Nova Scotia had the highest volume of investor buyers of residential property in that time, with an average of 28.2 per cent.
Statistics Canada says investors represented three in 10 residential property buyers in Nova Scotia between 2018 and 2020 — the highest volume of such buyers among provinces where data is available.
The data, posted by the federal statistics agency on Dec. 3, tracks the number of investment buyers in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and British Columbia over three years.For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen. In neighbouring New Brunswick, investor buyers averaged 20.3 per cent in the same period, and in B.C. they averaged 24.8 per cent.StatsCan defines real estate investors as buyers of at least one residential property that is not used as their primary residence.
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