With the average rent up 9.3 per cent, Halifax has had the highest year-over-year spike in the country for residential rental costs, says Canada's national housing agency. The executive director of ...

Questions are being raised over a Halifax leasing company requiring a “holding deposit” for applications, which is being called a “scam” by a prospective tenant and a “predatory practice” by a tenancy ...

Halifax has approved regulations for short-term rentals like Airbnbs, but are giving residents until Sept. 1 to adjust. Dozens of people spoke on the proposed changes to rules around short-term ...

In Halifax, where about 40 per cent of residents are renters, a new Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives report says an individual would have to earn $22.57 an hour to afford the average ...

Even though he has a mid-level job at a university and lives in a three-bedroom apartment with roommates, Halifax resident Samuel Turpin still lives paycheque to paycheque. The 28-year-old says he'd ...