Richmond · Richmond

1 Bedroom Apartment for Rent in Richmond

$1,400 / month

A 500 ft² one-bedroom in Richmond, asking $1,400 a month.

At $1,400 for 500 square feet, the asking rent works out to $2.80 per square foot.

That is $500 below the middle of the 214 comparable rentals we are tracking in Richmond, where most ask between $1,600 and $2,200.

The details

Rent$1,400
Bedrooms1
Size500 ft²
FloorNot stated
ExposureNot stated
LaundryNot stated
ParkingNot stated
Property typeNot stated
AvailableNot stated
AreaRichmond

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 Richmond

Richmond built a dense spine of new towers along the Canada Line, so the stock is young. Pools and gyms are common here rather than exceptional.

TransitCanada Line through Bridgeport, Aberdeen, Lansdowne and Richmond-Brighouse. About 25 minutes to downtown.
Green spaceGarry Point, the West Dyke Trail, Minoru Park and the Fraser River dyke system.

More about renting in Richmond

How this compares

What we’d expect it to ask

$1,769 / month

8 times in ten the answer lands between $1,440 and $2,130. That is the width of what we actually know, measured against listings this model had never seen — not a margin we chose.

Asking $1,400 is $369 below that — further below than the ±9.9% 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

Moderate confidence20 one-bedrooms within 1 kmTypically within 9.7%

What moves that number

500 ft², smaller than most one-bedrooms nearby (typically 582 ft²)−$125
Advertised as furnished+$102
This block asks less than the rest of the area−$42

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

Location

14 / 100car-dependent

No SkyTrain station within walking distance, about 55 min to Waterfront.

How the score breaks down
Walk to SkyTrainNearest station is Richmond-Brighouse, 2.8 km away — not a walk0
Transit to downtownAbout 55 min to Waterfront: bus to Richmond-Brighouse, then Canada Line straight through7
Town centre2.8 km from the centre of Richmond City Centre6
More than one lineNo SkyTrain line is within walking distance0
Green space22 min walk to Terra Nova Natural Area Park (14 ha)1

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

$1,400 is $500 below the middle of the 214 one-bedrooms we are tracking in Richmond right now ($1,900). Most of them ask between $1,600 and $2,200.

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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