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1 Bedroom Apartment for Rent in Vancouver

$2,300 / month

A 610 ft² one-bedroom apartment on the 17th floor in Vancouver, asking $2,300 a month. The listing mentions water views, in-suite laundry and parking included. One thing the listing does not answer: which way does it face?

At $2,300 for 610 square feet, the asking rent works out to $3.77 per square foot.

That is $200 above the middle of the 399 comparable rentals we are tracking in Vancouver, where most ask between $1,750 and $2,375.

The details

Rent$2,300
Bedrooms1
Size610 ft²
Floor17
ExposureNot stated
LaundryIn-suite
ParkingComes with the unit
Property typeApartment
Availablesep 1
AreaVancouver

Highlights

PenthouseWater viewsFurnishedParking includedUtilities includedIn-suite laundryBalconyAir conditioning

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 Vancouver

Vancouver is the tightest rental market in Canada, and the good units are gone within a day or two of being posted. Refreshing listings by hand is how most people lose the apartment they wanted.

TransitExpo, Millennium and Canada Lines; most of the city is inside a 30-minute commute to downtown.
Green spaceStanley Park, Queen Elizabeth Park, VanDusen, the seawall and False Creek greenway.

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How this compares

What we’d expect it to ask

$2,018 / month

8 times in ten the answer lands between $1,489 and $2,640. That is the width of what we actually know, measured against listings this model had never seen — not a margin we chose.

Asking $2,300 is $282 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.

Low confidence20 one-bedrooms within 2 kmTypically within 14.5%

Nearby one-bedrooms disagree with each other by about 41% from quartile to quartile, so the estimate is only as sharp as they are.

What moves that number

This block asks more than the rest of the area+$184
3.1 km from the nearest SkyTrain (Patterson)−$105
610 ft², larger than most one-bedrooms nearby (typically 559 ft²)+$79

Each line is the difference this one thing makes, holding everything else where it is. They do not add up to the rent.

Location

32 / 100fair

No SkyTrain station within walking distance, about 47 min to Waterfront.

Walk to SkyTrainNearest station is Patterson, 3.1 km away — not a walk0
Transit to downtownAbout 47 min to Waterfront: bus to Patterson, then Expo Line straight through11
Town centre1.8 km from the centre of Killarney — the nearest town centre to this address11
More than one lineNo SkyTrain line is within walking distance0
Green space3 min walk to Everett Crowley Park (39 ha)10

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

$2,300 is $200 above the middle of the 399 one-bedrooms we are tracking in Vancouver right now ($2,100). Most of them ask between $1,750 and $2,375.

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:

Floor 17ApartmentLaundry: in-suiteParking: comes with the unitOutdoor spaceAir conditioning

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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