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For buyers, properties in Downtown New Westminster have a median asking price of $569,000 and a price per square foot of $690; the median days on market at 56 suggests time for consideration. Daily life is supported by an 87 walkability score, a 100 transit score, and an 87 schools access score, with 3 schools within walking distance. These scores are complemented by 58 restaurants, 39 cafés, 19 grocers, and 25 parks and green spaces nearby, while 2 of 5 metro destinations are directly accessible by transit. Investors can note a median monthly rent of $2,219, contributing to a gross rental yield of 4.7 percent.
Counted within 1.5 km of the centre of the neighbourhood; distances are straight-line. Places data from OpenStreetMap contributors.
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3 schools within walking distance. 25 green spaces nearby.
25 parks and green spaces mapped nearby.
| Where you're going | Transit | Drive |
|---|---|---|
| Downtown Vancouver | 34 min· Expo Line | 45 min |
| Broadway corridor / VGH | — | 42 min |
| UBC | — | 53 min |
| Metrotown | 19 min· Expo Line | 23 min |
| YVR Airport | — | 37 min |
Transit is weekday morning schedules with the walk to the stop included, for trips made without changing vehicle — a dash means no one-seat ride, not that it is unreachable. Driving times are off-peak and carry no traffic.
Gross yield is a year of median rent against the median asking price, before costs.
From 16 of 16 active rentals.
Including Westminster Pier Park and Tipperary Park, within walking distance of the centre.
58 restaurants, 39 cafés and 19 grocers among them, within 1.5 km of the centre.
| Neighbourhood | Median | $ / sqft | Days on mkt | Walk | Schools |
|---|
39 cafés and 19 grocers on foot. A direct ride to 5 of the places people commute to.
About 4.7% gross yield.
Transit scores 100 out of 100. 5 of five metro destinations reachable without changing vehicle.
7 bars and late venues, among 58 restaurants.
Scored from the walkability, schools, amenities and transit measurements shown on this page — not from opinion. Personas with nothing measurable behind them are left out.
| DowntownYou are here | $569K | $690 | 56 | 87 | 87 |
| Quay | $649K | $771 | 49 | 87 | 75 |
| Fraserview | $629K | $622 | 67 | 62 | 72 |
Neighbours are the areas whose boundaries touch Downtown. Medians come from active listings and move as the market does.
The quarter-by-quarter history behind today's figures has to be recorded as it happens — nothing can reconstruct it after the fact — so this chart starts filling in from the day we begin measuring.