Fairview 55+ Homes for Sale

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Terraces on 7th (Terraces On Seventh) — 1570 West 7th Avenue (Fairview / South Granville)

The one age-restricted strata ownership building in Fairview — and a hybrid product: you buy a strata suite inside a building that also operates as a boutique retirement community. A current listing for a suite in the building states it outright: "Welcome to the Terraces on 7th, a much sought after retirement community with a 55 plus age restriction." The building-data source for the same address records that the strata bylaws include age restrictions (with pets allowed), that the building was built in 2003, and that it has 52 units, with elevator, in-suite laundry, storage and wheelchair access. SOURCE NOTE on the year: the listing text states "Built in 2002" while the building-data source states built in 2003.

Streets, schools and getting around Fairview

• Fairview is the City of Vancouver's official local area name, one of its 22 distinct areas, on the south shore of False Creek, running from Granville Island along False Creek to Science World and south to Shaughnessy. The Broadway Plan area covering Fairview's northern part runs between Clark Drive and Vine Street and 1st and 16th Avenues.
• Inside the local area sit False Creek South (the waterfront community on City-held leasehold land), the Fairview Slopes (under the FM-1 district), South Granville (the shopping district at the west side, with Gallery Row) and Granville Island.
• West Broadway, Granville Street, Burrard Street, Cambie Street and West 2nd Avenue serve the area, with the Granville, Burrard and Cambie Street bridges crossing False Creek at its north edge.
• Schools located in the area (VSB, SD39; catchments are address-based — check the VSB locator for any specific home): L'Ecole Bilingue Elementary, 1166 West 14th Avenue, and False Creek Elementary, 900 School Green, in False Creek South. SD39 has no middle-school tier (K–7 / 8–12).
• Health care defines this area: Vancouver General Hospital, 899 West 12th Avenue, is inside the local area on the West Broadway corridor — the hospital a Fairview senior actually uses is in the neighbourhood, not across a bridge.
• Library: Firehall Branch of Vancouver Public Library, 1455 West 10th Avenue. Parks and waterfront: Charleson Park, 999 Charleson Street, sits on the False Creek seawall in False Creek South, and the seawall runs the area's whole north edge.
• Transit: Broadway-City Hall Station (Canada Line) and Olympic Village Station (Canada Line) serve the area's east and north-east edges; the 99 B-Line runs via West Broadway from Commercial-Broadway Station to UBC and route 9 serves Broadway to Alma Street; route 50 runs via Granville Island to Olympic Village Station. The Broadway Subway — a 5.7-kilometre Millennium Line extension from VCC-Clark Station to Arbutus Street with six new stations, including South Granville and Broadway-City Hall — is on schedule to open in fall 2027, per the Province.
• Where the 55+ housing actually is: one pocket — the West 7th Avenue / South Granville blocks, where Terraces on 7th (the area's one 55+ ownership building) stands at 1570 West 7th Avenue, with Glynn Manor, a subsidized seniors building, at 520 West 7th Avenue — plus False Creek South, where Broadway Lodge long-term care sits on Lameys Mill Road and the area's older population is concentrated.

Good to know about Fairview

• False Creek South is one of the oldest-skewing pockets in the city, and Council has the numbers: the June 8, 2022 Council motion records that in False Creek South nearly one in three residents are above the age of 65 — over 2,150 seniors (65 years and over), 35.9% of the area's population, up from 30.4% in the 2016 Census and more than double the 17% for the city as a whole — and that as residents age in place there are very few opportunities to move into appropriate "rightsized" housing. That demographic pressure is the backdrop for every seniors-housing decision in Fairview.
• False Creek South's care future is being negotiated as a "Campus of Care": the same 2022 motion records that Broadway Lodge and the Residences for Independent Living Society have both provided care and housing in False Creek South for over 40 years, both lease City-owned land (leases expiring in 2036 and 2040), the Lodge's 114 beds will need substantial upgrading by 2030, and the two operators have joined together as the Broadway Group to propose a Campus of Care vision.
• Terraces on 7th's build year is stated two ways in its own public record: the sale listing says "Built in 2002," the building-data source says built in 2003, and a 2003 provincial release records independent living units announced for "The Terraces on 7th Avenue, located at 1570 West 7th" — a one-year discrepancy to settle from the strata plan and depreciation report, not from marketing.
• Heather Place is two different projects with one name: the existing Heather Place at 774 West 13th Avenue is a directory-listed seniors development, while the Heather Place redevelopment at 725–799 West 14th Avenue is a 230-home mixed project for families, seniors and people with disabilities replacing 86 aging units — citing the redevelopment's unit count as "seniors housing" overstates the seniors stock by design.
• The West 7th Avenue pocket predates the Broadway Subway by two decades and will outlast its construction: Glynn Manor (520 West 7th) and Terraces on 7th (1570 West 7th) both sit on the avenue the Broadway Plan covers and the subway will serve from fall 2027 — the area's seniors stock is concentrated on exactly the corridor now being rebuilt around it, with the South Granville station at the pocket's west end.
• On the Slopes, FM-1 — not the R1-1 multiplex rules — prices the lot: FM-1 caps floor space ratio at 0.60 and is written to retain existing houses and keep new development low-profile, so a multiplex pitch copied from a southern Fairview R1-1 street misprices a Slopes lot; the two zoning worlds sit blocks apart inside one small local area.

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