{"id":287332,"date":"2025-11-16T19:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T19:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/287332\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T19:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T19:19:07","slug":"halifax-second-most-sought-after-city-in-canada-for-renters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/287332\/","title":{"rendered":"Halifax second most sought after city in Canada for renters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Renters in Canada are increasingly looking to Halifax as their next home.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s according to new data from RentCafe.com where Halifax places second for most sought after rental markets. <\/p>\n<p>In creating the list, Rentcafe.com analyzes available listings, listing views, apartments saved as favourites, and saved personalized searches for 25 Canadian cities. Values for these variables are combined to get a score out of 100.<\/p>\n<p>Halifax received an overall score of 99.89 for the third quarter of 2025, second only to Moncton, N.B. which had a perfect score.<\/p>\n<p>According to the data, page views for listings in Halifax rose 45 per cent from the same period in 2024. Favourited listings surged 241 per cent. <\/p>\n<p>Halifax has become an attractive market for its growing economy and job opportunities. Year-over-year there has been a steady growth in total employment of those over the age of 15.<\/p>\n<p>But <a href=\"https:\/\/halifax.citynews.ca\/2025\/01\/12\/canadian-rent-at-17-month-low-housing-costs-in-halifax-still-rising\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">prices in Halifax<\/a> still make some weary of the move. At the end of 2021, the average rent for a one bedroom was $1,602, according to Rentals.ca. By the end of 2022, that number jumped 24 per cent to $1,987, before decreasing 7.4 per cent to $1,841 in December 2023.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Government of Nova Scotia, the average rent in Halifax for a one-bedroom in the first quarter of 2025 was $1,770 per month. That is significantly higher than other cities in the Maritimes. <\/p>\n<p>The average monthly rent for a one bedroom in the first quarter in Moncton, St. John, Fredricton and St. John\u2019s was approximately $1,257. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Renters in Canada are increasingly looking to Halifax as their next home. That\u2019s according to new data from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-287332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}