Vancouver · Marpole, Vancouver

3 Bedroom Apartment for Rent in Vancouver

$2,500 / month

A 1,000 ft² three-bedroom in Vancouver, asking $2,500 a month. The listing mentions furnished. It leaves 5 obvious questions unanswered, starting with: is parking included or extra?

At $2,500 for 1,000 square feet, the asking rent works out to $2.50 per square foot.

That is $900 below the middle of the 171 comparable rentals we are tracking in Vancouver, where most ask between $2,789 and $4,340.

The details

Rent$2,500
Bedrooms3
Size1000 ft²
FloorNot stated
ExposureNot stated
LaundryNot stated
ParkingNot stated
Property typeNot stated
AvailableNot stated
AreaVancouver

Highlights

Furnished

Ask before you view

The advertisement doesn’t say, and it matters:

  • What floor is it on?
  • 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 Vancouver

Vancouver is the tightest rental market in Canada, and the good units are gone within a day or two of being posted. Refreshing listings by hand is how most people lose the apartment they wanted.

TransitExpo, Millennium and Canada Lines; most of the city is inside a 30-minute commute to downtown.
Green spaceStanley Park, Queen Elizabeth Park, VanDusen, the seawall and False Creek greenway.

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How this compares

What we’d expect it to ask

$3,564 / month

8 times in ten the answer lands between $2,651 and $4,743. That is the width of what we actually know, measured against listings this model had never seen — not a margin we chose.

Asking $2,500 is $1,064 below that — further below than the ±13.5% 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

Low confidence20 three-bedrooms within 2 kmTypically within 14.3%

Nearby 3-bedrooms disagree with each other by about 65% from quartile to quartile, so the estimate is only as sharp as they are.

What moves that number

This block asks more than the rest of the area+$472
1000 ft², smaller than most three-bedrooms nearby (typically 1200 ft²)−$306
472 m from Marine Drive Station+$182

Each line is the difference this one thing makes, holding everything else where it is. They do not add up to the rent.

Location

66 / 100very good

8 min on foot to Marine Drive (Canada Line), about 29 min to Waterfront.

Walk to SkyTrain8 min walk to Marine Drive (Canada Line), about 470 m in a straight line33
Transit to downtownAbout 29 min to Waterfront: 8 min walk to Marine Drive, then Canada Line straight through20
Town centre1.5 km from the centre of Marpole — the nearest town centre to this address13
More than one lineOnly the Canada Line is within walking distance0
Green spaceNo park of 10 ha or more within walking distance — nearest is Queen Elizabeth Park, 2.6 km away0

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

$2,500 is $900 below the middle of the 171 3-bedrooms we are tracking in Vancouver right now ($3,400). Most of them ask between $2,789 and $4,340.

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.

The advertisement doesn’t say, and it matters:

  • What floor is it on?
  • 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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