Vancouver · South Hill

1 Bedroom Apartment for Rent in Vancouver

$2,400 / month

A 900 ft² one-bedroom apartment in Vancouver, asking $2,400 a month. The listing mentions top floor, laundry in building and patio.

At $2,400 for 900 square feet, the asking rent works out to $2.67 per square foot.

That is $300 above the middle of the 399 comparable rentals we are tracking in Vancouver, where most ask between $1,750 and $2,378.

The details

Rent$2,400
Bedrooms1
Size900 ft²
FloorNot stated
ExposureNot stated
LaundryIn building
ParkingStreet only
Property typeApartment
Availablesep 15
AreaVancouver

Highlights

Top floorFurnishedLaundry in buildingPatioDishwasherSkyTrain nearby

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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.

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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.

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How this compares

What we’d expect it to ask

$2,166 / month

8 times in ten the answer lands between $1,671 and $2,765. That is the width of what we actually know, measured against listings this model had never seen, not a margin we chose.

Asking $2,400 is $234 above that, further above than the ±9.8% we can put down to our own error. Something about it may justify that; the ad may also simply be ambitious.

Low confidence20 one-bedrooms within 1 kmTypically within 12%

Nearby one-bedrooms disagree with each other by about 73% from quartile to quartile, so the estimate is only as sharp as they are.

What moves that number

900 ft², larger than most one-bedrooms nearby (typically 518 ft²)+$486
Advertised as furnished+$126

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

Location

49 / 100good

18 min on foot to Langara-49th Avenue (Canada Line), about 36 min to Waterfront.

How the score breaks down
Walk to SkyTrain18 min walk to Langara-49th Avenue (Canada Line), about 1120 m in a straight line16
Transit to downtownAbout 36 min to Waterfront: bus to Langara-49th Avenue, then Canada Line straight through17
Town centre0.9 km from the centre of Fraser Street, the nearest town centre to this address15
More than one lineOnly the Canada Line is within walking distance0
Green space22 min walk to Memorial South 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

$2,400 is $300 above the middle of the 399 one-bedrooms we are tracking in Vancouver right now ($2,100). Most of them ask between $1,750 and $2,378.

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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