{"id":134,"date":"2026-10-24T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.donnamalonehomes.com\/blog\/?p=134"},"modified":"2026-10-24T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T10:00:00","slug":"buying-a-house-before-you-move-here-ns-making-deed-transfer-tax-easier-to-deal-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.donnamalonehomes.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/24\/buying-a-house-before-you-move-here-ns-making-deed-transfer-tax-easier-to-deal-with\/","title":{"rendered":"Buying a house before you move here? NS making deed transfer tax easier to deal with"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>Nova Scotia is updating its non-resident deed transfer tax rules to support permanent movers. Changes include extending proof-of-residency from six months to one year, clarifying extension conditions, exempting inherited property for non-residents, extending refund application time to two years, and allowing refunds to legal representatives. The 10% tax applies to residential properties with up to three units. In 2025-26, $18.4 million was collected from 1,791 transactions.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/haligonia.ca\/buying-a-house-before-you-move-here-ns-making-deed-transfer-tax-easier-to-deal-with-321741\/\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nova Scotia is updating its non-resident deed transfer tax rules to support permanent movers. Changes include extending proof-of-residency from six months to one year, clarifying extension conditions, exempting inherited property for non-residents, extending refund application time to two years, and allowing refunds to legal representatives. The 10% tax applies to residential properties with up to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donnamalonehomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donnamalonehomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donnamalonehomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donnamalonehomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donnamalonehomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.donnamalonehomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136,"href":"https:\/\/www.donnamalonehomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions\/136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donnamalonehomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donnamalonehomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donnamalonehomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donnamalonehomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}