Nova Scotia real estate investment information with real estate listings for Halifax, Sydney, Cape Breton Island and Sable Island.

Nova Scotia offers a well regulated real estate industry which is led by The Nova Scotia Real Estate Commission . The November, 2005 average price for housing in Nova Scotia was $163,452cd, up from $146,697cd in November, 2004.

Nova Scotia is a Canadian province located on Canada's south eastern coast. It is the most populous province in Maritimes, and its capital, the Halifax Regional Municipality, is the economic and cultural center of the region. Nova Scotia is the second smallest province in Canada, with a population of 937,889. Nova Scotia was one of the founding four provinces to join Confederation with Canada in 1867.

Nova Scotia's economy continues to be largely resource based, but has in recent years become more diverse. Traditional industries such as fishing, mining, forestry and agriculture remain very important, and have been joined by tourism, technology, film production, music and other cultural industries.

Nova Scotia is a peninsula, connected to mainland North America by the Isthmus of Chignecto, and surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, including numerous bays and estuaries. Cape Breton Island, a large island to the northeast of the Nova Scotian mainland, is also part of the province, as is Sable Island, a small island notorious for its shipwrecks.