Kitsilano · Arbutus
2 Bedroom Apartment for Rent in Kitsilano
$2,695 / month
A two-bedroom in Kitsilano, asking $2,695 a month. The listing mentions basement suite. It leaves 4 obvious questions unanswered, starting with: are pets allowed?
That is $705 below the middle of the 103 comparable rentals we are tracking in Kitsilano, where most ask between $2,800 and $3,850.
The details
Highlights
Ask before you view
The advertisement doesn’t say, and it matters:
- Which way does it face?
- Is parking included or extra?
- Are pets allowed?
- When is it available?
Roughly where it is
Approximate — listings rarely give an exact address, so treat this as the block, not the door.
Renting in Kitsilano
Kits is low-rise by design. The neighbourhood fought off towers, so almost nothing here is above four storeys. If a high floor is your priority, this is the wrong neighbourhood.
How this compares
What we’d expect it to ask
$3,103 / month
8 times in ten the answer lands between $2,386 and $3,934. That is the width of what we actually know, measured against listings this model had never seen — not a margin we chose.
Asking $2,695 is $408 below that — further below than the ±11.8% we can put down to our own error. On size and location alone, it asks less than its neighbours do.
Asks less than we’d expect
What moves that number
The advertisement does not state a floor area, so size is not priced in.
Each line is the difference this one thing makes, holding everything else where it is. They do not add up to the rent.
Location
No SkyTrain station within walking distance, about 33 min to Waterfront.
Scored from the map pin alone — rapid transit, town centres and parks, in straight lines. It knows nothing about the street, the hill, the building or the neighbours, and buses and the SeaBus are not in it, so places served by those score lower here than they deserve.
Against the ones next to it
$2,695 is $705 below the middle of the 103 two-bedrooms we are tracking in Kitsilano right now ($3,400). Most of them ask between $2,800 and $3,850.
A straight count of asking prices in the area, with nothing adjusted for — unlike the estimate above, it does not care that this one is bigger or closer to a station.
What the estimate cannot see
Floor, view, condition, noise and everything inside the walls are missing from all but a handful of the advertisements we index, so none of them are priced in above. Two identical floor plans, one renovated and one not, get the same estimate from us. This ad does not give a floor area either, so size is not in it.
The advertisement doesn’t say, and it matters:
- Which way does it face?
- Is parking included or extra?
- Are pets allowed?
- When is it available?
Estimated from the listings on this site, not a market survey, and from asking rents — what a home is advertised at, not what it lets for.
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