For three years, professionals in the local real estate and appraisal industries have been arguing—unsuccessfully—that property sales information should be a public record, easily accessible by anyone, for free. Both appraiser Mike Turner and viewpoint.ca owner Bill McMullin have been told explicitly that under the terms of the province’s Freedom of Information and Protection of […]
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(Updated) Property sales secrecy leads to fraud
Nova Scotia is the last province in Canada, and the only jurisdiction in North America, to not make property sales information publicly available. As a result, there is untold fraud related to mortgages, inefficiencies in the appraisal industry and a lack of information for taxpayers to successfully challenge their assessments. That’s the case laid out […]