Near SkyTrain
Newly built homes near rapid transit
Nobody publishes this. Which newly built townhouses, half duplexes, and row houses are actually within a walk of a station, how many there are, and what each station area costs. Measured against the coordinates TransLink itself publishes.
The short answer
352 of 1,412 active newly built ground-oriented homes sit within 1200 metres of a SkyTrain, SeaBus, or West Coast Express station, about 25% of the market. They list at a median $984 per square foot against $752 for everything further out. 43 of the region's 60 stations have any nearby.
- Within 1200m of a station
- 352
- Share of the market
- 25%
- Near a station, per sq ft
- $984
- Further out, per sq ft
- $752
A straight line is not a walk
Every distance on this hub is measured in a straight line from a listing to a station. That is honest, cheap, and reproducible, and it is not the same as walking distance. A station 1200 metres away across a rail cut, the Fraser River, or a highway interchange can be a twenty minute journey on foot. Treat these figures as a way to build a shortlist, then open the actual address on a map before you rule anything in or out.
Most newly built housing is not near transit
Only 25% of the region's newly built ground-oriented homes sit within 1200 metres of a station. That is the single most useful thing on this page, and it runs against how this housing is usually described.
The reason is what gets built where. Near stations, land is expensive enough that it goes to apartments. Ground-oriented housing, meaning townhouses and half duplexes, mostly gets built on residential streets and in suburban complexes where land is cheaper and transit is thinner. The Cambie corridor is the notable exception, and it is why the Canada Line dominates the table below.
So if walking to a station matters to you, the practical consequence is that your search is a great deal smaller than the headline inventory suggests, and it is worth knowing that before you start rather than after three months of looking.
Every station with newly built homes nearby
Within 1200 metres, busiest first. Stations with 12 or more are linked to their own page. 17 of the region's 60 stations have no newly built ground-oriented homes near them at all.
| Station | Line | Active | Median price | Per sq ft | Median size |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oakridge-41st Avenue | Canada Line | 52 | $1,599,900 | $1,202 | 1,352 |
| Commercial-Broadway | Expo Line, Millennium Line | 49 | $1,385,000 | $1,060 | 1,352 |
| Langara-49th Avenue | Canada Line | 42 | $1,556,450 | $1,149 | 1,391 |
| King Edward | Canada Line | 40 | $1,768,950 | $1,297 | 1,342 |
| Nanaimo | Expo Line | 28 | $1,428,950 | $1,009 | 1,471 |
| 29th Avenue | Expo Line | 25 | $1,438,000 | $952 | 1,565 |
| Renfrew | Millennium Line | 23 | $1,549,000 | $1,055 | 1,447 |
| Burquitlam | Millennium Line | 21 | $1,098,000 | $823 | 1,265 |
| Richmond-Brighouse | Canada Line | 18 | $1,438,950 | $918 | 1,504 |
| Rupert | Millennium Line | 18 | $1,393,844 | $919 | 1,427 |
| VCC-Clark | Millennium Line | 18 | $1,798,000 | $1,139 | 1,535 |
| Royal Oak | Expo Line | 17 | $1,369,900 | $682 | 2,076 |
| Edmonds | Expo Line | 15 | $1,098,000 | $707 | 1,553 |
| Lansdowne | Canada Line | 13 | $1,489,880 | $968 | 1,588 |
| Lougheed Town Centre | Expo Line, Millennium Line | 12 | $1,044,350 | $783 | 1,366 |
| Joyce-Collingwood | Expo Line | 11 | $1,598,000 | $959 | 1,643 |
| Lonsdale Quay | SeaBus | 9 | $1,619,900 | $971 | 1,661 |
| Broadway-City Hall | Canada Line | 8 | $2,233,000 | $1,412 | 1,580 |
| Patterson | Expo Line | 7 | $1,059,900 to $1,879,940 | $828 to $1,025 | 1,462 |
| Brentwood Town Centre | Millennium Line | 6 | $1,082,000 to $1,611,950 | $786 to $970 | 2,010 |
| Holdom | Millennium Line | 6 | $1,398,950 to $2,228,000 | $646 to $946 | 2,047 |
| Gilmore | Millennium Line | 5 | $982,600 to $1,599,000 | $786 to $831 | 2,010 |
| Port Coquitlam | West Coast Express | 5 | $943,900 to $1,087,900 | $599 to $693 | 1,488 |
| Surrey Central | Expo Line | 5 | $769,940 to $956,560 | $559 to $638 | 1,530 |
| Gateway | Expo Line | 4 | $764,930 to $1,233,270 | $474 to $607 | 1,475 |
| Lafarge Lake-Douglas | Millennium Line | 4 | $961,270 to $1,183,900 | $663 to $761 | 1,351 |
| Moody Centre | Millennium Line, West Coast Express | 4 | $1,199,900 to $1,249,900 | $821 to $861 | 1,458 |
| Scott Road | Expo Line | 4 | $814,900 to $1,144,270 | $522 to $592 | 1,505 |
| Sperling-Burnaby Lake | Millennium Line | 4 | $1,728,330 to $2,161,000 | $670 to $736 | 2,948 |
| King George | Expo Line | 3 | - | - | - |
| Lincoln | Millennium Line | 3 | - | - | - |
| Marine Drive | Canada Line | 3 | - | - | - |
| Pitt Meadows | West Coast Express | 3 | - | - | - |
| Braid | Expo Line | 2 | - | - | - |
| Columbia | Expo Line | 2 | - | - | - |
| Coquitlam Central | Millennium Line, West Coast Express | 2 | - | - | - |
| Metrotown | Expo Line | 2 | - | - | - |
| New Westminster | Expo Line | 2 | - | - | - |
| Olympic Village | Canada Line | 2 | - | - | - |
| Port Haney | West Coast Express | 2 | - | - | - |
| Main Street-Science World | Expo Line | 1 | - | - | - |
| Sapperton | Expo Line | 1 | - | - | - |
| Stadium-Chinatown | Expo Line | 1 | - | - | - |
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.
By line
SeaBus and the West Coast Express have too few newly built homes nearby to support a page of their own without the figures swinging on a single sale. Their stations appear in the table above.
Homes within a fifteen minute walk of a station
Only the homes near rapid transit, not the whole market. Click a pin for the photo, the price, and a Street View link.
300 of 352 homes plotted. 52 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. Click a pin for the photo, the price, and a Street View link. Zoom with the plus and minus buttons or by pinching.
Common questions
How many newly built homes are near SkyTrain?
352 of 1,412 active listings sit within 1200 metres of a station, roughly a fifteen minute walk. That is about 25% of the market, which tells you most newly built ground-oriented housing in this region is not being built near rapid transit.
Does living near a station cost more?
Per square foot, yes. Homes within 1200 metres of a station run $984 against $752 further out, a gap of about 31%. The homes near stations are also smaller, so the total price gap is narrower than the per square foot gap. The full breakdown is on the cost page.
Which station has the most newly built homes near it?
Oakridge-41st Avenue, with 52 active listings within 1200 metres, at a median $1,599,900. The Canada Line corridor through south Vancouver carries far more newly built ground-oriented housing than any other part of the network.
Are these walking distances?
No, and this matters. They are straight-line distances from each listing to the nearest station, measured against coordinates TransLink publishes. A station 400 metres away across a rail cut, a river, or a highway can be a twenty minute walk. Use these figures to build a shortlist, then check the specific address on a map.
What about the Broadway Subway and the Surrey Langley extension?
Neither is open, so neither has stations in TransLink's published data and neither appears here. This hub describes the network as it operates today. When those lines open and their stations appear in the feed, the pages will pick them up on the next build.
Why does the Canada Line have so many more newly built homes near it?
The Cambie corridor through south Vancouver carries far more newly built ground-oriented housing than any other part of the SkyTrain network, and it sits on the Canada Line. Near most other stations, land is expensive enough that it gets built up as apartments instead of townhouses and half duplexes, so the Canada Line stands out in the station table on this page.
How many SkyTrain stations have no newly built homes near them at all?
17 of the region's 60 stations have no newly built ground-oriented homes within 1200 metres, which is the radius this hub uses to describe a station area. Those stations do not appear in the station table on this page because there is nothing to report at them.
Why don't SeaBus and the West Coast Express get their own pages?
SeaBus and the West Coast Express have too few newly built homes near them to support a page without the figures swinging on a single sale. Their stations still appear in the table on this page alongside every SkyTrain station, just without a dedicated page the way stations with 12 or more nearby homes get.
Where these figures come from
- VanPlex active listings, MLS® data
Active townhouses, half duplexes, and row houses built in the last two years across Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley.
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- TransLink, open data and GTFS
Station and stop locations for the transit distance calculations.
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