SW Marine, Vancouver Real Estate Guide
Updated · By Jared Gibbons, REALTOR®
Quick facts · S.W. Marine
- Typical sale price
- Houses $2.75MTownhomes $1.85MCondos $730,000Duplexes $1.91M
- Sold, Nov 2025 to Oct 2026
- 20 condos, 10 duplexes, 9 houses, 5 townhomes
Median prices from closed MLS® sales (Paragon).
On this page (11 sections)
- Where S.W. Marine sits
- Drive time to S.W. Marine
- SW Marine real estate: your questions answered
- Condo buildings in S.W. Marine
- Townhome complexes in S.W. Marine
- Lots and land in S.W. Marine
- More SW Marine real estate
- Duplexes and half duplexes in S.W. Marine
- What's nearby S.W. Marine
- What's nearby, building by building
- Vancouver neighbourhoods
S.W. Marine is the Greater Vancouver board's sub-area name ("S.W. Marine") for the southwest corner of the City of Vancouver along Southwest Marine Drive and the north arm of the Fraser River, taking in the Southlands area and the streets between roughly Granville Street and the Musqueam lands/Camosun Street side. Nearby areas are Kerrisdale, Marpole, Dunbar-Southlands and Oakridge, with Musqueam Indian Reserve 2 adjoining to the west/southwest.
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This guide covers SW Marine's condo buildings, townhome complexes and land: what each source verifies, the local rules, and what buyers ask.
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SW Marine real estate: your questions answered
Are there any condos to buy in S.W. Marine?
Inside Southlands itself there is no condo stock at all.
Why is there no condo or townhouse stock to downsize into in Southlands?
Zoning: the RA-1 district (in place since 1955) permits single detached houses and only limited infill single detached houses, so there is effectively no strata, rental-apartment or townhouse supply inside Southlands itself; the sub-area's attached stock is confined to the conventional streets at its Kerrisdale and Marpole edges.
Are The Granary flats or District Flats an S.W. Marine option?
Two different districts share the Southlands name; a Vancouver S.W. Marine search that surfaces them has crossed a municipal boundary.
Can I rent out a Gulf View Court unit?
Long-term, yes as a matter of provincial law — strata rental-restriction bylaws have been void since November 24, 2022, whatever the listing data's rental-restriction field says. Short-term rentals can still be restricted by bylaw, and Vancouver's own short-term rental rules apply. Read the registered bylaws on the Form B package.
Are pets allowed at Gulf View Court?
A current listing records pets "Cats OK" for the building — pet bylaws remain enforceable in BC, so the registered bylaws on the Form B are the final word for any other pet position.
What about the homes at Yewbrook Place that look like townhouses?
A bare-land strata purchase diligences like a house purchase plus strata documents, not like a townhouse purchase.
Can a Southlands lot be redeveloped as townhouses or a multiplex?
Not under its own district: RA-1 permits one-family dwellings (with only limited infill in specific circumstances), and R1-1 multiplex permissions do not apply to RA-1 lots without a zoning confirmation. The large lots are protected by policy, not just by ownership.
Can I buy a duplex or half duplex in S.W. Marine?
Inside Southlands the RA-1 one-dwelling framework prevents the form.
Can I split a big Southlands lot into two halves?
Do not price it that way: RA-1 permits one dwelling per lot with only limited infill in specific circumstances, the lot may sit inside the ALR boundary (applied over the area in 1973), and any subdivision runs under By-law No. 5208 — zoning and ALR confirmation for the parcel comes first.
Can I keep horses here?
Southlands is the one part of Vancouver planned for it — the RA-1 district was created in 1955 to maintain the area's "semi-rural, equestrian and limited agricultural nature" — but permitted use is property-specific and the ALR may govern the parcel; confirm both before relying on equestrian use.
Is flooding a real diligence item on the riverfront streets?
Yes, and it is regulated, not informal: FCL and setback requirements apply in the designated floodplain, the Standards carry a dedicated RA-1 section, and registered flood covenants may sit on title. Check the lot against the City's floodplain dataset before subject removal.
What Buyers & Sellers Say
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Condo buildings in S.W. Marine
Gulf View Court — 8772 SW Marine Drive
A low-rise freehold strata apartment building at the sub-area's eastern edge, just west of Granville Street across from the Arbutus Greenway corridor, managed by Crossroads Management per a strata directory record. MLS building data for a current listing records: building type Apartment/Condo, ownership Freehold Strata, 24 units in development, and a strata plan reference (VAS1735) in the directory record. Published restrictions: a current listing records pets "Cats OK"; the same listing data carries a rental-restriction field — any rental-restriction bylaw is void since November 24, 2022 in any case. Marine).
Streets, schools and transit near S.W. Marine condos
- S.W. Marine is the Greater Vancouver board's sub-area name ("S.W. Marine") for the southwest corner of the City of Vancouver along Southwest Marine Drive and the north arm of the Fraser River, taking in the Southlands area and the streets between roughly Granville Street and the Musqueam lands/Camosun Street side. Nearby areas are Kerrisdale, Marpole, Dunbar-Southlands and Oakridge, with Musqueam Indian Reserve 2 adjoining to the west/southwest.
- Marine sub-area row to cite, and none is substituted.
- Zoning frame: Southlands is governed by the RA-1 (Limited Agriculture) District, created in 1955 specifically for Southlands, whose intent is "to maintain and encourage the semi-rural, equestrian and limited agricultural nature of this District," permitting one-family dwellings and, in specific circumstances, infill one-family dwellings; the provincial Agricultural Land Reserve designation was implemented over the area in 1973, and the City's Southlands Plan (1988) remains the area plan, now read within the Vancouver Official Development Plan, which replaced the Vancouver Plan on March 31, 2026. Elsewhere in the sub-area, standard detached lots fall under the R1-1 district (By-law No. 13817) — RA-1 lots are governed by their own district schedule, not R1-1.
- Schools (Ministry-listed names, SD39): Southlands Elementary (5351 Camosun Street), an International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme school and the designated catchment school for students from the Musqueam Nation.
- Flood setting: the City's Flood Plain Standards and Requirements apply flood construction levels and setbacks to lands in the designated floodplain, which includes the Fraser River coastal floodplain, and the Standards contain a dedicated section (Section 6.0) for the RA-1 District; the City publishes the designated floodplain as an open dataset. Designation for an individual lot must be confirmed against that dataset.
- Transit is bus-based: TransLink's 49 (Metrotown Station–UBC), a Frequent Transit Network route, runs along West 49th Avenue and, west of Dunbar Street, along Southwest Marine Drive itself, with stops on SW Marine Drive (e.g., at Blenheim and Balaclava Streets) before continuing to UBC; the nearest Canada Line station is Marine Drive Station in Marpole, east of the sub-area.
- Recreation anchors: McCleery Golf Course (7188 Macdonald Street), a City of Vancouver Park Board golf course at the area's southwest edge, and Deering Island Park (3530 Deering Island Place), a semi-natural Park Board park on the Fraser River; the Fraser River trail/dyke paths complete the local trail network. Shopping is outside the sub-area: there is no retail strip within S.W. Marine itself; the closest established shopping streets are Kerrisdale Village (West 41st Avenue) to the north and Marpole (Granville Street) to the east.
- Where the condo stock concentrates: at the sub-area's eastern edge only — the Granville Street / SW Marine Drive corner, where the corridor's low-rise strata buildings stand on the conventional streets at the Kerrisdale/Marpole edge. Inside Southlands itself there is effectively no strata, rental-apartment or townhouse supply, because RA-1 permits one dwelling per lot with only limited infill exceptions.
Local rules that affect condo buyers in S.W. Marine
- ALR overlay: the provincial Agricultural Land Reserve designation was implemented over Southlands in 1973; whether an individual lot sits inside the ALR boundary must be confirmed parcel by parcel, and ALR parcels carry the ALC's residence rules on top of RA-1.
- Vancouver Empty Homes Tax: 3%: The City's Empty Homes Tax charges 3% of assessed value on homes declared or deemed empty; for the 2026 cycle the annual declaration was due February 3, 2026 and payment April 16, 2026. Vancouver's 2026 advance property taxes were due February 3, 2026 and main taxes July 3, 2026, with a 5% penalty on unpaid balances.
Good to know about S.W. Marine condos
- Two districts named Southlands, two municipalities, one search box. Every "Southlands condo" result has to be municipally placed before it is compared.
- The semi-rural character is locked in by bylaw, not by neighbours. Southlands' RA-1 district has held since 1955 and its area plan since 1988 — "protected character" is a documented policy fact here, which is also why no downsizer product will be built inside Southlands under the current framework.
- The one care home in the area is inside a 1932 heritage mansion. Casa Mia — built for brewer George Conrad Reifel, "A"-listed on the Vancouver Heritage Register — was rezoned CD-1 in the 2014 process specifically to become a Community Care Facility for seniors with heritage designation attached; the care home and the protected mansion are the same property.
- Casa Mia's bed count depends on which source you read. Vancouver Coastal Health's current listing says 64 subsidized beds; published total-bed figures run 87, 90 and 95 across a 2016 announcement, a 2017 advisory-committee letter and a Family Practice listing.
- Three tenures sit within a few blocks of each other. City of Vancouver freehold (RA-1/R1-1) and Musqueam reserve leasehold at the area's edge finance, insure and resell differently — and Southlands Elementary, inside the city, is the catchment school for Musqueam students, so the two communities are interleaved even though the land jurisdiction is not.
- "SW Marine Drive" in a headline does not mean S.W. Marine.
- A withdrawn rezoning shows which way proposals go here. The 2090 SW Marine Dr application (heritage retention plus two infill buildings with 25 secured market rental units, R1-1 to CD-1) was withdrawn in September 2025 — rental infill at the sub-area's edge is proposed project-by-project, not permitted as of right.
The province-wide rules are on one page: BC condo buying rules.
Sources for the condo notes on S.W. Marine
- City of Vancouver Policy Plan Southlands (opens in a new tab)
- City of Vancouver bylaws Official document (opens in a new tab)
- Vancouver School Board List of Vsb Schools by City Neighbourhoods (opens in a new tab)
- Vancouver School Board 2026 Southlands Slp.817ed592572 (opens in a new tab)
- City of Vancouver Guidelines Flood Plain Standards Requirements (opens in a new tab)
- City of Vancouver Open Data Official page (opens in a new tab)
- TransLink Route 049 timetable (opens in a new tab)
- City of Vancouver Mccleery Golf Course (opens in a new tab)
- City of Vancouver Parkdetail (opens in a new tab)
- shapeyourcity.ca 2090 Sw Marine Dr (opens in a new tab)
- Government of Canada Bcitt1070 2425 080 (opens in a new tab)
- tcgcare.com Casa Mia (opens in a new tab)
- Province of BC Form B Information Certificate (opens in a new tab)
Townhome complexes in S.W. Marine
Streets, schools and transit near S.W. Marine townhomes
- S.W. Marine is the GVR board's sub-area name ("S.W. Marine") for the southwest corner of the City of Vancouver along Southwest Marine Drive and the north arm of the Fraser River, taking in the Southlands area and the streets between roughly Granville Street and the Musqueam lands/Camosun Street side. Nearby areas: Kerrisdale, Marpole, Dunbar-Southlands and Oakridge, with Musqueam Indian Reserve 2 adjoining to the west/southwest. Alternate names: "Southwest Marine Drive," "Southlands," "South Vancouver waterfront," "the Celtic Shipyard / Deering Island area" (for the riverfront pocket).
- The sub-area's attached stock is confined to the conventional streets at its Kerrisdale and Marpole edges.
- Schools (SD39 Vancouver, Ministry-listed names): Southlands Elementary (5351 Camosun Street), a VSB International Baccalaureate (IB) Primary Years Programme school, is the public elementary school in this corner of the city and is the designated catchment school for students from the Musqueam Nation. Secondary catchments are served by Magee Secondary and Point Grey Secondary depending on the address.
- Flood, transit and anchors: the City's Flood Plain Standards and Requirements (adopted September 16, 2014, effective January 1, 2015, amended March 7, 2023) apply flood construction levels and setbacks to lands in the designated floodplain — which includes the Fraser River coastal floodplain — and carry a dedicated section (Section 6.0) for the RA-1 District; the City publishes the designated floodplain as an open dataset. Transit is bus-based: the 49 (Metrotown Station–UBC), a Frequent Transit Network route, runs along West 49th Avenue and, west of Dunbar Street, along Southwest Marine Drive itself; the nearest Canada Line station is Marine Drive Station in Marpole, east of the sub-area. McCleery Golf Course (7188 Macdonald Street) and Deering Island Park (3530 Deering Island Place), a semi-natural Park Board park on the Fraser, are the recreation anchors. There is no retail strip within S.W. Marine itself; the closest shopping streets are Kerrisdale Village and Marpole.
Local rules that affect townhome buyers in S.W. Marine
- Form B diligence (any strata, including Gulf View Court): Strata Property Act s. 59 — the Form B states the lot's monthly strata fees, amounts owing, approved special levies still payable, the CRF balance and an insurance summary, with the rules, current budget, any Rental Disclosure Statement and the most recent depreciation report attached; provided within 7 days, maximum $35 plus up to 25 cents per page.
- RA-1 and the Southlands Plan (the rules that produce the zero): the RA-1 (Limited Agriculture) District, created in 1955 for Southlands, permits one-family dwellings and, in specific circumstances, infill one-family dwellings — which is why there is effectively no townhouse supply inside Southlands itself. The ALR designation has applied over the area since 1973 (confirm the specific parcel's ALR status with the ALC), and the Southlands Plan (1988) remains the area plan, now read within the Vancouver Official Development Plan (which replaced the Vancouver Plan on March 31, 2026). Elsewhere in the sub-area, standard detached lots fall under the R1-1 multiplex rules (By-law No. 13817 amending the Zoning and Development By-law No. 3575: up to 6 strata units or 8 secured rental units) — but RA-1 lots are governed by their own district schedule, not R1-1, and must be checked individually. R1-1 permissions do not apply to a Southlands lot without a zoning confirmation.
Good to know about S.W. Marine townhomes
- The townhouse zero here is written into a 1955 zoning district. Southlands' RA-1 district has held its one-dwelling framework since 1955 and its area plan since 1988 — "protected character" in S.W. Marine is a documented fact, not a sales adjective, and it is why no townhouse complex exists to count.
- Importing them into this Vancouver sub-area is the easiest filing error on this corridor — the shared name is the trap.
- The one counted building cannot agree on its own birth year. The strata plan and depreciation report, not listing copy, settle a 1980s building's age questions.
- The flood rules have a Southlands chapter. The City's Flood Plain Standards carry a dedicated Section 6.0 for the RA-1 District — a riverfront buyer here is not under generic flood rules but under rules written for this district's lots.
- The elementary school serves two communities at once. Southlands Elementary, inside the city, is the designated catchment school for students from the Musqueam Nation — the interleaving of the two communities is built into the school's own learning plan.
- The corridor's one development application went backwards. The 2090 SW Marine Drive proposal (heritage retention plus 25 secured rental units) was withdrawn in September 2025 — on this corridor, even a modest infill application is not a pipeline a buyer should price in.
- There are no SnapStats numbers for Vancouver. The SnapStats GVR September 2026 report contains no City of Vancouver section at all — any inventory, sales-ratio or median figure quoted for S.W.
The province-wide rules are on one page: BC townhome buying rules.
Sources for the townhome notes on S.W. Marine
Lots and land in S.W. Marine
Fee-simple lots
- Southlands RA-1 lots — estate lots, policy-protected: the most estate-like housing in Vancouver's southwest — large detached homes on oversized lots in Southlands (some over an acre), many with stables, barns or nursery-greenhouse structures. The lot pattern is protected by policy, not just by ownership: the RA-1 (Limited Agriculture) District — created in 1955 specifically for Southlands, intended "to maintain and encourage the semi-rural, equestrian and limited agricultural nature of this District" — permits one-family dwellings and, in specific circumstances, infill one-family dwellings, which keeps parcel sizes large and density near zero compared with the rest of the city.
- Conventional streets at the Kerrisdale/Marpole edges: more conventional detached homes on the streets climbing toward Kerrisdale, where the sub-area's limited attached and rental stock is also confined. Tenure is predominantly freehold within the City of Vancouver.
- Deering Island — waterfront enclave lots: a small enclave of waterfront homes on a man-made island at the foot of the area on the Fraser River.
- ALR vs non-ALR — the defining split, per-parcel: the provincial Agricultural Land Reserve designation was implemented over the Southlands area in 1973, and the City's Southlands Plan (1988) remains the area plan, now read within the Vancouver Official Development Plan (which replaced the Vancouver Plan on March 31, 2026). Whether an individual lot sits inside the ALR boundary must still be confirmed parcel by parcel — no ALR percentage split is stated.
- Musqueam reserve lands — not City land, not inventory: Musqueam Indian Reserve 2 adjoins the area along the Fraser; lands within the reserve are federal/First Nation jurisdiction, not City of Vancouver, and homes there are leasehold. Documented here as a jurisdiction boundary only, never as land stock.
Built strata, not land
- It is a built strata building, not land. Check the strata plan and Form B before you rely on it.
Bare-land strata
- No bare-land strata plan in S.W. Marine is known: — inside Southlands itself there is effectively no strata supply at all, because RA-1 permits one dwelling per lot with only limited infill exceptions. The BC strata block that would apply if one were found: depreciation reports on a 5-year cycle for strata corporations with 5 or more lots since July 1, 2024; a minimum 10% contingency reserve fund contribution since November 1, 2023; rental-restriction bylaws void since November 24, 2022; only 55+ age bylaws valid (Strata Property Act ss. 123.1/123.2, with May 1, 2023 exemptions).
- No presale project at all is named for this sub-area.
Streets, schools and transit near S.W. Marine lots
- S.W. Marine is the Greater Vancouver REALTORS® (GVR) board sub-area name ("S.W. Marine") for the southwest corner of the City of Vancouver along Southwest Marine Drive and the north arm of the Fraser River, taking in the Southlands area and the streets between roughly Granville Street and the Musqueam lands/Camosun Street side.
- Nearby areas: Kerrisdale, Marpole, Dunbar-Southlands and Oakridge, with the Musqueam First Nation reserve lands (Musqueam Indian Reserve 2) adjoining to the west/southwest.
- Transit is bus-based: TransLink's 49 (Metrotown Station–UBC) is a Frequent Transit Network route running along West 49th Avenue and, west of Dunbar Street, along Southwest Marine Drive itself, with stops on SW Marine Drive (e.g. at Blenheim and Balaclava Streets) before continuing to UBC; the nearest Canada Line station is Marine Drive Station in Marpole, east of the sub-area.
- Shopping is outside the sub-area: there is no retail strip within S.W. Marine itself; the closest established shopping streets are Kerrisdale Village (West 41st Avenue) to the north and Marpole (Granville Street) to the east.
Local rules that affect land buyers in S.W. Marine
- Zoning — RA-1 (Southlands) vs R1-1 (elsewhere), never blended: Southlands lots are governed by the RA-1 (Limited Agriculture) District schedule (1955; one-family dwellings, limited infill in specific circumstances), read with the Southlands Plan (1988) within the Vancouver Official Development Plan. Elsewhere in the sub-area, for standard detached-house lots, Vancouver's multiplex rules apply: By-law No. 13817 replaced the RS districts with the R1-1 district, allowing up to 6 strata units (or 8 secured rental units) — but RA-1 lots are not R1-1 lots, and By-law 13817's permissions do not apply to a Southlands lot without a zoning confirmation.
- Subdivision + servicing — Vancouver Subdivision By-law 5208 (fees 14538): Parcel-level standards are confirmed with the City.
- ALR rules — live on this area: the ALR designation has applied over the Southlands area since 1973 (per-parcel boundary check with the ALC required). Where 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). For farm class, BC Assessment looks for farm income of $10,000 a year on under 0.8 ha, $2,500 on 0.8 to 4 ha, and $2,500 plus 5% of the value of land over 4 ha; applications are due by October 31.
- Flood — Flood Plain Standards and Requirements, with a dedicated RA-1 section: the City's Flood Plain Standards and Requirements (adopted September 16, 2014, effective January 1, 2015, amended March 7, 2023) subject lands in the designated floodplain — which includes the Fraser River coastal floodplain — to flood construction level (FCL) and setback requirements under the Vancouver Building By-law, and the Standards contain a dedicated section (Section 6.0) for the RA-1 District. The City publishes the designated floodplain as an open dataset covering the coastal and Still Creek floodplains; confirm the individual lot against that dataset and look for registered flood covenants on title before subject removal.
- Jurisdiction trap — three tenures within a few blocks: City of Vancouver freehold (RA-1/R1-1), UEL ground to the west, and Musqueam reserve leasehold sit within a few blocks of each other and finance, insure and resell differently — confirm jurisdiction on any listing near the Musqueam boundary and state the tenure in the first line of any listing copy.
- Empty Homes Tax — 3%, Vancouver only, and it applies here (City ground): the City's Empty Homes Tax charges 3% of assessed value on homes declared or deemed empty, with the annual declaration due February 3, 2026 and payment due April 16, 2026. This is City of Vancouver ground, so the tax is in frame for S.W.
- Vancouver property taxes (citywide): 2026 advance property taxes were due February 3, 2026 and main taxes July 3, 2026, with a 5% penalty on unpaid balances.
Good to know about S.W. Marine lots
- A zoning district from 1955 is what keeps these lots big: RA-1 was created in 1955 specifically for Southlands and the Southlands Plan has held since 1988 — "protected character" here is a documented policy fact, not a sales adjective, and it also caps what a buyer can do with the lot.
- The flood rules have a Southlands-only chapter: Section 6.0 of the City's Flood Plain Standards and Requirements is dedicated to the RA-1 District — riverfront diligence here is more specific than the citywide floodplain rule, and the lot's designation is checkable on the City's open floodplain dataset.
- The elementary school inside the city is the catchment school for the Nation next door: Southlands Elementary is the designated catchment school for students from the Musqueam Nation, whose reserve lands adjoin the sub-area — the two communities are interleaved on the ground even though their land tenures are entirely different.
- Two places called Southlands, two municipalities: a buyer searching "Southlands" will also find Delta's Southlands master plan (Boundary Beach) — different city, different rules, different stock. Nothing from that area belongs in an S.W. Marine valuation.
The province-wide rules are on one page: BC land buying rules.
Sources for the land notes on S.W. Marine
Duplexes and half duplexes in S.W. Marine
What a duplex looks like in S.W. Marine
- Inside Southlands the zero is structural, not just evidentiary: The RA-1 district's stated intent is "to maintain and encourage the semi-rural, equestrian and limited agricultural nature of this District," permitting one-family dwellings and, in specific circumstances, infill one-family dwellings — a one-dwelling framework under which there is effectively no strata, rental-apartment or townhouse supply inside Southlands itself.
- The usual duplex form: Elsewhere in the sub-area — the conventional detached streets at the Kerrisdale and Marpole edges — Vancouver's multiplex rules apply (By-law No. 13817 replaced the RS districts with R1-1, allowing up to 6 strata units or 8 secured rental units), so a two-unit duplex is the baseline form class there in principle. RA-1 Southlands lots are governed by their own district schedule, not R1-1, and the R1-1 permissions must never be quoted for them.
Local rules that affect duplexes in S.W. Marine
- The City's Flood Plain Standards and Requirements (adopted September 16, 2014, effective January 1, 2015, amended March 7, 2023) subject lands in the designated floodplain — which includes the Fraser River coastal floodplain — to flood construction level (FCL) and setback requirements under the Vancouver Building By-law, and the Standards contain a dedicated section (Section 6.0) for the RA-1 District. The City publishes the designated floodplain as an open dataset covering the coastal and Still Creek floodplains; confirm the specific lot against that dataset and look for registered flood covenants on title before subject removal.
The province-wide rules are on one page: BC duplex and half-duplex buying rules.
Sources for the duplex notes on S.W. Marine
What's nearby S.W. Marine
Times are from OpenStreetMap routing, November 2026.
Transit
- Nearest rapid-transit station: Marine Drive Station (Canada Line), east of the area; TransLink stop schedules name route 10's destination as Marine Dr Station.
- Bus route 49, Metrotown Station–UBC, TransLink, via Langara Station, SW Marine and Dunbar; the timetable routing runs on SW Marine Drive through the area.
Parks and recreation
- McCleery Golf Course, 7188 Macdonald St; City of Vancouver page.
- Deering Island Park, 3530 Deering Island Pl; Vancouver Park Finder.
Schools
- Southlands Elementary, K-7, SD39; confirm the catchment with the district.
- Point Grey Secondary, 8-12, SD39; confirm the catchment with the district.
- Magee Secondary, 8-12, SD39; confirm the catchment with the district.
Sources for what’s nearby
What's nearby, building by building
Times are from OpenStreetMap routing from each building’s address, November 2026.
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Gulf View Court, 8772 SW Marine Drive
- Transit
- Nearest rapid-transit station: Marine Drive Station (Canada Line), east of the area; TransLink stop schedules name route 10's destination as Marine Dr Station (carried from phase 1). Bus route 49, Metrotown Station–UBC (TransLink), via Langara Station, SW Marine and Dunbar; the timetable routing runs on SW Marine Drive through the area.
- Parks and recreation
- McCleery Golf Course, 7188 Macdonald St; City of Vancouver page. Deering Island Park, 3530 Deering Island Pl; Vancouver Park Finder.
- Schools
- Southlands Elementary, K-7, SD39; confirm the catchment with the district. Point Grey Secondary, 8-12, SD39; confirm the catchment with the district. Magee Secondary, 8-12, SD39; confirm the catchment with the district.
- Shopping
- Safeway Marpole, 8475 Granville St.
Measured walking and driving times from each building
| Building | To | How | Minutes | Distance (km) |
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| Gulf View Court | Safeway Marpole, 8475 Granville St | Walk | 5 | 0.4 |
| Gulf View Court | Marine Drive Station | Drive | 5 | 2.6 |
| Gulf View Court | McCleery Golf Course | Drive | 8 | 4.1 |
Sources for what’s nearby each building
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