Sales during the month of April hit highest number the province has ever recorded
Author of the article: Shari Kulha
Publishing date: May 10, 2021 • May 10, 2021 • 2 minute read • A lighthouse in Baddeck, Nova Scotia. Photo by Reuters file photo
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Continuing the province’s incredible real estate trajectory, Nova Scotia’s home sales recorded their highest-ever gains last month. The number of sales rose 159.5 per cent in April 2021 from April 2020, and with a sellers’ market, prices rose 39.5 per cent to an average $372,534.
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House hunters at a real-estate showing prepare to see how far their dollars can go. Buyers across the country seem unfazed by skyrocketing prices. Sales were up in March 70 per cent compared to a year ago.(Daniel Acker/Bloomberg)
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Nancy Worth, assistant professor in the department of geography and environmental management at the University of Waterloo, says that because “sometimes writing a letter is seen as a way of appealing to different aspects of the seller in terms of their motivation for who they want the house to go to,” in that space “I think there s really a potential for discrimination, whether it s implicit or explicit.” Just look at all the racism, sexism and heterosexism in our society, Worth says. “It’s everywhere, so why would it not be in the home buying process?” Chris Peters, a Halifax realtor who was the first Black president of the Nova Scotia Association of Realtors and is now the co-chair of its diversity standing committee which he started during his tenure as president recalls a moment when a client of his got a home they weren’t the highest bidder for. They wrote a letter saying “I can see myself in you,” to the seller, hoping the