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Investors are hungry again for Halifax’s best office buildings and people shopping for homes are pushing up the condo prices as the city’s economic performance boosts confidence in the local real estate market.

“People have been sitting on their hands, worried, and now they’re coming back,” says Matt Honsberger, the broker at Royal LePage Atlantic.

In its house price survey released Wednesday, Royal LePage reveals condo prices in Halifax climbed by 2.6 percent in the second quarter of this year, to $296,859, compared to the same period a year ago.

“You have a bit of a migration of some people from rural areas, selling their homes and buying condos in Halifax,” says Honsberger. “You have young workers coming back from out West as the market suffers out there.”

 

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