A mortgage broker near you, in every part of Nova Scotia

Wherever you are in the province, yes. Riley Oickle is licensed for all of Nova Scotia and works from Bedford; the application, the documents and the signing are remote, so where you live decides your deed transfer tax, your regional price and which programs you fit — not whether you can be served. Find your town below and the page for it carries all three.

No. Most files are done entirely by phone, email and e-signature, and the lawyer handles the signing locally at closing. If you would rather meet, the office is at 30 Damascus Rd, Suite 212, Bedford, Monday to Friday, 8 am to 10 pm Atlantic.

In Nova Scotia, yes. The province licenses mortgage brokers and associate mortgage brokers; “mortgage agents near me”, “mortgage advisor near me”, “mortgage consultant near me” and “mortgage specialist near me” are informal labels people search for, and they return the same licensed people. A bank’s mortgage specialist is the exception — an employee of one lender.

Start from the provincial public register rather than a directory, then check the licence is current. Searches for local mortgage brokers near me, or for mortgage brokers in my area, are really asking who can place your file — and on a Nova Scotia mortgage that is decided by which lenders a brokerage deals with, not by how far away the desk is. The town pages below carry the part that genuinely is local: your deed transfer tax, your regional price and the programs you fit.

Yes. Every community in Nova Scotia is covered by one of the seven region pages, which carries the deed transfer tax for the municipality it sits in. The table below names every community this site covers and the page that covers it.

Yes, the whole province. The office is in Bedford; application, documents and signing are remote, so a buyer in Yarmouth, Sydney or Amherst is served the same way as one in Dartmouth. Appraisers and lawyers are local.

Each municipality sets its own rate by by-law. On the July 2026 schedule, 15 municipalities charge 1.0% (all of Pictou and Yarmouth counties included), 3 charge 1.25%, and 31, including Halifax and Cape Breton Regional Municipalities, charge 1.5%.

No. The Nova Scotia Association of REALTORS® publishes average prices by region (Halifax-Dartmouth, Northern, Highland, Cape Breton, Annapolis Valley, South Shore and Yarmouth), not by town; every price here is regional, labelled as one.

Pictou County and Southwest Nova Scotia. Every Pictou County municipality charges 1.0% deed transfer tax, as do the Town of Yarmouth and the Districts of Yarmouth, Argyle, Clare and Digby: on a $350,000 purchase, $3,500 against $5,250 in Halifax, Truro or Cape Breton.