Research & tools
Research and tools for examining real estate.
A useful investigation starts with better questions. What matters about a location? Which assumptions shape the economics? What needs to be understood before a project moves forward? Explore Helio’s public research, market information and analytical tools — different starting points for examining an opportunity, with sources, coverage and assumptions providing the context for their use.
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The live development map
Every development in Halifax — proposed, approved, under construction, complete — read and held on one live map.
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Browse by area
50 area dossiers: the pipeline, zoning headroom, and what's moving, neighbourhood by neighbourhood.
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rates 03
Helio Markets
The cost of capital for Halifax development — Bank of Canada rates, the yield curve, mortgage spreads, read against the pipeline.
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Halifax Rental Market
36 years of the CMHC vacancy print, today's asking rents, the supply pipeline, and demand — read against Helio's own under-construction portfolio.
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Calculators
Six development calculators — four fed by the current benchmark rates, plus cap-rate and NOI calculations.
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weekly 06
The Halifax Brief
A free weekly institutional read on the week's tracked pipeline movement, the planning queue, interest rates, and housing policy.
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Development guides
Seven reference guides: prefab project formation, funding a prefab-led project, acquisition readiness, feasibility, CMHC MLI Select and affordable housing.
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Field notes
The journal: how development works in practice — zoning, permits, construction, financing and the Halifax market, written as we learn it.
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Atlantic Construction Podcast
Conversations with the people building Atlantic Canada.
Figures carry their as-of date; method and limits are on the methodology page. Spotted an error? Correct a record.
Research informs our approach; it does not replace the work of testing an opportunity against its actual conditions.