NS
The blue dot marks Canso against the Nova Scotia tick; the province's own figure is given beside each rail. No position number is printed (DL-69 as applied, docs/16 §D.79).
Who lives here 2021 Census · apportioned
Census figures are apportioned from 2021 dissemination areas to this boundary by parcel share — an honest approximation, not a direct count.
The three reads in full.
Every era, every home type, every price band. PVSC as of 2026-10-11.
About 10 new homes were built in Canso over the last five years — roughly 1.8% 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
| Guysborough | $209,000 | +38% | 1,898 |
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An area profile for Canso — 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, Open Data & Information Government Licence – PVSC & Participating Municipalities) · Statistics Canada, 2021 Census (Statistics Canada Open Licence) · governance boundaries © Open Data Nova Scotia (Open Government Licence – Nova Scotia) · market data as of October 2026.