Burnaby, British Columbia
As of September 27, 2026, the median asking price in Burnaby is $868,800, across 1,812 active MLS® listings.
Those listings have been on the market an average of 88 days.
557 new listings came to market in Burnaby in the last 30 days.
Asking prices work out to about $821 per square foot, based on the 1,809 listings that report floor area.
Condos in Burnaby are listed at an average of $718,023 across 1,005 active listings.
Detached homes in Burnaby are listed at an average of $2,366,186 across 451 active listings.
Townhouses in Burnaby are listed at an average of $965,875 across 201 active listings.
Duplexes in Burnaby are listed at an average of $1,794,902 across 142 active listings.
Condo-forward, transit-linked living across a big area
Burnaby offers a dense, amenity-rich urban pattern with parks and institutions spread across a wide footprint.
This is a place of multiple centres rather than one core: high-rise and mid-rise living clusters near major transit and shopping, while other parts feel more residential and detached-home oriented. The appeal is choice—different pockets with different rhythms—backed by major parks and a deep bench of community facilities. It is not a single, uniform district where one street, one school, or one park defines daily life for the whole area.
Burnaby is made up mostly of condominium apartments, with detached houses also common, creating a market where towers and mid-rise buildings coexist with ground-oriented homes. That mix means buyers and sellers often evaluate not just the home itself, but also the building context (for condos) or the ownership responsibilities that come with a detached property.
A typical home in Burnaby is a condominium apartment in a mid-rise or high-rise building, with detached houses forming a significant secondary option.
In Burnaby, the key is to look past the headline features and evaluate how a specific pocket, building, or block actually connects to the parks, transit, and services you plan to use.
With many condominium apartments, building governance and operating details matter: read strata documents closely, understand what fees cover, and confirm any practical constraints that affect daily use.
For apartments, compare floor level, exposure, noise context, and parking/storage allocations—differences between two nearby buildings can change how the home lives.
Burnaby is not one uniform experience; check how your chosen location relates to the destinations you’ll actually use, whether that’s a SkyTrain station, a bus loop, parks, or everyday shopping.
Healthcare options are spread across the area, from Burnaby General Hospital to clinics and pharmacies like Pharmasave and PharmaChoice—confirm what’s convenient for your routine rather than assuming one centre covers the whole area.
Selling in Burnaby comes down to two comparisons buyers make: your home against what else is for sale, and this location against the alternatives.
Buyers weigh your home against the homes listed in Burnaby right now. The current listings and asking prices are in the Market section of this page.
Put the places a buyer will use in the listing: Malvern Dog Trail, Lubbock's Woods Park and Deer Lake Park Festival Lawn.
Photography, condition and first impressions decide which listings buyers book to see. Have the home ready before it goes live.
Burnaby offers a rare combination in Metro Vancouver: dense, condo-forward nodes, a meaningful supply of detached homes, and large parks and cultural institutions distributed across a very large area. The upside is choice—multiple ways to live and move within the same overall market. It’s not for someone looking for a single, unified centre that reliably defines the day-to-day experience everywhere in the area.
This description is compiled from the figures above and from published sources. It is not a statistic.
Burnaby’s for-sale market is active and varied across the city—from higher-density condo and townhome options around Metrotown, Brentwood, and Lougheed to more traditional detached-home pockets in areas like North Burnaby and Edmonds—supported by 1,976 active listings with a median asking price of $869,900 and an average $819 per square foot. With listings averaging 97 days on market and 523 new listings added in the past 30 days, conditions point to ample choice and negotiation room for buyers and investors, especially where pricing and unit types diverge sharply by area.
AI-written commentary on the active MLS® listing snapshot as of September 11, 2026. Not financial advice.
Burnaby covers about 90 km², so a single Walk Score®, Transit Score® or Bike Score® measured at one point would not describe it. How easily you can get around depends on which part of Burnaby you are in — check the score for a specific address.
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