Brentwood · burnaby/newwest
2 Bedroom Apartment for Rent in Brentwood
$2,950 / month
A two-bedroom in Brentwood, asking $2,950 a month. The listing mentions townhouse. It leaves 4 obvious questions unanswered, starting with: is parking included or extra?
That is $70 above the middle of the 81 comparable rentals we are tracking in Brentwood, where most ask between $2,650 and $3,000.
The details
Highlights
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 Brentwood
Brentwood went from a suburban mall to a forest of forty-storey towers in about a decade. Nearly everything renting here was built after 2018. Air conditioning is standard, so is a gym, and most buildings have EV parking.
How this compares
What we’d expect it to ask
$2,594 / month
8 times in ten the answer lands between $2,097 and $3,121. That is the width of what we actually know, measured against listings this model had never seen — not a margin we chose.
Asking $2,950 is $356 above that — further above than the ±10% we can put down to our own error. Something about it may justify that; the ad may also simply be ambitious.
What moves that number
The advertisement does not state a floor area, so size is not priced in.
Each line is the difference this one thing makes, holding everything else where it is. They do not add up to the rent.
Location
5 min on foot to Brentwood Town Centre (Millennium Line), about 33 min to Waterfront.
How the score breaks down
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
$2,950 is $70 above the middle of the 81 two-bedrooms we are tracking in Brentwood right now ($2,880). Most of them ask between $2,650 and $3,000.
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
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. This one gives no floor area either, so size is not in it at all.
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?
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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