Halifax Real Estate Podcast

Matt and I decided to have a little fun and share some of the most challenging moments in our careers in the real estate industry.  From financing gone wrong, unexpected car loans the day before closing on a new home, to closing day negotiations breaking down over some old curtains, and so much more! Jason Paul 902-220-7357 jason@infinityrealestategroup.ca @jasonpaulhalifaxrealtor @halifaxrealesta...

This podcast is dedicated to those people that have decided to buy their first home. Now, what stops most first time home buyers from buying a home today? Down payment & closing costs! Matt is back on the podcast today to help me breakdown the best tips and tricks we know of to help first time home buyers save up for a down payment and closing costs faster than they realize! Jason Paul 902-220...

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...

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...

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...

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...

A breakdown of how much it costs to buy a home! Jason Paul 902-220-7357 jason@infinityrealestategroup.ca @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 themsel...

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 POSS...

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 acc...

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...

Today's guest is Bruce McGaw! Bruce McGaw has been a licensed Realtor in the Annapolis Valley and Nova Scotia since 2021. You may know Bruce from his social media content that has generated over 3.3M views within the last year. Known for his own comedic take on his home tour walkthroughs, captivating audiences through his ability to market a property, highlight the features of the neighborhood the...

Whether you're buying your first home, or your forever home, you want to make sure that you're home keeps its value. Here's a list of tips for you to ensure that your home keeps its value outside of the ebs and flows of the real estate market in Halifax and Nova Scotia! Jason Paul 902-220-7357 jason@infinityrealestategroup.ca @jasonpaulhalifaxrealtor @halifaxrealestatepodcast

Real estate comparables.  What are they? Why do they matter? How do they work? and why should I care? Honestly great questions, and I do my best to explain it in this little audio file. I'll do my best to summarize here. Comparables matter now more than ever becasue comparables are how the real estate market determines prices of housing. And with all of the volitility in the housing market over th...

It's that age old debate, is your home an investment? Not an investment property, not a flip, not a B.R.R.R.R., not a buy and hold, not a short-term rental, is the home that you LIVE IN an investment? Matt Legatto and I take a good hard look at the numbers of what you're roughly paying to own a $600,000 home in Halifax, vs paying a monthly rent in an apartment/single family home in Halifax. The be...

The government of Nova Scotia has announced a pilot program, partnering with local credit unions, to bring 2% down payments to first time home buyers in the province. The Nova Scotia government has also announced that there will be no mortgage insurance from CMHC by the program, and the Nova Scotia government themselves will be the guarantor of the mortgage for the Credit Union.  Claiming that thi...

Halifax is starting off 2026 with some interesting statistics at the end of January! Home prices in Halifax are down almost $34,000 from January 2025, and even down almost $22,000 from December 2025. (And December is typically one of the slowest real estate months of the year!) The real interesting statistics to come out of January 2026 is that the number of homes for sale is down from 1124 in Nov...

So throughout the year, Matt and I will call each other from time to time just to have a little rant about something that's happened in our industry. A sound board if you will, or simply something that's just frustrated us and we need to have a 5-10 minute vent to get it out of our system and move on with our day. We decided to go over some of our best rants of the years, things we've noticed in o...

Is this the year that the housing market breaks? Most homeowners who purchased their home in 2021 is up for renewal in 2026. In 2021, you could get an interest rate of 1.5%-2% on your mortgage, and today those same homeowners will be getting roughly 4-4.5% on their renewal.  That will make a significant increase in their monthly mortgage payments.  There is some prediction that with roughly 60% of...

John Picco is a licensed Realtor, multiple ICON Winner at EXP Realty, and runs one of the largest, if not the largest, real estate team on the east coast of Canada out of St John's Newfoundland. That Real Estate Team is a team of 14 Realtors and 1 Administrator that has sold over 300 units in 2025, and twice finishing in the top 10 team sales in all of EXP Canada. John shares his story of a real e...

Rob Brown is back on the Halifax Real Estate Podcast to talk about how coaching and mentorship has helped him grow his real estate business over the years. Highlighting 2024 as a big year when he hired a coach who helped him go from 48 transactions in 2023 to 75 transactions in 2024. That was the year his coach helped his mindset shift from a Realtor to business owner, which helped him scale as a...

A lot has happened in Halifax's real estate market in 2025.. The number of homes for sale almost doubled, days on market for listings increased, you're seeing more and more price reductions from listing sitting on the market, and homebuyers are realizing that they hvae negotiating power in the current real estate market. And yet, Halifax home prices remain at all time highs! So what does it all me...

Record high home prices in 2025, Halifax almost doubled the amount of homes for sale in 2025, days on market up, days on market down, more and more listings are seeing price reductions because of market stagnation, buyers are negotiating hard again on purchases, and actually getting most of what they're asking for!! How did all of these market factors affect our respective real estate businesses i...

Rob Brown is a top producing realtor at EXP Realty of Canada, a soon to be announced 5-time winner of EXP Realty's coveted ICON Award, which only 1-2% of Realtors at EXP Realty win world-wide. Rob runs the Go Fredericton real estate team, based out of Fredericton Newbrunswick, which has 5 Realtors (including Rob), and a full time administrator. Rob is also a coach/mentor to other Realtors looking...

Did you like the impact the Federal Government's Housing Accelerator Fund had on Halifax's downtown core and peninsula? By radically updating zoning requirments around Halifax's city centre, the Housing Accelerator Fund allowed the city and investors to tackle Halifax's housing crisis head on, by building more units! So what's Halifax Regional Municipalities second act to tackle the housing crisis...