Dartmouth, Nova Scotia (a district of Halifax Regional Municipality)
Dartmouth is not a municipality and has not been one since 1996: it is a district of Halifax Regional Municipality, and every public record treats it that way — the provincial assessment roll files it under the municipal unit 'Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM)' and distinguishes it only by address city. Read that way it holds $19.83 billion of assessed value across 23,846 accounts, the largest enclosed shopping centre in Atlantic Canada, and Burnside — the industrial park the municipality itself built and still sells serviced lots in — where three portfolio transfers worth $352 million have been registered since 2017 without the open record naming a single buyer.
8 buildings · 4 with an owner established · 13 sources · 8 tier A · prepared 2026-10-03
Dartmouth has no register of its own: it is part of Halifax Regional Municipality, so Nova Scotia's provincial regime applies and the municipality is the taxing authority. That regime splits the question in two. Value and price are open — the Property Valuation Services Corporation runs a free assessment search and publishes bulk province-wide files of every sale since July 2010 with address, date and price, five years of assessed values, and the floor area and year built of every commercial property, under a licence that permits commercial reuse. Ownership is not: Property Online sells no single search and no trial, the minimum being a $99.65-a-month subscription plus tax including five hours of search time, with $6.59 per person per half-day as the only walk-in alternative, and owner names are deliberately excluded from the open files as personal information under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mic Mac Mall 21 Micmac Boulevard, Dartmouth 676,500 sq ft on 50 acres (owner's figure at sale); 637,956 sq ft of leasable area on the 2026 roll · 3 floors |
Retail | Rank Inc. Atlantic Canada's largest enclosed shopping centre, and the only retail property Ivanhoé Cambridge held east of Quebec. Real Estate News Exchange reported the sale 'by Ivanhoé Cambridge to local developer Joe Ramia and Rank Inc., along with other unnamed investors', and stated that 'Financial details of the Mic Mac Mall transaction have not been released' — so no price is entered. The same report gives the three-level building as 676,500 sq ft, built in 1973 on a 50-acre site, with over 120 stores, and records that Ivanhoé had spent about $55 million on a redevelopment including repurposing a former 120,000 sq ft Target store. its release names no owner. |
Family / private | —A |
| 60 Mawio'mi Place complex 60 Mawio'mi Place, Dartmouth 760,986 sq ft of buildings |
Institutional | Not established a paid title search would answer it The highest assessed account and the largest building floor area in Dartmouth: $108,282,100 on the 2026 roll, 760,986 square feet of buildings dating from 1959. Nova Scotia's open data carries the value, the area and the year and stops there, because PVSC's disclosure policy excludes owner names, and the ownership register has no single-search price. No transfer of the account appears in the sales file since July 2010, which is consistent with long-held institutional or public tenure but establishes nothing. Use is recorded as institutional only because the account sits in PVSC's commercial file with a large single-complex footprint and no living units; the file states no use. |
Not established | —A |
| 88 Gloria McCluskey Avenue 88 Gloria McCluskey Avenue, Burnside, Dartmouth 689,064 sq ft of buildings |
Industrial | Not established a paid title search would answer it The largest industrial building footprint in Burnside on a single account: 689,064 square feet built in 2001, assessed at $81,656,800 for 2026. The sales file records no transfer since July 2010. Owner not established for the standing reason — the roll excludes names and Property Online has no per-search fee. |
Not established | —A |
| 12 Cutwater Close 12 Cutwater Close, Dartmouth 464,388 sq ft of buildings, built 2022 |
Industrial | Not established a paid title search would answer it Dartmouth's largest new-build commercial account: 464,388 square feet completed in 2022, assessed at $81,121,700 for 2026 — the fifth-highest account in the district and all of it new in the last four years. No sale is recorded against the account in the open file and no owner name exists in any open record. |
Not established | —A |
| 2 Killkee Gate 2 Killkee Gate, Dartmouth 298 living units, built 1963 |
Residential | Not established a paid title search would answer it The largest single-parcel transaction recorded anywhere in Dartmouth since the sales file begins in July 2010, and a clean illustration of what the Nova Scotia regime does and does not give: the price and the date are public and precise, the building is 298 units built in 1963, the 2026 assessment is $51,216,300 — and the buyer is not in any open record. |
Not established | CAD $82,500,000 2022-07-07 recorded in PVSC's Parcel Sales History as a single-parcel transaction; the file states price, date and address but neither party A |
| Penhorn Plaza and Penhorn Annex 535–569 Portland Street, Dartmouth |
Retail | Crombie REIT One of six Crombie holdings in Dartmouth listed on the trust's own property register, alongside Primrose Plaza (6 Primrose St), Wyse Road Plaza (172 Wyse Rd), Russell Lake (268 Baker Dr), Panavista (612 Main St) and the Dartmouth Crossing Cineplex Cinemas (145 Shubie Dr). Crombie's page for this property gives the addresses but no floor area, so none is entered. |
REIT | —A |
| Dartmouth Crossing Cineplex Cinemas 145 Shubie Drive, Dartmouth |
Retail | Crombie REIT Crombie's only holding inside Dartmouth Crossing, the region's largest open-air retail district. Listed on Crombie's own property register with this address. The ownership of the rest of Dartmouth Crossing was not established from any document opened and is not claimed. |
REIT | —A |
| Burnside Business Park, Phase 13 Burnside, Dartmouth |
Land | Halifax Regional Municipality The municipality is the land developer here, not merely the planner. Its own business pages state that 'The Halifax Regional Municipality has developed six business and industrial parks in the region. These are serviced building lots of varying sizes for companies looking to expand or relocate', and publish current 'Development Opportunities in Burnside' with an 'Available Phase 13 Lot Inventory', alongside Ragged Lake Business Park and City of Lakes Business Park. The municipality's holding is the unsold serviced inventory; Separately, the 2026 roll carries an unnumbered 'BURNSIDE' account assessed at $106,209,600 — the second-highest in Dartmouth — with no owner name attached. |
Government | —A |
The core land
The most valuable ground in the city, and what the public record says about it.
Dartmouth cannot be isolated as a municipality, so these figures are the Halifax Regional Municipality roll filtered to the address city 'DARTMOUTH' in PVSC's open datazONE files, computed 3 October 2026. That filter is the province's own, not this record's. None of the files names an owner.
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.
Dartmouth's new housing runs through the same companies as Halifax's, because it is the same municipality and the same permit system; there is no Dartmouth-only builder, league table or starts series. Killam's Q2-2026 MD&A treats Dartmouth as one of three sub-markets inside its Halifax portfolio — 'Killam's properties are concentrated on the peninsula, mainland Halifax, and Dartmouth sub-markets' — and does not break units out by sub-market, so no Dartmouth unit count is published by its largest apartment owner. What the open roll does show is the scale of recent apartment transactions on the Dartmouth side: a 298-unit building at 2 Killkee Gate changed hands for $82.5 million in July 2022, and a portfolio of up to twenty parcels on Highfield Park Drive and Joseph Young Street for $108.5 million in October 2017.
| Name | Type | Units owned or sold |
|---|---|---|
| Killam Apartment REIT Killam's Q2-2026 MD&A names Dartmouth as one of the three sub-markets its Halifax portfolio is concentrated in, but publishes units only at the market level: Halifax 5,709 units, 67 properties, $37,165 thousand of net operating income, 28.8 per cent of the trust. Average two-bedroom rent in the Halifax portfolio is $1,619 and occupancy 98.1 per cent. No Dartmouth-specific figure is published, so none is given. |
REIT | 5,709 units across 67 Halifax-area properties; Dartmouth not broken outA |
| Owner of the Highfield Park portfolio The largest residential portfolio transfer recorded on the Dartmouth side of the harbour: $108,500,000 registered 10 October 2017, appearing against parcels at 15, 17, 21, 25, 55, 65, 76, 80, 86, 90, 94, 95, 96 and 98 Highfield Park Drive and 10, 20, 30, 40, 47 and 51 Joseph Young Street. PVSC's sales file states the price and the parcel list and names neither party, and the buyer could not be established from any other record opened, so the holder is left unnamed rather than guessed. Ownership type is marked private only to signal that nothing public or listed was found; it is not established. |
Private company | up to 20 parcels on Highfield Park Drive and Joseph Young Street, $108,500,000A |
| 2 Killkee Gate buyer A single-parcel purchase registered 7 July 2022 at $82,500,000 for a 298-unit building built in 1963 — the biggest one-property residential deal in the district's open record. No party is named in the file and none was established elsewhere. |
Private company | 298 units, $82,500,000A |
Commercial landlords
The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.
Three different kinds of owner hold Dartmouth's commercial ground: a Nova Scotia REIT with six plazas, a local family company that bought the regional mall from a Quebec pension subsidiary, and the municipality itself, which built six business parks and still sells serviced lots in Burnside. Burnside is also where the biggest money has moved — $243.8 million across two multi-parcel industrial portfolio transfers in 2019 and 2021 — and where the open record is most completely silent on who moved it.
| Name | Type | Holdings |
|---|---|---|
| Rank Inc. Bought Mic Mac Mall from Ivanhoé Cambridge with Joe Ramia 'along with other unnamed investors'; financial details were not released. The related Argyle Developments states on its own site that the Ramia family's companies 'currently own and manage 3 million square feet of mixed-use space' in the Halifax Regional Municipality. |
Family / private | 676,500 sq ft (Mic Mac Mall) on 50 acresA |
| Crombie REIT Penhorn Plaza and Annex (535–569 Portland St), Primrose Plaza (6 Primrose St), Wyse Road Plaza (172 Wyse Rd), Russell Lake (268 Baker Dr), Panavista (612 Main St) and Dartmouth Crossing Cineplex Cinemas (145 Shubie Dr), all from Crombie's own property register. Crombie is headquartered in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. |
REIT | 6 Dartmouth propertiesA |
| Halifax Regional Municipality HRM states that it 'has developed six business and industrial parks in the region' and publishes available Phase 13 lot inventory in Burnside. No acreage or lot count appears on the page opened. |
Government | serviced lot inventory in Burnside (Phase 13) plus Ragged Lake and City of Lakes business parksA |
| Burnside industrial portfolio buyers $103,351,720 registered 31 July 2019 over thirty-six parcels (including 58 and 100 Wright Ave, 51 Raddall Ave, 201 and 202 Brownlow Ave, 100 and 109 Ilsley Ave, 50 Garland Ave, 320 Wright Ave) and $140,402,207 registered 8 November 2021 over nine to thirteen parcels (10 and 11 Morris Dr, 50 and 55 Akerley Blvd, 29 and 30 Mosher Dr, 120 Troop Ave, 10 Vidito Dr, 320 Wright Ave). The open sales file gives price, date, address and parcel count and names no party; no other record opened named the buyer, so none is entered. Marked private only to record that nothing listed or public was found. |
Private company | $243.75M across two multi-parcel transfers (2019 and 2021)A |
| Killam Apartment REIT Killam's Q2-2026 MD&A portfolio summary; the Nova Scotia figure 'includes Killam's 50% ownership interest in two office properties'. The trust does not break its commercial holdings out by city. |
REIT | 214,154 sq ft of stand-alone commercial space in Nova Scotia across 6 propertiesA |
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 60 Mawio'mi Place, the highest assessed account and largest building complex in Dartmouth ($108,282,100, 760,986 sq ft, built 1959), and its use. The open roll carries neither.
- The owners of 88 Gloria McCluskey Avenue (689,064 sq ft, 2001) and 12 Cutwater Close (464,388 sq ft, 2022), the two largest industrial footprints in Burnside.
- The buyers in the three largest Dartmouth transfers in the open sales file — $140.4M (2021) and $103.4M (2019) in Burnside, and $108.5M (2017) at Highfield Park — and in the $82.5M single-parcel apartment sale at 2 Killkee Gate (2022). PVSC's file publishes prices and addresses but no parties, and the counterparties were not reported in anything opened.
- Who owns Dartmouth Crossing as a whole. Crombie's register shows it owns the Cineplex parcel at 145 Shubie Drive and nothing else there; no document opened establishes the holder of the balance of the district.
- Killam's Dartmouth unit count. Its MD&A names Dartmouth as a sub-market but reports units only at the Halifax market level.
- Housing starts or completions for Dartmouth. No such series exists: Statistics Canada's open CMHC cubes stop at the province, and the municipality reports permits for HRM as a whole.
- Any link between a property holding and elected office in Dartmouth. Nothing was established and the record carries none.
Sources
- Land Registry fees — Government of Nova Scotia · openA
- Subscribe to Property Online — Government of Nova Scotia, Department of Service Nova Scotia · openA
- Data Disclosure — Access to PVSC Data — Property Valuation Services Corporation · openA
- PVSC Terms and Conditions — Property Valuation Services Corporation · openA
- Assessed Value and Taxable Assessed Value History; Commercial Building Characteristics — Property Valuation Services Corporation — the datazONE · openA
- Parcel Sales History — address, GPS coordinates, sales date and sales price for all sales in Nova Scotia from July 2010 onwards — PVSC — the datazONE · openA
- Commercial Building Characteristics — PVSC — the datazONE · openA
- Ivanhoé Cambridge sells Mic Mac Mall to local CRE firm — Real Estate News Exchange (RENX) · openA
- McCOR Appointed as New Property Manager for Mic Mac Mall in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia — McCOR Management · openA
- Business Parks — Burnside, Ragged Lake, City of Lakes — Halifax Regional Municipality · openA
- Our Properties — Dartmouth holdings — Crombie REIT · openA
- About the Centre — Nova Centre / About Argyle Developments — Argyle Developments Inc. · openA
- Q2-2026 Management's Discussion and Analysis — Killam Apartment REIT · openA