Research and tools for examining real estate.
A useful investigation starts with better questions. What matters about a location? Which assumptions shape the economics? What needs to be understood before a project moves forward? Explore Helio’s public research, market information and analytical tools — different starting points for examining an opportunity, with sources, coverage and assumptions providing the context for their use.
The live development map
Every development in Halifax — proposed, approved, under construction, complete — read and held on one live map.
Browse by area
50 area dossiers: the pipeline, zoning headroom, and what's moving, neighbourhood by neighbourhood.
Helio Markets
ratesThe cost of capital for Halifax development — Bank of Canada rates, the yield curve, mortgage spreads, read against the pipeline.
Halifax Rental Market
rates36 years of the CMHC vacancy print, today's asking rents, the supply pipeline, and demand — read against Helio's own under-construction portfolio.
Calculators
toolsSix development calculators — four fed by the current benchmark rates, plus cap-rate and NOI calculations.
The Halifax Brief
weeklyA free weekly institutional read on the week's tracked pipeline movement, the planning queue, interest rates, and housing policy.
Development guides
Seven reference guides: prefab project formation, funding a prefab-led project, acquisition readiness, feasibility, CMHC MLI Select and affordable housing.
Field notes
The journal: how development works in practice — zoning, permits, construction, financing and the Halifax market, written as we learn it.
Atlantic Construction Podcast
Conversations with the people building Atlantic Canada.
Figures carry their as-of date; method and limits are on the methodology page. Spotted an error? Correct a record.