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2 Bedroom Basement Suite for Rent in Burnaby

$1,700 / month

A 1,000 ft² two-bedroom in Burnaby, asking $1,700 a month. The listing mentions laundry in building, basement suite and duplex. One thing the listing does not answer: which way does it face?

At $1,700 for 1,000 square feet, the asking rent works out to $1.70 per square foot.

That is $536 below the middle of the 312 comparable rentals we are tracking in Burnaby, where most ask between $1,900 and $2,658.

The details

Rent$1,700
Bedrooms2
Size1000 ft²
FloorNot stated
ExposureNot stated
LaundryIn building
ParkingStreet only
Property typeBasement suite
Availablenow
AreaBurnaby

Highlights

Basement suiteLaundry in buildingDuplex

Ask before you view

The advertisement doesn’t say, and it matters:

  • Which way does it face?

Roughly where it is

Approximate — listings rarely give an exact address, so treat this as the block, not the door.

Renting in Burnaby

Burnaby is where most of Metro Vancouver's new towers actually got built. If you want a recent building with air conditioning and in-suite laundry, there is far more of it here than in Vancouver proper, and usually for less money.

TransitExpo Line through Metrotown and Edmonds; Millennium Line through Brentwood, Gilmore, Holdom and Lougheed. 20–25 minutes to downtown Vancouver.
Green spaceCentral Park, Deer Lake Park, Burnaby Lake, Confederation Park and Burnaby Mountain.

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How this compares

What we’d expect it to ask

$2,243 / month

8 times in ten the answer lands between $1,725 and $2,843. That is the width of what we actually know, measured against listings this model had never seen — not a margin we chose.

Asking $1,700 is $543 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

Moderate confidence20 two-bedrooms within 1 kmTypically within 12.3%

What moves that number

This block asks less than the rest of the area−$324
1000 ft², larger than most two-bedrooms nearby (typically 900 ft²)+$104

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

Location

32 / 100fair

22 min on foot to Sperling-Burnaby Lake (Millennium Line), about 51 min to Waterfront.

Walk to SkyTrain22 min walk to Sperling-Burnaby Lake (Millennium Line), about 1380 m in a straight line10
Transit to downtownAbout 51 min to Waterfront: bus to Sperling-Burnaby Lake, then Millennium Line then Expo Line, 1 transfer9
Town centre2.7 km from the centre of Brentwood — the nearest town centre to this address7
More than one lineOnly the Millennium Line is within walking distance0
Green space11 min walk to Kensington Park (27 ha)6

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

$1,700 is $536 below the middle of the 312 two-bedrooms we are tracking in Burnaby right now ($2,236). Most of them ask between $1,900 and $2,658.

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 one is unusually forthcoming. It does state:

Floor 0Basement suiteLaundry: in buildingParking: street only

Worth reading — but too rare across the feed for us to put a number on.

The advertisement doesn’t say, and it matters:

  • Which way does it face?

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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