Downtown Vancouver · Gastown downtown Vancouver

1 Bedroom Apartment for Rent in Downtown Vancouver

$3,200 / month

A 650 ft² one-bedroom in Downtown Vancouver, asking $3,200 a month. The listing mentions top floor, deck and furnished. It leaves 4 obvious questions unanswered, starting with: when is it available?

At $3,200 for 650 square feet, the asking rent works out to $4.92 per square foot.

That is $500 above the middle of the 288 comparable rentals we are tracking in Downtown Vancouver, where most ask between $2,470 and $3,100.

The details

Rent$3,200
Bedrooms1
Size650 ft²
FloorNot stated
ExposureNot stated
LaundryNot stated
ParkingNot stated
Property typeNot stated
AvailableNot stated
AreaDowntown Vancouver

Highlights

Top floorFurnishedDeck

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 Downtown Vancouver

Downtown has the densest rental stock in the region and it turns over faster than anywhere else. Good units are often leased before they finish a full day online.

TransitWaterfront, Burrard, Granville, Yaletown-Roundhouse and Vancouver City Centre. Everything else is a walk.
Green spaceStanley Park at the north end, the False Creek seawall along the south, Coal Harbour waterfront.

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How this compares

Location

71 / 100very good

10 min on foot to Stadium-Chinatown (Expo Line), about 20 min to Waterfront.

How the score breaks down
Walk to SkyTrain10 min walk to Stadium-Chinatown (Expo Line), about 610 m in a straight line30
Transit to downtownAbout 20 min to Waterfront: 10 min walk to Stadium-Chinatown, then Expo Line straight through22
Town centre1.0 km from the centre of Downtown Vancouver15
More than one line2 lines reachable on foot: Expo Line at Stadium-Chinatown (10 min), Canada Line at Waterfront (11 min)3
Green space23 min walk to Strathcona Park (12 ha)1

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

$3,200 is $500 above the middle of the 288 one-bedrooms we are tracking in Downtown Vancouver right now ($2,700). Most of them ask between $2,470 and $3,100.

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

Laundry, parking, air conditioning, the bathroom count and whether the home sits below ground are priced in wherever the advertisement states them. The floor, the view, the light, the condition and the noise are not, and nothing we hold measures them: two identical floor plans, one renovated and one not, get the same estimate from us.

Where an advertisement says nothing, we price it as unsaid rather than as absent. A short ad is not a worse home, and scoring it as one would price the landlord’s writing instead of the flat.

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?

Counted 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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