Photo: John Shorten, CC BY 4.0, cropped
Photo: John Shorten, CC BY 4.0, cropped
Where the rentals are, and what kind of rentals they are.
Around Burquitlam station, next door to Burnaby’s Lougheed area: a fast-growing cluster of new towers.
Towers around Coquitlam Centre, Lafarge Lake and Douglas College, near Coquitlam Central, Lincoln and Lafarge Lake–Douglas stations.
Coquitlam’s historic francophone neighbourhood in the southwest: older houses and low-rise apartment buildings.
Along Austin Avenue: older apartment buildings, local shops and houses.
Hillside houses around the golf course, many of them with basement suites.
Newer subdivisions in the northeast — houses and townhouses, often with a suite.
New towers near the SkyTrain stations — condos and purpose-built rental buildings — then townhouses, and houses with suites across Westwood Plateau and Burke Mountain.
Tower-heavy Burquitlam and City Centre usually give us listings in the same building. On the hillsides, where suites in houses dominate, there are fewer close matches and the range is wider.
Same method everywhere — comparables first, adjusted for size, and you see every one. How we estimate →
Coquitlam follows B.C.’s Residential Tenancy Act, like everywhere else in the province: rent on an existing tenancy can go up once every 12 months, with written notice on the official form, by no more than the yearly maximum the province sets. Between tenants there’s no cap — a landlord can set a new rent.
Check the current B.C. rules →
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