New Westminster Condos for Sale

Secondary schools in New Westminster

7 secondary schools are located in the City of New Westminster: 7 in SD40 New Westminster. It is not a catchment list: which school serves a home is set by address, so check the exact address with the school district.

• Home Learners Program (elementary and secondary), 521 Fader St
• New Westminster Continuing Education (secondary), 820 6th St
• New Westminster Secondary (secondary), 820 6th St
• Power Alternate Secondary School (secondary), 200-1065 Columbia St
• Queensborough Middle School (elementary and secondary), 833 Salter St
• Royal City Alternate Program (secondary), 200 - 1065 Columbia Street
• Sigma (secondary), 820 Sixth Street

Jared's take on New Westminster

New Westminster is mostly attached homes, with some detached pockets. Uptown and Downtown condo buyers get some of the region’s lower attached prices, Queensborough families accept the river crossing, and Sapperton buyers tend to be tied to the hospital and the station.

New Westminster neighbourhood guides

• Brunette real estate guide

New Westminster Condos: the housing stock

• Downtown holds the city's tower stock around its two stations, because EDGAR states transit-oriented developments in New Westminster are primarily clustered around New Westminster Station and Columbia Station in the downtown core, with Plaza 88 built around New Westminster Station as the named example. Tower condos elsewhere in the city are the exception to that downtown pattern.
• Sapperton's stock is a single master-planned district's buildings, because Wesgroup states the Brewery District is a completed community of residential highrises, shops and office buildings on the former brewery site, and that The Keary is the final ownership opportunity in that district. A Sapperton condo search is therefore largely a search within one developer's district on Keary Street.
• Queensborough's multi-family stock is governed by named development permit areas, because the City lists Queensborough residential Development Permit Areas including Ewen Avenue Multi-Family, Compact Lot, East Queensborough, Port Royal and Queensborough Eastern Node. The form of a Queensborough condo or multi-family building is set by which of those permit areas the parcel falls in.

New Westminster Condos: local details a buyer would not know

• Plaza 88 is built around New Westminster Station itself, because EDGAR describes it as the Plaza 88 mixed-use complex built around New Westminster Station in the downtown core. A downtown condo's station access can therefore be internal to its own complex, which is a different condition from the walk-to-station access in Sapperton or Uptown.
• The Keary's name is a Sapperton street history, because Wesgroup states Royal Engineer James Keary and his family arrived in New Westminster, his son William later became Mayor of New Westminster, and Keary Street and The Keary continue to honour the family name. The building at 230 Keary Street is named for the street's own family, not a marketing invention.
• A riverfront connection is proposed between the city's two river parks, because the City states it proposes completing the Brunette-Fraser Regional Greenway with a floating greenway between Westminster Pier Park and Sapperton Landing Park, passing under the New Westminster Rail Bridge and the new Pattullo Bridge. Quay and Sapperton condos sit at the two ends of that proposed link.
• Queensborough condo parcels can carry a flood permit layer the downtown towers do not, because the City lists a Flood Hazard Development Permit Area among Queensborough's Development Permit Areas, and states single detached dwellings on lots of 371.6 square metres or more are exempt from the other Queensborough guidelines but not from the Flood Hazard guidelines.
• The 22nd Street station area is under a City-led planning hold, because the City states that while the reGENERATE Vision planning work continues, expected through 2025 and into mid-2027, most development applications around the SkyTrain station and Transit Village will be considered premature. West End and 22nd Street area condo proposals therefore face a stated pause that downtown proposals do not.
• School District No. 40 (New Westminster) has exactly one secondary school for the whole city, New Westminster Secondary School at 820 6th Street, so a condo buyer's secondary catchment does not change between Downtown, the Quay, Sapperton, Uptown and Queensborough. Elementary and middle catchments do change, with Fraser River Middle School at 800 Queens Avenue and Queensborough Middle School at 833 Salter Street serving different parts of the city.

New Westminster Condos: costs and taxes

• New condo projects carry the Amenity Cost Charge, because the City states Amenity Cost Charge Bylaw No. 8540, 2025, adopted December 1, 2025, requires development applications to assist in funding new amenities such as community centres, libraries and child care. The City directs readers to its Financing Growth webpage for current rates, which are the rates a presale buyer should check against the developer's disclosure.
• Development Cost Charges were widened in 2026, because the City states Development Cost Charge Bylaw Amendment Bylaw No. 8539, 2025, adopted January 12, 2026, updated the charges to include additional categories for fire protection and police facilities permitted by provincial legislation, and that updated rates are in effect. A project approved before that date and a project approved after it do not carry the same charge categories.
• Inclusionary housing is a stated cost of added density, because the City states its Inclusionary Housing Policy, updated September 8, 2025, sets the expectation that applicable multiple unit residential or mixed-use applications seeking increases in development entitlements will contribute towards below market housing units. That contribution is part of a new condo project's economics in New Westminster, separate from the two charge bylaws above.

New Westminster Condos: risks and due diligence

• Do not price a site on provincial TOD heights alone, because the City's speculation disclaimer states the transit oriented development area tiers and maps do not create development rights, that development rights are determined by the Zoning Bylaw, and that the City cautions against speculation based on anticipating Council's decisions. A rezoning is the step that changes a condo site's rights.
• A redevelopment assembly with sitting rental units carries both policies.
• For Queensborough purchases, read the Development Permit Area for the parcel, because the City lists six categories of Queensborough Development Permit Areas, including the Flood Hazard area, and states that where a parcel falls within more than one area, one Development Permit may be issued if the guidelines for each area are addressed. A Queensborough condo's flood and form rules are parcel-specific.

New Westminster penthouses

• Penthouses for Sale in New Westminster