University VW 55+ Homes for Sale

In University VW, UBC / University Endowment Lands, the 55+ homes you can buy are Tapestry at Wesbrook Village (strata). The other seniors housing here, which you cannot buy into, is rental and retirement residence or care. This page names each building, says what type it is and what the sources show, and covers local rules and the questions buyers ask.

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55+ strata buildings you can buy in University VW

Tapestry at Wesbrook Village — condominium homes, 3382 Wesbrook Mall (Wesbrook Village)

The one age-restricted strata ownership option in the area. Developer Concert Properties describes the completed (2010) project as two six-storey midrises linked by an above-ground walkway, a "campus lifestyle seniors living community with 134 rental apartments, 46 condominium homes and street level retail." The condominium homes are the ownership piece; the rental apartments are covered under the retirement-residence entry below.

Rental, care and subsidized seniors housing in University VW (not for sale)

  • No stand-alone 55+ rental building separate from the retirement residence below is known: The rental homes at the one seniors site (134 rental apartments at build-out, per the developer) are part of the Tapestry / Chartwell Wesbrook Village retirement residence and are listed there, not here, to avoid counting the same building twice.
  • Seasons Wesbrook Village (formerly Tapestry at Wesbrook Village) — 3338 Wesbrook Mall: Rental retirement residence: independent living, with assisted living options and flexible wellness services that can be added later, per the operator. BC's Assisted Living Registry lists it as Seasons Wesbrook, status Registered, legal operator Seasons Retirement Communities (Wesbrook Village) GP Inc., class SN (seniors), at 3338 Wesbrook Mall. The operator lists studio, one-bedroom, one-bedroom-plus-den and two-bedroom suites, a rooftop patio, pub, woodworking shop and creative arts centre, fitness centre and salon/spa, and states all Seasons communities are pet-friendly. Rental only — the suites in this residence are not the condominium homes above.
  • Operator name: Chartwell currently publishes a full page for "Chartwell Wesbrook Village Retirement Residence" at the same address (3338 Wesbrook Mall), describing the same independent + assisted living offer and the same amenities. That differs from the Assisted Living Registry, which names Seasons as the legal operator, and from the sale record below, which names Seasons/Fengate as the buyer. Sources differ on the operator name; confirm before relying on either.

Streets, schools and getting around University VW

  • Two jurisdictions share this one MLS sub-area: (1) the UEL, between the City of Vancouver and UBC on the Point Grey Peninsula — the only part of BC where the provincial government provides local services directly to an urban area, with no municipal council — and (2) UBC's own residential neighbourhoods on campus lands. Day-to-day UEL services are delivered by the UEL Administration, guided by the UEL Official Community Plan and the Land Use, Building and Community Administration Bylaw.
  • The UEL Administration's own realtor information sheet stresses the same point: the UEL is not part of the City of Vancouver or UBC and is governed by different bylaws. The UEL comprises four areas (A, B, C and D) and has a population of nearly 4,000; Areas A, B and C are mostly single-family residential (about 1,300 people), and Area D is the commercial centre — Village Marketplace and leləm̓ — with shops, services and the UEL's multi-family residential units (about 2,700 people).
  • UBC's residential neighbourhoods, served by the University Neighbourhoods Association (UNA), are Chancellor Place, East Campus, Hampton Place, Hawthorn Place and Wesbrook Place (Wesbrook Village), home to roughly 15,000 residents in total; the UNA also lists a newer Central District.
  • Wesbrook Village / Wesbrook Place is the village centre south of West 16th Avenue, on Wesbrook Mall and Birney Avenue / Webber Lane — and it is where this area's only seniors housing of any kind sits. The village is anchored by a Save-On-Foods supermarket at 5945 Berton Avenue, with cafés, restaurants and services around it.
  • Chancellor Boulevard runs through the UEL's older freehold streets and Chancellor Place; Hampton Place (UBC's first campus neighbourhood, 1990s) sits around Hampton Place / Wesbrook Mall south of the main campus core; Hawthorn Place sits between East Mall and West Mall, south of Thunderbird Boulevard.
  • Pacific Spirit Regional Park wraps around the campus and the UEL: roughly 860–874 hectares of forest with over 55 km of trails (34 km multi-use), operated by Metro Vancouver, including the Wreck Beach foreshore.
  • Public schools are provided by the Vancouver School Board (SD39), not a separate local district: University Hill Elementary (5395 Chancellor Boulevard), University Hill Secondary (3228 Ross Drive, in Wesbrook's orbit) and Norma Rose Point School (5488 Ortona Road, serving Wesbrook Place).
  • Transit is bus-based: the UBC Exchange is one of TransLink's busiest bus hubs, and the R4 41st Ave RapidBus runs from UBC Exchange to Joyce–Collingwood Station via Oakridge–41st Avenue. There is no SkyTrain station in the UEL or on campus.
  • Where 55+ housing actually concentrates: it does not concentrate — there is exactly one seniors site in the whole sub-area, on Wesbrook Mall in Wesbrook Village.

Local rules and plans in University VW

  • Tenure rule that dominates this area — UBC homes are leasehold, not freehold: UBC Properties Trust's own history explains why: the provincial land grant limited campus land to institutional use and "[s]elling land outright for market housing was not an option," so UBC developed homes on a leasehold model, starting with Hampton Place as its first campus neighbourhood. UBC Campus and Community Planning confirms the structure: residential and commercial properties on the endowment lands are never sold outright, but leased as prepaid 99-year leases, with net revenue funding UBC's endowment. Remaining term therefore runs from each project's original lease date, and lenders price and lend against that remaining term — order and read the head lease on any purchase.
  • The freehold exception is on the UEL side, not the campus side: The UEL's older residential streets (Areas A–C) are predominantly freehold lots originally granted by the Crown — the opposite tenure from the UBC neighbourhoods across Wesbrook Mall. Confirm tenure on title for every property; the postal address will not tell you which side of that line a home is on.
  • Land use on the UEL side is provincial, not City of Vancouver: The UEL is governed under the University Endowment Land Act by the Minister (Ministry of Housing and Municipal Affairs), with the UEL Official Community Plan and the Land Use, Building and Community Administration Bylaw as its land-use instruments — City of Vancouver zoning, permits and bylaws do not apply.
  • Small-scale multi-unit housing in the UEL runs through its own districts: The UEL realtor sheet states the UEL implements provincial SSMUH through the R-4/R-6 District — some properties allowed up to 4 dwelling units on one lot, others up to 6, with greater density near frequent transit; secondary suites and accessory dwelling units are permitted but must be supported by a building permit and shown on the development-permit plans.
  • Land use on the UBC side is the university's, plus the UNA: UBC Properties Trust developed the neighbourhoods under UBC's Official Community Plan (now the Land Use Plan), and the UNA delivers municipal-like services to the residential neighbourhoods under its Neighbours Agreement with UBC — community centres, parks, roads, parking and recreation — instead of a city doing it.
  • Property tax — UEL side: provincial rural-area tax, not city tax: The UEL realtor sheet states that, as an unincorporated community administered directly by the Province, UEL property taxes are levied by the Surveyor of Taxes through the Rural Property Tax Branch, bills are issued annually in June, and — a trap for Vancouver buyers — City of Vancouver water billing is not included on the property tax bill; water is billed separately.
  • UEL tax due date and penalties: because the UEL is taxed as a rural area, annual taxes are payable to the Surveyor of Taxes and due July 2 of the year first levied; a penalty of 5% of the unpaid taxes is added to any portion unpaid on July 2, and a further 5% to any portion still unpaid on October 31 (Taxation (Rural Area) Act, s. 11). Rural tax notices are mailed by May 31, and payment must be received by the due date to count as on time.
  • Property tax + levy — UBC neighbourhood side: the Neighbours Levy tops the rural tax up to a Vancouver-equivalent total: The UNA states the Neighbours Levy, a tax collected from residents, "ensures that the sum of taxes and the levy combined is equivalent to what would be paid by a property owner in the City of Vancouver for a similarly assessed property." A UBC-neighbourhood tax notice that looks low on the provincial line alone is not the whole carrying cost — confirm the levy in the strata budget / disclosure for the specific unit.
  • A 55+ page must not import City of Vancouver rules: Vancouver's zoning, secondary-suite, short-term-rental and permitting rules do not govern either the UEL (provincial bylaws) or UBC's neighbourhoods (UBC Land Use Plan and UNA neighbourhood regulations) — check the instrument for the side of the line the specific property sits on.

BC’s 55+ rules (age bylaws, who may live in a unit, exemptions and rentals) apply in every strata and are on the BC 55+ strata rules page.

Good to know about University VW

  • The "Vancouver" in the address is a postal label, not a jurisdiction — and it changes the paperwork. A home on Chancellor Boulevard can be provincially administered UEL freehold, while a condo a few streets away on Wesbrook Mall is a UBC-land leasehold in a university-governed neighbourhood, and a home east toward Blanca Street can be actual City of Vancouver. Permits, bylaws, land-use rules and tax billing differ in each; establish which jurisdiction a specific property is in before pricing, permitting or tax assumptions are made.
  • The whole seniors supply for this sub-area fits in one linked project — and supply is structurally capped at 46 owned homes. A buyer set on owning 55+ here is waiting on resale turnover in a single 46-home condominium component.
  • The residence has had three names in about two years, and the internet has not caught up. It opened as Tapestry at Wesbrook Village (Concert Properties, 2010), was sold to Seasons Retirement Communities / Fengate in the Tapestry portfolio divestiture (STOREYS, reporting the completed sales in March 2025, puts the Wesbrook sale alongside the December Arbutus Walk sale; RENX lists the Wesbrook sale in its 2025 transactions), and a Chartwell page for the same address and offer is also live today. Older directories, the Modo building directory and UBC pages still say "Tapestry." Search by address (3338 / 3382 Wesbrook Mall), not by name.
  • Even the sale sources disagree with each other — treat every Tapestry number as needing a document check. Concert's own press release is dated January 15, 2024 yet says the Wesbrook and Arbutus Walk sales happened "on December 2, 2024" — a date after its own dateline — and the sale reports' 148-unit total does not match the developer's 134 rental + 46 condominium (180) project description.
  • A rural tax rate is doing quiet work in the UBC neighbourhoods' carrying costs. UBC-neighbourhood residents pay provincial rural-area taxes plus the UNA Neighbours Levy, and the UNA states the levy is calibrated so the combined total equals City of Vancouver taxes on a similarly assessed property — so "low taxes near UBC" listings that quote only the provincial line are understating the real total. The levy funds the municipal-like services (community centres, parks, roads, recreation) that a city would otherwise provide.
  • The community centres a senior here actually uses are the UNA's, and they are young buildings. The UNA was incorporated in 2002 to perform functions "typically associated with local government" at UBC; the Old Barn Community Centre (Hawthorn Place) was built in 2007 as the first dedicated social/recreation hub, and the Wesbrook Community Centre was built in 2015 for the growing Wesbrook neighbourhood — both run 200+ recreation programs a season between them, per the UNA.
  • The campus is part of the amenity package in a way no other 55+ location in the region matches.
  • The Broadway Subway's Arbutus terminus is an interim endpoint; TransLink describes a future phase of rapid transit that could extend to UBC's Point Grey campus, with B-Line / bus service continuing between Arbutus and UBC in the meantime — no route approval, funding or date for a UBC extension is stated. Day-to-day transit from Wesbrook Village is the bus network and the R4 RapidBus.
  • The forest is the other half of the location. Pacific Spirit Regional Park's roughly 860–874 hectares and 55+ km of trails begin at the edge of Wesbrook Village — the rental operator, the developer and the UNA all lead with it — which is the practical reason this one seniors site trades on park-and-campus setting rather than on proximity to a traditional seniors-services strip.

Sources

Facts on this page come from these public sources, read on November 1, 2026. Listing-level pages are not listed.

University VW 55+ homes: your questions answered

Is there actually a 55+ home I can buy near UBC?

Yes — exactly one complex. The condominium homes inside the former Tapestry at Wesbrook Village (3382 Wesbrook Mall) are strata homes a buyer can own, in a seniors community whose MLS listing information states it is "restricted to 55+ years"; the developer counts 46 condominium homes in the project.

Is Tapestry rental or ownership? I have seen both.

Both, in one linked project — that is the unusual part. The developer built two six-storey midrises linked by an above-ground walkway holding 134 rental apartments and 46 condominium homes, completed in 2010. The rental side is now the Chartwell Wesbrook Village retirement residence (formerly Seasons Wesbrook) (3338 Wesbrook Mall); the condominium side (3382 Wesbrook Mall) is separately owned strata homes. Same complex, two tenures — confirm which side a given address/unit is on before anything else.

Who runs the rental residence now — Tapestry, Seasons or Chartwell?

The registry answer is Seasons. BC's Assisted Living Registry lists the residence as Seasons Wesbrook, legal operator Seasons Retirement Communities (Wesbrook Village) GP Inc.; the sale record says Concert sold the property to Seasons / Fengate and it is "now known as Seasons Wesbrook Village." A Chartwell page for the same address also exists online.

Do I own the land if I buy a Tapestry condominium?

No. Like the rest of UBC's neighbourhoods, it sits on UBC endowment land that is never sold outright — homes are held under prepaid 99-year leases, so you buy the leasehold strata interest and the remaining lease term matters to value and to a lender.

Can I rent out a Tapestry condominium?

Two layers say yes, with one catch. Provincially, every strata rental-restriction bylaw became invalid on Nov 24, 2022; and the MLS information for this complex records rentals as OK. The catch: the tenant still has to satisfy the 55+ age bylaw or an exemption, and a strata can still restrict short-term rentals. Confirm both in the current bylaws before buying as a landlord.

Besides strata fees, is there a second charge at Tapestry?

Expect one. The listing information for a condominium home describes a basic service package on top of ordinary ownership costs — a dining credit for the restaurant or lounge, weekly housekeeping and a 24-hour emergency communication system — because the condominiums share a serviced retirement community with the rental residence.

Who do I pay property tax to — Vancouver?

No one in this sub-area pays the City of Vancouver. On the UEL side, taxes are levied by the provincial Surveyor of Taxes (Rural Property Tax Branch), bills issue in June, are due July 2 with 5% + 5% rural penalties, and water is billed separately — it is not on the tax notice. In UBC's neighbourhoods, residents also pay a UNA Neighbours Levy set so that taxes plus levy equal what a similarly assessed City of Vancouver property would pay.

Where is the hospital, and is it a full emergency department?

The hospital is on campus: UBC Hospital, 2211 Wesbrook Mall (Vancouver Coastal Health), with an Urgent Care Centre. Note the limit a senior buyer should know before relying on it: UBC's own Campus of Care page states the UBC Hospital Emergency Department is open 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. every day — it is not a 24-hour emergency department — and the separate UBC Urgent and Primary Care Centre at 6165 Agronomy Road takes walk-ins for urgent, non-life-threatening concerns.

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What's nearby, building by building

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

  • Tapestry at Wesbrook Village, 3382 Wesbrook Mall

    Transit
    UBC Exchange is the bus exchange named by TransLink for this area; there is no SkyTrain station here. R4 41st Avenue RapidBus, TransLink: Joyce Station to UBC Exchange; RapidBus runs at least every 10 minutes peak, 15 minutes off-peak.
    Parks and recreation
    Pacific Spirit Regional Park, Metro Vancouver: more than 55 km of walking and hiking trails, with forests, beaches and Camosun Bog. Wesbrook Community Centre, 3335 Webber Lane, Vancouver.
    Schools
    University Hill Elementary, K-7, SD39 Vancouver; confirm the catchment with the district. Norma Rose Point Elementary Junior, K-7, 5488 Ortona Road, SD39 Vancouver; confirm the catchment with the district. University Hill Secondary, 8-12, SD39 Vancouver; confirm the catchment with the district.
    Shopping
    Save-On-Foods, 5945 Berton Avenue, Vancouver, in Wesbrook Village.

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