Dunbar Homes for Sale, Vancouver

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Dunbar is one of Vancouver's most consistently desirable West Side neighbourhoods — a place where tree-lined streets, exceptional schools, and a tight-knit community combine to create an ideal family environment. Its local village atmosphere and proximity to the University of British Columbia add to its enduring appeal.

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Common questions

How much condo choice is there in Dunbar, really?

Three apartment buildings: West Pointe (2000) and Fifty-Five 55 Dunbar (2015) on Dunbar Street, and the new concrete building at 3590 West 39th Avenue (2024). Everything else in the area is houses, the 3349 Dunbar Street townhouses, or Southlands country lots.

Can I rent out a Dunbar condo long-term?

Yes — rental-restriction bylaws have been unenforceable since November 24, 2022, so West Pointe's "Rentals Allwd w/Restrctns" listing field cannot stop a long-term tenancy. Short-term rentals can still be restricted, and the Empty Homes Tax declaration applies to a unit left empty.

Why do listings at 3590 West 39th Avenue say "price includes GST" and "receivership sale"?

Because those units are selling as new construction through a receivership, with a disclosure statement and 2-5-10 warranty — the buyer is purchasing from the developer side, not from a homeowner. That changes the paperwork (REDMA disclosure instead of a Form B), the tax (5% GST, partly offset by the Newly Built Home Exemption and the Bill C-4 rebate where the buyer qualifies), and the diligence (confirm the receiver's authority and warranty enrolment).

How many units are in Fifty-Five 55 Dunbar?

The Form B and the strata plan itself settle it; do not rely on either directory figure.

What should I check in West Pointe, the oldest of the three?

The depreciation report: stratas with 5+ lots must have one every five years (no deferral vote since July 1, 2024) and must contribute at least 10% of the operating fund to the CRF. In a 2000 building, envelope, roof and elevator items in the report matter more than the unit's finish.

Is there actually a townhouse complex I can buy in Dunbar?

The one documented townhouse address is 3349 Dunbar Street — an unnamed strata (strata fees charged in the listing record), built 1995, with a current listing describing a 2-level, 3-bedroom home with a 624 sq ft rooftop deck and pets "Yes With Restrictions." Everything else in Dunbar is detached houses, three apartment-condo buildings, or Southlands country lots.

Strata or fee-simple — how do I tell which Dunbar product I'm looking at?

By the strata-fee record and title, not the marketing word "townhome." The 3349 Dunbar Street listing charges strata fees, so it is read as strata here; a Dunbar multiplex, duplex or house-with-laneway showing no strata fees is fee-simple — no strata, no Form B, diligence is title and City rules only.

Can I rent out a Dunbar townhouse long-term?

Yes under provincial law: strata rental-restriction bylaws have been void since Nov 24, 2022, whatever older bylaw text says. Short-term rentals can still be restricted by bylaw — read the registered bylaws in the Form B package — and a unit left empty instead triggers the Vancouver Empty Homes Tax declaration at 3%.

Is Dunbar an official City of Vancouver area?

The City's local area is "Dunbar-Southlands," one of its 22 distinct areas, pairing the Dunbar house streets with Southlands and the Musqueam land at the south edge; "Dunbar" is the board / site name for the residential core.

Which schools are located in Dunbar-Southlands?

On the VSB list: Kitchener Elementary (3455 West King Edward Avenue), Queen Elizabeth Elementary (4102 West 16th Avenue) and Southlands Elementary (5351 Camosun Street), with Kerrisdale Elementary (5555 Carnarvon Street) also listed under the Dunbar-Southlands heading; catchments are address-based, so check the exact address in the VSB locator.

What makes Southlands different from the rest of Dunbar?

The City describes Southlands as a unique urban-country neighbourhood inside Dunbar-Southlands, beside the Musqueam First Nation land, in an area inhabited by Indigenous peoples as early as 400 B.C. and farmed since the 1800s.

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Condo buildings in Dunbar

West Pointe — 5629 Dunbar Street

A current listing names the building "West Pointe," records Ownership Type Freehold Strata, Building Type Apartment/Condo, year built 2000, and a Strata Restrictions field of "Pets Allowed w/Rest., Rentals Allwd w/Restrctns" (the rental line is void for long-term tenancies since November 24, 2022); the listing's pet field shows cats OK.

Fifty-Five 55 Dunbar — 5555 Dunbar Street

Listing copy names the building "Fifty-Five 55 Dunbar"; listings record year built 2015, Apartment/Condo, frame-wood construction, 4 storeys, and strata plan EPS3033.

3590 West 39th Avenue (Dunbar at West 39th)

A four-storey concrete mixed-use building at Dunbar Street and West 39th Avenue: a retail brochure for the site (Plan EPP93856) records 15 residential units above four retail strata units, concrete construction. Current listings record year built 2024, Apartment/Condo, concrete construction, pets allowed (one unit's listing field says "Pets: No" — sources differ; read the bylaws), and sale by receivership with a disclosure statement, prices including GST and a 2-5-10 new-home warranty — i.e., these are new-build sales, not resales.

Streets, schools and getting around Dunbar

  • Dunbar is the residential core of the City of Vancouver's Dunbar-Southlands local area (one of the City's 22), in the city's southwest, north of the Fraser River and east of UBC and Pacific Spirit Regional Park.
  • Where condo stock actually concentrates: Dunbar is overwhelmingly detached houses. Its strata apartment stock is three low-rise buildings, all on the area's two commercial frontages — Dunbar Street itself (West Pointe at the south end, Fifty-Five 55 Dunbar mid-village) and the Dunbar / West 39th Avenue corner (3590 West 39th Avenue). The interior streets and the Southlands country lots at the south edge have no known apartment-condo stock.
  • Retail corridor: the Dunbar Village shopping area on Dunbar Street is the local retail strip; Dunbar Street is the north–south spine, crossed by West 16th Avenue, West King Edward Avenue, West 33rd Avenue and West 41st Avenue, with SW Marine Drive along the south edge.
  • Transit: no SkyTrain station sits inside Dunbar; route 7 runs the Dunbar Street corridor, with the 2, 25 and 33 on the east–west avenues and the 49 on West 49th Avenue at the south edge.

Good to know about Dunbar

  • Dunbar's newest condo building is selling out of a receivership. Current listings for 3590 West 39th Avenue state "this is a receivership sale" with a disclosure statement and GST included — a buyer expecting an ordinary strata resale will misread the entire transaction.
  • Two addresses, one corner, possibly one project. Presale coverage names "Dunbar at 39th" at 3636 West 39th Avenue with 29 condominiums (Wesgroup), while the built building sells from 3590 West 39th Avenue with 15 residential units in its retail brochure.
  • "Dunbar" the condo label can mean a different West Pointe. A separate building also called West Pointe exists at 3250 West Broadway in Kitsilano (built 1990 in directory data) — same name, different building and neighbourhood. Building searches and strata documents must be matched by address, not name.
  • The whole Dunbar condo market is two streets. All three apartment buildings sit on Dunbar Street or at its West 39th Avenue corner — there is no known strata stock on the interior residential streets at all.
  • Fifty-Five 55 Dunbar's unit count is genuinely unsettled in public sources. The same directory publishes both 33 units and 17 units for 5555 Dunbar Street — a reminder that directory unit counts are leads, not facts, until the strata plan is read.
  • Southlands is inside the same City area name but is a different product entirely. Dunbar-Southlands pairs the Dunbar house streets with in-city country lots beside the Musqueam First Nation land, in an area the City notes was inhabited by Indigenous peoples as early as 400 B.C. — a Southlands address is not a Dunbar Village address, and neither prices like the other.

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

Sources for the condo notes on Dunbar

Townhome complexes in Dunbar

Streets, schools and transit near Dunbar townhomes

  • "Dunbar" is the board / site name for the Dunbar sub-area in Vancouver West (GVR board area); the City of Vancouver's corresponding local area is "Dunbar-Southlands" — one of the City's 22 distinct areas — pairing the Dunbar house streets with the Southlands country lots and the Musqueam First Nation land at its south edge, in the city's southwest, north of the Fraser River and east of UBC and Pacific Spirit Regional Park.
  • Where the townhouse stock concentrates: almost nowhere. Dunbar is overwhelmingly detached houses on tree-lined streets, with the unique urban-country Southlands lots at the south edge.
  • Retail and roads: the Dunbar Village shopping area on Dunbar Street is the local retail strip; Dunbar Street is the north–south spine, crossed by West 16th Avenue, West King Edward Avenue, West 33rd Avenue and West 41st Avenue, with SW Marine Drive along the south edge by the Fraser River.
  • Transit: no SkyTrain station sits inside Dunbar; route 7 (Nanaimo Station / Dunbar) runs the Dunbar Street corridor, with cross-corridor routes including the 2, 25 and 33 on the east–west avenues and the 49 on West 49th Avenue at the south edge.

Local rules that affect townhome buyers in Dunbar

  • Form B diligence (the 3349 Dunbar Street strata, and any Dunbar strata purchase): Strata Property Act s. 59 — the Form B states the lot's monthly strata fees, amounts owing, approved special levies still payable, the CRF balance and an insurance summary, with the rules, current budget, any Rental Disclosure Statement and the most recent depreciation report attached; provided within 7 days, maximum $35 plus up to 25 cents per page. Listing-level rental/pet lines here are listing data, not bylaws — the Form B and registered bylaws govern.
  • Fee-simple product (Southlands lots, multiplexes, houses with suites/laneway): A Dunbar "townhouse-style" listing with no strata fees charged is usually this form or a duplex, not a strata lot.
  • SSMUH / suite rules as the city states them: Vancouver's small-scale multi-unit housing is the R1-1 multiplex regime above — up to 6 strata units or up to 8 secured rental units on a qualifying lot, with a secondary suite and a laneway house permitted with a single detached house. That regime prices the house lots around any townhouse purchase; it does not change the strata complexes themselves.
  • Flood / ALR: the City's designated floodplain covers the Fraser River coastal floodplain at the area's south end, and land in the floodplain is subject to the Vancouver Building By-law Floodplain Standards and Requirements for setbacks and flood construction levels; Southlands lots near the river include land in the Agricultural Land Reserve. Parcel-level status: check the City dataset.

Good to know about Dunbar townhomes

  • Dunbar's townhouse supply is one documented address, not a market segment. A buyer waiting for "the Dunbar townhouse complexes" to list is waiting on a category that barely exists.

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

Sources for the townhome notes on Dunbar

Lots and land in Dunbar

Fee-simple lots

  • Established-street house lots: detached houses on tree-lined streets dominate — the City calls Dunbar-Southlands a mature community of quiet residential streets lined with grand old trees — with low-rise strata product concentrated on the Dunbar Street and West 41st Avenue frontages. A fee-simple lot carries no strata, no Form B and no strata fees.
  • Lot character: the house streets sit under the R1-1 District Schedule of Zoning and Development By-law No. 3575 — minimum site area 306 m² for a single detached house or duplex and for a multiple dwelling of 3 to 4 units (minimum frontage 10.0 m), 464 m² for 5 units (13.4 m), 557 m² for 6 to 8 units (15.1 m); a single detached house may include a secondary suite and a laneway house, and a multiplex may have up to 6 units or up to 8 rental units. These are schedule minimums, not a claim about any existing lot's size.
  • Serviced position: Dunbar homes are on City water and sewer services.
  • Historic subdivisions = built lot fabric, not offerings

Southlands country lots

  • Southlands — south edge of Dunbar-Southlands, beside the Musqueam First Nation land: Large, semi-rural freehold properties — the City describes Southlands as a unique urban-country neighbourhood inside Dunbar-Southlands — under their own agricultural / limited-agriculture districts. Southlands lots near the river include land in the Agricultural Land Reserve.
  • ALR vs non-ALR split: no percentage split is stated. Flood position: the area's south edge slopes to the Fraser River and the City's designated floodplain covers the Fraser River coastal floodplain at the south end of the city; parcels in it carry Vancouver Building By-law setback and flood construction level requirements.

Named development

  • 3590 West 39th Avenue (Dunbar at West 39th) — built strata development, selling by receivership: A four-storey concrete mixed-use building at Dunbar Street and West 39th Avenue: a retail brochure for the site (Plan EPP93856) records 15 residential units above four retail strata units; current listings record year built 2024 and sale by receivership with a disclosure statement, prices including GST and a 2-5-10 new-home warranty — new-build sales, not resales, and not lots.
  • Built strata frontage stock — cross-reference only

Proposals

  • Amica seniors' project — 3329–3429 West 41st Avenue / 5649–5683 Blenheim Street: It is a rezoning approval on assembled ground — care/rental product in any case, not a lot offering.

  • Streets, schools and transit near Dunbar lots

    Nearby areas
    West Point Grey and the University Endowment Lands to the west and north-west, Kitsilano to the north, Arbutus Ridge to the east, Kerrisdale to the south-east, and Southlands / Musqueam land to the south.
    Roads and retail
    Dunbar Street is the north–south spine, crossed by West 16th Avenue, West King Edward Avenue, West 33rd Avenue and West 41st Avenue, with SW Marine Drive along the south edge by the Fraser River. The Dunbar Village shopping area on Dunbar Street is the local retail strip.
    Transit
    no SkyTrain station sits inside Dunbar. Route 7 (Nanaimo Station / Dunbar) runs the Dunbar Street corridor, with the 2, 25 and 33 on the east–west avenues and the 49 on West 49th Avenue at the south edge.
    Civic anchors
    Dunbar Community Centre is the area's Park Board community centre, with a fitness centre. The City names McCleery Golf Course as a local feature, and Pacific Spirit Regional Park borders the area to the west.

Local rules that affect land buyers in Dunbar

  • ALR rules: 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). Check the parcel on ALC mapping before applying any of this.
  • Strata diligence (the frontage strata stock — and any bare-land strata lot, if one is ever met here): No Dunbar building is published as 55+ — Fifty-Five 55 Dunbar's "55" is its street number, not an age bylaw.

Good to know about Dunbar lots

  • Dunbar's newest building is selling out of a receivership: current listings for 3590 West 39th Avenue state "this is a receivership sale" with a disclosure statement and GST included — a buyer expecting an ordinary strata resale will misread the entire transaction.
  • Two addresses, one corner, possibly one project: presale coverage names "Dunbar at 39th" at 3636 West 39th Avenue with 29 condominiums (Wesgroup), while the built building sells from 3590 West 39th Avenue with 15 residential units in its retail brochure.
  • "Dunbar" the condo label can mean a different West Pointe: a separate building also called West Pointe exists at 3250 West Broadway in Kitsilano (built 1990 in directory data) — same name, different building and neighbourhood. Dunbar's West Pointe is 5629 Dunbar Street. Match documents by address, not name.

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

Sources for the land notes on Dunbar

What's nearby Dunbar

Times are from OpenStreetMap routing, November 2026.

Transit

  • Nearest rapid station: King Edward Station (Canada Line), on route 25, which runs through the area on W King Edward Ave and Dunbar St.
  • Nearest bus loop: Dunbar Loop, at Dunbar St and W 41st Ave, terminus of route 7.
  • Route 7 Nanaimo Station / Dunbar, via Dunbar St and W 4th Ave, TransLink.
  • Route 25 Brentwood Station / UBC, via King Edward Ave and Dunbar St, TransLink.

Parks and recreation

  • Memorial West Park, 4701 Dunbar St: City of Vancouver park.
  • Dunbar Community Centre, 4747 Dunbar St.
  • Vancouver Public Library, Dunbar Branch, 4515 Dunbar St.

Schools

  • Lord Kitchener Elementary, grades K-7, 3455 W King Edward Ave, School District 39 Vancouver; confirm the catchment with the district.
  • Queen Elizabeth Elementary, grades K-7, 4102 W 16th Ave, School District 39 Vancouver; confirm the catchment with the district.
  • Lord Byng Secondary, grades 8-12, 3939 W 16th Ave, School District 39 Vancouver; confirm the catchment with the district.
  • Immaculate Conception School, grades K-7, 3745 W 28th Ave, School District 39 Vancouver, independent; confirm the catchment with the district.

Groceries and shopping

  • Stong's Market, 4221 Dunbar St.
  • Shoppers Drug Mart Dunbar, 4326 Dunbar St.

Measured walking and driving times

Measured on November 2, 2026 with OpenStreetMap routing (OSRM for driving, routed-foot for walking), from Dunbar Community Centre, 4747 Dunbar St
ToHowMinutesDistance (km)
Memorial West Park, 4701 Dunbar StWalk10.1
Vancouver Public Library, Dunbar BranchWalk50.4
Stong's Market, 4221 Dunbar StWalk80.6
Lord Byng Secondary, 3939 W 16th AveDrive42.3

Sources for what’s nearby

What's nearby, building by building

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

  • 3590 West 39th Avenue

    Transit
    Nearest bus loop: Dunbar Loop, at Dunbar St and W 41st Ave, terminus of route 7, TransLink. Route 7 Nanaimo Station / Dunbar, via Dunbar St and W 4th Ave, TransLink. Route 25 Brentwood Station / UBC, via King Edward Ave and Dunbar St, TransLink.
    Parks and recreation
    Memorial West Park, 4701 Dunbar St: City of Vancouver park. Dunbar Community Centre, 4747 Dunbar St.
    Schools
    Lord Kitchener Elementary, K–7, 3455 W King Edward Ave, School District 39. Lord Byng Secondary, 8–12, 3939 W 16th Ave, School District 39.
    Shopping
    Stong's Market, 4221 Dunbar St.

  • Fifty-Five 55 Dunbar, 5555 Dunbar Street

    Transit
    Nearest rapid station: King Edward Station (Canada Line), reached on route 25, which runs via W King Edward Ave and Dunbar St. Nearest bus loop: Dunbar Loop, at Dunbar St and W 41st Ave, terminus of route 7. Route 7 Nanaimo Station / Dunbar, via Dunbar St, TransLink.
    Schools
    Southlands Elementary, grades K-7, 5351 Camosun St, School District 39 Vancouver; confirm the catchment with the district. Lord Kitchener Elementary, grades K-7, 3455 W King Edward Ave, School District 39 Vancouver; confirm the catchment with the district.
    Shopping
    Shoppers Drug Mart Dunbar, 4326 Dunbar St.

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)
3590 West 39th AvenueMemorial West Park, 4701 Dunbar StWalk131.0
3590 West 39th AvenueDunbar Community Centre, 4747 Dunbar StWalk141.0
3590 West 39th AvenueVancouver Public Library, Dunbar Branch, 4515 Dunbar StWalk151.1
Fifty-Five 55 DunbarDunbar Community Centre, 4747 Dunbar StWalk141.0
Fifty-Five 55 DunbarMemorial West Park, 4701 Dunbar StWalk141.0
Fifty-Five 55 DunbarSouthlands Elementary, 5351 Camosun StWalk151.1
West PointeDunbar Community Centre, 4747 Dunbar StWalk141.1
West PointeMemorial West Park, 4701 Dunbar StWalk141.1
West PointeSouthlands Elementary, 5351 Camosun StWalk151.1

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