Vancouver · Vancouver, Richmond

1 Bedroom Apartment for Rent in Vancouver

$1,880 / month

A 700 ft² one-bedroom in Vancouver, asking $1,880 a month. It leaves 5 obvious questions unanswered, starting with: are pets allowed?

At $1,880 for 700 square feet, the asking rent works out to $2.69 per square foot.

That is $220 below the middle of the 397 comparable rentals we are tracking in Vancouver, where most ask between $1,750 and $2,375.

The details

Rent$1,880
Bedrooms1
Size700 ft²
FloorNot stated
ExposureNot stated
LaundryNot stated
ParkingNot stated
Property typeNot stated
AvailableNot stated
AreaVancouver

Ask before you view

The advertisement doesn’t say, and it matters:

  • What floor is it on?
  • 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.

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.

More about renting in Vancouver

How this compares

What we’d expect it to ask

$1,961 / month

8 times in ten the answer lands between $1,590 and $2,359. That is the width of what we actually know, measured against listings this model had never seen — not a margin we chose.

Asking $1,880 is 4.1% below it — inside the ±9.8% this model cannot tell apart, so it is priced about where we’d expect.

Moderate confidence20 one-bedrooms within 1 kmTypically within 9.6%

What moves that number

700 ft², larger than most one-bedrooms nearby (typically 600 ft²)+$134
This block asks less than the rest of the area−$117

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

Location

50 / 100good

18 min on foot to Marine Drive (Canada Line), about 38 min to Waterfront.

How the score breaks down
Walk to SkyTrain17 min walk to Marine Drive (Canada Line), about 1080 m in a straight line17
Transit to downtownAbout 38 min to Waterfront: bus to Marine Drive, then Canada Line straight through16
Town centreIn the middle of Marpole17
More than one lineOnly the Canada Line is within walking distance0
Green spaceNo park of 10 ha or more within walking distance — nearest is Queen Elizabeth Park, 3.5 km away0

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

$1,880 is $220 below the middle of the 397 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

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:

  • What floor is it on?
  • 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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