Average Rent in Halifax

Halifax's average rent across all purpose-built apartment types was $1,755 a month as of the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation's (CMHC) October 2025 Rental Market Survey, up 7.3% year-over-year. The purpose-built vacancy rate improved to 2.7%, up from 2.1% the year before, as record levels of new rental supply came online across the municipality. By unit size, CMHC's confirmed figure is a two-bedroom average of $1,650 for the same survey. That's below the national average asking rent of $2,037 reported by Rentals.ca and Urbanation for July 2026, though Halifax remains Atlantic Canada's most expensive major rental market.

CMHC's October 2025 Rental Market Survey breaks Halifax down by unit size, but a live 1-bedroom or 3-bedroom-or-more figure specific to Halifax has not been independently confirmed from a current CMHC source as of this writing. Rather than estimate those numbers, this page reports only the all-types average and the confirmed 2-bedroom figure. The Rentals.ca and Urbanation National Rent Report also does not publish a separate Halifax all-types city average, so this page leads with CMHC's in-place survey data, the most current verifiable citywide figure available, the same approach used for Winnipeg. This page will be updated with the full studio-through-3-bedroom breakdown once those figures are independently verified.

• 2-bedroom: $1,650/month
• All apartments: $1,755/month

These are CMHC's in-place averages across the existing purpose-built rental stock, not new-listing asking prices. Studio, 1-bedroom, and 3-bedroom-or-more figures are not shown here since none has been independently confirmed from a live CMHC source for Halifax at time of writing.

Halifax's purpose-built vacancy rate climbed to 2.7% in the October 2025 survey, up from 2.1% the year before, as new purpose-built rental construction added supply across the Halifax Regional Municipality. At the same time, the all-types average rent grew 7.3% year-over-year, since older, lower-cost units continued catching up to the market rate even as availability improved. Nova Scotia caps rent increases on existing tenancies at 5% a year (until December 31, 2027) with four months' written notice, a higher ceiling than provinces like Manitoba, which is one factor behind the pace of that growth.