Downtown Vancouver · Gastown
Studio Apartment for Rent in Downtown Vancouver
$1,795 / month
A 381 ft² studio on the 2nd floor in Downtown Vancouver, asking $1,795 a month. The listing mentions in-suite laundry, rooftop deck and air conditioning.
At $1,795 for 381 square feet, the asking rent works out to $4.71 per square foot.
That is $483 below the middle of the 38 comparable rentals we are tracking in Downtown Vancouver, where most ask between $2,100 and $2,438.
The details
Highlights
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 Downtown Vancouver
Downtown has the densest rental stock in the region and it turns over faster than anywhere else. Good units are often leased before they finish a full day online.
How this compares
What we’d expect it to ask
$2,030 / month
8 times in ten the answer lands between $1,652 and $2,444. That is the width of what we actually know, measured against listings this model had never seen — not a margin we chose.
Asking $1,795 is $235 below that — further below than the ±9.5% we can put down to our own error. On size and location alone, it asks less than its neighbours do.
Asks less than we’d expect
What moves that number
Each line is the difference this one thing makes, holding everything else where it is. They do not add up to the rent.
Location
7 min on foot to Stadium-Chinatown (Expo Line), about 17 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
$1,795 is $483 below the middle of the 38 studios we are tracking in Downtown Vancouver right now ($2,278). Most of them ask between $2,100 and $2,438.
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:
- 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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