Area selection tool - Narrow your search to buy a home in Halifax (HRM)

This page has a tool "Area Selection Tool" for home buyers that will help all home buyers, but in particular buyers who don't know HRM well. This tool will help you narrow your search and make your search easier.
There are several options for the type of area you might be interested in and at the end of the option is the word GO. Click GO for the best option or options that matches the type of area you want. You will then be taken to a list of HRM neighbourhoods that might work for you. Click on the name of any neighbourhood and this will bring you to detailed information on the neighbourhood including map. slideshow of photos and current houses for sale in that neighbourhood.
Let's begin.



Area Selection
Click on GO on the statement that BEST describes your preferences. You will then be taken to a list of neighbourhoods that best fit your answer. 

What best describes the type of lot/lifestyle you are interested in: 

1) I ONLY want to live in the city where I can walk,bike or take a short bus ride to downtown Halifax  -  GO
2) I would like to be right in the city but am open to being a little farther out but still close to the city - GO
3) I would like a suburban setting but NOT on a huge lot with well and septic - GO
4) I want a larger lot (1/2 acre of more) on the outskirts of the city and am ok with a well and septic. - GO
















If you answered #1 these are the neighbourhoods that might best work for you:

Halifax City Only

North End  Halifax
South End Halifax
West End Halifax
Fairview
Hydrostone
North End  Halifax

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If you answered #2 these are the neighbourhoods that might best work for you

Halifax city plus edge of the Halifax

North End  Halifax
South End Halifax
West End Halifax
Fairview
Hydrostone
Clayton Park
Clayton Park West
Cresthaven 
Fairmount Subdivision
Flemming Heights
Sheffield in the Park
Wedgewood
Stonington Park - West Bedford
Torrington 
Waterbury Park - West Bedford
West Bedford/ Bedford West

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If you answered #3 these are the neighbourhoods that might best work for you

Suburban

Bedford 
Basinview Area            
Bedford Village
Bedford South the Ravines
Brookline Park - West Bedford
Cascades Park - West Bedford
Eaglewood
Nottingham
Oakmount
Oakridge
Olde Bedford
Papermill Lake
Ridgevale
Shoreview
Shore Drive area
Stonington Park - West Bedford
Torrington
Waterbury Park - West Bedford
West Bedford/ Bedford West

Sackville
Amcrest Estates
First Lake
Lawson Estates
Meadowland Estates
Millwood
Riverside Estates
Stonemount
Sunset Ridge
Sunnyvale
Twin Brooks

Dartmouth
Colby Village
Colby Village South
Craigwood Estates
Crichton Park
Forest Hills
Keystone Village
Lancaster Ridge
Montebello
Morris Lake
Portland Estates
Portland Hills
Russell Lake West

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If you answered #4 these are the neighbourhoods that might best work for you

Large County Style Lot

Hammonds Plains
Blue Mountain Estates
Glen Arbour
Haliburton Hills
Highland Park
KIngswood
Kingswood North
Maplewood on the Lakes ( Maplewood Village)
Voyageur Lakes
Waterstone 
Westwood Hills
White Hills

Fall River
Capilano
Fall River Village
Kinloch
Lake Fletcher Resort Estates
Miler Lake West
Perry Lake
Silversides
St Andrews Village
Swartzwald

LoweréMiddle/Upper Sackville and Beaverbank

Indigo Shores
Springfield Lake/ Lakeview Avenue
Stonemount
Wilson Lake/ Berryhill Estates

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