Most private islands ask their owners to choose between seclusion and support. Redmond Island refuses the trade. Just offshore from the fishing village of Prospect, on Nova Scotia's Atlantic coast southwest of Halifax, an 11.75-acre island carries a five-bedroom cedar house, its own beach and its own landing, while two mainland parcels at the end of the village supply what islands usually lack: a guest house, a barn apartment with working space below, a substantial wharf, and room to keep vehicles and boats ashore. Sold as one compound of about 15.7 acres, with more than 5,000 feet of ocean frontage and furnishings included, it is a turnkey way to own an island without giving up the mainland.
The setting rewards the arrangement. The island looks out over open Atlantic in one direction and a sheltered scatter of coves, rocky points and neighbouring islands in the other, a coastline long favoured by boaters and sea kayakers. Because of the way the island sits, the sun comes up over the water and goes down over the water, bookending each day with the two views island buyers hope for and rarely get from a single house.
The Island House
The island residence is a Linwood cedar home of more than 2,000 square feet, planned for relaxed, full-house living rather than cottage compromise. Five bedrooms and three bathrooms, one of them an ensuite, give a family and its guests proper rooms and proper privacy. The main living space rises to a cathedral ceiling, and the main floor opens to a screened porch, a full-length deck on the water side, and a covered barbecue deck tucked onto the sheltered side of the house, so there is a comfortable outdoor seat in almost any wind. Down the lane, a separate sauna building with a wood-burning stove turns the walk back to the house into part of the ritual. The house is sold furnished, ready for a first weekend rather than a first shopping trip.
The Mainland Guest House, Barn and Wharf
Across the water, the mainland lot of just under an acre carries the compound's second and third dwellings. The guest house is a compact one-bedroom home, ideal for visitors who want to join the island days and keep a mainland base, or for a caretaker. The barn works harder still: its upper floor is a two-bedroom apartment, while the ground floor provides laundry, garage and workshop space, and winter storage for a boat. A 70-foot wharf with its own ramp and float gives the compound a solid mainland landing for a larger boat, complementing the 32-foot ramp and float on the island itself. Between the island house, the guest house and the barn apartment, the compound sleeps its owners and guests across eight bedrooms and five bathrooms, with 3,258 square feet of finished living space in total.
Land and Water
Together the three parcels total about 15.7 acres: the island at roughly 11.75 acres, an undeveloped mainland peninsula of about 2.98 acres, and the roughly 0.98-acre mainland lot with the guest house and barn. Their combined shoreline runs to more than 5,000 feet of ocean frontage, changing character as it goes: several beaches, rocky outcrops, sheltered bays where the water lies quiet, and open shore facing the Atlantic. The island's signature stretch is a white sand beach of about 400 feet beside the island landing, a rare find on this rockbound coast. Inland, close to a kilometre of trails threads the island, so the whole property can be walked, not just viewed from the deck. Sunrise and sunset both fall over open water.
Access and Utilities
For an island property, access is unusually complete. Boats land on the island at the 32-foot ramp and float by the beach, and on the mainland at the 70-foot wharf, while the mainland parcels give owners road access, parking and storage at the end of the Prospect community. Halifax is about 30 minutes away by road and Halifax Stanfield International Airport about 45 minutes, close enough for guests to arrive by air in the morning and be on the island deck by lunch. The island house runs on its own systems: a solar array supplies electricity, backed by a Generac generator, with propane as a further fuel source. Water comes from a drilled well supported by a cistern, and the property is on septic. It is off-grid in capability while remaining an easy half hour from a provincial capital.
Lifestyle and Value
Life here organises itself around the water and the light. Mornings can start with a sauna and a swim off the sand beach, days fill with kayaking between the offshore islands or boating out into the open Atlantic, and evenings end on the deck as the sun sets over the ocean for the second water show of the day. When weather or company calls for shore life, the mainland houses, the wharf and the village are minutes away, and Halifax supplies the restaurants, hospitals, universities and culture that most island locations cannot reach in a day trip, let alone half an hour. At CAD 2,799,000, furnished and sold as a single compound of island, peninsula and serviced mainland lot, Redmond Island offers something the Nova Scotia market seldom assembles in one deed package: a developed private island that is already supported, already sleeping eight bedrooms' worth of family and guests, and already within commuting distance of the city.
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