Halifax has reached an ALL time high average sales price in April 2026, $666,840!! Richard Payne is back today to help me break down what this means for Halifax's real estate market, what's the cause of this all time high sales price, and what we're experiencing with our own clients navigate this market. 

Podcast Highlights:
1.) How to protect yourself from a price correction when buying your new home
2.) Can Halifax reach the $700,000 average sale price, and what does that mean for Halifax?
3.) Over 30 homes sold for over $1M in Halifax in April, including an $11M property
4.) The essentials that you NEED to know when you're selling your home in today's market!

And so much more

Jason Paul
902-220-7357
[email protected]
@jasonpaulhalifaxrealtor
@halifaxrealestatepodcast

Richard Payne
902-489-1804
[email protected]
@richardpaynehalifax

Ever thought about owning your own investment property? Something that can generate "passive" income for you and your family, and increase in value over the course of your ownership? 

Andrew Hutchison is BACK on the Halifax Real Estate Podcast to help me breakdown the pros and cons of owning your own investment property. We also discuss how we helped a client with only 1 house hold income purchase their first investment property that's already cashflowing $1200 a month! 

The caveat? 

The basement of this investment property can be turned into a 3rd unit and once our client has finished the unit, the value of the first investment property will increase significantly, AND the monthly income will increase up to $2000 per month. 

That's $24,000 a year!

Jason Paul
902-220-7357
[email protected]
@jasonpaulhalifaxrealtor
@halifaxrealestatepodcast 

Andrew Hutchison 
902-240-7212
[email protected]
@andrew_hutchison_mortgages

The federal government has announced a new partnership with the Ontario provincial government that allows them to waive all HST on all new construction home purchases in Ontario! They've announced this as a method to make homes more "affordable" in Ontario.

But will waiving the HST on all new construction homes actually make homes more affordable in Ontario?

Matt and I breakdown who benefits from this new partnership, who stands to lose from this new partnership, and the potential of the federal government taking this program across Canada! 

Jason Paul 
902-220-7357
[email protected]
@jasonpaulhalifaxrealtor
@halifaxrealestatepodcast 

Matt Legatto
902-240-3304
[email protected]
@mattlegatto.mortgages

Boulder Ridge Homes is a dream come true for Gabe and his cousin Nicole.

100 acres in the heart of Hubbards have been in their family for decades, and Gabe's always dreamed of turning his families acres into homes for the community he holds so dear in Hubbards Nova Scotia.

Gabe and Nicole purchased the land from his family a few years ago and immediately went to work at getting the land ready for development. Gabe's background in contracting work through his company Cottage Keeper Contracting gave him and his team the perfect foundation to realize a childhood dream.

Fast forward to today, a few years later and Boulder Ridge Homes will be handing over keys to their very first homeowners in April 2026. A moment to cherish and a moment of accomplishment. As for what the goal is, building good quality homes at affordable prices, with the heart and soul of community at the center of the development.

Jason Paul 
902-220-7357
[email protected]
@jasonpaulhalifaxrealtor 
@halifaxrealestatepodcast⁩ 

Gabe Routhier
902-877-2990
[email protected]
@boulderridgehomes

A breakdown of how much it costs to buy a home!

Jason Paul
902-220-7357
[email protected]
@jasonpaulhalifaxrealtor
@halifaxrealestatepodcast

A few weeks ago Matt & I recorded an episode called "Is Your Home an Investment?", and out of that episode we did what we always do, take a few shorter clips and use them on social media.

Well one clip in particular went big for us and our channel.

$600,000 purchase = $349,900 in interest payments over 25 years.

We took it as a sign that you guys want to learn more about your mortgages themselves. How they work, and specifically, how you can pay them down FASTER and own your home outright from the bank SOONER.

Increase your personal wealth and pay less to the bank, win win. Well here is that podcast! Matt Legatto is back on the podcast to break down how to pay off your home sooner.

Enjoy! 

Jason Paul
902-220-7357
[email protected]
@jasonpaulhalifaxrealtor
@halifaxrealestatepodcast

Matt Legatto
902-240-3304
[email protected]

Boulder Ridge Homes is a dream come true for Gabe and his cousin Nicole.

100 acres in the heart of Hubbards have been in their family for decades, and Gabe's always dreamed of turning his families acres into homes for the community he holds so dear in Hubbards Nova Scotia.

Gabe and Nicole purchased the land from his family a few years ago and immediately went to work at getting the land ready for development. Gabe's background in contracting work through his company Cottage Keeper Contracting gave him and his team the perfect foundation to realize a childhood dream.

Fast forward to today, a few years later and Boulder Ridge Homes will be handing over keys to their very first homeowners in April 2026. A moment to cherish and a moment of accomplishment. As for what the goal is, building good quality homes at affordable prices, with the heart and soul of community at the center of the development.

Jason Paul 
902-220-7357
[email protected]
@jasonpaulhalifaxrealtor 
@halifaxrealestatepodcast⁩ 

Gabe Routhier
902-877-2990
[email protected]
@boulderridgehomes

The February 2026 market stats are OUT for Halifax's real estate market!


A quick review of what the numbers might be telling us as to what's happening in Halifax's real estate market, and what's to come as we head into Halifax's busiest real estate market, the spring market!

Note: If you're thinking of selling your home, might be in your best interest to get that home on the market AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. 

Jason Paul 
902-220-7357
[email protected]
@jasonpaulhalifaxrealtor
@halifaxrealestatepodcast

If you work in the real estate industry, I'm sure you've been watching all of the leaps and bounds of AI over the last few years. Trying to understand and even navigate the impacts this new technology will have on our industry today and over the next few years.

I myself have been keeping an eye on its development from afar, until I saw someone I follow on X and Instagram sharing what they were accomplishing in their real estate business with their own OpenClaw. An AI assistant.

Meet Daniel Foch.

Co-Owner of Valery Real Estate, a technology driven real estate brokerage in Toronto, Daniel has been in the real estate industry since his childhood, with his parents being in the real estate industry. Growing up with a fascination into technology via the early days of myspace, Facebook, and Twitter, Daniel has been all in on understanding the impact AI will have on our industry.

Meet Openclaw.

AI assistant/administrator that Daniel has programmed to do a lot of the things we as Realtors don't like doing in our day to day basis. Client follow ups, scanning the rental markets across Canada to figure out cap rate fluctuations, CMA analysis for potential new clients, scheduling showing.. Essentially, if it has a screen attached to it, your openclaw can be programmed to do it. And the possibilities are endless.

Enjoy the show as we breakdown AI's impact on the real estate industry.

Jason Paul
902-220-7357
[email protected]
@jasonpaulhalifaxrealtor
@halifaxrealestatepodcast

Danie Foch
@danielfoch

At the end of 2025, 443 homes left the Halifax real estate market. 443 families had contracts with Realtors to sell their homes, 443 families had said that they want to sell their homes, those same 443 families came to the end of their contracts and decided not to renew, to leave the real estate market all together. 

In 2025 you started to see an increase of days on market in Halifax, you started to see homes sitting on the market longer than in recent years, and buyers started to realize that they had negotiating ability again. Asking for practical things in negotiations that buyers hadn't been able to ask for since before COVID. 

You may have your home on the market right now, you may not have had a single viewing in the last month, maybe you've been getting offers but they're nowhere near what yout asking price is. Maybe keep dropping the price in the hopes that a buyer will come, but they never do. Maybe the feedback from buyers has been consistently good, but you still can't sell it. Maybe you're frustrated as hell. 

Here's why your home isn't selling in 2026. 

Jason Paul
902-220-7357
[email protected]
@jasonpaulhalifaxrealtor@halifaxrealestatepodcast