Real Estate: Toronto’s Popular ‘Postage Stamp’ Condo & Apartment units Will Come To Halifax Market - Realtor Phil Slauenwhite Says By Andrew Macdonald The latest condo building to have ultra tiny living quarters is Urban Capital’s Nrth Condos, on Gottingen &...
Chester Chatter: Piers Baker Makes A Splashy Front Page Mag Cover By Andrew Macdonald Editor's Note: Dennis McCloskey wrote this article for a national realtor magazine, REM, about Chester-Halifax realtor Piers Baker, who takes clients in Chester in his kayaks to see...
By Andrew Macdonald Jim Spatz, the noted condo and apartment developer and landlord, proposes an eight-storey multi-residential development in Downtown Halifax via Summer Wind Holdings, as The Notebook reported several weeks ago. Spatz is also the executive chairman...
Editor's Note: It is among the strangest historical facts in Nova Scotia. As I reported in a news scoop last weekend, the 'Italian' staple, pasta primavera, is not Italian but was created in the kitchen of a Yarmouth mansion in 1975. The owner of the stone mansion on...
By Andrew Macdonald Halifax author Janet Kitz has brought the works of legendary architect Andrew Cobb to life in book form. Cobb lived from 1876 to 1943, and many of his designs, homes and institutional buildings are approaching their centenary. They grace streets in...
By Andrew Macdonald A Home Near Bridgewater Which Might Have Been Built By The Acadians I recently wrote about my first-time visit and very positive impressions of a tiny hamlet, 25-minutes away from Bridgewater. The other week, I went on a house-hunting trip to the...
By Andrew Macdonald Update: LaHave Church Converted Into A Home - Sells - The Word Is It Went Over The Asking Price Back on June 20th, 2020, I reported on what I thought would make a fine Millennial Hipster Heaven home: A former 200-year old Baptist Church converted...
By Andrew Macdonald Part II: Pasta Primavera’s Yarmouth Invention, The Original 1975 Recipe & Son Of NYC Chef Creator On The Creation As The Notebook reported in our news scoop, in the Saturday edition, a mansion on an island known as Robert’s Island, connected by...
By Andrew Macdonald An Italian baron has put up for sale a mansion property on Roberts Island, in Yarmouth County. The asking price is $7.890 million. It sits on 270-acres. It has been listed on the MLS system by that town’s The Real Estate Store, where Mike Randall...
By Andrew Macdonald On Thursday, The Notebook noted that apartment and condo developer Jim Spatz is on a roll. His large residential landlord and development firm Southwest Properties has just received word it has won a national award for its construction of Curve....
