Saint John, New Brunswick
Saint John is the one city in the region where the tax roll itself tells the story: five heavy-industrial accounts — an oil refinery, an LNG terminal, a pulp mill, a tissue mill, a paper mill and a generating station — carry $390 million of assessed value and the largest single tax levy in the province, and New Brunswick publishes all of it free in bulk. What it does not publish is any owner's name, in Saint John or anywhere else; that costs $17.50 plus HST a parcel. Irving Oil states on its own site that it operates Canada's largest refinery here and gives its home office as 10 King Square South, and the biggest office building in the city belongs to a REIT now wholly owned by a Halifax company.
9 buildings · 4 with an owner established · 19 sources · 2 tier B · 7 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, assessment history, tax levy and its recorded sales — date and amount, the amount being, in the service's own words, 'the sale price documented at the time of registration', with $1 transfers excluded — and 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'. Neither carries an owner's name. For the owner you go to the land registry, and it is priced per look: Real Property Online, which the service's own opening screen describes 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. The professional channel, PLANET, is open only to subscribing lawyers, surveyors and financial institutions, and since 1 March 2026 charges $1 per query for textual parcel information and property maps with a $10 monthly minimum, or $65 a month flat for unlimited transactions.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Irving Oil home office 10 King Square South, Saint John 11 storeys |
Office | Irving Oil Limited Irving Oil's own site identifies the building as its own: its About Us page carries the heading 'Our home office' and the line 'Our 11-storey office in Saint John, NB, is LEED certified', and its contact page gives the address as 10 King Square South, Saint John NB E2L 0G3. The provincial roll carries 10 King Sq South as 'High Rise Office Bldg', assessed at $57,714,300 for 2026 with a levy of $2,680,771.52 — the second-largest single levy in the city after the refinery. No title search was bought, so what is established is the company's own description of the building as its home office and the roll's valuation of that address, not a registered title. The entity is named; no individual is. |
Family / private | —B |
| Saint John refinery 340 Loch Lomond Road, Saint John |
Industrial | Irving Oil Limited Irving Oil states on its own About Us page: 'Irving Oil is an international refining and marketing company with a history of long-term partnerships and relationships. Founded in 1924, Irving Oil operates Canada's largest refinery in Saint John, New Brunswick, along with more than 1,000 fuelling locations and a network of distribution terminals spanning Eastern Canada and New England. It also operates Ireland's only refinery, located in the village of Whitegate.' That is a statement of operation, which is what is recorded here; the registered owner of the parcel was not purchased from Real Property Online. No sale of the account appears in the open sales file at or above $3 million. |
Family / private | —B |
| Brunswick Square 39 King Street, Saint John 515,580 sq ft · 19 floors |
Mixed use | Ravelin Properties REIT (wholly owned by Clarke Inc., TSX: CKI) Ravelin's own property page states: 'Brunswick Square Property is a 19-storey, multi-use complex centrally located in Saint John, New Brunswick. A truly integrated complex, Brunswick Square is comprised of an office tower, atrium, retail shopping area, over 730 parking stalls, and the 250-room full-service Delta Brunswick Hotel', gives the address as 39 King Street and the area as 515,580 sq ft, and notes it sits at the centre of the Inside Connection, 'Atlantic Canada's longest indoor, climate-controlled pedway system', linking Market Square, the Saint John Trade and Convention Centre, the Canada Games Aquatic Centre and the Saint John City Market. |
Public company | —A |
| Canaport LNG / Saint John LNG receiving and regasification terminal 2530 Red Head Road, Saint John |
Industrial | Not established a paid title search would answer it The second-largest industrial account in the city: described on the provincial roll as 'Canaport LNG', assessed at $105,599,500 for 2026 with a levy of $2,748,296.75, plus a 'Vacant land Buffer & S.I' account at $300,400 and a separate 'PIPELINE LNG TRANSM' account assessed at $26,001,000. The operating company's own website, now branded Saint John LNG, describes 'a state-of-the-art liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving & regasification terminal' in Saint John and names no owner or parent on the pages opened, so none is entered. The roll carries no owner and Real Property Online was not purchased. |
Not established | —A |
| Pulp mill and tissue mill, Mill Street Mill Street and Mill Street West, Saint John |
Industrial | Not established a paid title search would answer it Two accounts on the same street: 'Pulp Mill & land' assessed at $68,484,500 with a levy of $3,033,348.66, and 'Tissue Mill on Lot 16-01' at $18,808,700 with a levy of $834,891.05, plus a 'MAIN/RAIL R/O/W' account running from Mill Street to the Kings County line at $183,300. A third heavy-industrial account at 435 Bayside Drive is described as 'LAND & PAPER MILL' and assessed at $25,496,200. J.D. Irving, Limited's own site lists 'Forestry and Forest Products' among its business divisions but its divisional pages 404, and no filing, regulator or named report opened states which entity holds any of these parcels, so all four are left blank rather than attributed to a family name. |
Not established | —A |
| McAllister Place 519 Westmorland Road, Saint John (the roll's shopping-centre account on the same road is numbered 515) 399,710 sq ft on 79.12 acres, about 44 of them developed |
Retail | Not established a paid title search would answer it Real Estate News Exchange, reporting Primaris REIT putting the property on the market, describes 'a 399,710-square-foot enclosed mall at 519 Westmorland Rd. in Saint John, N.B.', 'the only full-service regional shopping centre in the Saint John, N.B. The addresses differ by four numbers and the roll names no building, so the two records are reported side by side and no identity is asserted. The current owner is not established: search results point to a June 2026 purchase from Primaris, but every article naming the buyer was paywalled or returned 403. |
Not established | CAD $64,000,000 2026-06-01 the price registered against 515 Westmorland Rd as a single-parcel transaction in New Brunswick's open sales file; the same account also carries a $127,800,000 registration dated 30 November 2012. The file names no parties, so the buyer in 2026 is not established A |
| Port of Saint John Saint John waterfront (roll: 'SAINT JOHN PORT' and 'DOCK AREA WEST SIDE') |
Industrial | Saint John Port Authority The provincial roll names this owner itself, which is unusual: the account description reads 'SAINT JOHN PORT AUTH', assessed at $25,149,700 with a levy of $661,160.46, alongside 'SJ PORT WATERLOTS' at $2,257,800, a 'Buildings&Lot Lease 426' account at $6,436,400, and a 'Gatehouse/Offices/Sheds' account in the Dock Area West Side at $22,997,400 with a levy of $596,996.91. Where a description names an entity it is recorded; no further corporate document was opened, and the port authority's own site returned a 1.3 MB JavaScript page with no readable statement of its holdings. |
Government | —A |
| Saint John Regional Hospital 400 University Avenue, Saint John |
Institutional | Not established a paid title search would answer it The highest assessed account in the city by a wide margin: $292,495,800 for 2026, described on the roll as 'SAINT JOHN REG.HOSPITAL', with a 2026 levy of $0 — what the roll shows for publicly owned property. A second hospital account at 130 Bayard Drive is assessed at $41,416,200. No owner name appears in any open record and none is entered; the operating authority was not established from a document opened. |
Not established | —A |
| TD Station 99 Station Street, Saint John |
Civic | Not established a paid title search would answer it The city's arena, carried on the provincial roll as 'TD STATION' at 99 Station St, assessed at $35,049,400 for 2026 with a levy of $0. A nil levy is what the roll shows for publicly owned property; the roll names no owner and none is entered here. |
Not established | —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 (source date 2026-10-01) under the GeoNB Open Data Licence, which permits commercial reuse and expressly exempts Personal Information — which is why it holds no owner names. 'TA 450 — Saint John' is the province's own taxing-authority code. Descriptions are quoted verbatim from the roll.
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.
Saint John builds the least of the three New Brunswick cities and is the only one whose permit count fell. The city's director of development and community standards told CBC that 193 units had been permitted so far in the year against a record 307 in the same period the previous year, while adding that 'more than a dozen developments representing more than 1,100 residential units are waiting to be permitted and could break ground in the next year', and that large residential projects are now appearing across the city in a way they did not before the pandemic. The city had issued permits for eleven apartment buildings in that period, including a 40-unit building in east Saint John and 34 units on Millidge Avenue. There is no builder league table for New Brunswick and no open per-city starts series — Statistics Canada's CMHC cubes 34-10-0143 and 34-10-0126 were queried directly and neither carries a New Brunswick city — so per-company figures come from one REIT's disclosure and from registered sale prices.
| Name | Type | Units owned or sold |
|---|---|---|
| Killam Apartment REIT Killam's Q2-2026 MD&A, as at 30 June 2026: Saint John is its smallest Atlantic market at 898 units in 12 properties, $4,520 thousand of net operating income, 3.5 per cent of the trust. Average two-bedroom rent $1,306 — the lowest in Killam's portfolio — and occupancy 98.9 per cent, the highest of any of its markets, having risen 40 basis points year on year while Halifax, Moncton and Fredericton all fell. |
REIT | 898 apartment units across 12 properties in Saint JohnA |
| Owner of the Sonya Court apartment building The largest single-parcel residential purchase in the city's open record: $22,500,000 registered 16 December 2022 against a Sonya Court parcel described on the roll as '4 STOREY APT BLDG' and assessed at $16,722,500 for 2026. No party is named in the open file and none was established elsewhere. |
Private company | 4-storey apartment building, $22,500,000 (December 2022)A |
| Owner of 4–6 Skaling Court Roll description '9 APT BLDGS 99 UNITS', assessed $8,469,900 for 2026; a single-parcel sale at $17,000,000 registered 9 September 2025 — twice the assessed value. No party named in the open record. |
Private company | 9 buildings, 99 units, $17,000,000 (September 2025)A |
| Owner of 700 Millidge Avenue The largest residential account in the city after the Westmorland Road retail node: 'Seniors Complex' at 700 Millidge Ave, assessed $32,145,000 for 2026. No qualifying sale appears against it in the open file and no owner exists in any open record. |
Private company | seniors complex, assessed $32,145,000A |
Commercial landlords
The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.
Two things dominate commercial Saint John and the roll shows both without naming either owner: the heavy industry on the harbour and at Red Head, and one retail node on Westmorland Road. Of the entities that can be named, the largest office complex is held by a REIT owned by a Halifax public company, the port by a federal port authority, and the grocery-anchored retail by two out-of-province REITs. Irving Oil names itself as the operator of the refinery on its own site; nothing opened establishes a registered owner for the refinery, the LNG terminal, the pulp mill, the tissue mill or the paper mill, and this record therefore names none.
| Name | Type | Floor area / assessed value |
|---|---|---|
| Ravelin Properties REIT (Clarke Inc.) From Ravelin's own property page. The REIT held interests in 45 properties and 6.5 million sq ft at 31 December 2025, and Clarke Inc. of Halifax took 100 per cent of its units on 29 May 2026. The same vehicle holds the largest office building in Halifax, Moncton and Fredericton. |
Public company | 515,580 sq ft (Brunswick Square), including a 250-room hotel and 730 parking stallsA |
| Irving Oil Limited Named on the basis of the company's own statements: that it 'operates Canada's largest refinery in Saint John, New Brunswick', and that its home office is an 11-storey LEED-certified building, with its contact address given as 10 King Square South. Operation and occupation are what is established; registered title was not purchased. The entity is named and no individual is. |
Family / private | refinery assessed $112,777,400; home office assessed $57,714,300B |
| Saint John Port Authority 'SAINT JOHN PORT AUTH' $25,149,700, 'Gatehouse/Offices/Sheds' in the Dock Area West Side $22,997,400, 'Buildings&Lot Lease 426' $6,436,400 and 'SJ PORT WATERLOTS' $2,257,800, all from the provincial roll, which names the authority in its own account description. |
Government | $56.8 million assessed across four port accountsA |
| Crombie REIT Crombie's own property register lists 107 Catherwood Street in Saint John and Fairvale Plaza at 140–142 Hampton Road in Rothesay. No floor areas are published for either. |
REIT | 1 Saint John property plus 1 in RothesayA |
| Plaza Retail REIT Plaza's Q2-2026 financial report at 30 June 2026. It does not break the New Brunswick total out by city, so no Saint John figure is given. Plaza is headquartered in Fredericton. |
REIT | 44 New Brunswick properties, 1,967,840 sq ft (province-wide)A |
| Westmorland Road retail node 515 Westmorland Rd 'SHOPPING CENTRE & LAND' $72,230,700; Westmorland Rd 'STRIP MALL COMPLEX 6BLDG' $30,530,000; 'MAJOR RETAIL COMPLEX' $3,704,400; and 533 Westmorland Rd 'BANK OF NS & MINI MALLS' $5,413,300. The most valuable commercial ground in the city outside heavy industry, and the open record names no holder for any of it. Marked private only to record that nothing listed or public was found. |
Private company | $108.1 million assessed across four accountsA |
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 registered owner of the refinery parcel at 340 Loch Lomond Road. Irving Oil states on its own site that it operates Canada's largest refinery in Saint John, which is recorded; the title was not purchased from Real Property Online and no filing or regulatory document naming the registered owner was opened.
- The owner of the Canaport LNG / Saint John LNG terminal at 2530 Red Head Road ($105,599,500 assessed) and of the associated $26,001,000 LNG transmission pipeline account. The operating company's site names no owner or parent on the pages opened.
- The owners of the pulp mill and tissue mill on Mill Street, and the paper mill at 435 Bayside Drive. J.D. Irving's divisional pages 404 and no filing or regulator statement was opened; no family name is used in place of an entity.
- The owner of the Coleson Cove generating station ($58,961,400 assessed). NB Power's generation page does not name it.
- The buyer of the Westmorland Road shopping centre for $64,000,000 on 1 June 2026. The price and date are in the open roll; every article that named the buyer was paywalled (Green Street News) or 403 (Connect CRE, Retail Insider), and a tier-C source may not carry an owner.
- Whether the roll's account at 515 Westmorland Road is McAllister Place, whose address is given as 519 Westmorland Road in the only description opened. Both records are reported; no identity is asserted.
- The buyer in the $100,004,386 transaction registered 8 February 2022 against a Grandview Avenue warehouse parcel assessed at $640,200.
- The operating authority and owner of the Saint John Regional Hospital ($292,495,800 assessed, nil levy).
- Which assessment account is Brunswick Square. Ravelin publishes the address and area; the provincial roll does not label accounts by building name in a way that permits a match.
- The document registration fee for New Brunswick's land registry: the Services and Fees pages are JavaScript-rendered and returned no fee table.
- Any link between a property holding and elected office in Saint John. Nothing was established and the record carries none. The Irving group's historic prominence in the city is a matter of record but no holding is attributed here except on the company's own published statements, and no family member is named.
Sources
- Land Registry — Real Property Online for one-time access; PLANET Access for subscribers — Service New Brunswick · openA
- SNB Real Property Online — service description and cart fee schedule — Service New Brunswick · openA
- Notice of Fee Change — PLANET Subscription Charging model, effective March 1, 2026 — Service New Brunswick, Director, Land Registry · openA
- NB Property Assessment — Search Property Assessments and Sale Prices (PAOL) — Service New Brunswick · openA
- Property Assessment Online — usage agreement and field list, read from the app'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
- 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) — Tombstone, Assessment, Sales, PIDPAN and TA files, source date 2026-10-01 — Service New Brunswick / GeoNB · openA
- GeoNB Open Data Licence v1.0 — Government of New Brunswick · openA
- About Us ('Irving Oil operates Canada's largest refinery in Saint John, New Brunswick'; 'Our home office — Our 11-storey office in Saint John, NB, is LEED certified') and Contact Us (10 King Square South, Saint John NB E2L 0G3) — Irving Oil Limited · openA
- Brunswick Square — property page — Ravelin Properties REIT · openA
- Clarke Inc. Completes Acquisition of Ravelin Properties REIT, 29 May 2026 — Clarke Inc. and Ravelin Properties REIT via Newsfile Corp. · openA
- Primaris moves to sell McAllister Place mall in Saint John — Real Estate News Exchange (RENX) · openA
- Saint John LNG — 'a state-of-the-art liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving & regasification terminal' — Saint John LNG (formerly Canaport LNG) · openA
- Generation — 'With 12 hydro, coal, oil, natural gas and diesel-powered generating stations… NB Power has a total generating capacity of 3,799 MW' — NB Power · openA
- Our Properties — New Brunswick holdings — Crombie REIT · openA
- Q2-2026 Management's Discussion and Analysis — Killam Apartment REIT · openA
- Q2 2026 Financial Report — Plaza Retail REIT · openA
- N.B. cities getting denser as they respond to population growth — CBC News · openA
- getCubeMetadata for tables 34-10-0143 and 34-10-0126 (CMHC housing starts) — Statistics Canada Web Data Service · openA