Edmundston, New Brunswick
Edmundston is a Madawaska mill town on the Maine border, and the open record names its mill: Twin Rivers Paper Company says on its own site that its operations comprise a pulp and energy complex in Edmundston, and the provincial roll assesses that complex at $25.16 million with a tax bill of $1.2 million — the second largest in the city after the hospital. What the register will not say is who bought the office and retail building at 121 rue de l'Église for $14,960,000 on 14 February 2025, the largest commercial price in the city's open file. New Brunswick publishes every assessment and every registered consideration under a licence marked 'Restriction on use: Unrestricted', and charges $17.50 a parcel for the name.
9 buildings · 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edmundston pulp and energy complex 27 Rue Rice |
Industrial | Twin Rivers Paper Company The largest taxable account in Edmundston and the second-largest tax bill in the city: 'LAND & PULP MILL' on the provincial roll, $25,162,400 assessed for 2026 and a levy of $1,202,494.74. Twin Rivers Paper's own history page states it was launched on 28 April 2010 'with fully integrated operations comprised of a pulp and energy complex in Edmundston, New Brunswick', that its operations 'were formerly owned by Fraser Papers', and that it is privately held with a joint venture between Atlas Holdings and Blue Wolf Capital Partners as its largest shareholder, the pair having bought the business from Brookfield Asset Management in 2013. |
Private equity | CAD $58,358,816 2010-04-21 GROUP CONSIDERATION: the same amount is registered on 21 April 2010 against three Edmundston parcels including the mill, and again on 29 April 2010 against twenty-four more, all in the city. It is one price for the whole industrial estate, not for the mill alone, and it straddles the 28 April 2010 date on which Twin Rivers says it was launched A |
| Centre hospitalier régional d'Edmundston 275 Boulevard Hébert |
Institutional | Not established a paid title search would answer it The highest-assessed parcel in the city at $78,383,300 for 2026, with a levy of $1,260,812.27 — the largest single tax bill in Edmundston. The provincial roll's own description is 'REGIONAL HOSPITAL', which is what identifies it; no sale has ever been registered against the account and the roll names no holder. Vitalité Health Network's own facility pages were not reachable, so even the operator is taken from the roll rather than from the health authority. |
Not established | —A |
| 121 rue de l'Église office and retail building 121 rue de l'Église |
Mixed use | Not established a paid title search would answer it The largest commercial deal in Edmundston's open record and 1.8 times the parcel's own assessment. The roll calls it 'LOT & OFFICE, RETAIL', assesses it at $8,432,500 for 2026 and levies $386,186.67. The Directory of Federal Real Property confirms what kind of building it is by naming two federal tenants in it — the Business Development Bank of Canada at 'Suite 407-121 de l'Église Street' (29 sq m) and Canada Post's Edmundston Mechanized Processing Plant at '121 Church St.' (603 sq m), both held under Lease or Licence. The buyer of February 2025 is published nowhere free. |
Not established | CAD $14,960,000 2025-02-14 a genuine single-parcel consideration — the pair (2025-02-14, $14,960,000) occurs exactly once in the province-wide Sales file. The only other transfers against the account are $1 conveyances on 30 August and 4 September 2019 A |
| Campus d'Edmundston, Université de Moncton 55 rue du 15 Août |
Institutional | Not established a paid title search would answer it The second-highest assessed parcel in the city at $55,655,600 with a levy of $896,537.54. The roll's description is 'U DE MONCTON EDMUNDSTON'. Alongside it on the same street the roll carries 'LAND & CCNB/NBCC' at 35 du 15 Août ($39,327,400, levy $633,506.91) and 'Centre Jean Daigle' at 85 du 15 Août ($27,499,700, levy nil) — a post-secondary cluster of $122.5 million on one street, none of it with a named owner in any free register. |
Not established | —A |
| Superstore, 573–577 Victoria Street 577 Victoria Street |
Retail | Choice Properties REIT Choice Properties REIT publishes '577 Victoria Street' in its own portfolio. The provincial roll's matching account, '573,575,577 VICTORIA ST', is described as 'Lot, Superstore et al', assessed at $8,688,100 for 2026 with a levy of $372,871.53. The only transfer registered against it since July 2010 is a $1 conveyance on 25 June 2013 — the same date that appears against Loblaw-occupied parcels in Riverview and Bathurst, the week Choice Properties was formed out of Loblaw's real estate. |
REIT | —A |
| Edmundston IGA Extra 580 Victoria Street |
Retail | Crombie REIT Crombie's own property search returns one Edmundston holding, 'Edmundston IGA Extra, 580 Victoria Street', classified Retail. The provincial roll describes the matching account as 'Land & Supermarket', assesses it at $4,527,400 and levies $194,306.94. Crombie publishes no floor area for the property. On the same block the roll carries 'Lot & CAN. Tire#093' at 590 Victoria Street at $3,546,000; CT REIT's property list could not be read to test whether the REIT holds it. |
REIT | —A |
| Walmart Edmundston 805 Victoria Street |
Retail | Not established a paid title search would answer it 'LOT & WAL-MART #1033' on the province's own roll, assessed at $9,359,700 for 2026 with a levy of $420,381.56, and no sale ever registered against it in the open file. Plaza Retail REIT's Victoria Street Plaza page independently places its own strip 'directly in front of the Edmundston Walmart at the intersection of Victoria Street and the Trans-Canada Highway'. The store number is published; the holder is not. |
Not established | —A |
| Four-storey 126-room hotel, 280 Boulevard Hébert 280 Boulevard Hébert |
Hotel | Not established a paid title search would answer it The largest hotel in the city on the roll's own measure, described as 'LOT & MOTEL(126 ROOMS)' and assessed at $6,419,400 for 2026 with a levy of $263,609.24. The November 2022 price is 1.4 times the current assessment. A second large hotel account, 'Lot & Hotel-Restaurant' at 100 Rue Rice ($2,775,700), was taken with a Rice Street parking lot for $9,750,000 on 26 April 2024, again a two-parcel deal wholly inside the city. Neither buyer is named. |
Not established | CAD $9,111,000 2022-11-02 GROUP CONSIDERATION, but a small and local one: the amount repeats against exactly two parcels, both in Edmundston — this account and the adjoining commercial lot on Boulevard Hébert assessed at $153,200 — so it is effectively the price for the hotel and its yard A |
| Canada Border Services Agency office 66 rue Saint-François 1,316 sq m of floor area on 0.8193 ha |
Institutional | Government of Canada — Canada Border Services Agency The Directory of Federal Real Property records 'GC Site - Edmundston', 66 St Francois Street, custodian Canada Border Services Agency, interest type Crown Owned, 0.8193 ha, 1,316 sq m, one building, primary use Office — the port of entry on the Maine border that gives the city its reason for being where it is. The provincial roll's matching account is 'Land & Customs Offices', assessed at $2,018,700. Together with the former federal building at 22 Emmerson Street (0.2023 ha, 1,534 sq m, PSPC, Crown Owned) and two post offices, this is the whole of what Canada owns in Edmundston. |
Government | —A |
The core land
The most valuable ground in the city, and what the public record says about it.
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 140, 'Edmundston' — the post-2023 code replacing 100, 'CITY OF/CITE D' EDMUNDSTON'. Descriptions are the province's own, in the roll's mixture of English and French. The catalogue entry reads 'Restriction on use: Unrestricted. License: Open Government Licence', and the licence grants commercial reuse while exempting Personal Information, which is why no owner appears anywhere in it. NB TRAP APPLIED THROUGHOUT: the Sales file carries no parcel count, so a multi-parcel deal repeats the whole consideration against every parcel in it. Every price used below was tested by checking whether its (date, price) pair occurs once in the province-wide file, and every group consideration is flagged as such.
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.
One company and one hospital dominate Edmundston's roll, and only one of them can be named. Twin Rivers' pulp and energy complex and the twenty-six other industrial and commercial parcels that moved with it in April 2010 are the city's industrial base; the hospital, the Université de Moncton campus, the CCNB campus, the Centre Jean Daigle and the Boulevard Hébert-Nord care home carry $237 million between them, 11.4 per cent of the whole roll, and none of them has a named owner in anything free. The Government of Canada holds 1.56 hectares. There is no identifiable local family holding in the open record, because the open record stops at the parcel.
| Name | Type | Holdings |
|---|---|---|
| Twin Rivers Paper Company The April 2010 group considerations cover the mill at 27 Rue Rice, a lagoon and buildings on Rue Principale, a maintenance building at 614 Rue Victoria, and twenty-four industrial and commercial lots on Boulevard Acadie, Rue Melvin-Louden, Avenue Ferry and Rue Rice. The company's own site establishes it as owner of the Edmundston operations; the register names nobody, so the parcel-level extent of its holding is inferred from the shared consideration and date and is stated as such, not as title. |
Private equity | $25,162,400 assessed on the mill parcel; 27 parcels moved as one in April 2010A |
| Government of Canada Five parcels, verified against the provincial roll to confirm each is inside taxing authority 140 — including the Saint-Basile and Saint-Jacques post offices, both of which the roll does place in Edmundston following the amalgamations. |
Government | 1.5621 ha and 4,837 sq m of floor area, Crown OwnedA |
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.
Edmundston's apartment stock is old, institutional and small-scale. Only 32 of its 8,719 accounts carry a unit count in the roll's description, 682 units in all, and the five largest are a 60-unit special care home, a 51-unit building, a 48-unit special care home, a 44-unit apartment and 40 units of senior housing — seniors' accommodation rather than market rental. Not one account over $1 million was first assessed in 2026, so there is no new construction of scale in the open record at all, in a city whose roll grew only 26 per cent in five years. Killam Apartment REIT's Q2-2026 portfolio summary confirms its New Brunswick markets are Moncton, Fredericton and Saint John only. There is no builder league table for New Brunswick and no CMHC starts series for Edmundston, so the figures below are the roll's own unit counts and its registered prices, with the holders blank.
| Name | Type | Units and registered price |
|---|---|---|
| Owner of 25 Rue Le Montagnard 'LOT &SP. CARE HM-60 UNIT' on the roll — the largest single residential building in the city, and a special care home rather than an apartment block. No sale registered against the parcel. |
Private company | 60 units, assessed $2,121,000A |
| Owner of 30 Mgr-Numa-Pichette 'LOT & BATIMENT 51 UNITS', the largest conventional apartment building in Edmundston on the roll's own description. No sale registered. |
Private company | 51 units, assessed $2,610,500A |
| Owner of 20 – 30e Avenue and 16 – 18e Rue GROUP CONSIDERATION confined to the city: the amount repeats against exactly two Edmundston parcels, each assessed at $1,342,700 and each described as 'LOT & APARTMENTS'. The largest apartment transaction in the city's open record, and neither party is named. |
Private company | two apartment buildings, $3,175,000 (2 September 2025)A |
| Owner of 200 Boulevard Hébert 'LAND & APARTMENT 35 UNIT', assessed $2,047,000, and a genuine single-parcel sale at almost exactly the assessment — the cleanest residential comparable the city's open record holds. |
Private company | 35 units, $2,100,000 (26 June 2024)A |
| Owner of 955 Rue Victoria 'LOT & 2 BATIMENT 5UNITES' — two five-unit buildings on one account, sold as a single parcel four months ago for nearly twice the assessment. The most recent significant residential price in the city's open record. |
Private company | $2,000,000 (8 June 2026), assessed $1,049,600A |
Commercial landlords
The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.
Edmundston's commercial ground follows a pattern visible across small-city New Brunswick: the grocery-anchored retail belongs to REITs headquartered elsewhere, the mill belongs to a private equity joint venture in Connecticut and New York, and everything else is anonymous. Choice Properties holds the Superstore, Crombie holds the IGA Extra, Plaza holds two strips on the city's two commercial arteries, and the Walmart, the Canadian Tire, the main office building and both hotels have no named holder.
| Name | Type | Assessed value |
|---|---|---|
| Twin Rivers Paper Company The company's own history page states that Twin Rivers was launched on 28 April 2010 with operations comprising 'a pulp and energy complex in Edmundston, New Brunswick, and paper mill in Madawaska, Maine', that it is privately held with a joint venture between Atlas Holdings and Blue Wolf Capital Partners as its largest shareholder, and that the pair acquired the business from Brookfield Asset Management in 2013; the operations 'were formerly owned by Fraser Papers'. A 45-megawatt biomass cogeneration plant at Edmundston became operational in 1997 on the same page's timeline. The $58,358,816 registered in April 2010 is a group consideration over 27 city parcels. |
Private equity | $25,162,400 assessed (27 Rue Rice), levy $1,202,494.74A |
| Choice Properties REIT Named from the REIT's own published portfolio page for 577 Victoria Street. The roll calls the account 'Lot, Superstore et al'; the only transfer against it since July 2010 is a $1 conveyance on 25 June 2013. |
REIT | $8,688,100 assessed (573–577 Victoria Street), levy $372,871.53A |
| Crombie REIT Crombie's own property search returns 'Edmundston IGA Extra, 580 Victoria Street'. The roll's description is 'Land & Supermarket'. No floor area published. |
REIT | $4,527,400 assessed (580 Victoria Street)A |
| Plaza Retail REIT Plaza's own pages give Plaza boulevard Hebert at '160, 164, 166 boulevard Hebert' and Victoria Street Plaza at '801 Victoria Street… directly in front of the Edmundston Walmart'. The matching roll accounts are 160 Boul Hebert 'S.D.M. & LOT' $2,265,100, 164 Boul Hebert 'LOT & BOSTON PIZZA' $1,130,600 and 801 Victoria St 'LOT,STRIP MALL & STORE' $2,748,300. Plaza's Q2-2026 report discloses related-party minority interests of 0.69 per cent and 5.17 per cent in a group of plazas that includes both Edmundston properties; the REIT itself is the owner recorded here. |
REIT | $6,143,999 assessed across three accounts; 44 New Brunswick properties, 1,967,840 sq ftA |
| Government of Canada From the Directory of Federal Real Property: the Canada Border Services Agency owns the port of entry at 66 St Francois Street (0.8193 ha, 1,316 sq m); PSPC owns the GC Site at 22 Emmerson and Costigan Streets (0.2023 ha, 1,534 sq m); Canada Post owns the Saint-Basile post office at 215 Rue Principale and the Saint-Jacques post office at 4 Grondin St; National Defence owns the Armoury (1.2397 ha, 1,987 sq m). Canada leases rather than owns at 121 de l'Église (two tenancies), 165 Hébert Boulevard, 15 de l'Église Street and 22 Emerson Street — so the city's main office building has the federal government as a tenant and no named landlord. |
Government | 1.5621 ha owned across five parcels; three leased premisesA |
| Owner of 180 Boulevard Hébert 'LOT & SHOPPING MALL' on the roll and the largest retail account in the city with no named holder, next door to Plaza's own strip at 160–166 Boulevard Hébert. Its only recorded transfer is a $1 conveyance on 13 August 2021. Plaza's Q2-2026 report names a 'Boulevard Hebert Plaza' among its properties; its property page gives that plaza's address as 160, 164 and 166, not 180, so this account is not attributed to the REIT. |
Private company | $4,116,300 assessed, levy $176,538.98A |
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 buyer of 121 rue de l'Église for $14,960,000 on 14 February 2025, the largest commercial price in the city's open record. The price, the date, the address and the assessment are all public; the party is not, and Real Property Online's $17.50 package was not purchased.
- The exact extent of Twin Rivers Paper Company's Edmundston landholding. The company's own site establishes that it owns the Edmundston pulp and energy complex; the twenty-seven parcels that carry the same April 2010 consideration are consistent with one transaction but the register names no party, so the parcel list is evidence of a deal and not of title.
- The owner of 'Lot & Usine' at 610 Boulevard Isidore-Boucher, which sold as a single parcel for $9,880,000 on 3 June 2024 against an assessment of $3,791,700 — the second-largest clean price in the city.
- The owner of the Walmart at 805 Victoria Street, the Canadian Tire at 590 Victoria Street and the shopping mall at 180 Boulevard Hébert. CT REIT's property list returned 403 to curl and 404 to WebFetch, so the Canadian Tire could not be tested.
- Who holds the hospital, the Université de Moncton Edmundston campus, the CCNB campus and the Centre Jean Daigle — $201 million of assessment with no named owner. Vitalité Health Network's own facility pages 404.
- The owner and brand of the 126-room hotel at 280 Boulevard Hébert and the hotel-restaurant at 100 Rue Rice. The roll gives the room count and the registered prices; nothing opened named an operator or a holder.
- Named Edmundston homebuilders with unit counts. No New Brunswick league table exists, Statistics Canada's open CMHC cube 34-10-0143 carries no New Brunswick city, and nothing opened named a builder here.
- Any link between a property holding and elected office in Edmundston. 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
- History — 'Twin Rivers Paper Company was officially launched on April 28, 2010, as a specialty papers business, with fully integrated operations comprised of a pulp and energy complex in Edmundston, New Brunswick, and paper mill in Madawaska, Maine'; 'We are a privately held company with a joint venture between Atlas Holdings and Blue Wolf Capital Partners as our largest shareholder'; 'Twin Rivers' operations were formerly owned by Fraser Papers'; 2013 'Atlas Holdings and Blue Wolf Capital Partners acquire Twin Rivers from Brookfield Asset Management' — Twin Rivers Paper Company · openA
- About Twin Rivers — 'a specialty paper company manufacturing high-quality PULP AND paper'; operations menu lists the Edmundston pulp mill and the Madawaska, Mill Street, Mohawk Valley and Lyonsdale paper mills — Twin Rivers Paper Company · openA
- 577 Victoria Street — property page in the REIT's own portfolio — Choice Properties REIT · openA
- Our Properties — property search returning 'Edmundston IGA Extra, 580 Victoria Street, Edmundston, NB' as the REIT's Edmundston holding — Crombie REIT · openA
- Plaza boulevard Hebert — '160, 164, 166 boulevard Hebert, Edmundston, New Brunswick, E3V 2S7' — Plaza Retail REIT · openA
- Victoria Street Plaza — '801 Victoria Street, Edmundston, New Brunswick, E3V 3T3… located directly in front of the Edmundston Walmart at the intersection of Victoria Street and the Trans-Canada Highway' — Plaza Retail REIT · openA
- Q2 2026 Financial Report — New Brunswick: 44 properties, 1,967,840 sq ft at 30 June 2026; related-party minority interests of 0.69% and 5.17% disclosed in a group of plazas that includes 'Boulevard Hebert Plaza and Victoria Street Plaza in Edmundston, NB' — Plaza Retail REIT · openA
- Q2-2026 Management's Discussion and Analysis — New Brunswick apartment markets are Moncton, Fredericton and Saint John only — Killam Apartment REIT · openA