Cape Horn Homes for Sale in Coquitlam

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Cape Horn offers excellent value and connectivity — a Coquitlam neighbourhood ideally positioned near Highway 1 for commuters heading to Burnaby, Vancouver, or the Fraser Valley. With established homes and ongoing neighbourhood improvements, it's a practical and affordable option in the Tri-Cities.

Aerial view of the Cape Horn interchange in Coquitlam with Highway 1 and the Mary Hill Bypass
Photo: @khang_photos_, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Resized and compressed.
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Schools in Cape Horn

Cape Horn Elementary (155 Finnigan St) is an elementary school in Cape Horn. This is not a complete list of the schools nearby.

Where Cape Horn sits

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Source: BC Ministry of Education and Child Care school list (2025/26, updated July 2026) and the Province's post-secondary locations list.

Cape Horn homes listed and sold, June to October 2026

Cape Horn, October 2026. Detached houses: 14 listed at month end and 2 sold in October, a sales ratio of 14% (a balanced market). Condos and townhomes: 18 listed at month end and 0 sold in October.

Cape Horn listings, sales and sales ratio by month
MonthHouses listedHouses soldHouses ratioCondos and townhomes listedCondos and townhomes soldCondos and townhomes ratio
June 202614429%100—
July 20261716%00—
August 20261616%130—
September 202618211%130—
October 202614214%180—

Source: MLS® data from the Greater Vancouver REALTORS® and the Fraser Valley Real Estate Board, compiled by SnapStats®. How these figures are defined and sourced

Looking across the period, Detached houses: 10 sold over 5 months against an average of 15.8 listed, about 7.9 months of listings at that pace; the busiest month was June with 4 sold. Condos and townhomes: 0 sold over 5 months against an average of 10.8 listed.

Jared's take on Cape Horn

Driving commuters love Cape Horn, an established detached slope with some of the quickest highway access in Coquitlam. The trade-offs are highway noise and steep grades.

Common questions

Is there a vacant lot subdivision on the Cape Horn slope?

No known one — the slope is an established detached-house area whose 2022 City permit record is entirely single-family / suite / carriage-house form. Land trades as built house lots.

Can a Cape Horn house lot add units?

Yes under the City's SSMUH rules — up to 3 units on lots 280 m² or smaller and up to 4 units on lots under 4,050 m², including secondary suites and carriage or laneway homes — but lots not connected to municipal water or sewer fall outside the rules, so confirm services and the exact zone first.

Is Fraser Mills a land purchase?

No — it is a presale strata development below the slope (Debut, Encore, Chapter by Beedie Living) filed under Cape Horn by listing sources.

What does the water main mean for a Mariner Way lot?

Metro Vancouver's Cape Horn Section runs to Hickey Drive and Mariner Way with a tunnel crossing under Lougheed Highway — confirm the construction window and any shaft locations against the specific address before closing.

What is Cape Horn named for?

The Cape Horn interchange below the slope, where Highway 1, Lougheed Highway (Highway 7), the Mary Hill Bypass (Highway 7B) and United Boulevard meet at the Port Mann Bridge approach; the City tracks the area as planning areas 15 and 16.

Which schools serve a Cape Horn address?

School District 43 (Coquitlam), with address-based catchments.

What Buyers & Sellers Say

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Cape Horn by home type

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Lots and land in Cape Horn

Fee-simple lots

  • Established-slope house lots
  • Serviced position: Coquitlam's SSMUH rules as adopted exclude lots not connected to municipal water or sewer. Coquitlam utility charges cover water, sewer and drainage and solid waste. Confirm servicing for the specific parcel with the City.
  • No ALR percentage split is stated.

Development site

  • Crescentview Townhomes — 2665 Cape Horn Avenue.

Bare-land strata

  • Fraser Mills sells strata units, not lots.

Streets, schools and getting around Cape Horn

  • Cape Horn is the established residential slope in south Coquitlam above the Cape Horn interchange, where Highway 1, Lougheed Highway (Highway 7) and the Mary Hill Bypass (Highway 7B) meet at the Port Mann Bridge approach; the City tracks the area as planning areas 15 and 16 in its development statistics. "Cape Horn" is the GVR sub-area name in the SnapStats GVR September 2026 report.
  • Nearby areas: Maillardville and Coquitlam West west and north-west, Central Coquitlam north up Mariner Way, Port Coquitlam east across the Coquitlam River / Mary Hill Bypass, Surrey south across the Port Mann Bridge.
  • Main roads: Mariner Way and Cape Horn Avenue are the residential roads connecting the slope to the interchange; United Boulevard below the slope is a light-industrial and commercial road. Transit: the nearest SkyTrain stations are Braid, Lougheed Town Centre and Burquitlam — none inside the sub-area.
  • Nearest library: Coquitlam Public Library Poirier branch, 575 Poirier Street. Nearest hospital: Eagle Ridge Hospital, 475 Guildford Way, Port Moody.
  • Schools: SD43 (Coquitlam) catchments are address-based.
  • Market context, labelled correctly: Coquitlam is a SnapStats-covered community and SnapStats has no land category. September 2026 context only, never land figures: Cape Horn sub-area detached inventory 18 / sales 2 (11% ratio) and "Condos & Townhomes" combined 13 / 0 (ratio not applicable); Coquitlam community detached median $1,455,000 and attached median $625,000.

Local rules that affect land buyers in Cape Horn

  • Zoning — City of Coquitlam Zoning Bylaw No. 3000, 1996: the small-scale residential zones on the slope are R-1, R-2 and R-3, with the subdivision minimums in. Confirm the parcel's zone on the City's zoning maps.
  • Infrastructure diligence — Coquitlam Water Main, Cape Horn Section: Metro Vancouver is constructing the Coquitlam Water Main (approximately 12 km in four sections); the Cape Horn Section is approximately 4 km long and 2.2 m in diameter, running from Westwood Street and Dewdney Trunk Road to Hickey Drive and Mariner Way, including a trenchless tunnel crossing under Lougheed Highway — construction on the Mariner Way corridor is a live diligence item for slope addresses.
  • If a parcel is in the ALR: subdivision within the ALR requires ALC approval; ALR residences cannot be stratified. On ALR land the main house can be up to 500 m², a suite is allowed only inside it, and an extra residence can be up to 90 m² (186 m² on parcels over 40 ha). For farm class, BC Assessment looks for farm income of $10,000 a year on under 0.8 ha, $2,500 on 0.8 to 4 ha, and $2,500 plus 5% of the value of land over 4 ha; applications are due by October 31.

Good to know about Cape Horn

  • The City's own numbers describe a house-lot area, not a development frontier: planning areas 15/16 created 36 homes and demolished 18 in the 2022 statistics year — every created unit in single-family, suite or carriage-house form, zero townhouse or apartment units. Land value here is replacement and added-unit value on existing lots.
  • A strata seller here cannot price off a sub-area sold that does not exist; the Coquitlam community attached median was $625,000.
  • A 2.2-metre water main is being tunnelled under the highway below these lots: the Cape Horn Section includes a trenchless tunnel crossing under Lougheed Highway — infrastructure most buyers never hear about until a Mariner Way showing lands in a construction window.
  • The floodplain engineering at Fraser Mills does not describe the slope: Debut's site was preloaded to stand 20 feet above median sea level on the Fraser River floodplain — a waterfront-site fact. Slope lots carry the opposite diligence: ravine, watercourse and geotechnical checks.

The province-wide rules are on one page: BC land buying rules.

Sources for the land notes on Cape Horn

What's nearby Cape Horn

Times are from OpenStreetMap routing, November 2026.

Transit

  • Nearest rapid station: Braid Station (Expo Line), a terminus of routes 156 and 169.
  • Nearest bus exchange: Coquitlam Central Station, a terminus of route 169.
  • Route 169 Coquitlam Central Station / Braid Station, via Cape Horn Avenue and Colony Farm Road, TransLink.
  • Route 156 Braid Station / Lougheed Station, via Cape Horn Avenue, TransLink.

Parks and recreation

  • Cape Horn Park, with a playground, seating and grass areas.
  • Poirier Sport and Leisure Complex, 633 Poirier Street.
  • Coquitlam Public Library, Poirier branch, 575 Poirier Street.

Schools

  • Cape Horn Elementary, grades K-5, School District 43 Coquitlam; confirm the catchment with the district.
  • École Maillard Middle, grades 6-8, School District 43 Coquitlam; confirm the catchment with the district.
  • Centennial Secondary, grades 9-12, School District 43 Coquitlam; confirm the catchment with the district.

Groceries and shopping

  • Coquitlam Centre shopping centre, 2929 Barnet Highway; the centre lists T&T Supermarket and Walmart Supercentre among its stores.
  • Walmart Supercentre, 2929 Barnet Highway, Coquitlam.

Measured walking and driving times

Measured on November 2, 2026 with OpenStreetMap routing (OSRM for driving, routed-foot for walking), from Cape Horn Elementary, 155 Finnigan Street
ToHowMinutesDistance (km)
Cape Horn ParkWalk161.2
Poirier Sport and Leisure ComplexDrive63.4
Centennial SecondaryDrive73.7
Coquitlam CentreDrive127.8

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