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Lakeside · Halifax

One of 379 areas · 639 parcels · Updated weekly

Median sale$689,900Registry · house · 24 mo
Registry sales17824 mo · arm’s-length
24-mo change-1%Registry · mix-controlled $/ft²
For sale now6MLS® · active + pending
Median assessment$256,900PVSC roll 2026

PVSC + MLS · Area aggregate

Holding flat while most of Nova Scotia rose.

Lakeside's price per square foot fell 1% over two years — versus +13% across Nova Scotia, on 178 recent and 97 prior sales. This is an area-wide read, not a per-home estimate or a forecast.

A community within Halifax, on Nova Scotia's official governance map.

Active marketAs of October 2026 · 2021 census
$689,900typical house · 24mo
-1%price trend · 2yr
639homes
2,274residents

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OverviewPVSC + 2021 Census

Single-family homes here typically sold around $689,900 over the last 24 months — -1% on a mix-controlled price-per-square-foot basis over two years (Nova Scotia as a whole: +13%). Assessed values moved +75% over three years.

As of the 2021 Census, about 2,274 people live here, with a median household income near $99,000. 82% of homes are owner-occupied and 56% are single-detached.

Roughly 253 homes were added in the last five years — about 40.5% of the stock, and new builds trade at a +2.3% per-square-foot premium to existing homes of the same size.

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Recorded sales

Registry of deeds · ungated

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.

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The figures · three reads

PVSC ROLL · REGISTRY

Assessed $/ft² by era built

Pre-19602018+

Sale $/ft² by home type

DetachedSemi-detached

Where recent sales landed

Under $300k$750k+

Price-per-square-foot trajectory PVSC · Sales

Median sale price per square foot in Lakeside went from $226 in 2022 to $312 in 2026.20222023202420252026$312/ft²$226
Median sale price per square foot in Lakeside went from $226 in 2022 to $312 in 2026.

Most recent sales landed between $598,626 and $786,264 (10th–90th percentile).

How Lakeside compares to Nova Scotia PVSC + Census · vs NS

Typical house · 24mo$689,900vs NS $408,750
Price trend · 2yr-1%vs NS +13%
Assessed values · 3yr+75%vs NS +52%
Median year built2008vs NS 1979
Median household income$99,000vs NS $67,500
Owner-occupied82%vs NS 67%
Single-detached56%vs NS 64%
Median age39.2vs NS 47

The blue dot marks Lakeside 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

Population2,274
Median age39.2
Avg household size2.6
Median household income$99,000
Owner-occupied82%
Rented18%
Single-detached56% (NS 63.7%)
Built since 20165.7% (NS 5.2%)

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 2026-10-04.

About 253 new homes were built in Lakeside over the last five years — roughly 40.5% of its homes. New homes trade near $308/ft² against $301/ft² for existing — a +2.3% premium per square foot, after holding size constant. 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

Pre-1960$349/ft² · 30 homes
1960–79$252/ft² · 82 homes
1980–99$166/ft² · 138 homes
2000–17$282/ft² · 101 homes
2018+$292/ft² · 273 homes

Recent sale price per ft², by home type

Detached$308/ft² · 308 homes
Townhouse$311/ft² · 67 homes
Semi-detached$272/ft² · 32 homes

Where recent sales landed

79%13%
Under $300k · 3.2%$300–500k · 4%$500–750k · 79.4%$750k+ · 13.4%
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How to read this profile

An area profile for Lakeside — 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.

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