New Westminster · New Westminster

1 Bedroom Apartment for Rent in New Westminster

$1,550 / month

A 500 ft² one-bedroom in New Westminster, asking $1,550 a month. The listing mentions basement suite.

At $1,550 for 500 square feet, the asking rent works out to $3.10 per square foot.

That is $300 below the middle of the 126 comparable rentals we are tracking in New Westminster, where most ask between $1,700 and $2,012.

The details

Rent$1,550
Bedrooms1
Size500 ft²
FloorNot stated
ExposureNot stated
LaundryNot stated
ParkingNot stated
Property typeNot stated
AvailableNot stated
AreaNew Westminster

Highlights

Basement suite

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The advertisement doesn’t say, and it matters:

  • 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 New Westminster

New West has five SkyTrain stations for a city of this size, which is the reason to live here if you commute.

TransitExpo Line via New Westminster, Columbia, Sapperton, Braid and 22nd Street. Roughly 30 minutes to downtown Vancouver.
Green spaceQueen's Park, the Fraser River waterfront esplanade, Glenbrook Ravine.

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How this compares

What we’d expect it to ask

$1,651 / month

8 times in ten the answer lands between $1,356 and $1,998. That is the width of what we actually know, measured against listings this model had never seen, not a margin we chose.

Asking $1,550 is 6.1% below it, inside the ±9.9% this model cannot tell apart, so it is priced about where we’d expect.

Moderate confidence20 one-bedrooms within 2 kmTypically within 9.6%

What moves that number

500 ft², smaller than most one-bedrooms nearby (typically 689 ft²)−$262
Basement or ground-level suite−$187
This block asks more than the rest of the area+$91

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

Location

51 / 100good

14 min on foot to 22nd Street (Expo Line), about 46 min to Waterfront.

How the score breaks down
Walk to SkyTrain14 min walk to 22nd Street (Expo Line), about 860 m in a straight line23
Transit to downtownAbout 46 min to Waterfront: 14 min walk to 22nd Street, then Expo Line straight through12
Town centre1.3 km from the centre of Edmonds, the nearest town centre to this address14
More than one lineOnly the Expo Line is within walking distance0
Green space17 min walk to Taylor Park (11 ha)2

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

$1,550 is $300 below the middle of the 126 one-bedrooms we are tracking in New Westminster right now ($1,850). Most of them ask between $1,700 and $2,012.

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?
  • 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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