About Us

Welcome to Duckworth Real Estate

Duckworth Real Estate was officially opened in 1999 to meet the growing need for professional real estate representation on Nova Scotia's South Shore.We specialize in oceanfront and oceanview homes and vacant land for a wide range of clients. Our client base is approximately 50% Canadian and 50% international including the United States, England, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong.

The offices of Duckworth Real Estate are located in a restored English Barn (circa 1750) in the old seaside village of Kingsburg, once home to both Acadian and German farmers and fishers. The barn is a work in progress and an interesting piece of old Lunenburg architecture.

The village of Kingsburg is situated at the end of the Kingsburg Peninsula, an amphitheatre of headlands, beautiful long open beaches, rolling glacial drumlins and backshore freshwater lakes. We are less than 20 minutes from Old Town Lunenburg, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and just off Route 332, the Lighthouse Route.

The professional staff consists of John Duckworth and Anne Fouillard. Both are members of the Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA), a membership organization of 65,000 realtors Canada wide: http://www.crea.ca which owns the MLS trademark, has proprietary ownership of the REALTOR trademark, and operates the Multiple Listing Service http://www.mls.ca. We are also members of the Nova Scotia Association of Realtors (NSAR) http://www.nsar.ns.ca/public/aboutnsar/index.htm which serves the real estate industry in this province.

Although Duckworth Real Estate usually has approximately twenty 20 properties listed for sale, most of its work comes about as a result of representing buyers. When buyers contact us, we find out as much as we can about the kind of property they have in mind and then we get to work researching the market to find properties that come as close as possible to meeting our buyer client's specifications. If possible, we prefer to drive around with our buyer clients so we can get a better understanding of what appeals to them and where they would prefer to be located. This results in our clients gaining a thorough understanding of the area, the personalities of the towns and the prices of properties. After our research, we send the information concerning suitable properties to our buyer clients and work to narrow down the choices. We do the research. We prepare the offers. We look after the interests of our buyer clients. In the role of buyer's broker, in the event of a sale, we are paid by the listing broker, so our services do not cost our clients anything.

For more information, please click on the link below to find out about our role as a Brokerage.

Our Role as a Brokerage

Since many of our buyers are interested in renting out their newly acquired properties for short terms, we offer a vacation rental referral service for our real estate clientele.

See our Vacation Rentals webpage at:

http://www.novascotiavacationrentals.info

John Duckworth,
Broker/Co-Owner and Salesperson
A civil engineer, John and has been in the real estate industry for over forty years. He has worked as a developer, builder, development consultant and project manager on residential, commercial, industrial and institutional projects in Atlantic Canada, Ontario, Quebec, New Hampshire, Maine, Africa and the Philippines.

In 1972, John purchased a derelict c.1840, one-room schoolhouse, fronting on a beautiful beach, Kingsburg Beach. He converted the schoolhouse to its present use as an historic, year round, completely self-contained and fully equipped, oceanfront dwelling. John and Anne are still the proud owners of this unique property. Schoolhouse by the Sea is now rented out to visitors to the area.
http://www.novascotiavacationrentals.info/about.html

Born in Montreal and brought up in Halifax, John has traveled in Europe, Africa, Asia, Mexico and the Caribbean, as well as throughout the United States. He is a Director of the Sherman Hines Museum of Photography and the Rossignol Cultural Centre in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, President of the Nova Scotia Snowboarding Association, and past-President of the Riverport and District Board of Trade.


Anne Fouillard, Associate Managing Broker/Co-Owner and Salesperson
Anne has a Masters Degree in Environmental Studies and Resource Management. She has travelled extensively world wide, circumnavigating the globe several times in her consulting business and teaching career. Her career has taken her to every continent and resulted in her living and working in several Asian countries, Africa, Central and Latin America, the South Pacific, Europe, and the Caribbean. She is a certified real estate broker and salesperson as well as a first class residential space planner and decorator. Anne has also taken the course for the Accredited Buyer Representative (ABR) through the Real Estate Buyer's Agent Council. Anne speaks English, French, Spanish and Bahasa Indonesian and clients who require French or Spanish will be pleased to know that they can have services in those languages.

John and Anne are both charter directors of the Kingsburg Coastal Conservancy http://www.kingsburgconservancy.org/, an organization dedicated to the preservation of headlands, beaches, and wetlands on the Kingsburg Peninsula where Duckworth Real Estate is located.

Anne and John look forward to assisting you, whether you want to purchase or sell a home or land, rent your oceanfront/view property for a week, month, or a year, or simply discuss your real estate ideas.