Studio Apartment for Rent in Downtown Vancouver

Location

10 min on foot to Yaletown-Roundhouse (Canada Line), about 18 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

$2,790 is $536 above the middle of the 38 studios we are tracking in Downtown Vancouver right now ($2,254). Most of them ask between $2,092 and $2,400.

A straight count of asking prices in the area, with nothing adjusted for — it does not care that this one may be bigger, smaller or better placed than the rest.

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:

• Which way does it face?
• Is parking included or extra?