Bathurst, New Brunswick
Bathurst's roll is published to the dollar — $1.87 billion across 7,740 accounts for 2026, up 44 per cent in five years — and so is the price of every registered sale, under a licence whose own words are 'Restriction on use: Unrestricted'. The owner's name costs $17.50 a parcel and appears in nothing free. So the open record can say that the mall at 1290 St. Peter Avenue sold on 5 February 2024 for $9,500,000 against an assessment of $9,198,000, and cannot say to whom. The one large building in the city whose owner a free register does name is the federal office tower on Harbourview Boulevard, which also carries the biggest tax bill in Bathurst after the hospital.
9 buildings · 3 with an owner established · 17 sources · 9 tier A · prepared 2026-10-03
New Brunswick is the most open regime in the Maritimes on what a property is worth and what it sold for, and the most frankly priced on who owns it. Service New Brunswick's Property Assessment Online needs no account and returns a property's location, taxing authority, description, five years of assessment and tax levy, and its registered sales — the amount being, in the service's own words, 'the sale price documented at the time of registration', with $1 transactions excluded from that display. GeoNB republishes the same material province-wide as a monthly bulk download of tab-separated files whose catalogue entry reads 'Restriction on use: Unrestricted. License: Open Government Licence', and the licence itself grants a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual licence to copy, publish and distribute the information 'including for commercial purposes' while expressly exempting Personal Information — which is exactly why no file in it carries an owner's name. For the owner you go to the land registry and pay per look: Real Property Online, which describes itself as providing 'fee-based, real property information to the public in real-time, including property owner information', charges $17.50 per report package plus HST with documents and plans at $1.00 each, while the professional channel PLANET is open only to subscribers at a flat $65 per month from 1 March 2026.
- paol-efel.snb.ca — “Available assessment information posted on this web page, including assessed values, may change from time to time due to appeal decisions and/or other corrections. This data is intended for private, non-commercial use by individuals.”
- realtor.ca — “Not fetched for this record. Listing portals are excluded by policy and the province's own open roll was used instead.”
The marquee buildings
The towers that set the tone of the core, and who holds them. A price is the price a document states, on the date it states — not an estimate of what the building is worth now.
| Building | Use | Owner | Owner type | Last price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chaleur Regional Hospital 1750 Sunset Drive |
Institutional | Not established a paid title search would answer it The highest-assessed parcel in Bathurst by a factor of three: $112,098,200 for 2026, with a tax levy of $1,936,993.50 — a quarter of the city's largest twenty-five levies put together. The provincial roll's own description of the account is 'CHALEUR REG HOSPITAL', which is what identifies the building; the roll names no holder, no sale has ever been registered against the parcel in the sixteen years the open sales file covers, and Real Property Online's $17.50 report package was not purchased. Blank owner, exact value, exact tax bill. |
Not established | —A |
| Nicholas Denys Building 120 Harbourview Boulevard 9,695 sq m of floor area on 0.8612 ha |
Office | Government of Canada — Public Services and Procurement Canada The largest office building in the city and the single biggest tax bill in Bathurst after the hospital: assessed at $10,163,600 with a levy of $505,935.52, more than the Walmart or either shopping centre. The Directory of Federal Real Property names it the Nicholas Denys Site, 120 Harbourview Boulevard, custodian Public Services and Procurement Canada, interest type Crown Owned, one building, 9,695 sq m. The provincial roll calls the same account 'NICHOLAS DENY BLDG UIC'. This is the only large building in Bathurst whose owner is in a free register. |
Government | —A |
| Place Bathurst shopping mall 1290 St. Peter Avenue |
Retail | Not established a paid title search would answer it The city's enclosed mall, described on the roll as 'SHOPPING MALL & LOT', assessed at $9,198,000 for 2026 with a levy of $428,365.48, and the largest clean single-asset price in Bathurst's open record. Assessment rose from $6,925,500 in 2022 to $9,198,000 in 2026, and the February 2024 sale at $9,500,000 landed almost exactly on the new value. Four $1 transfers since 2010 suggest corporate reorganisations rather than market sales. No party is named anywhere free. |
Not established | CAD $9,500,000 2024-02-05 a genuine single-parcel consideration: the pair (2024-02-05, $9,500,000) occurs exactly once in the whole province-wide Sales file, so no other parcel shares the price. The account's only other recorded transfers are at $1 — 23 March 2018, 19 July 2012, 21 May 2010 and 14 May 2010 A |
| 620, 640 and 700 St. Peter Avenue 700 St. Peter Avenue |
Retail | Choice Properties REIT Choice Properties REIT carries '620, 640 & 700 St. Peter Avenue' in its own published portfolio, which fixes the owner of the second-largest retail holding in the city. The roll describes 700 St. Peter Ave as 'LAND/SHOPPING CENTRE', assesses it at $8,747,800 with a levy of $406,830.83, and carries a second 700 St. Peter account, 'LAND/STRIP MALL', at $783,600, plus 620 St. Peter Ave at $734,600. The only transfer registered against the main parcel since July 2010 is a $1 conveyance on 25 June 2013 — the week Choice Properties was formed out of Loblaw's real estate. |
REIT | —A |
| K.C. Irving Regional Centre 14 Sean Couturier Avenue |
Civic | Not established a paid title search would answer it Assessed at $17,848,100 for 2026 with a tax levy of exactly zero — the only account of that size in the city that pays nothing, which is what municipal property in its own territory looks like on a New Brunswick roll. The City of Bathurst publishes the centre among its own municipal services: opened 1995, main surface capacity 3,524 with 24 private boxes, up to 4,400 for concerts, a second ice surface, home of the Acadie-Bathurst Titan from 1998 to 2025 and now the Chaleur Lightning. The City does not state that it holds title, so no owner is entered. |
Not established | —A |
| Walmart Bathurst 900 St. Anne Street |
Retail | Not established a paid title search would answer it The highest-assessed taxable building in the city after the federal office tower: 'WAL-MART' on the province's own roll, $9,292,400 for 2026 with a levy of $432,160.28, and no sale ever registered against it in the open file. Plaza Retail REIT's Saint-Anne Street Plaza page places its own strip 'between Walmart and Kent on busy St. Anne Street', which corroborates what stands there. Who holds the Walmart parcel is not in any free register and is not guessed here. |
Not established | —A |
| 955 Murray Avenue office building 955 Murray Avenue 1,822 sq m leased by the federal government |
Office | Not established a paid title search would answer it The federal real property directory records 1,822 sq m at 955 Murray Avenue held by Public Services and Procurement Canada as 'Lease or Licence', not Crown Owned — so Canada is a tenant here and the landlord sits behind the register. The roll calls the account 'Lot 19-01 & OFFICE BLDG', assesses it at $2,760,700 and levies $131,992.02; the building changed hands on 5 August 2022 for $5,250,000 as a genuine single parcel, nearly twice its assessment. The price is public, the buyer is not. |
Not established | CAD $5,250,000 2022-08-05 single-parcel consideration — the pair (2022-08-05, $5,250,000) occurs exactly once province-wide in the Sales file A |
| Harbourview Place 275 Main Street 292 sq m leased by the federal government |
Office | Not established a paid title search would answer it Described on the roll as 'LOT 1 & OFFICE COMPLEX', assessed at $5,354,500 with a levy of $266,548.38 — the city's largest privately held office building. The Directory of Federal Real Property names the Harbourview Place Site at 275 Main Street as 292 sq m held under 'Lease or Licence', and does the same for Eve Place at 219 Main Street (125 sq m, roll value $680,100). Two of Bathurst's three downtown office buildings have the federal government as a tenant, and the open record names neither landlord. |
Not established | —A |
| Crombie REIT grocery store 850 St. Peter Avenue |
Retail | Crombie REIT Crombie's own property search returns one Bathurst holding, '850 Saint Peters Avenue, Bathurst, NB', classified Retail. The provincial roll describes the matching account as 'LOT 07-1 & GROCERY STORE', assesses it at $1,157,700 and levies $53,841.47. Crombie is headquartered in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia and is the real estate arm of the Sobeys group; the trust publishes no floor area for this property. |
REIT | —A |
The core land
The most valuable ground in the city, and what the public record says about it.
Every figure here was computed on 3 October 2026 from GeoNB's 'Property assessment data' bulk download (geonb_evan_tsv.zip, source date 2026-10-01) for taxing authority 962, 'Bathurst' — the post-2023 code for the city, replacing the pre-reform code 800, 'CITY OF/CITE DE BATHURST'. The download holds 485,493 parcels province-wide in five files: Tombstone (civic address, taxing authority, description, current assessment and levy), Assessment (five years of values and levies), Sales (transaction date and value), PIDPAN and TA. Its catalogue entry reads 'Restriction on use: Unrestricted. License: Open Government Licence', and the licence grants commercial use while exempting Personal Information — which is why nothing in it names an owner. The roll's descriptions, quoted verbatim below, are the province's own.
Who owns the town
At this scale the significant owner is rarely a trust or a fund: it is one or two local holding companies, a family in its second or third generation, and often the land around the town rather than the buildings in it.
Concentration in Bathurst runs through the public sector and through chains, not through a local family office. Four institutional accounts — the hospital, the two largest schools and the college — carry $198.8 million of the $1.87 billion roll, 10.6 per cent, and none of them has a named owner in any free file. The Government of Canada is the largest identifiable landowner at roughly 199 hectares, almost all of it a rifle range. The named private holders are three REITs from Toronto, Fredericton and New Glasgow, and a Saint John family group whose retail arm occupies a named parcel.
| Name | Type | Holdings |
|---|---|---|
| Government of Canada Summed from the Directory of Federal Real Property for parcels the provincial roll confirms are inside taxing authority 962. TRAP: the directory's municipality field also places the Beresford Post Office at 767 Rue Principale and two Salmon Beach marine parcels in 'Bathurst', and the provincial roll puts the first in Belle-Baie (TA 961) and the second in the Chaleur rural district (TA 969). Both were excluded here; counting them would have added 4.4 ha of land that is not in the city. |
Government | about 199 ha and 18,373 sq m of floor area, Crown OwnedA |
| Choice Properties REIT The largest named private holding in the city, on the St. Peter Avenue commercial strip. Named from the REIT's own published portfolio. |
REIT | $10,265,900 assessed, three accountsA |
| Plaza Retail REIT Named from the REIT's own property pages, which give the civic addresses used to match the roll. |
REIT | $7,159,400 assessed, two accountsA |
| J.D. Irving, Limited OCCUPANCY, NOT TITLE. The provincial roll describes the account at 950 St Anne St as 'KENT BUILDING LOT 2008-1' and assesses it at $4,090,000 with a levy of $190,279.38; J.D. Irving, Limited states on its own site that 'JDI's retail & distribution companies include: Kent Building Supplies'. Plaza Retail REIT's own page independently places Kent on St. Anne Street. That establishes who trades from the parcel and who owns the business, on the company's published statement; it does not establish who holds the land, and no individual is named. |
Family / private | occupier of 950 St. Anne Street ($4,090,000 assessed)A |
Who builds the houses
New-home building in this market: the volume, and the firms behind it. Ownership of a builder matters as much as its volume — a private-equity platform and a family firm behave differently.
Bathurst is not an apartment city and the roll shows it. Of 7,740 accounts, only 26 carry a description that states a unit count, 395 units in all — against 2,440 units on 79 accounts in Riverview, a municipality with almost exactly the same number of accounts. The largest single block is 42 units of provincial housing on Rue Lavigne-Frenette; nothing in the city exceeds it. Only two accounts over $1 million were first assessed in 2026, so new construction is slight. There is no builder league table for New Brunswick and no CMHC starts series for Bathurst — Statistics Canada's open cube 34-10-0143 carries no New Brunswick city — and Killam Apartment REIT's Q2-2026 portfolio summary confirms its New Brunswick apartment markets are Moncton, Fredericton and Saint John only. The apartment stock here is locally held and, in the open record, anonymous.
| Name | Type | Units and registered price |
|---|---|---|
| Owner of Rue Lavigne-Frenette The roll's description is '42 UNITS NB HOUSING', which identifies the programme but not the holder; provincial public housing in New Brunswick is the largest single residential block in the city. No sale is registered against the parcel. |
Government | 42 units, assessed $2,597,800A |
| Owner of 15 Lindsay Street 'LOT & APT BLDG' on the roll, and the largest residential price registered in Bathurst in the open file — a genuine single-parcel sale, and 4.6 times the assessment, which is the sort of gap that usually means the roll has not caught up with a redevelopment. No party named. |
Private company | $3,550,000 (25 March 2026), assessed $764,200A |
| Owner of 720, 740 and 760 College Street GROUP CONSIDERATION: the $7,080,000 of 15 April 2026 repeats against all three College Street parcels and two others, five in all, so it is one price for the group. The three accounts hold 10, 10 and 15 units and are assessed at $1,029,200, $1,046,600 and $1,543,800. The same three were bought together for $2,600,000 on 4 June 2021 and for $1,700,000 on 1 August 2017 — both prices wholly inside the city. |
Private company | 35 units across three buildings, $7,080,000 (15 April 2026)A |
| Owner of 1295–1380 Sunset Drive Two group considerations entirely inside Bathurst: $3,000,000 on 18 March 2022 for 1320, 1350 and 1380 Sunset Drive (12 + unspecified + 16 units) and $2,615,000 on 21 October 2022 for 1300, 1310, 1295 and 1303–09 Sunset Drive. Together they are the largest apartment consolidation the city's open record shows. No party is named in either. |
Private company | 56 units across seven buildings, $5,615,000 in two 2022 dealsA |
| Owner of 860 King Avenue 'LOT & 22 UNIT APT BLDG', assessed $1,863,100, a genuine single-parcel sale. With 615 Chalmers Court (20 units, $1,700,000 on 6 May 2022) these are the cleanest small-block comparables in the city. |
Private company | 22 units, $2,300,000 (29 November 2024)A |
Commercial landlords
The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.
Bathurst's retail ground is held from outside the province and its best office building is held by the Crown. Choice Properties REIT (Toronto) carries the St. Peter Avenue centre; Plaza Retail REIT (Fredericton) holds two strips, one on each of the city's two commercial arteries; Crombie REIT (New Glasgow) holds a grocery store. The Government of Canada owns the largest office building outright and leases space in two more. Killam owns no apartments here. What is left — the enclosed mall, the Walmart, the Kent store, the 1155 St. Peter Avenue block — is anonymous in every free file.
| Name | Type | Assessed value and floor area |
|---|---|---|
| Choice Properties REIT The REIT publishes '620, 640 & 700 St. Peter Avenue' in its own portfolio. The roll's matching accounts are 700 St Peter Ave 'LAND/SHOPPING CENTRE' $8,747,800, 700 St Peter Ave 'LAND/STRIP MALL' $783,600 and 620 St Peter Ave 'Lot and Building' $734,600, with a combined levy of $444,595. The only transfer against the main parcel since July 2010 is a $1 conveyance on 25 June 2013, the same date that appears against Loblaw-occupied parcels in Riverview and Edmundston. |
REIT | $10,265,900 assessed across three St. Peter Avenue accountsA |
| Government of Canada From the Directory of Federal Real Property: PSPC owns the Nicholas Denys Site at 120 Harbourview Blvd (0.8612 ha, 9,695 sq m); Canada Post owns the Bathurst Post Office at 495 King Ave (1,935.80 sq m; roll value $1,076,800); the RCMP owns the Chaleur Detachment Site at 900 Vanier Blvd (1.3 ha, 1,449 sq m, three buildings); National Defence owns the Armoury (3.1079 ha, 5,293.76 sq m) and the 193.7237 ha Gloucester Rifle Range; DFO owns two small Carron Point range parcels. Canada leases Executive Tower (159 Main St), Harbourview Place (275 Main St), Eve Place (219 Main St) and 955 Murray Avenue — 1,822 sq m at the last — so four private landlords here have the federal government as a tenant. |
Government | about 199 ha owned and 9,695 sq m of office floor area, plus four leased premisesA |
| Plaza Retail REIT Plaza's own property pages give St. Peter Avenue Plaza at 939 St. Peter Avenue, 'strategically located in the heart of the St. Peter Avenue commercial area' on 15,080 vehicles a day, and Saint-Anne Street Plaza at 930 Saint-Anne Street, 'located between Walmart and Kent on busy St. Anne Street'. The roll's matching accounts are 'DRUGSTORE/MEDICAL CENTER' at $3,728,400 and 'LOT 2005-5 & STRIPMALL' at $3,431,000. New Brunswick is Plaza's largest province at 44 properties and 1,967,840 sq ft at 30 June 2026; the REIT is headquartered in Fredericton. |
REIT | $7,159,400 assessed across two Bathurst plazas; 44 New Brunswick properties and 1,967,840 sq ftA |
| Crombie REIT Crombie's property search returns one Bathurst holding, 850 Saint Peters Avenue, which the roll describes as 'LOT 07-1 & GROCERY STORE'. No floor area is published for it. |
REIT | $1,157,700 assessed (850 St. Peter Avenue)A |
| Owner of 1155 St. Peter Avenue 'LOT & BUILDINGS' on the roll and the largest privately held commercial account in the city with no named holder and no recorded sale since July 2010. With 1850 Vanier Blvd ('LOT 1-88 & BATISSE', $3,277,400, swept into four- and five-parcel deals at $8,340,000 in 2014 and $8,125,000 in 2021) it is the clearest case in Bathurst of a substantial asset the open record cannot attribute. |
Private company | $6,945,800 assessed, levy $323,024.53A |
| Killam Apartment REIT Killam's Q2-2026 portfolio summary at 30 June 2026 lists only Moncton (2,246 units), Fredericton (1,643) and Saint John (898) in New Brunswick, plus 671 manufactured-home sites in three New Brunswick communities. Nothing in Bathurst. The city's apartment stock is not institutional. |
REIT | no Bathurst property; 4,787 New Brunswick units in Moncton, Fredericton and Saint JohnA |
Looked for and not found
Claims this page would have made if a source could be opened. They are left out rather than guessed.
- The owner of the mall at 1290 St. Peter Avenue, which sold for $9,500,000 on 5 February 2024 — the largest clean single-parcel price in the city's open record. New Brunswick publishes the price, the date and the address and never the party; the $17.50 Real Property Online package was not purchased.
- The owner of the Walmart at 900 St. Anne Street, the highest-assessed taxable building in the city after the federal office tower, and of the Kent store at 950 St. Anne Street. Kent is established as a J.D. Irving, Limited business from the company's own site; that is the operator, not the titleholder, and no family member is named.
- The owner of 1155 St. Peter Avenue ($6,945,800) and of 1850 Vanier Boulevard ($3,277,400), the two largest unattributed commercial accounts in the city.
- Who holds the Chaleur Regional Hospital site, the schools and the college campus — $198.8 million of assessment with no named owner. Vitalité Health Network's own facility page 404s and no provincial register of institutional title is free.
- The landlords of the four Bathurst premises the federal government leases rather than owns: Executive Tower at 159 Main Street, Harbourview Place at 275 Main Street, Eve Place at 219 Main Street and 955 Murray Avenue. The directory proves Canada does not own them; nothing names who does. Note also that 159 Main Street does not appear as a Bathurst civic address in the provincial roll, so even the parcel behind Executive Tower could not be matched.
- Whether the $5,998,489 and other large apparently-single prices in the file are arm's-length single-asset sales. New Brunswick's Sales.tsv carries no parcel count, so uniqueness of a (date, price) pair province-wide is the only available test and it is necessary rather than sufficient; prices far above assessment were treated with suspicion and are flagged where used.
- Whether CT REIT owns the Canadian Tire store in Bathurst. ctreit.com returned 403 to curl and 404 to WebFetch.
- Any link between a property holding and elected office in Bathurst. Nothing was established and the record carries none.
Sources
- Land Registry — Real Property Online for one-time access, PLANET for subscribers — Service New Brunswick · openA
- SNB Real Property Online — service description ('fee-based, real property information to the public in real-time, including property owner information') and cart fee schedule ('are $17.50 per package; Documents/Plans are $1.00 each') — Service New Brunswick · openA
- Notice of Fee Change — PLANET Subscription Charging model, effective 1 March 2026: reduced from $125 per month to $65 per month, flat fee with no limit on transactions — Service New Brunswick, Director, Land Registry · openA
- GeoNB Data Catalogue — Property assessment data: 'Restriction on use: Unrestricted. License: Open Government Licence' — Service New Brunswick / GeoNB · openA
- Property assessment data bulk download (geonb_evan_tsv.zip, source date 2026-10-01) — Tombstone, TA, Assessment, Sales and PIDPAN files; 485,493 parcels; no owner column — Service New Brunswick / GeoNB · openA
- GeoNB Open Data Licence — worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive licence to copy, modify, publish, translate, adapt and distribute the Information 'including for commercial purposes'; exempts Personal Information — Government of New Brunswick · openA
- Property Assessment Online — usage agreement and field definitions read from the application's own locale file ('Sale amount reflects the sale price documented at the time of registration … Sale transactions in the amount of $1 are not included or displayed') — Service New Brunswick · openA
- Search Property Assessments and Sale Prices (PAOL) — service landing page — Service New Brunswick · openA
- Directory of Federal Real Property — open data extract (dfrp-rbif.zip), custodian, property name, civic address, primary use, interest type (Crown Owned or Lease or Licence), land area, floor area and building count per parcel — Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat · openA
- 620, 640 & 700 St. Peter Avenue — property page in the REIT's own portfolio — Choice Properties REIT · openA
- St. Peter Avenue Plaza, 939 St. Peter Avenue, Bathurst, New Brunswick, E2A 2Z3 — 'strategically located in the heart of the St. Peter Avenue commercial area. With 15,080 vehicles per day…' — Plaza Retail REIT · openA
- Saint-Anne Street Plaza, 930 Saint-Anne Street, Bathurst, New Brunswick, E2A 6X2 — 'located between Walmart and Kent on busy St. Anne Street… 9,363 vehicles per day' — Plaza Retail REIT · openA
- Q2 2026 Financial Report — New Brunswick: 44 properties and 1,967,840 sq ft of gross leasable area at 30 June 2026, the REIT's largest province; total 189 properties and approximately 8.8 million sq ft; headquartered in Fredericton — Plaza Retail REIT · openA
- Our Properties — property search returning 850 Saint Peters Avenue, Bathurst, NB as the REIT's Bathurst holding — Crombie REIT · openA
- K.C. Irving Regional Centre — municipal service page: opened 1995, main surface (Eddy Rink) capacity 3,524 with 24 private boxes, up to 4,400 for cultural and musical events, second ice surface (Richelieu Rink), home of the Acadie-Bathurst Titan 1998–2025 and now the Chaleur Lightning — City of Bathurst · openA
- Retail, Distribution & Staffing Solutions — 'JDI's retail & distribution companies include: Kent Building Supplies' — J.D. Irving, Limited · openA
- Q2-2026 Management's Discussion and Analysis — portfolio summary by market at 30 June 2026: the trust's New Brunswick apartment markets are Moncton, Fredericton and Saint John only (4,787 units in 77 properties) — Killam Apartment REIT · openA