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The Nova Scotia home-price index

A repeat-sales index of how the Nova Scotia housing market has moved — the province single-family headline, an all-property-types reference, and a series for each municipality with enough repeat sales to index on its own. Built only from PVSC assessment-roll sales and rebuilt weekly. Market-level motion, never a per-home estimate.

Repeat-sales · PVSCProvince series as of 30 Aug 2026Open the live map

The province index

Nova Scotia — single-family homes price index (base 100 at series start): 100 at 2010-07 to 243.4 at 2026-07; all property types shown for reference (over-states dwelling appreciation).243.4
Nova Scotia — single-family homesAll property types

By municipality

Cape Breton Regional Municipality, NS
Cape Breton Regional Municipality, NS price index (base 100 at series start): 100 at 2010-Q3 to 222.8 at 2026-Q3.222.8
Cape Breton Regional Municipality, NS

As of 30 Aug 2026

Halifax, NS
Halifax, NS price index (base 100 at series start): 100 at 2010-Q3 to 236.9 at 2026-Q3.236.9
Halifax, NS

As of 30 Aug 2026

Muni. of the District of East Hants, NS
Muni. of the District of East Hants, NS price index (base 100 at series start): 100 at 2010-Q3 to 265.2 at 2026-Q3.265.2
Muni. of the District of East Hants, NS

As of 30 Aug 2026

Muni. of the District of Lunenburg, NS
Muni. of the District of Lunenburg, NS price index (base 100 at series start): 100 at 2010-Q3 to 219.5 at 2026-Q3.219.5
Muni. of the District of Lunenburg, NS

As of 30 Aug 2026

Annapolis County, NS
Annapolis County, NS price index (base 100 at series start): 100 at 2010-Q3 to 226.4 at 2026-Q3.226.4
Annapolis County, NS

As of 30 Aug 2026

Municipality of the County of Colchester, NS
Municipality of the County of Colchester, NS price index (base 100 at series start): 100 at 2010-Q3 to 215.3 at 2026-Q3.215.3
Municipality of the County of Colchester, NS

As of 30 Aug 2026

Municipality of the County of Cumberland, NS
Municipality of the County of Cumberland, NS price index (base 100 at series start): 100 at 2010-Q3 to 273.6 at 2026-Q3.273.6
Municipality of the County of Cumberland, NS

As of 30 Aug 2026

Kings County, NS
Kings County, NS price index (base 100 at series start): 100 at 2010-Q3 to 246.3 at 2026-Q3.246.3
Kings County, NS

As of 30 Aug 2026

Municipality of the County of Pictou, NS
Municipality of the County of Pictou, NS price index (base 100 at series start): 100 at 2010-Q3 to 274.3 at 2026-Q3.274.3
Municipality of the County of Pictou, NS

As of 30 Aug 2026

Town of Truro, NS
Town of Truro, NS price index (base 100 at series start): 100 at 2010-Q3 to 234 at 2026-Q3.234
Town of Truro, NS

As of 30 Aug 2026

West Hants Regional Municipality, NS
West Hants Regional Municipality, NS price index (base 100 at series start): 100 at 2010-Q3 to 256.3 at 2026-Q3.256.3
West Hants Regional Municipality, NS

As of 30 Aug 2026

Rolled into the province index

38 municipalities have too few repeat sales to index on their own and roll up to the NS province index:

  • Muni of the District of St. Marys, NS
  • Muni. of the District of Barrington, NS
  • Muni. of the District of Guysborough, NS
  • Muni. of the District of Shelburne, NS
  • Muni. of the District of Yarmouth, NS
  • Municipality of the County of Antigonish, NS
  • Municipality of the County of Inverness, NS
  • Municipality of the County of Richmond, NS
  • Municipality of the County of Victoria, NS
  • Municipality of the District of Argyle, NS
  • Municipality of the District of Chester, NS
  • Municipality of the District of Clare, NS
  • Municipality of the District of Digby, NS
  • Queens, Region of Queens Municipality, NS
  • Town of Amherst, NS
  • Town of Annapolis Royal, NS
  • Town of Antigonish, NS
  • Town of Berwick, NS
  • Town of Bridgewater, NS
  • Town of Clarks Harbour, NS
  • Town of Digby, NS
  • Town of Kentville, NS
  • Town of Lockeport, NS
  • Town of Lunenburg, NS
  • Town of Mahone Bay, NS
  • Town of Middleton, NS
  • Town of Mulgrave, NS
  • Town of New Glasgow, NS
  • Town of Oxford, NS
  • Town of Pictou, NS
  • Town of Port Hawkesbury, NS
  • Town of Shelburne, NS
  • Town of Stellarton, NS
  • Town of Stewiacke, NS
  • Town of Trenton, NS
  • Town of Westville, NS
  • Town of Wolfville, NS
  • Town of Yarmouth, NS

Areas 432 in the provincial fabric

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Communities 379 with an active market read

A 15
B 31
C 30
D 12
E 14
F 10
G 20
H 21
I 3
K 4
L 32
M 37
N 22
O 5
P 30
Q 1
R 6
S 34
T 13
U 5
V 2
W 31
Y 1

How to read this

How this index works

This is a repeat-sales index (a Bailey-Muth-Nourse, or BMN, model). It measures price motion from the matched resales of the sameproperty over time, so differences in size, quality, and neighbourhood mix are differenced out. It is a motion index — base 100 at each series’ start — not an appraisal, a listing price, or a value for any one home.

This index revises historically on each rebuild — past points can change as new matched resale pairs arrive.

A period's reliability is judged on its endpoint pairs — resales whose second sale falls inside that period — not on every pair merely spanning the period (pairs touching), which overstates how much fresh evidence the period holds.

Source: Property Valuation Services Corporation (PVSC) assessment-roll sales records — the sole input to this index.