"South Shore never used to be a market for multiple offers and bidding wars, but it is now." of Maclean’s, and each week here online, recent buyers divulge what they had to do to acquire the cottages of their dreams: pool family money, send relatives for viewings, hop on the first flight to Atlantic Canada post-bubble, or buy sight unseen, sometimes from thousands of kilometres away.
After deciding a cottage in the Kawarthas was out of reach financially, the Perrys set their sights on Nova Scotia’s South Shore. For a long time, Tanya and I had a goal of owning a cottage—somewhere close to the ocean but not on the ocean itself. We wanted a lake so we could swim, boat and kayak. The Kawarthas are amazing, but they were financially out of our reach. We love Mahone Bay, Lunenburg and Bridgewater, so we decided South Shore would be our number-one area.adian. My brother went to school at Dalhousie, and visiting him was my first real exposure to the East Coast. He met his wife there and ended up staying.
For years, I was mystified as to why people weren’t as taken with Nova Scotia as I was. Now, it seems like everyone’s caught on. South Shore never used to be a market for multiple offers and bidding wars, but it is now. I see investment properties as assets, but I made the decision early on to put this specific property in the liaThis article appears in print in the July 2022 issue of
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