Metrotown · Burnaby
1 Bedroom House for Rent in Metrotown
$1,850 / month
A 650 ft² one-bedroom house in Metrotown, asking $1,850 a month. The listing mentions in-suite laundry, SkyTrain nearby and utilities included. One thing the listing does not answer: which way does it face?
At $1,850 for 650 square feet, the asking rent works out to $2.85 per square foot.
That is $200 below the middle of the 76 comparable rentals we are tracking in Metrotown, where most ask between $1,780 and $2,300.
The details
Highlights
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 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
$2,210 / month
8 times in ten the answer lands between $1,692 and $2,780. That is the width of what we actually know, measured against listings this model had never seen — not a margin we chose.
Asking $1,850 is $360 below that — further below than the ±12% 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
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
13 min on foot to Metrotown (Expo Line), about 39 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
$1,850 is $200 below the middle of the 76 one-bedrooms we are tracking in Metrotown right now ($2,050). Most of them ask between $1,780 and $2,300.
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:
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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