Metrotown · 3894 Thurston Street / Smith Ave / Burnaby
5 Bedroom House for Rent in Metrotown
$3,200 / month
A 2,130 ft² 5-bedroom in Metrotown, asking $3,200 a month. It leaves 5 obvious questions unanswered, starting with: is parking included or extra?
At $3,200 for 2,130 square feet, the asking rent works out to $1.50 per square foot.
The details
Highlights
Roughly where it is
Approximate — listings rarely give an exact address, so treat this as the block, not the door.
Renting in Metrotown
Metrotown is the closest thing Burnaby has to a downtown. Roughly thirty residential towers are packed into about a kilometre around the region's second-largest mall and its SkyTrain station.
How this compares
What we’d expect it to ask
$4,978 / month
8 times in ten the answer lands between $3,704 and $6,625. That is the width of what we actually know, measured against listings this model had never seen — not a margin we chose.
Asking $3,200 is $1,778 below that — further below than the ±14.6% 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
Nearby 5-bedrooms disagree with each other by about 36% from quartile to quartile, so the estimate is only as sharp as they are.
What moves that number
Each line is the difference this one thing makes, holding everything else where it is. They do not add up to the rent.
Location
11 min on foot to Patterson (Expo Line), about 35 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.
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:
Worth reading — but too rare across the feed for us to put a number on.
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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