Burnaby · Burnaby
1 Bedroom Apartment for Rent in Burnaby
$1,522 / month
A 531 ft² one-bedroom apartment in Burnaby, asking $1,522 a month. The listing mentions laundry in building, air conditioning and pet friendly. It leaves 2 obvious questions unanswered, starting with: which way does it face?
At $1,522 for 531 square feet, the asking rent works out to $2.87 per square foot.
That is $319 below the middle of the 214 comparable rentals we are tracking in Burnaby, where most ask between $1,600 and $2,138.
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?
Roughly where it is
Approximate — listings rarely give an exact address, so treat this as the block, not the door.
Renting in Burnaby
Burnaby is where most of Metro Vancouver's new towers actually got built. If you want a recent building with air conditioning and in-suite laundry, there is far more of it here than in Vancouver proper, and usually for less money.
How this compares
What we’d expect it to ask
$1,855 / month
8 times in ten the answer lands between $1,428 and $2,345. That is the width of what we actually know, measured against listings this model had never seen — not a margin we chose.
Asking $1,522 is $333 below that — further below than the ±12.2% 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
11 min on foot to Edmonds (Expo Line), about 41 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
$1,522 is $319 below the middle of the 214 one-bedrooms we are tracking in Burnaby right now ($1,841). Most of them ask between $1,600 and $2,138.
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:
- What floor is it on?
- 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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Worth reading before you view it
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