Metrotown, Burnaby Houses for Sale

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Metrotown Houses: the housing stock

• The Maywood stock a house buyer actually sees is mostly older low-rise rental and strata buildings on residential-district lots, not detached houses on large lots. At 6450, 6486, 6488 and 6508 Telford Avenue, the City lists a three-storey, 33-unit strata apartment at 6450 Telford (Multiple Family Residential District RM3), a two-storey, eight-unit rental apartment at 6486 Telford (Residential District R5), a three-storey, five-unit strata apartment at 6488 Telford (RM3), and a vacant R5 lot at 6508 Telford.
• The Willingdon Avenue stock is 1960s walk-up rental: the City states the site at 6622 and 6688 Willingdon Avenue is improved with two three-storey rental apartment buildings with a total of 72 units, constructed in the 1960s. The report places that site in the Maywood neighbourhood area of the Metrotown Downtown Plan.
• Sussex Avenue carries the same era of stock, because the City states 6620 Sussex Avenue is improved with a 53-unit, two- to three-storey low-rise rental apartment building constructed in 1965, on five legal lots under a single civic address. Its prevailing zoning at the time of the report was RM3 Multiple Family Residential District.
• Silver Avenue's current buildings are also low-rise rental, because the City's 2026 report for 6470 and 6508 Silver Avenue states the two lots are improved with low-rise residential rental buildings containing 83 rental units. Those 83 units are the existing stock on a site designated High-Rise Apartment 1 in the Official Community Plan (OCP).

Metrotown Houses: local details a buyer would not know

• Metropolis at Metrotown is listed by the City as a Metrotown anchor, alongside the Hilton Vancouver Metrotown, Holiday Inn Express Metrotown, Element by Westin and head or corporate offices including Interfor, TELUS and Sun Life Financial. The downtown's office and hotel stock sits in the same town centre as the Maywood housing streets.
• Metrotown has Burnaby's first pedestrian scramble crossing, at the intersection of Central Boulevard and the Metrotown underground parkade access, near Metrotown SkyTrain station. The City states the scramble improves safety and movement through the area, which is the main walking route between the station, the mall and the Maywood streets.
• A district energy utility is planned to serve this town centre first: the City states it is creating a District Energy Utility using thermal energy from Metro Vancouver's Waste-to-Energy facility in south Burnaby, with service slated to be introduced in Metrotown and Edmonds, where almost half of Burnaby's residential growth over the next 20 years is expected.
• The City has considered moving City Hall into this town centre, because Council identified Metrotown as the preferred location for a new City Hall, as it is designated Burnaby's downtown in the 2017 Metrotown Downtown Plan and a regional city centre under Metro Vancouver's Regional Growth Strategy.
• Maywood Park is a plan landmark, not just a local park: the City's Silver Avenue report locates the 6470 and 6508 Silver Avenue site across from Maywood Park, and the Sussex Avenue report calls Maywood the residential heart of Metrotown. Houses and walk-ups facing Maywood Park face the neighbourhood the plan is organized around.
• Growth is concentrated here by policy: the City's town centre table projects Metrotown growing from 25,800 people in 2011 to 66,800 in 2041, and from 13,300 dwelling units in 2021 to 31,800 in 2041, the largest of the four town centres. Those figures are the City's OCP projections, stated as general directions and targets.

Metrotown Houses: costs and taxes

• Metrotown's area-specific cost layer is redevelopment policy, because a Maywood rezoning is measured against the Rental Use Zoning Policy (2020) and the Tenant Assistance Policy (2020), both cited in City reports for Telford Avenue and Willingdon Avenue. Rental replacement and tenant assistance obligations are therefore a priced-in part of assembling a low-rise site here, not an afterthought.
• That agreement is a registered cost and tenure item a buyer of that site inherits.

Metrotown Houses: risks and due diligence

• Check the OCP designation before the community plan, because the City states the Burnaby 2050 OCP, adopted December 9, 2025, takes precedent over individual community plan land use maps where they do not align. A Metrotown Downtown Plan (2017) density figure for a Maywood lot is not the final word after that adoption.
• On a consolidated Maywood site, verify the designation proportions lot by lot, because the City's Sussex Avenue report states densities on consolidated sites with multiple residential designations are calculated from the relative proportions of each designation in the site. An assembly priced on the tallest designation alone is mispriced under the plan's own rule.
• For any tenanted walk-up on Telford, Sussex, Silver or Willingdon, read the Rental Use Zoning Policy and Tenant Assistance Policy before valuing redevelopment, because City reports for these streets list both as adopted policies the proposal must align with. The existing rental counts are documented in the same reports — 72 units at 6622 and 6688 Willingdon Avenue and 83 units at 6470 and 6508 Silver Avenue.