Upper Lonsdale 55+ Homes for Sale

55+ strata buildings you can buy in Upper Lonsdale

Somerset Green — 121 West 29th St (also fronting 2800 Chesterfield Ave), CITY of North Vancouver side

Freehold strata apartment complex on the south side of West 29th Street. A District of North Vancouver council report (Dec 22, 2004) describes it, from the District's side of the boundary, as "the existing 143 unit 'Somerset Green' seniors' condominium apartment development in the City of North Vancouver," with suites averaging approximately 102 m² (1,100 sq ft). Current listings (, Oct 2026) market it as a 55+ community and state the rule in occupancy terms: "Owner can be legal age, but one resident must be 55+." Amenities recorded in current listings: indoor pool, hot tub, workshop, gym/exercise room, library, games room, lounge, landscaped courtyard gardens and 2 guest suites; pets welcome / cats OK in listing data. A listing for a unit addressed as 201–2800 Chesterfield Ave describes the same Somerset Green complex, confirming the Chesterfield frontage. Build year: most current listings state 1987; one listing states 1989 — sources differ; 1987 is the majority figure.

Vista 29 — 188 West 29th St, DISTRICT of North Vancouver side

Freehold strata, plan BCS2494, built 2007, on the block between West Queens Road and West 29th Street east of Chesterfield Avenue. An MLS feature sheet for the building records: Total Units in Strata: 50, zoning CD52, title Freehold Strata. Current listings (, Oct 2026) market it as an adult-oriented (55+) building and state "One owner to be 55+." The District's Dec 22, 2004 council report on this exact site (Harbourview Projects Corporation) proposed 50 dwelling units — 42 single-level condominium units in a four-storey apartment building plus 8 three-bedroom townhouses — with a restrictive covenant "to limit occupancy to households where one member is 55 years of age or older," in Comprehensive Development Zone 52 (CD 52); the as-built 50-unit count and CD52 zoning on the feature sheet match that approval. Amenities recorded in current listings: club/amenity room, guest suite (one listing states $35 per night — listing-stated, confirm with the strata), workshop, secure underground parking, 13 on-site visitor stalls, storage locker; pet friendly.

Streets, schools and getting around Upper Lonsdale

• Nearby areas: Central Lonsdale (south, City), Delbrook (northwest, District), Braemar and Tempe (east), Lynn Valley (northeast, District).
• Schools serving the sub-area are in School District 44 for both municipalities: Westview Elementary and Larson Elementary (K–7; Larson, at 2605 Larson Road, is dual-track English and French Immersion), École André-Piolat (francophone K–12, 380 West Kings Road), and Carson Graham Secondary (2145 Jones Avenue) for most addresses. Catchments are address-based — easternmost addresses should be checked against the Argyle boundary with SD44.
• Transit: TransLink Route 230 runs the full length of Lonsdale Avenue from Lonsdale Quay to the top of Upper Lonsdale and down Rockland; the SeaBus crosses from the Quay to Waterfront Station in 12 minutes, every 15 minutes during the day and every 10 minutes at peak.
• Highway 1 (Upper Levels) interchanges at Lonsdale and Westview give east–west highway access.
• Where the 55+ housing actually concentrates: in one block only — the 100 block of West Queens Road / West 29th Street at Chesterfield Avenue, at the Queensdale node. All of the area's known 55+ and seniors stock (Somerset Green, Vista 29, Chartwell Churchill House) sits in that block, which the District's own planning record designated for seniors' housing. The rest of Upper Lonsdale is predominantly single-detached houses climbing the slope, with no other 55+ complex known.
• Elevation: the top of Lonsdale at Rockland is often quoted at about 850 feet (259 m) above sea level.

Good to know about Upper Lonsdale

• The whole 55+ cluster exists because one block was designated for it. The District's North Lonsdale–Delbrook Community Plan designated all of the 100 block of West Queens Road / West 29th Street for seniors' or empty-nester multi-family development at a maximum density of 36.3 units per acre — which is why the area's only three seniors buildings (Somerset Green just across the City line, Vista 29, and the assisted-living site that became the Churchill House block) all sit within a few hundred feet of each other at Queensdale, and why no other block in Upper Lonsdale has any.
• Vista 29 was purpose-built as 55+, not converted. The District's Dec 22, 2004 report shows the project was designed from the start for ageing in place: units built to "Level 2" adaptable design guidelines (one suite to Level 3), wheelchair movement through doorways, kitchens and bathrooms, intruder alarms with panic buttons in the suites, corridor surveillance cameras, and facilities for charging scooters — with the 55+ occupancy covenant written into the rezoning.
• Somerset Green has two addresses. The complex is listed as 121 West 29th St, but units are also addressed as 2800 Chesterfield Ave — a listing for 201–2800 Chesterfield Ave describes the same Somerset Green building. Searching only one address misses listings under the other.
• Somerset Green's build year is not consistent across sources. Most current listings state 1987; at least one current listing states 1989. Its unit count in the District's 2004 report is 143 — a figure most listing copy never mentions.
• The seniors' services anchor for the City-side blocks is brand new — and in Central Lonsdale, not here. The new Silver Harbour Seniors' Activity Centre at 2325 St Georges Ave, beside the new Harry Jerome Community Recreation Centre (main entrance 130 East 23rd St), opened July 25, 2026; the City records it as offering programs and services for adults 55+. It is a short trip down the hill from the 29th Street buildings, but it is not in Upper Lonsdale.
• The District-side recreation anchor is the other direction. The Delbrook Community Recreation Centre at 851 West Queens Road is the North Vancouver Recreation & Culture centre serving the District blocks, with a main pool and a leisure pool plus indoor racquet facilities — west along Queens Road from the 29th Street cluster.
• Slope rules, not just slope views, come with the upper blocks. The District designates Natural Hazard Development Permit Areas and publishes property-level GeoWeb hazard reports; on the steep streets above Queensdale, a geotechnical check can add cost to additions and rebuilds in a way the flat Central Lonsdale blocks never face.
• The 29th Street tax difference is small but real, and it is permanent. For 2026 the City total residential rate is 3.34028 per $1,000 (plus 0.10697 storm drainage) against the District's 3.28195 — two otherwise comparable 55+ units across West 29th Street from each other are taxed by different municipalities at different rates, on the same July 2 due date.

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