David Babakaiff
Written by David Babakaiff — Co-Founder, VanPlex | 25+ Years BC Construction

By City | Vancouver

New ground-oriented home prices in Vancouver

Vancouver has more newly built ground-oriented homes on the market than any other city in the region, and the widest internal price spread. A home in Renfrew and a home in Kitsilano are the same product built in the same two years, and they are not remotely the same price.

The short answer

515 newly built townhouses, half duplexes, and row houses are active in Vancouver. The median lists at $1,649,900 for 1,514 sq ft at $1,138 per square foot. That is 38% above the regional median per square foot, on a home 5% below the regional median size.

Active listings
515
Median price
$1,649,900
Median per sq ft
$1,138
Median size
1,514 sq ft

Newly built ground-oriented homes in Vancouver

515 active listings

Median list price
$1,649,900

typical range $1,192,600 to $2,399,000

Median price per sq ft
$1,138

typical range $903 to $1,416

Median size
1,514 sq ft

typical range 1,087 sq ft to 1,931 sq ft

Median strata fee
$458

typical range $253 to $669

156 of 515 listings state one

Median annual property tax
$5,462

typical range $2,844 to $9,227

148 of 515 listings state one

Measured across 515 active listings on .

How prices work in Vancouver

The city splits cleanly in two. The east side neighbourhoods, Renfrew, Fraser Street, Knight, Killarney, Collingwood, and Hastings Sunrise, are where the multiplex and duplex rules did the most work, and they carry the bulk of the half duplex stock. The west side, Kitsilano, Dunbar, Point Grey, Kerrisdale, Arbutus, and Shaughnessy, prices at a completely different level for a home of similar size.

The half duplex is the defining product here. In several east side neighbourhoods it accounts for the large majority of active listings, because the way new ground-oriented housing gets built in Vancouver is by replacing one single family house with two homes. That means an established street, a narrow lot, and usually three storeys with the bedrooms upstairs.

Cambie and South Cambie are the exception to the east and west split. Both are townhouse-dominated rather than half duplex, because the Cambie Corridor plan allowed larger assembled sites along the Canada Line. That is why the price per square foot there behaves more like a transit corridor than like the surrounding blocks.

Homes here are smaller than anywhere else in the region. A 33 foot lot leaves very little width, so the floor plates are tight and the buildings go up rather than out. Buyers moving in from the suburbs consistently underestimate how much that changes daily life.

Price per square foot by neighbourhood

Most expensive first. Only neighbourhoods with four or more active listings appear, because below that a single home moves the figure enough to mislead.

  • Kitsilano 27 listings $1,524
  • Dunbar 18 listings $1,364
  • Shaughnessy 11 listings $1,347
  • Oakridge 11 listings $1,337
  • University VW 4 listings $1,320
  • Point Grey 11 listings $1,305
  • Cambie 49 listings $1,280
  • Arbutus 10 listings $1,261
  • Kerrisdale 26 listings $1,229
  • Mount Pleasant East 9 listings $1,219
  • Main 22 listings $1,217
  • Southwest Marine 6 listings $1,200
  • Fraser Street 31 listings $1,165
  • South Cambie 17 listings $1,157
  • South Granville 24 listings $1,112
  • Marpole 8 listings $1,061
  • Grandview-Woodland 41 listings $1,047
  • Knight 23 listings $1,043
  • Renfrew Heights 25 listings $999
  • Renfrew 32 listings $989
  • Victoria-Fraserview 10 listings $978
  • Hastings Sunrise 19 listings $971
  • Killarney 23 listings $965
  • Fraserview 9 listings $906
  • South Vancouver 12 listings $896
  • Collingwood 16 listings $886

Every Vancouver neighbourhood with active inventory

Newly built ground-oriented homes in Vancouver. Median size in square feet.
Neighbourhood City Active Median price Per sq ft Median size Townhouse / half duplex
Kitsilano Vancouver 27 $2,399,900 $1,524 1,552 6 / 21
Dunbar Vancouver 18 $2,318,400 $1,364 1,727 1 / 17
Shaughnessy Vancouver 11 $1,990,000 $1,347 1,613 5 / 6
Oakridge Vancouver 11 $1,799,900 $1,337 1,348 10 / 1
University VW Vancouver 4 $1,696,000 to $2,195,000 $1,201 to $1,331 1,610 4 / 0
Point Grey Vancouver 11 $2,199,000 $1,305 1,664 1 / 10
Cambie Vancouver 49 $1,599,900 $1,280 1,250 42 / 7
Arbutus Vancouver 10 $2,133,500 $1,261 1,849 1 / 9
Kerrisdale Vancouver 26 $2,190,000 $1,229 1,767 10 / 16
Mount Pleasant East Vancouver 9 $1,888,000 $1,219 1,601 2 / 7
Main Vancouver 22 $1,848,500 $1,217 1,579 2 / 20
Southwest Marine Vancouver 6 $1,849,850 to $3,499,000 $1,166 to $1,276 1,761 3 / 3
Fraser Street Vancouver 31 $1,598,900 $1,165 1,518 4 / 27
South Cambie Vancouver 17 $1,498,000 $1,157 1,425 17 / 0
South Granville Vancouver 24 $1,643,500 $1,112 1,531 17 / 7
Marpole Vancouver 8 $1,583,940 $1,061 1,522 2 / 6
Grandview-Woodland Vancouver 41 $1,499,900 $1,047 1,463 14 / 27
Knight Vancouver 23 $1,400,000 $1,043 1,426 4 / 19
Renfrew Heights Vancouver 25 $1,370,000 $999 1,352 8 / 17
Renfrew Vancouver 32 $1,399,000 $989 1,427 6 / 26
Victoria-Fraserview Vancouver 10 $1,674,000 $978 1,691 6 / 4
Hastings Sunrise Vancouver 19 $1,499,000 $971 1,513 5 / 14
Killarney Vancouver 23 $1,488,888 $965 1,558 7 / 16
Fraserview Vancouver 9 $1,458,000 $906 1,559 0 / 9
South Vancouver Vancouver 12 $1,527,278 $896 1,607 0 / 12
Collingwood Vancouver 16 $1,399,900 $886 1,532 7 / 9

A dash means fewer than four active listings, which is too few to publish a figure for. Rows with four to seven listings show a range instead of a median.

What a table cannot tell you

  • Expect three storeys and a staircase between the kitchen and the bedrooms in most of the east side stock.
  • Many half duplexes here are a strata of two owners rather than freehold, which is a very different arrangement from a townhouse complex.
  • One parking space is common. Two is a genuine feature worth checking on the specific listing.
  • Vancouver charges an empty homes tax on top of the provincial speculation and vacancy tax, which matters if the home will not be your principal residence.

Vancouver against the region

Price per sq ft

$1,138

38% above the regional $824

Median size

1,514 sq ft

5% below the regional 1,586 sq ft

Median strata fee

$458

from 156 of 515 listings that state one

Every newly built home in Vancouver, on the map

The neighbourhood table tells you what each area costs. This tells you where each area is, and how far apart they really are. Click a pin for the photo, the price, and a link into Street View.

300 of 515 homes plotted. 205 more have coordinates but were left off to keep the map readable. The ones shown are spread evenly across the price range rather than taken from one end. 10 listings have no coordinates in the feed and cannot be placed. Click a pin for the photo, the price, and a Street View link. Zoom with the plus and minus buttons or by pinching.

Newly built homes for sale in Vancouver

487 more active listings are not shown here. Search every Vancouver listing . Prices are the list price. Most new homes have GST added on top.

Common questions

What does a newly built townhouse cost in Vancouver?

The median list price across 515 active newly built ground-oriented listings in Vancouver is $1,649,900, at $1,138 per square foot for a median 1,514 sq ft. The figure covers townhouses, half duplexes, and row houses built in the last two years.

Why are Vancouver homes so much smaller than Surrey homes?

Lot width. A standard Vancouver residential lot is 33 feet across, and half of that is what each side of a duplex gets. Suburban lots are far wider, so the same money buys floor area instead of paying for land. The size gap between the two cities is one of the largest differences in the whole dataset.

Is the east side better value than the west side?

On price per square foot, substantially. Whether it is better value depends on what you want from the location, which is not something a price table can settle. What is clear is that the two halves of the city are separate markets that happen to share a name.

What is a half duplex in Vancouver?

One of the two homes created when a single family house is replaced by a side-by-side or front-and-back pair. You own your half, usually through a strata with one other owner, and you share a wall. It is the most common newly built ground-oriented home in the city.

Which Vancouver neighbourhood is cheapest per square foot?

Collingwood, at $886 per square foot across 16 active listings. The most expensive is Kitsilano at $1,524.

How often are these numbers updated?

They are recalculated from active MLS® listings every time the site is rebuilt, and were last measured on 2026-08-11. They describe what is on the market now rather than what has sold.

Where these figures come from

See the homes behind these numbers

Every figure on this page comes from listings you can open. Search the full set of newly built townhouses, half duplexes, and row houses, and filter by price, bedrooms, freehold or strata, pets, and parking.