VILLAGE’S SALE OF $1 LOTS TO REAP 16 NEW HOMEOWNERS

A year after a tiny village in New Brunswick announced it would sell 16 housing lots for one dollar apiece, the mayor says the novel bid to attract newcomers to McAdam has been an unqualified success. Ken Stannix says that as of this week, 10 of the lots have been sold and the remaining six have deals pending. Stannix figures there will be 16 new homes standing on the community’s east side within the next two years. In all, more than 600 people applied to buy one of the lots after they went on the market in November 2018.