Inverness · Inverness
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PVSC + MLS · Area aggregate
Rising, but among the slowest in Nova Scotia.
Inverness's price per square foot rose 3% over two years — versus +13% across Nova Scotia, on 39 recent and 35 prior sales. This is an area-wide read, not a per-home estimate or a forecast.
A community within Inverness, on Nova Scotia's official governance map.
Sells in a median 63 days · 30 sold
Sells for a median 90% of original asking — 21% at or above ask · 29 sold
0% cut their price before selling · 30 sold
Market conditions among homes that sold over the last 24 months.
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Single-family homes here typically sold around $270,000 over the last 24 months — +3% on a mix-controlled price-per-square-foot basis over two years (Nova Scotia as a whole: +13%). Assessed values moved +54% over three years.
As of the 2021 Census, about 2,228 people live here, with a median household income near $65,000. 82% of homes are owner-occupied and 78% are single-detached.
Roughly 35 homes were added in the last five years — about 4.2% of the stock.
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Recorded sales
Registry of deeds · ungated| AUG 05 2026 | 72 Upper Railway Street, Inverness | $284,000 |
| JUL 23 2026 | 2489 Highway 395, East Lake Ainslie | $360,000 |
| JUL 16 2026 | 13537 Highway 19, Glenville | $160,000 |
| JUN 06 2026 | 1655 Highway 395, East Lake Ainslie | $132,000 |
| JUN 04 2026 | 23 Quincy Street, Inverness | $85,000 |
| JUN 02 2026 | 271 Broad Cove Banks Road, Broad Cove Banks | $430,000 |
| MAY 29 2026 | 15905 Central Avenue, Inverness | $130,000 |
| MAY 11 2026 | 3598 West Lake Ainslie Road, West Lake Ainslie | $255,000 |
| MAY 07 2026 | 25 Parkdale Crescent, Inverness | $345,000 |
| APR 30 2026 | 1316 Strathlorne-scotsville Road, North Ainslie | $50,000 |
| APR 30 2026 | 151 Deepdale Road, Inverside | $600,000 |
| MAR 31 2026 | 3498 Highway 395, East Lake Ainslie | $315,000 |
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$750k+
Price-per-square-foot trajectory PVSC · Sales
Most recent sales landed between $78,000 and $561,000 (10th–90th percentile).
How Inverness compares to Nova Scotia PVSC + Census · vs NS
The blue dot marks Inverness 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 35 new homes were built in Inverness over the last five years — roughly 4.2% 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
| Mabou | $295,000 | +26% | 2,095 |
| Margaree | $177,000 | +22% | 1,108 |
| Port Hood | $388,000 | +4% | 1,079 |
| Point Cross | $225,000 | +16% | 794 |
| Petit Étang | — | +8% | 326 |
| Chéticamp | $177,000 | +14% | 315 |
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An area profile for Inverness — 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.