Vancouver · 3547 W 42nd Ave, Vancouver
2 Bedroom Apartment for Rent in Vancouver
$2,500 / month
A 615 ft² two-bedroom in Vancouver, asking $2,500 a month. The listing mentions basement suite. It leaves 4 obvious questions unanswered, starting with: which way does it face?
At $2,500 for 615 square feet, the asking rent works out to $4.07 per square foot.
That is $150 below the middle of the 412 comparable rentals we are tracking in Vancouver, where most ask between $2,295 and $3,200.
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 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.
How this compares
Location
No SkyTrain station within walking distance, about 58 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
$2,500 is $150 below the middle of the 412 two-bedrooms we are tracking in Vancouver right now ($2,650). Most of them ask between $2,295 and $3,200.
A straight count of asking prices in the area, with nothing adjusted for — it does not care that this one may be bigger, smaller or better placed than the rest.
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.
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?
Counted 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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