Forties · Chester
One of 379 areas · 337 parcels · Updated weekly
PVSC + MLS · Area aggregate
Cooling — prices have eased over the past two years.
Forties's price per square foot fell 10% over two years — versus +13% across Nova Scotia, on 11 recent and 13 prior sales. This is an area-wide read, not a per-home estimate or a forecast.
A community within Chester, on Nova Scotia's official governance map.
Sells in a median 60 days · 10 sold
Sells for a median 91% of original asking — 30% at or above ask · 10 sold
Market conditions among homes that sold over the last 24 months.
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Single-family homes here typically sold around $290,000 over the last 24 months — -10% on a mix-controlled price-per-square-foot basis over two years (Nova Scotia as a whole: +13%). Assessed values moved +44% over three years.
As of the 2021 Census, about 584 people live here, with a median household income near $64,500. 84% of homes are owner-occupied and 88% are single-detached.
Roughly 10 homes were added in the last five years — about 3.7% of the stock.
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Recorded sales
Registry of deeds · ungated| AUG 28 2026 | 471 Beech Lane, Forties | $620,500 |
| MAY 29 2026 | 6 Spruce Close, Forties | $320,000 |
| MAY 05 2026 | 771 Forties Road, Forties | $290,000 |
| APR 22 2026 | 563 Beech Lane, Forties | $243,281 |
| JAN 12 2026 | 1776 Forties Road, Forties | $132,500 |
| AUG 22 2025 | 51 Beaver Bank Drive, Forties | $210,000 |
| JUL 10 2025 | 10 South Point Road, Forties | $400,000 |
| MAY 15 2025 | 479 Forties Road, Forties | $120,000 |
| MAR 20 2025 | 1922 Forties Road, Forties | $354,000 |
| JAN 21 2025 | 551 Beech Lane, Forties | $105,000 |
| OCT 31 2024 | 603 Lake Ramsay Road, Lake Ramsay | $715,000 |
| AUG 19 2024 | 66 Red Rock Road, Forties | $489,000 |
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$500–750k
Price-per-square-foot trajectory PVSC · Sales
Most recent sales landed between $120,000 and $620,500 (10th–90th percentile).
How Forties compares to Nova Scotia PVSC + Census · vs NS
The blue dot marks Forties 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 Forties over the last five years — roughly 3.7% 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
| New Ross | $448,950 | +60% | 714 |
| Chester | $589,408 | +11% | 695 |
| Mill Cove | $570,000 | +3% | 591 |
| Chester Basin | $414,000 | +15% | 567 |
| Marriotts Cove | $420,000 | +21% | 375 |
| New Russell | $406,500 | +30% | 335 |
| Blandford | $408,250 | +17% | 330 |
| East Chester | $465,000 | +53% | 319 |
| Martins Point | $385,000 | +24% | 311 |
| Windsor Road | $246,000 | +15% | 274 |
| Western Shore | $300,000 | +23% | 273 |
| Fox Point | $540,000 | +46% | 252 |
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An area profile for Forties — 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.