Capilano 55+ Homes for Sale

In Capilano, North Vancouver, the 55+ homes you can buy are Edgemont Villa and Highland House (strata). The other seniors housing here, which you cannot buy into, is retirement residence or care. This page names each building, says what type it is and what the sources show, and covers local rules and the questions buyers ask.

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55+ strata buildings you can buy in Capilano

Edgemont Villa — 3151 Connaught Cres (Edgemont Village)

Edgemont Villa is described in full on the Edgemont Village 55+ page, where it is filed.

Rental, care and subsidized seniors housing in Capilano (not for sale)

  • Amica Edgemont Village — 3225 Highland Blvd (Edgemont Village): Rental senior living residence offering independent living, registered assisted living suites, long-term care on a dedicated floor, and memory care; Amica describes contemporary West Coast suites a short walk from Edgemont Village's cafés and boutiques. Registered in BC's Assisted Living Registry (class SN), operator Edgemont Senior Living Inc. Nothing to buy.

Streets, schools and getting around Capilano

  • Anchors on the corridor are Capilano Suspension Bridge Park at 3735 Capilano Road and the Cleveland Dam at the north end, in Capilano River Regional Park.
  • Schools beside the corridor: Canyon Heights Elementary, 4501 Highland Boulevard; Highlands Elementary, 3150 Colwood Drive; Cleveland Elementary, 1255 Eldon Road; Handsworth Secondary, 1033 Handsworth Road. School District 44 catchments are address-based (K–7 elementary, 8–12 secondary, no middle tier) — check each address with SD44. Capilano Elementary, 1230 West 20th Street, carries the name but sits in the City of North Vancouver lowlands south of the corridor.
  • Transit: TransLink route 236 runs the length of Capilano Road toward Grouse Mountain and Lonsdale Quay; route 232 runs via Capilano Road, Edgemont Boulevard and Highland Boulevard; route 246 crosses the corridor via Capilano Road and Montroyal Boulevard with downtown trips over the Lions Gate Bridge.
  • Recreation and health: the Delbrook Community Recreation Centre, 851 West Queens Road, is the nearest NVRC full-service centre; Lions Gate Hospital, 231 East 15th Street, North Vancouver, is the North Shore hospital.
  • Where the seniors housing actually is: in Edgemont Village, on and around Highland Boulevard — one 55+ strata (Edgemont Villa, 3151 Connaught Cres), a second building listed as 55+ by a North Shore guide (Highland House, 3088 Highland Blvd), and one full-service rental residence with assisted living and long-term care (Amica Edgemont Village, 3225 Highland Blvd).

Local rules and plans in Capilano

  • Zoning: District of North Vancouver Zoning Bylaw 3210, Section 525: The R1 detached zone minimum lot is 4,000 m² (30 m width, 34 m depth); R2 is 660 m² (18 m width, 34 m depth), with modifiers R2(S1) 335 m² / 10 m, R2(S2) 1,100 m² / 24 m and R2(S3) 4,000 m² / 30 m. An R2 principal building may include a secondary suite; a coach house is a dwelling unit accessory to and detached from the principal dwelling.
  • Three units on a house lot: since June 2024, District zoning permits a principal dwelling, a secondary suite and a coach house — three units total — on all single-family zoned properties within the Urban Containment Boundary. The District's SSMUH classification shows non-exempt lots potentially allowing up to 4 units above 280 m², and up to 6 units above 280 m² within 400 m of a frequent-transit bus stop. For a corridor homeowner, the suite/coach house is the realistic ageing-in-place mechanism, since the corridor itself has no seniors buildings.
  • OCP: District of North Vancouver Official Community Plan, Bylaw 7900, which names Edgemont as one of the District's six Village Centres — the planning basis for the village's denser, walkable form that the seniors buildings sit in.
  • Hazard permit areas: OCP Bylaw 7900, Schedule B sets seven Development Permit Areas including Protection of the Natural Environment, Streamside Protection, Wildfire Hazard, Creek Hazard and Slope Hazard — canyon-edge and ravine lots on this corridor are exactly what they were written for, and the District publishes property-level GeoWeb reports including modelled flood construction levels.
  • Assisted living is not an age-bylaw product: Amica Edgemont Village's assisted-living suites are registered under BC's Assisted Living Registry and its long-term care floor is licensed care — admission is the operator's/health system's decision, not a strata bylaw question.
  • Property taxes: District of North Vancouver 2026 property taxes were due July 2, 2026, with a 5% penalty after July 2, 2026 and a further 5% after September 1, 2026; the 2026 residential municipal rate is 1.83419 and the total residential rate 3.28195 per $1,000 of assessed value; combined single-family utilities are $2,571.20 in 2026.

BC’s 55+ rules (age bylaws, who may live in a unit, exemptions and rentals) apply in every strata and are on the BC 55+ strata rules page.

Good to know about Capilano

  • The corridor's traffic is the area's defining fact, and the seniors buildings avoid it. Capilano Road carries all Grouse Mountain and Suspension Bridge traffic; Grouse Mountain's address is 6400 Nancy Greene Way, at the top of Capilano Road, the only road up. Edgemont Village, one ridge east, gets the walkability without the tour-bus route at the door — which is precisely where the 55+ stock sits.
  • Edgemont Villa is tiny, and that cuts both ways. With only 20 condos (built 2003), listings are rare and the building's resale story is a handful of sales; a buyer set on it is waiting for a specific unit, not choosing from a market.
  • The same crescent holds the area's newest general-market condos. Crescentview at Edgemont (3121 Connaught Cres, completed 2023, 22 condos) stands beside Edgemont Villa — a downsizer who does not need the 55+ bylaw has a brand-new alternative on the same street, and a seller at Edgemont Villa competes with it.
  • If it is genuinely 55+, it is the area's second purchase option; if the guide is stale, it is not. Form B and the filed bylaws settle it in one step.
  • The reservoir is upstream of the whole corridor. The Cleveland Dam (completed 1954, 91 m high) holds back Capilano Lake, the drinking-water reservoir above these homes, and the Capilano River Hatchery below the dam (completed 1971) normally draws about 250,000 visitors a year — context for both the hazard-permit checks and the weekend traffic.
  • Amica Edgemont is the District's west-side care anchor. It is the only Assisted Living Registry entry on the District's west side — the other District registrations are in Lynn Valley (Cedar Garden) — so the Capilano/Edgemont side's assisted-living capacity is one private residence.

Sources

Facts on this page come from these public sources, read on November 1, 2026. Listing-level pages are not listed.

Capilano 55+ homes: your questions answered

What 55+ homes can I actually buy in the Capilano area?

One solidly known building: Edgemont Villa, 3151 Connaught Cres in Edgemont Village — 20 freehold strata condos, built 2003, described as 55+ across multiple listings. Highland House (3088 Highland Blvd) is listed as 55+ by one North Shore building guide. There is nothing age-restricted on Capilano Road itself.

Is there a rental option if I don't want to buy?

Yes, one: Amica Edgemont Village at 3225 Highland Blvd offers independent living suites on a rental basis, with assisted living, long-term care and memory care in the same residence. There is no general 55+ rental apartment building in the area.

Can I add a suite or coach house for a parent or caregiver on a Capilano house lot?

Generally yes in form: District zoning has permitted three units total (principal dwelling, secondary suite, coach house) on single-family lots within the Urban Containment Boundary since June 2024. The lot's zone, size, and any creek/slope/wildfire permit area decide the specific case — canyon-edge lots need the GeoWeb check first.

What transit can I use day to day?

From Edgemont Village, routes 232 and 246 run via Highland and Edgemont Boulevards (246 reaches downtown over the Lions Gate Bridge); route 236 runs the Capilano Road corridor itself to Lonsdale Quay and Grouse Mountain. The SeaBus at Lonsdale Quay crosses to Waterfront Station in 12 minutes.

Where is the hospital?

Lions Gate Hospital, 231 East 15th Street, North Vancouver (Vancouver Coastal Health); the North Vancouver Urgent and Primary Care Centre is at 221 West Esplanade, North Vancouver.

If I need care later, can I stay in the area?

At the rental-residence step, yes — Amica Edgemont Village runs independent living through long-term care and memory care under one roof in Edgemont Village. There is no publicly funded long-term care home inside this sub-area; the District's VCH care homes are in Lynn Valley (Cedarview Lodge) and the hospital district.

Is Edgemont Village part of "Capilano"?

For housing searches, effectively yes: the District's OCP names Edgemont a Village Centre immediately east of the corridor, the Capilano Library sits in it, and every known seniors building for the Capilano side is there. But note the trap in reverse — Capilano Elementary (1230 W 20th St) and Capilano House (1551 Bridgman Ave) are City-side, south of the highway, and are not this area's buildings.

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What's nearby, building by building

Times are from OpenStreetMap routing from each building’s address, November 2026.

  • Highland House, 3088 Highland Blvd

    Transit
    Nearest rapid transit: SeaBus at Lonsdale Quay; TransLink lists Lonsdale Quay departures, 12-minute crossing to Waterfront. Nearest bus exchange: Lonsdale Quay, terminus of route 236. Route 246 Downtown / Highland, via Marine Dr, Capilano Rd, Ridgewood Dr, Edgemont Blvd and Highland Blvd, with an Edgemont timing point on Highland Blvd, TransLink.
    Parks and recreation
    Capilano Library, 3045 Highland Blvd. Murdo Frazer Park, a District of North Vancouver park west of Highland Blvd.
    Schools
    Highlands Elementary, grades K-7, School District 44 North Vancouver, 3150 Colwood Dr. Canyon Heights Elementary, grades K-7, School District 44 North Vancouver, 4501 Highland Blvd. Handsworth Secondary, grades 8-12, School District 44 North Vancouver, 1033 Handsworth Rd.
    Shopping
    Thrifty Foods Edgemont Market, 3210 Edgemont Blvd.

Measured walking and driving times from each building

Measured on November 2, 2026 with OpenStreetMap routing (OSRM for driving, routed-foot for walking), starting at each building’s address
BuildingToHowMinutesDistance (km)
Highland HouseCapilano LibraryWalk20.1
Highland HouseThrifty Foods Edgemont MarketWalk30.2
Highland HouseHighlands ElementaryWalk80.6

Sources for what’s nearby each building

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