Mount Pleasant Real Estate Guide, Vancouver

Updated · By Jared Gibbons, REALTOR®

Quick facts · Mount Pleasant VE sub-area

Typical sale price
Houses $1.83MTownhomes $1.30MCondos $698,500Duplexes $1.74M
Sold, Nov 2025 to Oct 2026
236 condos, 40 townhomes, 23 duplexes, 11 houses

Median prices from closed MLS® sales (Paragon).

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Mount Pleasant VE is the eastern half of the City of Vancouver's Mount Pleasant local area, east of Main Street: roughly Main Street to the Clark Drive/Nanaimo side, between East 2nd Avenue/Great Northern Way and East 16th Avenue/Kingsway. "VE" is the GVR board's Vancouver East suffix; the part west of Main is Mount Pleasant VW.

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Mount Pleasant real estate: your questions answered

How many named apartment-condo buildings does Mount Pleasant VE have?

The sub-area also carries extensive rental walk-up stock that is not condo stock.

Is there any 55+ condo I can buy in Mount Pleasant VE?

A 55+ buyer here is buying a regular condo with no age bylaw.

Can I rent out a Mount Pleasant VE condo long-term?

Yes — strata rental-restriction bylaws have been void since November 24, 2022 anywhere in BC. Short-term rentals are a different layer: the provincial principal-residence rule and any strata short-term bylaw still apply.

What does the Empty Homes Tax mean for a vacant unit here?

Budget 3% of assessed taxable value per year, on top of ordinary property tax, with an annual declaration due each February — it applies to investor-held vacant stock in this sub-area.

When does the SkyTrain actually reach Mount Pleasant?

On the Province's schedule, fall 2027: Mount Pleasant Station is at Main Street and Broadway, and Broadway's four lanes at the station block reopened in July 2026.

Are the Main & Sixth townhomes a townhouse complex I can buy into separately?

No — they are 3 townhouse-form units inside a 6-storey apartment-condo presale (73 condos + 3 townhomes, Jim Pattison Developments, completion expected 2027).

A listing calls a Mount Pleasant home a "townhouse" but the form says half duplex — which is it?

The form governs. This sub-area's listing feed is full of strata half-duplexes and converted character houses wearing townhouse language; a half-duplex is a duplex (2-unit strata), with the sub-5-lot consequences that follow — including sitting UNDER the 5-lot depreciation-report threshold. Read the strata plan and lot count, not the headline.

Can I buy a unit in the Lee Building like a condo?

Do not treat a Lee Building address as condo or duplex stock without a title check.

Can I build a multiplex on a Mount Pleasant house lot?

Generally yes: By-law No. 13817 rezoned Vancouver's RS districts to R1-1, allowing up to 6 strata units or 8 secured rental units per lot subject to the district schedule; Broadway Plan designations may allow more on corridor sites through rezoning. Check heritage register status first.

Does the Empty Homes Tax apply to a vacant Mount Pleasant half duplex?

Yes — the City of Vancouver's EHT is 3% of assessed value on homes declared or deemed vacant (declaration due February 3, 2026; payment due April 16, 2026). Vancouver only.

When does the Mount Pleasant Station open?

The Province states the Broadway Subway is on schedule to open in fall 2027, and all four Broadway lanes between Main and Quebec Streets reopened by July 2026 — price the opening as a dated event, not a rumour.

What Buyers & Sellers Say

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Condo buildings in Mount Pleasant VE

The Independent at Main — 285 East 10th Avenue

A strata apartment-condo tower in Mount Pleasant VE per the building directory and current listings, which record the form as Apartment/Condo in Mount Pleasant VE. Year built conflicts: the building directory states built in 2017, while current listings record 2019. Current listings record cats OK.

Cartier Place — 3131 Main Street

Current listings record this address under the complex name Cartier Place, in Mount Pleasant VE, Apartment/Condo form, built 1991, with cats OK recorded.

Main & Sixth (M6) — 2218 Main Street at East 6th Avenue

A presale condominium project in Mount Pleasant by Jim Pattison Developments: presale sources record a 6-storey mixed-use building of 73 condominiums and 3 townhomes, with completion expected in 2027. The 3 townhomes are townhouse form and are not apartment condos; the 73 condominiums are the counted presale entry. Every sale here is a developer contract carrying GST and the REDMA frame in.

Streets, schools and transit near Mount Pleasant VE condos

  • Mount Pleasant VE is the eastern half of the City of Vancouver's Mount Pleasant local area, east of Main Street: roughly Main Street to the Clark Drive/Nanaimo side, between East 2nd Avenue/Great Northern Way and East 16th Avenue/Kingsway. "VE" is the GVR board's Vancouver East suffix; the part west of Main is Mount Pleasant VW.
  • Where condo stock concentrates: the Main Street / East 6th–East 10th Avenue shelf south of Broadway and the Kingsway corridor — newer low-rise and mid-rise strata condos and purpose-built rentals near Main and Kingsway, over a base of older walk-up rental apartments along Kingsway, Broadway and the arterials.
  • Planning frame: Mount Pleasant is one of the three neighbourhoods inside the Broadway Plan, approved June 22, 2022 as a 30-year framework (Clark Drive to Vine Street, 1st to 16th Avenues), with buildings up to 20–30 storeys planned near the future Mount Pleasant Station at Main Street and Broadway.
  • Transit: the Broadway Subway's Mount Pleasant Station is at Main Street and Broadway; the Province states the line "is on schedule to open in fall 2027," and all four Broadway lanes between Main and Quebec Streets reopened by July 2026.
  • Schools and catchments: SD39 catchments are address-based.
  • Civic anchor: the Mount Pleasant Community Centre and the Vancouver Public Library's Mount Pleasant Branch are at 1 Kingsway, where Kingsway meets Main Street.
  • Flood: exposure is concentrated at the north edge — the Great Northern Way lowland is former False Creek shoreline inside the City's designated floodplain, so parcels there are subject to the Building By-law's flood construction levels; the residential grid south of 2nd Avenue sits on the Mount Pleasant slope. Confirm per parcel.

Local rules that affect condo buyers in Mount Pleasant VE

  • Vancouver Empty Homes Tax = 3%: the City charges 3% of assessed taxable value on homes declared or deemed empty, with the annual declaration due February 3, 2026 and payment due April 16, 2026 — a live holding cost for any vacant Mount Pleasant VE unit. City 2026 advance taxes were due February 3, 2026 and main taxes July 3, 2026, with a 5% penalty on unpaid balances.
  • Short-term rentals: BC's Short-Term Rental Accommodations Act principal-residence requirement has applied in Vancouver since May 1, 2024 (stays under 90 consecutive days limited to the host's principal residence plus one secondary suite or accessory unit on the same property, with provincial registration), and a strata may still limit or ban short-term rentals by bylaw — separate from the void long-term rental restrictions above.

Good to know about Mount Pleasant VE condos

  • Terraces on 7th is Fairview stock and OPAL by Element at 438 W King Edward Ave is South Cambie stock — both surface constantly in "Mount Pleasant condo" searches and neither is counted in this sub-area.
  • The Broadway Plan's renter protections were written for this area's exact stock. The Kingsway walk-up rental buildings are the buildings the plan's tenant relocation requirements apply to, which changes redevelopment economics for those sites compared with strata or house sites.
  • The seniors housing on East 6th Avenue changed buildings, not just names. The 36-unit Mount Pleasant Lions Manor (325 E 6th Ave) was replaced by the 82-unit Aster next door at 349 E 6th Ave, with tenants carrying income-based rents across — any directory still showing Lions Manor as standalone current housing is out of date, and neither building is buyable.
  • Citywide land-use direction changed in 2026. The Vancouver Official Development Plan replaced the Vancouver Plan on March 31, 2026 — area-plan references in older Mount Pleasant material now sit under the ODP framework, under the Broadway Plan's corridor rules.
  • Guelph Park's official name is not the name anyone uses. The City's ParkFinder lists Guelph Park, 2390 Brunswick Street — the park universally known by its adopted "Dude Chilling Park" sign — in the heritage streets pocket east of Main.

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

Sources for the condo notes on Mount Pleasant VE

Townhome complexes in Mount Pleasant VE

9 On The Park — 2337 Brunswick Street, V5T 3L8. Strata (freehold strata)

A boutique townhouse complex facing Guelph Park ("Dude Chilling Park"), two blocks from Main Street. The listing copy describes a 9-unit community of 2-level townhomes with rooftop decks facing the park.

Streets, schools and transit near Mount Pleasant VE townhomes

  • Where the townhouse stock concentrates: thinly, and mostly in disguised forms. This is a mixed, densifying inner-city neighbourhood — heritage and character detached houses on the side streets (early-1900s to mid-century, much of it converted or suited), older walk-up rental apartments along Kingsway, Broadway and the arterials, and a growing stock of newer low-rise and mid-rise strata condos and purpose-built rentals near Main Street and Kingsway.
  • The Broadway Plan frame: Mount Pleasant is one of the three neighbourhoods inside the Broadway Plan, approved by Council June 22, 2022 — a 30-year framework (Clark Drive to Vine Street, 1st to 16th Avenues) integrating housing, jobs and amenities with the Broadway Subway, with buildings up to 20–30 storeys planned in the Mount Pleasant station area and over $1 billion of public benefits committed across Mount Pleasant, Fairview and Kitsilano in the first 10 years (including $96 million for parks and renewal/expansion of the Mount Pleasant Neighbourhood House). Council approved updates to the Plan on December 12, 2024. Citywide land-use direction now comes from the Vancouver Official Development Plan, which replaced the Vancouver Plan on March 31, 2026.
  • The subway date: the Province states the 5.7 km Broadway Subway (Millennium Line extension, six underground stations including Mount Pleasant Station at Main Street and Broadway) "is on schedule to open in fall 2027," and that road restoration above Mount Pleasant Station ran ahead of schedule, with all four Broadway lanes between Main and Quebec Streets reopening by July 2026.
  • Schools: public schools in and serving the area include Mount Pleasant Elementary, Florence Nightingale Elementary and Queen Alexandra Elementary, with Vancouver Technical Secondary as the area's public secondary school (SD39). Vancouver Technical Secondary, 2600 East Broadway, offers French Immersion, Advanced Placement, Summit and Flex Humanities programs.
  • Flood edge: flood exposure concentrates at the north edge — the Great Northern Way lowland is former False Creek shoreline inside the City's designated floodplain, so parcels there are subject to the Building By-law's Floodplain Standards and Requirements, including flood construction levels; the residential grid south of 2nd Avenue sits on the Mount Pleasant slope outside that pattern — confirm per parcel.

Local rules that affect townhome buyers in Mount Pleasant VE

  • City property taxes (2026): 2026 advance property taxes were due February 3, 2026 and main taxes July 3, 2026, with a 5% penalty on unpaid balances (City of Vancouver deadlines page).

Good to know about Mount Pleasant VE townhomes

  • The park has two names and both are official enough to matter. Guelph Park (2390 Brunswick Street) is the City's ParkFinder name; the "Dude Chilling Park" sign is the adopted name the whole city uses — and it is the park the area's one townhouse complex is named for: 9 On The Park faces it. A buyer searching either name is looking at the same front yard.
  • The board splits the neighbourhood at Main Street; the City does not. "Mount Pleasant VE" and "Mount Pleasant VW" are GVR sub-areas; the City's Mount Pleasant is one local area.
  • The community centre is also a library and a rental building. 1 Kingsway stacks the Mount Pleasant Community Centre, the VPL Mount Pleasant Branch and rental housing in one LEED Gold civic building at the Kingsway/Main corner — the sub-area's civic anchor is a mixed-use building, not a standalone hall.
  • The north edge used to be shoreline. The Great Northern Way lowland at the sub-area's foot is former False Creek shoreline inside the City's designated floodplain, with flood construction levels under the Building By-law — while the townhouse streets a few blocks south sit on the slope outside that pattern.
  • A university campus anchors the industrial edge. Emily Carr University's purpose-built Great Northern Way campus (520 East 1st Avenue, opened 2017) sits in the Mount Pleasant Industrial Area the Broadway Plan keeps for employment — the Flats' creative/tech jobs base is inside this sub-area's boundary, and it is part of the rental demand under the Main Street corridor.
  • The townhouse count turns on one word: "inside." Main & Sixth's 3 townhomes, Tesoro's 4 water-view townhouses and Navio's townhome units are all real townhouse floor plans — inside apartment stratas.

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

Sources for the townhome notes on Mount Pleasant VE

Lots and land in Mount Pleasant VE

What trades here

  • Fee-simple lots: the side-street stock is fee-simple detached character houses on their own lots — no strata corporation, no Form B, no strata fees; City zoning, heritage register status and any registered covenants govern.
  • The Mount Pleasant Industrial Area (Great Northern Way/Flats) is planned for intensified employment use rather than wholesale conversion to housing.
  • Older rental buildings as land: the Kingsway walk-up rental buildings are the area's affordability backbone and its most contested stock — purpose-built rental, not strata and not lot stock — and they are exactly the buildings the Broadway Plan's renter protections and tenant relocation requirements were written for, which makes their redevelopment economics different from strata or house sites. Documented so a land reader does not mistake a walk-up address for a clean development lot.
  • Built stock, all of it — never land.
  • Tenure record only — never strata, never land stock: The Lee Building (151–189 East Broadway at Main Street; a listing address in the same range is 175 E Broadway) — the seven-storey landmark the City's Mount Pleasant Historic Context Statement calls the area's signature heritage building, on the City of Vancouver Heritage Register.

Streets, schools and transit near Mount Pleasant VE lots

  • Land shape: a mixed, densifying inner-city neighbourhood with heritage and character detached houses on the side streets, older walk-up rental apartments along Kingsway, Broadway and the arterials, and a growing stock of newer low-rise and mid-rise strata condos and purpose-built rentals near Main Street and Kingsway. Tenure is a genuine mix of freehold houses and strata/rental apartments.
  • Schools (SD39, Ministry-listed names): public schools in and serving the area include Mount Pleasant Elementary, Florence Nightingale Elementary and Queen Alexandra Elementary, with Vancouver Technical Secondary as the area's public secondary school. This sub-area is split between several elementary catchments.
  • Civic anchor and parks: the Mount Pleasant Community Centre and the Vancouver Public Library's Mount Pleasant Branch are at 1 Kingsway (roughly 30,000 sq ft centre opened December 2009, LEED Gold building with rental housing). Guelph Park, 2390 Brunswick Street — universally known by its adopted "Dude Chilling Park" sign — and Robson Park, 599 Kingsway at East 15th Avenue, are in the City's ParkFinder. Emily Carr University's Great Northern Way campus (520 East 1st Avenue, opened 2017) anchors the north edge.
  • Flood edge: exposure concentrates at the north edge — the Great Northern Way lowland is former False Creek shoreline inside the City's designated floodplain, so parcels there are subject to the Building By-law's Floodplain Standards and Requirements, including flood construction levels; the residential grid south of 2nd Avenue sits on the Mount Pleasant slope. Confirm per parcel.

Local rules that affect land buyers in Mount Pleasant VE

  • City frame: Vancouver's Zoning and Development By-law No. 3575 governs, as amended by site-specific CD-1 bylaws along the corridors; the Broadway Plan (approved June 22, 2022; updated December 12, 2024) is the area plan — policy, not zoning, with most higher-density forms still requiring rezoning; citywide direction now comes from the Vancouver Official Development Plan (replaced the Vancouver Plan March 31, 2026).
  • Multiplex on a house lot (the SSMUH-equivalent Vancouver frame, as the City states it): By-law No. 13817 replaced the RS districts with the R1-1 district, allowing up to 6 strata units (or 8 secured rental units) on former single-family lots, subject to the district schedule. Check heritage register status before planning to demolish a character house.
  • Subdivision and servicing: City of Vancouver Subdivision By-law 5208 governs subdivision of land in Vancouver, with fees under By-law 14538. Parcel-level subdivision approval, servicing and floodplain-standard compliance are confirmed with the City for the specific application.
  • Floodplain standards: parcels in the City's designated floodplain (the Great Northern Way / False Creek lowland at this sub-area's north edge) are subject to the Building By-law's Floodplain Standards and Requirements, including flood construction levels — a per-parcel check, never assumed from the street.
  • Renter protections on redevelopment land: for older rental buildings, the Broadway Plan's renter protections and tenant relocation requirements must be factored in before underwriting a redevelopment purchase — they change the economics of a Kingsway/Broadway walk-up site compared with a strata or house site.

Good to know about Mount Pleasant VE lots

  • Citywide land-use direction changed in 2026 (Mar 31, 2026). The Vancouver Official Development Plan replaced the Vancouver Plan on March 31, 2026 — area-plan references in older Mount Pleasant material now sit under the ODP framework, under the Broadway Plan's corridor rules.
  • The park has two names and both matter (Nov 1, 2026). Guelph Park (2390 Brunswick Street) is the City's ParkFinder name; the "Dude Chilling Park" sign is the adopted name the whole city uses — and it is the park the area's one counted townhouse complex is named for: 9 On The Park faces it.
  • The north edge used to be shoreline (Nov 1, 2026). The Great Northern Way lowland at the sub-area's foot is former False Creek shoreline inside the City's designated floodplain, with flood construction levels under the Building By-law — while the house streets a few blocks south sit on the slope outside that pattern.
  • A Kingsway address can be a different sub-area (Nov 2, 2026).
  • The community centre is also a library and a rental building (Dec 2009). 1 Kingsway stacks the Mount Pleasant Community Centre, the VPL Mount Pleasant Branch and rental housing in one LEED Gold civic building at the Kingsway/Main corner.

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

Sources for the land notes on Mount Pleasant VE

More Mount Pleasant real estate

Duplexes and half duplexes in Mount Pleasant VE

Local rules that affect duplexes in Mount Pleasant VE

  • Flood note for the north edge: Flood exposure concentrates at the sub-area's north edge: The Great Northern Way lowland is former False Creek shoreline inside the City's designated floodplain, so parcels there are subject to the Building By-law's Floodplain Standards and Requirements, including flood construction levels; the residential grid south of 2nd Avenue sits on the Mount Pleasant slope — confirm per parcel.

The province-wide rules are on one page: BC duplex and half-duplex buying rules.

Sources for the duplex notes on Mount Pleasant VE

What's nearby Mount Pleasant VE

Times are from OpenStreetMap routing, November 2026.

Transit

  • Nearest rapid transit by name: VCC–Clark Station, Millennium Line, East 6th Ave at Keith Dr.
  • Commercial–Broadway Station: Expo and Millennium lines transfer station.
  • Route 3 Main / To Waterfront Station, TransLink, at Main St @ E 2nd Ave.
  • Route 19 Kingsway / To Stanley Park and To Metrotown Station, TransLink, at Main St @ E 2nd Ave.
  • Route 9 Broadway / To Boundary Loop, TransLink, at E Broadway @ Renfrew St.
  • Route 99 Broadway B-Line / To Boundary Loop, TransLink, at E Broadway @ Renfrew St.

Parks and recreation

  • Guelph Park, 2390 Brunswick St: City ParkFinder park.
  • Robson Park, 599 Kingsway: City ParkFinder park.
  • Mount Pleasant Community Centre, 1 Kingsway.
  • Vancouver Public Library, Mount Pleasant Branch, 1 Kingsway.

Schools

  • Mount Pleasant Elementary, K-7, SD39 (Vancouver); confirm the catchment with the district.
  • Florence Nightingale Elementary, K-7, SD39; confirm the catchment with the district.
  • Queen Alexandra Elementary, K-7, SD39; confirm the catchment with the district.
  • St. Francis Xavier, K-7, SD39 list, independent.

Groceries and shopping

  • Kingsgate Mall, 370 E Broadway: shopping centre.
  • Save-On-Foods Kingsgate, 370 E Broadway #200: supermarket (retailer's media release).
  • Shoppers Drug Mart The Hub Broadway & Commercial, 1755 East Broadway: pharmacy.

Measured walking and driving times

Measured on November 2, 2026 with OpenStreetMap routing (OSRM for driving, routed-foot for walking), from Mount Pleasant Community Centre, 1 Kingsway
ToHowMinutesDistance (km)
Kingsgate Mall, 370 E BroadwayWalk60.4
Florence Nightingale Elementary, 2740 Guelph StWalk100.8
VCC–Clark StationDrive51.9

Sources for what’s nearby

What's nearby, building by building

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

  • 9 On The Park, 2337 Brunswick Street

    Transit
    Nearest rapid-transit station: VCC–Clark Station, Millennium Line, Keith Drive north of East 6th Avenue. Stop 50177, Northbound Main St @ E 6th Ave, TransLink: route 3 Main / To Waterfront Station. Stop 50177, Northbound Main St @ E 6th Ave, TransLink: route 8 Fraser / To Waterfront Station.
    Parks and recreation
    Guelph Park, 2390 Brunswick St, Vancouver. Mount Pleasant Community Centre, 1 Kingsway, Vancouver.
    Schools
    Mount Pleasant Elementary, K-7, SD39, 2300 Guelph St, Vancouver; confirm the catchment with the district. Florence Nightingale Elementary, K-7, SD39, 2740 Guelph St, Vancouver; confirm the catchment with the district.
    Shopping
    Kingsgate Mall, 370 E Broadway, Vancouver. Save-On-Foods Kingsgate, 370 E Broadway #200, Vancouver.

Main & Sixth, 2218 Main Street

  • Schools: St. Francis Xavier, K-7, SD39 list, independent, 428 Great Northern Way, Vancouver; confirm the catchment with the district.

The District, 250 East 6th Avenue

  • Transit: Route 84, TransLink: VCC-Clark Station to UBC Exchange. Stop 50177, Northbound Main St @ E 6th Ave, TransLink: route 3 Main / To Waterfront Station and route 8 Fraser / To Waterfront 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)
Main & SixthMount Pleasant Community Centre, 1 KingswayWalk10.1
Main & SixthGuelph ParkWalk40.3
Main & SixthMount Pleasant ElementaryWalk70.6
The DistrictMount Pleasant Community Centre, 1 KingswayWalk20.2
The DistrictGuelph ParkWalk50.3
The DistrictKingsgate Mall, 370 E BroadwayWalk80.6

Sources for what’s nearby each building

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