UBC · Iona / UBC
1 Bedroom Apartment for Rent in UBC
$3,250 / month
A 750 ft² one-bedroom in Ubc, asking $3,250 a month. The listing mentions treetop views. It leaves 5 obvious questions unanswered, starting with: when is it available?
At $3,250 for 750 square feet, the asking rent works out to $4.33 per square foot.
That is $750 above the middle of the 21 comparable rentals we are tracking in UBC, where most ask between $1,775 and $2,950.
The details
Highlights
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 UBC
UBC and the University Endowment Lands are not the City of Vancouver. The UEL is unincorporated and provincially administered, home to about 4,000 people (University Endowment Lands Administration, retrieved 2026-08-11), and the campus is UBC's own ground. A private tenancy here is covered by the Residential Tenancy Act; a UBC residence contract is not, because s. 4(b) exempts accommodation an educational institution provides to its own students.
How this compares
What we’d expect it to ask
$2,718 / month
8 times in ten the answer lands between $2,006 and $3,557. That is the width of what we actually know, measured against listings this model had never seen — not a margin we chose.
Asking $3,250 is $532 above that — further above than the ±12.2% we can put down to our own error. Something about it may justify that; the ad may also simply be ambitious.
Nearby one-bedrooms disagree with each other by about 90% 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
No SkyTrain station within walking distance, about 48 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
$3,250 is $750 above the middle of the 21 one-bedrooms we are tracking in UBC right now ($2,500). Most of them ask between $1,775 and $2,950.
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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