Metrotown · burnaby/newwest

2 Bedroom Apartment for Rent in Metrotown

$3,600 / month

A 933 ft² two-bedroom in Metrotown, asking $3,600 a month. The listing mentions den and 2 bathrooms.

At $3,600 for 933 square feet, the asking rent works out to $3.86 per square foot.

That is $750 above the middle of the 99 comparable rentals we are tracking in Metrotown, where most ask between $2,500 and $3,098.

The details

Rent$3,600
Bedrooms2
Size933 ft²
FloorNot stated
ExposureNot stated
LaundryNot stated
ParkingNot stated
Property typeNot stated
AvailableNot stated
AreaMetrotown

Highlights

2 bathroomsDen

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 Metrotown

Metrotown is the closest thing Burnaby has to a downtown. Roughly thirty residential towers are packed into about a kilometre around the region's second-largest mall and its SkyTrain station.

TransitMetrotown and Patterson stations on the Expo Line. About 20 minutes to downtown Vancouver, 8 minutes to New Westminster.
Green spaceCentral Park — 90 hectares of second-growth forest, plus Swangard Stadium, the pitch & putt and tennis courts. Deer Lake Park is a short ride northeast.

More about renting in Metrotown

How this compares

What we’d expect it to ask

$2,996 / month

8 times in ten the answer lands between $2,526 and $3,419. That is the width of what we actually know, measured against listings this model had never seen — not a margin we chose.

Asking $3,600 is $604 above that — further above than the ±9.9% we can put down to our own error. Something about it may justify that; the ad may also simply be ambitious.

High confidence20 two-bedrooms within 500 mTypically within 7.3%

What moves that number

174 m from Patterson Station+$104
933 ft², larger than most two-bedrooms nearby (typically 885 ft²)+$71

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

Location

85 / 100excellent

3 min on foot to Patterson (Expo Line), about 26 min to Waterfront.

How the score breaks down
Walk to SkyTrain3 min walk to Patterson (Expo Line), about 170 m in a straight line38
Transit to downtownAbout 26 min to Waterfront: 3 min walk to Patterson, then Expo Line straight through20
Town centre0.6 km from the centre of Metrotown17
More than one lineOnly the Expo Line is within walking distance0
Green space3 min walk to Central Park (91 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

$3,600 is $750 above the middle of the 99 two-bedrooms we are tracking in Metrotown right now ($2,850). Most of them ask between $2,500 and $3,098.

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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