Chilliwack 55+ Homes for Sale by Neighbourhood

Updated November 2026 · By Jared Gibbons, REALTOR®

Across central Chilliwack (Chilliwack Downtown, Chilliwack Proper East, Chilliwack Proper South and Chilliwack Proper West), the 55+ homes a buyer can own that the sources verify are Ivy Green, Spadina Regency, Mountainview Estates and Cottage Grove. This guide takes the neighbourhoods in turn, says what type each building is, and gives the streets, schools and local rules around it.

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Chilliwack Downtown: 55+ homes you can buy

Ivy Green — 45775 Spadina Avenue

55+ freehold strata condo building: 24 condos, 3 storeys, built 1994, plan LMS1336, self-managed, pets not allowed. Listings describe it as a "55+ age-restricted apartment" close to downtown amenities and medical facilities. Confirm the age bylaw against the registered bylaws and Form B before relying on it.

Spadina Regency — 45765 Spadina Avenue

55+ freehold strata condo building, concrete construction, built 1989, with secure underground parking, elevator, wheelchair access, clubhouse, workshop and a guest suite; listings state "55+ building where rentals and pets are permitted." A building directory headline records it as a 26-unit development. Board data classifies the address as "Chilliwack Downtown," ten civic numbers from Ivy Green on the same street. Confirm the age bylaw against the registered bylaws and Form B before relying on it.

Chilliwack Downtown: streets, schools and what to know

Municipality: City of Chilliwack, BC. The current city-wide plan is the Chilliwack 2050 Official Community Plan, Bylaw 2025, No. 5500; Schedule B3 is the Downtown Neighbourhood Plan covering this area, and Schedule D-6 is the Downtown development permit area.
Anchor institution: Chilliwack General Hospital, 45600 Menholm Road, sits west of the downtown core in the hospital precinct — Fraser Health describes it as a community hospital providing primary, core secondary and some specialty services. The downtown care cluster in (Patten Avenue, Hodgins Avenue, Corbould Street) sits within a few blocks of it.
Transit: BC Transit's service-improvements notice effective January 4, 2026 records added Sunday-evening service for Route 57 Broadway, Route 53 Fairfield and Route 51, and BC Transit's interregional routes page lists Route 66 Fraser Valley Express as serving Chilliwack, Abbotsford, Langley and Burnaby with daily service.
Agriculture context for the city as a whole: the City states agriculture accounts for 67% of the City's total land base and 29% of economic activity; ALR status for any specific downtown parcel is a parcel-by-parcel check.
Where 55+ housing actually concentrates in Chilliwack: the Spadina Avenue pair in this downtown scope, Mountainview Estates in Proper East, Knight Lodge and Cottage Grove on the Sardis side, and Cottonwood Village park on Evans Road — all outside this scope except the Spadina pair, listed at the end of.
Three strata buildings share one short street, and they are three different products. On Spadina Avenue: Ivy Green (45775) is 55+ with no pets; Spadina Regency (45765) is 55+ with rentals and pets permitted; Chilliwack Gardens (45749) states "no age restrictions" in its own listing. A search that blurs the corridor will show a senior a general-market building and a pet owner a no-pets building.
The board label and the street geography name the same area differently. Both Spadina 55+ buildings are labelled "Chilliwack Downtown" in board data while a house on the same street is labelled "Chilliwack Proper West" in listing data — a buyer who searches by sub-area label alone will find the same street filed under two different pages.
Two near-identical building names are both EAST, not downtown. Mountainview Estates (46966 Yale Rd) is the Proper East 55+ building; Mountview Apartments (46374 Margaret Ave) carries listing and directory language pointing the same way but stays an open question without a bylaws/Form B check. Neither belongs in downtown copy, and the two must never be merged.
One operator runs the whole hospital-corner care cluster. Chartwell operates all three retirement residences at the Landing / hospital corner — Birchwood (45650 Patten Ave), Hampton House (45555 Hodgins Ave) and Lynnwood (9168 Corbould St) — and its own copy for each notes it is "on the same corner as two other Chartwell retirement residences," so a senior comparing the three is comparing suite types and service packages inside one operator, not three competitors.
A buyer valuing infill on that wording needs a City check.
A bus route's downtown service grew in 2026. BC Transit's changes effective January 4, 2026 added Sunday-evening service for Route 57 Broadway, Route 53 Fairfield and Route 51 — the downtown-side routes a senior who plans to stop driving will actually use — alongside daily Route 66 Fraser Valley Express service to Abbotsford, Langley and Burnaby.

Chilliwack Proper East: 55+ homes you can buy

Mountainview Estates — 46966 Yale Road (board label: Chilliwack Proper East)

55+ freehold strata building; listing headlines record "IMMACULATE 55+ Mountainview Estates" and no pets, and a building directory records age restrictions in its bylaws. Sources differ: built 1989 in listings, 1988 in the building directory — no year is settled here. The directory's older "rentals not allowed" line is overridden by provincial law. Confirm the age bylaw against the registered bylaws and Form B before relying on it.

Chilliwack Proper East: streets, schools and what to know

Municipality: City of Chilliwack, BC. The current city-wide plan is the Chilliwack 2050 Official Community Plan, Bylaw 2025, No. 5500, and Schedule B2 — the Chilliwack Proper and Fairfield Island Neighbourhoods Plan — is the neighbourhood plan that covers this area.
Anchor institution: Chilliwack General Hospital, 45600 Menholm Road, west of this sub-area in the city-proper core — Fraser Health describes it as a community hospital providing primary, core secondary and some specialty services. The one registered assisted-living residence named here sits in the hospital precinct, on the area's western edge.
Transit: BC Transit's service-improvements notice effective January 4, 2026 records that Route 57 Broadway service on Carleton Street shifts one block east to McNaught Road, with new bus stops on McNaught and Acorn — two streets inside this sub-area's feed — and that additional Sunday-evening service was added for Route 57 Broadway, Route 53 Fairfield and Route 51. Route 66 Fraser Valley Express serves Chilliwack, Abbotsford, Langley and Burnaby with daily service.
Agriculture context for this sub-area's eastern edge: the City states agriculture accounts for 67% of the City's total land base and 29% of economic activity; ALR status for any specific parcel is a parcel-by-parcel check.
Where Chilliwack's other known 55+ housing sits, for contrast: the Spadina Avenue pair downtown / Proper West side, Knight Lodge and Cottage Grove on the Sardis side, and Cottonwood Village park on Evans Road — all outside this scope, listed at the end of so they are not mistaken for Proper East stock.
Two near-identical building names sit in this one sub-area, and they are not the same product on paper. A buyer searching by name alone can easily pull documents for the wrong building.
Both Proper East buildings carry a built-year conflict between their own sources. Mountainview Estates: 1989 in listings, 1988 in the directory. Mountview Apartments: 1977 in listings, 1974 in the directory. Neither year is settled here — use the strata documents, not a listing headline, for building age.
The page's zoning shorthand conflicts with its own feed.
A bus route moved one block inside this sub-area in 2026. BC Transit's changes effective January 4, 2026 shifted Route 57 Broadway's Carleton Street service one block east to McNaught Road, with new stops on McNaught and Acorn — a small change that matters to a senior who plans to stop driving.
The eastern edge of an urban sub-area runs into farm rules. Agriculture is 67% of the City's land base, and any parcel here that turns out to be in the ALR follows the ALC housing frame — a 500 m² cap on a principal residence built without an application, and one additional residence at 90 m² or 186 m² depending on parcel size — not the City suite rules a buyer may be expecting.

Chilliwack Proper South: 55+ homes you can buy

Cottage Grove — 8500 Young Road (south end of Young Road / Sardis side; board feed label: Chilliwack Proper South)

Gated 55+ rancher community, built 1989 in the listing checked; listings record "Senior Community: Yes," and the Chilliwack Proper South page's own feed describes a detached rancher-style unit in a 55+ gated community at this address as part of Cottage Grove.

Chilliwack Proper South: streets, schools and what to know

Municipality: City of Chilliwack, BC. The current city-wide plan is the Chilliwack 2050 Official Community Plan, Bylaw 2025, No. 5500.
Anchor institution: Chilliwack General Hospital, 45600 Menholm Road, is the community hospital for the city, providing primary, core secondary and some specialty services — it sits on the west / downtown side, a short distance from this scope's corridors rather than inside them.
Schools are SD33 (Chilliwack): nineteen elementary schools (K–5), four middle schools (Grades 6–8), two K–8 schools and five secondary schools (Grades 9–12).
Route 66 itself is confirmed on BC Transit's interregional routes page as serving Chilliwack, Abbotsford, Langley and Burnaby with daily service.
Where Chilliwack's other known 55+ housing sits, for contrast: the Spadina Avenue pair downtown, Mountainview Estates in Proper East, Knight Lodge in Sardis West Vedder, and Cottonwood Village park on Evans Road — listed at the end of so they are not mistaken for Proper South stock.
Two Proper pages claim the same street, and the board claims a third name for it.
A care residence and the 55+ ranchers share the south end of the same road. Waverly Seniors Village (8445 Young Rd, registered assisted living) and Cottage Grove (8500 Young Rd, strata ownership) sit a few civic numbers apart — two seniors products with nothing in common legally: one is a tenancy in a care residence, the other is a strata purchase governed by a 55+ bylaw.
A 55+ buyer landing here is mostly looking at condo stock that is not age-restricted, plus the one rancher complex whose age rule needs checking.

Chilliwack Proper West: 55+ homes you can buy

Chilliwack Proper West: streets, schools and what to know

Municipality: City of Chilliwack, BC. The current city-wide plan is the Chilliwack 2050 Official Community Plan, Bylaw 2025, No. 5500.
Anchor institution: Chilliwack General Hospital, 45600 Menholm Road, sits inside this side of the city — Fraser Health describes it as a community hospital providing primary, core secondary and some specialty services. The 55+ care cluster in (Patten Avenue, Hodgins Avenue, Corbould Street, McIntosh Drive) all sits within a few blocks of it.
Schools are SD33 (Chilliwack): nineteen elementary schools (K–5), four middle schools (Grades 6–8), two K–8 schools and five secondary schools (Grades 9–12).
Transit: BC Transit's Chilliwack system includes Route 51 Vedder and Route 52 Evans; route 52's timing points include Hodgins Ave at Ashwell Rd — in this area.
The Chartwell residences in each place themselves across from or beside the Landing Leisure Centre and Townsend Park.
Three strata buildings share one short street, and they are three different products. On Spadina Avenue: Ivy Green (45775) is 55+ with no pets; Spadina Regency (45765) is 55+ with rentals and pets permitted; Chilliwack Gardens (45749) states "no age restrictions" in its own listing. A search that blurs the corridor will show a senior a general-market building and a pet owner a no-pets building — check the civic number and the bylaws, not the street.
Both Spadina 55+ buildings are labelled "Chilliwack Downtown" in board data while a house on the same street is labelled "Chilliwack Proper West," and the city's most-marketed 55+ building, Knight Lodge, is labelled "Sardis West Vedder." A buyer who searches by sub-area label alone will miss real stock on this page and be shown stock that belongs to another page.
Mountainview Estates (46966 Yale Rd, Proper East) and Mountview Apartments (46374 Margaret Ave, Proper East) are two different 55+ buildings with two different spellings. Neither belongs in Proper West copy.
One operator runs the whole hospital-corner care cluster. Chartwell operates all three retirement residences at the Landing / hospital corner — Birchwood (45650 Patten Ave), Hampton House (45555 Hodgins Ave) and Lynnwood (9168 Corbould St) — and its own copy for each notes it is "on the same corner as two other Chartwell retirement residences," so a senior comparing the three is comparing suite types and service packages inside one operator, not three competitors.
The subsidized building on Hodgins was built for veterans first. Jubilee Place (45440 Hodgins Ave) offers its 36 bachelor and one-bedroom units to seniors 55 and over on low fixed income "with emphasis on veterans and spouses" per the 2020 housing inventory — an eligibility emphasis a general seniors search will not surface, and one of the few subsidized seniors buildings in the city that sits on a named Proper West corridor rather than downtown or Sardis.
Chilliwack's tax penalty is two steps, and this side of the city also carries flood paperwork Mission buyers won't expect. A 5% penalty lands after July 2, 2026 and a further 5% after August 4, 2026; and while the Proper West flat looks high and dry, the City's rules bar new secondary suites below the flood construction level and keep a flood hazard reserve zone in the bylaw — so the suite a buyer plans for a caregiver needs a flood-level check even on a downtown-side lot.

Local rules and plans in Chilliwack

City zoning: Zoning Bylaw 2020, No. 5000: is Chilliwack's zoning bylaw. Its defines a secondary suite as an accessory dwelling unit of not more than 90 m² and less than 40% of the habitable floor space of the building, located within a building containing only 1 principal dwelling unit — the cap is the lesser of 90 m² and 40%.
Accessory dwelling units: Section 4.06(1) of the same bylaw permits only 1 ADU per lot where the zone permits an ADU; the listed types are secondary suite, coach house and garden suite, garden suites are capped at a maximum gross floor area of 100 m² by Section 4.06(1)(g), and ADU parking is set at s.5.04 (1 space for a 1-bedroom ADU or any secondary suite; 2 spaces for a 2-or-more-bedroom coach or garden suite).
Suite legality: no secondary suite is legal unless built with a building permit meeting the BC Building and Fire Code and current flood protection requirements, and new suites are not permitted below the flood construction level.
SSMUH: Zoning Bylaw Amendment Bylaw 2024, No. 5395 is the City's small-scale multi-unit housing amendment to Bylaw No. 5000, allowing 3 to 4 dwelling units on parcels within the urban growth boundary zoned for single-detached and duplex housing; Bylaw 5395 was adopted June 18, 2024.
City plan: Chilliwack 2050 Official Community Plan, Bylaw 2025, No. 5500: is the current city-wide plan; its Schedule B3 is the Downtown Neighbourhood Plan and its Schedule D development permit areas run D-1 Drinking Water Supply through D-10 Industrial, with D-6 Downtown applying in the core.
Short-term rentals: the City regulates short-term rental operations under Short-Term Rental Bylaw 2021, No. 5141.
Property taxes: City of Chilliwack property tax notices are mailed annually at the end of May and are due the first working day after July 1 of every calendar year; a 5% late payment penalty is applied for taxes outstanding after July 2, 2026 and an additional 5% for taxes outstanding after August 4, 2026.
ALR housing frame, for parcels at this sub-area's eastern edge: ALR parcels follow the ALC housing frame of one principal residence at a maximum of 500 m² plus at most one additional residence of 90 m² (parcels ≤40 ha) or 186 m² (parcels >40 ha). ALR status itself is a parcel-by-parcel check.
Accessory dwelling units
Suites policy: the City's Secondary Suites Policy permits the rental of secondary suites within any single detached dwelling in the City regardless of zone; a suite must be built with a building permit, meet the BC Building and Fire Code and current flood protection requirements, and new secondary suites are not permitted below the flood construction level under the Floodplain Regulation Bylaw.
Flood: flood hazard zoning exists in the bylaw structure (RS-FHA reserve zone, Section 12 of Bylaw No. 5000) and the City applies flood protection requirements and a Floodplain Regulation Bylaw.

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.

BC 55+ strata rules

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

Chilliwack 55+ homes: your questions answered

What 55+ homes can I actually BUY in Chilliwack Downtown?

Two age-restricted strata buildings, both on Spadina Avenue: Ivy Green (45775 Spadina Ave — 24 condos, built 1994, LMS1336, no pets) and Spadina Regency (45765 Spadina Ave — concrete, built 1989, rentals and pets permitted per listings).

Three buildings share Spadina Avenue — are they all 55+?

No. Ivy Green (45775) is 55+ with no pets; Spadina Regency (45765) is 55+ with rentals and pets permitted; Chilliwack Gardens (45749) states "no age restrictions" in its own listing. Check the civic number and the bylaws, not the street.

Spadina Regency says rentals are permitted — in a 55+ building?

That is what its listings state, and it is consistent with current provincial law: strata rental-restriction bylaws have been void since Nov 24, 2022. The age bylaw still governs who may RESIDE there — a tenant must meet the 55+ bylaw or an exemption — and pet rules remain a valid bylaw matter, building by building. Confirm both against the registered bylaws and Form B.

Can a downtown house take a suite or a coach house for a caregiver or family?

One accessory dwelling unit per lot where the zone permits it — a secondary suite (capped at the lesser of 90 m² and 40% of the building's habitable floor space), a coach house, or a garden suite (capped at 100 m²) — under Zoning Bylaw 2020, No. 5000, ss. 2 and 4.06; a suite must be built with a permit meeting the BC Building and Fire Code and flood protection requirements, and new suites are not permitted below the flood construction level. Downtown parcels also sit inside the Schedule B3 Downtown Neighbourhood Plan and the D-6 Downtown permit area — confirm the parcel's designation with the City before valuing infill potential.

If I need help later, can I stay downtown?

The in-area ladder runs: independent strata (Ivy Green, Spadina Regency) → subsidized independent rental (Jubilee Place, 45440 Hodgins Ave, 36 units, 55+ low-income with veterans emphasis; The Paramount, 46187 Yale Rd, 65+ income-tested) → independent/assisted retirement rental in the hospital precinct (Chartwell Birchwood on Patten Ave, Chartwell Hampton House, 45555 Hodgins Ave, Chartwell Lynnwood, 9168 Corbould St) → registered assisted living (Birchwood and The Cascades, 45586 McIntosh Dr, both class SN) — all within a few blocks of Chilliwack General Hospital at 45600 Menholm Rd.

Why are there no market numbers for this area?

Chilliwack is a CADREB market that SnapStats does not cover, and CADREB publishes statistics board-wide only with no sub-area tables.

When are Chilliwack property taxes due, and what is the penalty?

Notices are mailed at the end of May and taxes are due the first working day after July 1 each year; for 2026, a 5% penalty applies to taxes outstanding after July 2, 2026 and an additional 5% to taxes outstanding after August 4, 2026.

Is Mountview Apartments the same building as Mountainview Estates?

Confirm from the strata documents before treating it as a 55+ purchase.

Are pets allowed at Mountainview Estates?

Listings record no pets for this building. Pet rules remain a valid bylaw matter, building by building — confirm against the registered bylaws and Form B for the specific unit.

Can a detached house here take a suite or a coach house for a caregiver or family?

One accessory dwelling unit per lot where the zone permits it — a secondary suite (capped at the lesser of 90 m² and 40% of the building's habitable floor space), a coach house, or a garden suite (capped at 100 m²) — under Zoning Bylaw 2020, No. 5000, ss. 2 and 4.06; a suite must be built with a permit meeting the BC Building and Fire Code and flood protection requirements, and new suites are not permitted below the flood construction level.

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