Montecito Homes for Sale in Burnaby

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Montecito is a quiet and family-oriented community in North Burnaby, known for its well-kept homes, proximity to Confederation Park, and strong neighbourhood spirit. It offers a suburban feel with convenient access to shopping and major transit routes.

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Schools in Montecito

Montecito Elementary (2176 Duthie Ave) is an elementary school in Montecito. This is not a complete list of the schools nearby.

Where Montecito sits

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Living near a school does not mean a place at it. Your child's school comes from the district's catchment boundaries, and those change, so confirm the address with the district before you write an offer.

Source: BC Ministry of Education and Child Care school list (2025/26, updated July 2026) and the Province's post-secondary locations list.

Montecito homes listed and sold, June to October 2026

Montecito, October 2026. Detached houses: 18 listed at month end and 2 sold in October, a sales ratio of 11% (a buyers’ market). Condos and townhomes: 11 listed at month end and 2 sold in October, a sales ratio of 18% (a balanced market).

Montecito listings, sales and sales ratio by month
MonthHouses listedHouses soldHouses ratioCondos and townhomes listedCondos and townhomes soldCondos and townhomes ratio
June 202616319%11218%
July 2026210—12325%
August 202619316%12217%
September 202620210%120—
October 202618211%11218%

Source: MLS® data from the Greater Vancouver REALTORS® and the Fraser Valley Real Estate Board, compiled by SnapStats®. How these figures are defined and sourced

Looking across the period, Detached houses: 10 sold over 5 months against an average of 18.8 listed, about 9.4 months of listings at that pace; the busiest month was June with 3 sold. Condos and townhomes: 9 sold over 5 months against an average of 11.6 listed, about 6.4 months of listings at that pace; the busiest month was July with 3 sold.

Jared's take on Montecito

Montecito appeals to families who want Montecito or Sperling elementary and the Burnaby Lake sports and park system, and to SFU-connected buyers who want to live below the mountain.

Common questions

Is there a vacant-lot subdivision I can buy into in Montecito?

None that I know of. Montecito is an established neighbourhood — land trades as built house lots, one strata apartment building, one strata townhouse complex and rental product.

What can a Montecito house lot actually become?

Under the R1 SSMUH district, 3 units on a lot up to 280 m², 4 units on a larger lot, and 6 units only on a lot of at least 281 m² within 400 m of a frequent-transit stop — and a lot with two or more primary units may be stratified. Measure the lot and run the 400 m test before pricing any multiplex value.

Can I subdivide a large lot here, and what servicing will the City require?

Subdivision runs under the Burnaby Subdivision Control and Development Servicing Bylaw (the 1971 bylaw as renamed by Amendment Bylaw No. 14667, in force September 30, 2024): new parcels must conform to the Zoning Bylaw, and the bylaw's works-and-services list covers highways, water, sewer and drainage connections; developments of four or more primary units also face the City's servicing-improvements regime, including cash-in-lieu items. Get the Engineering pre-application answer for the specific lot first.

Is there any bare-land strata in Montecito?

The area's strata townhouse complex, Villa Montecito, is a conventional strata (plan NWS90) — you buy a strata townhouse with a Form B, not a bare-land lot. If a bare-land strata lot were offered here, it would still be strata tenure in full: fees, bylaws and Form B diligence.

Is a Montecito lot serviced?

The City's utility wording puts established homes on annual water and sewer billing (detached water charge $652.33 for 2026, sewer as a parcel tax for single-family homes) — confirm the specific parcel's connections and any servicing upgrade the Subdivision Control and Development Servicing Bylaw will require for your project.

Where is Montecito?

In northeast Burnaby, south-west of Burnaby Mountain, between Kensington Avenue and the Greystone side, above Lougheed Highway and Burnaby Lake. The City also calls the area "Sperling-Broadway" for planning purposes, and it is a GVR MLS® sub-area within the City of Burnaby (SnapStats, September 2026)

Which schools serve a Montecito address?

It depends on the address. Montecito Elementary (K–7), 2176 Duthie Ave, is the in-area SD41 school and École Sperling Elementary (K–7) sits at the area's south-west side; catchments are address-based and must be checked in the SD41 locator.

What is there to do at Burnaby Lake?

Burnaby Lake Regional Park is a wildlife sanctuary with walking trails, viewing towers and docks, a Nature House, and a rowing course with a pavilion and public canoe launch at the Burnaby Lake Sports Complex; the sports complex itself has 5 lit artificial turf fields.

What Buyers & Sellers Say

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Lots and land in Montecito

Fee-simple lots

  • Established-street house lots: A fee-simple lot carries no strata, no Form B and no strata fees.
  • The only sourced size figures are the R1 SSMUH thresholds themselves: 280 m² and 281 m².
  • ALR vs non-ALR: no ALR parcel in Montecito is confirmed; ALR status is a property-specific check through the Agricultural Land Commission, and no ALR percentage split is stated.
  • Flood position: the Burnaby Lake park frontage on Sperling Avenue is low and wet by the lake.

Development

  • The new Burnaby Lake Recreation Complex: is under construction beside Bill Copeland Sports Centre at Kensington Avenue, with City programs at Bill Copeland continuing during construction.
  • No rezoning proposal, assembly or development site in Montecito is known: on a City source.

Streets, schools and getting around Montecito

  • Montecito is in northeast Burnaby, south-west of Burnaby Mountain, above Lougheed Highway and Burnaby Lake; for City administrative and planning purposes it is also known as "Sperling-Broadway." "Montecito" is the GVR board sub-area name as used in the SnapStats GVR report for Burnaby. The neighbourhood sits between Kensington Avenue to the west and the Greystone / Arden side to the east, with Halifax Street to the north and Lougheed Highway to the south.
  • Nearby areas: Lochdale and Parkcrest to the west, Sperling-Duthie and Burnaby Lake to the south across Lougheed Highway, Westridge and the Burnaby Mountain / SFU side to the north-east, Government Road to the south-east.
  • Main roads: Lougheed Highway at the south edge; Kensington Avenue, Sperling Avenue, Duthie Avenue and Halifax Street run through the neighbourhood, and Burnaby Mountain Parkway climbs from the east side to SFU. Transit anchor: Sperling–Burnaby Lake Station, an elevated Millennium Line station at Sperling Avenue and Lougheed Highway directly south of the sub-area, with bus routes 110, 134 and 144 connecting there — the 144 runs between Metrotown Station and SFU.
  • Civic anchors: Bill Copeland Sports Centre, 3676 Kensington Avenue (NHL-sized rink, 1,984 seats); Burnaby Lake Sports Complex, accessed from Kensington and Sperling Avenues (5 lit artificial turf fields plus grass fields); Burnaby Lake Regional Park wraps the lake immediately south of Lougheed Highway. The library branch serving this quadrant is the Temporary Cameron Branch at The City of Lougheed Shopping Centre, 9855 Austin Ave. Nearest hospital: Burnaby Hospital, 3935 Kincaid St.
  • Schools: SD41 (Burnaby) has no middle-school tier — elementary K–7, secondary 8–12 — and catchments are address-based. Every other address needs its own locator run.
  • Shopping: there is no enclosed mall or town centre inside the sub-area; Burnaby's plan framework designates Brentwood (west) and Lougheed (east) as town centres, with Kensington Square at Hastings and Kensington as the local plaza.

Local rules that affect land buyers in Montecito

  • Subdivision + servicing — confirmed instrument (fresh check, Nov 2, 2026): Burnaby's servicing bylaw is the Burnaby Subdivision Control and Development Servicing Bylaw — the former Burnaby Subdivision Control Bylaw 1971 as renamed and amended by Amendment Bylaw No. 14667 (2024), in force September 30, 2024. Its s. 4A requires parcels created by subdivision to conform to the Zoning Bylaw for the zone, and s. 5A lists the works and services a subdivision can be required to provide (highways and lanes, water, sewage and drainage systems connected to the City's systems). The City's Servicing Improvements Guide applies the updated bylaw to developments of four or more primary dwelling units on a residential lot, including cash-in-lieu contributions to curbs, sidewalks, lanes, boulevards, street trees, streetlights and road widening. Confirm the parcel-level requirement with the City's Engineering Department before pricing a split.
  • If a parcel is in the ALR: 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.

Good to know about Montecito

  • The City does not call this area Montecito (2026 documents): for Burnaby administrative and planning purposes the same area is "Sperling-Broadway" — a buyer reading City plans, the 2050 OCP maps or facility pages under "Montecito" alone will miss material filed under the planning name.
  • Burnaby replaced its entire zoning bylaw and renamed its servicing bylaw within two years: the Zoning Bylaw 2026 (No. 14815) took effect July 1, 2026 and repealed the 1965 bylaw, and the Subdivision Control Bylaw was renamed the Subdivision Control and Development Servicing Bylaw effective September 30, 2024 — any older guide citing the 1965 zoning bylaw, or quoting pre-2024 servicing rules for a 4+ unit project, is out of date.
  • The new OCP outranks the old plans (adopted December 9, 2025): the Burnaby 2050 OCP takes precedence over older community-plan land use maps where they conflict, so a density assumption carried from an older community plan for a Montecito lot is not safe until it is re-checked against the 2050 map.
  • Half the Halifax "condo pocket" cannot be bought: the strata Ambassador (1987) stands beside Montecito Towers (7360 / 7376 Halifax, built 1972, 136 units), which is purpose-built rental only — the pocket a land buyer might read as an assembly target is one strata corporation plus a rental complex, not lots.
  • The sports fields were closed most of 2026 and are back: Burnaby Lake Sports Complex Fields 1 and 2 were closed for turf upgrades scheduled May to September 2026 and were listed OPEN again in the City's October 29, 2026 field-status update, while the new Burnaby Lake Recreation Complex is under construction beside Bill Copeland — the amenity story on the area's south-west edge is mid-build, not finished.

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

Sources for the land notes on Montecito

What's nearby Montecito

Times are from OpenStreetMap routing, November 2026.

Transit

  • Nearest rapid-transit station: Sperling–Burnaby Lake Station (SkyTrain Millennium Line), south of the area —
  • Nearest bus exchange point: the bus bays at Sperling–Burnaby Lake Station; there is no separate bus exchange in Montecito —
  • 110 Lougheed Station / Metrotown Station — TransLink bus running via Sperling Station —
  • 134 Brentwood Station / Lake City Station — TransLink bus running via Sperling Station —
  • 144 SFU Exchange / Metrotown Station — TransLink bus running via Duthie Avenue through the area and via Sperling Station —

Parks and recreation

  • Montecito Park, 2040 Augusta Avenue — named on the City of Burnaby's own parks list —
  • Squint Lake Park, 1541 Greystone Drive, and Halifax Park, 6925 Halifax Street — named on the City of Burnaby's own parks list —
  • Bill Copeland Sports Centre, 3676 Kensington Avenue —
  • Burnaby Lake Regional Park, at the area's south side — Metro Vancouver regional park —

Schools

  • Montecito Elementary (K–7, School District 41, Burnaby), 2176 Duthie Avenue — from the Ministry school list —
  • Burnaby North Secondary (grades 8–12, School District 41), 751 Hammarskjold Drive — from the Ministry school list —

Groceries and shopping

  • Shoppers Drug Mart (pharmacy), Kensington Square, 6508 East Hastings Street —

Measured walking and driving times

Measured on November 2, 2026 with OpenStreetMap routing (OSRM for driving, routed-foot for walking), from Montecito Elementary School, 2176 Duthie Avenue
ToHowMinutesDistance (km)
Montecito Park, Augusta AvenueDrive31.6
Sperling–Burnaby Lake StationDrive41.8
Bill Copeland Sports CentreDrive52.9

Sources for what’s nearby

What's nearby, building by building

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

  • The Ambassador, 7321 Halifax Street

    Transit
    Nearest rapid-transit station: Sperling–Burnaby Lake Station, SkyTrain Millennium Line. Route 144 SFU / Metrotown Station, TransLink, runs via Duthie Ave at Halifax St. Route 136, TransLink, runs via Halifax St, per the TransLink Burnaby system map.
    Parks and recreation
    Halifax Park, 6925 Halifax Street, on the City of Burnaby parks list. Montecito Park, 2040 Augusta Avenue, on the City of Burnaby parks list.
    Schools
    Montecito Elementary, K-7, 2176 Duthie Avenue, SD41 Burnaby, Ministry-listed.

Villa Montecito, 7307 Montecito Drive

  • Transit: Route 144 SFU / Metrotown Station, TransLink, runs via Duthie Ave through the area and via Sperling Station. Routes 110 and 134, TransLink, serve Sperling–Burnaby Lake Station.

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)
The AmbassadorHalifax ParkWalk120.9
The AmbassadorMontecito ElementaryDrive20.8
The AmbassadorSperling–Burnaby Lake StationDrive42.4
Villa MontecitoMontecito ElementaryWalk30.2
Villa MontecitoHalifax ParkWalk141.2
Villa MontecitoSperling–Burnaby Lake StationDrive41.8

Sources for what’s nearby each building

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