Burnaby Condo Towers: What Each Building Actually Costs

• 6608 Sussex Avenue: a two-bedroom of 843 square feet at $1,258,000, and a three-bedroom of 1,076 square feet at $1,238,000. Nearly the same price, roughly 30 percent apart per square foot.
• 6463 Silver Avenue: a three-bedroom of 1,039 square feet at $988,000, up to a three-bedroom of 1,264 square feet at $1,390,000.
• 6000 McKay Avenue: a three-bedroom of 1,132 square feet at $999,000, up to a three-bedroom of 1,121 square feet at $1,288,800 on a much higher floor.
• 5987 Wilson Avenue: a two-bedroom of 875 square feet at $979,000.

Two units in the same Metrotown building with the same bedroom count can be 30 percent apart per square foot on floor level and outlook alone. Price per square foot is the only comparison that survives that, and it is the number to carry between buildings.

Brentwood Park: the newest towers and the widest internal spread

Brentwood Park has 329 condos listed at a median of $749,000 and $970 per square foot, moving in a median 60 days, the fastest of Burnaby's large condo areas. The stock skews newer than Metrotown, and the range inside a single tower is correspondingly larger.

The addresses to know sit along Lougheed Highway, Gilmore Avenue, Springer Avenue, Madison Avenue and Dawson Street, with Alpha Avenue, Beta Avenue, Buchanan Street, Skyline Drive, Goring Street, Juneau Street and Holdom Avenue filling in around them.

• 2135 Springer Avenue: from $1,099,900 for an 855 square foot two-bedroom to $3,188,800 for a 1,632 square foot three-bedroom, a range of $1,286 to $1,954 per square foot in one building.
• 2181 Madison Avenue: a penthouse of 1,835 square feet at $2,499,900, about $1,362 per square foot.
• 4168 Lougheed Highway: from $1,099,900 for 1,075 square feet to $2,467,900 for 1,600 square feet.
• 2108 Gilmore Avenue: from $1,126,900 for 945 square feet to $2,726,900 for 1,585 square feet.

A 50 percent swing in price per square foot inside one Brentwood tower is normal, not an error in the data. Height, exposure and whether the home has been renovated are doing the work. Comparing a Brentwood asking price against the Brentwood median tells you very little on its own.

Edmonds and Highgate: where the numbers get reasonable

Edmonds has 61 condos listed at a median of $729,900 and $916 per square foot. At a median 79 days it is the slowest area in Burnaby to sell, which is leverage for a patient buyer. The Southgate City towers on Park Crescent dominate the listings, with the numbered addresses on 16th Street, 18th Street, 17th Avenue, 11th Avenue and 18th Avenue plus Edmonds Street and Noble Lane behind them.

• 7683 Park Crescent: a two-bedroom of 897 square feet at $749,900 and a two-bedroom of 946 square feet at $1,375,900. That is $836 against $1,455 per square foot in one building.
• 7728 Park Crescent: two-bedroom homes of 861 and 890 square feet at $962,900 and $947,900.

Highgate has 57 condos listed at a median of $650,000 and $754 per square foot, moving in a median 60 days. It is the cheapest square footage among Burnaby's established condo areas, and the units are physically bigger. The buildings sit on Collier Street, Hall Avenue, Arcola Street, Southoaks Crescent and Beresford Street.

• 7138 Collier Street: a two-bedroom of 1,068 square feet at $748,000 and a two-bedroom of 1,255 square feet at $849,000, which works out to $700 and $677 per square foot.
• 7063 Hall Avenue: a two-bedroom of 1,055 square feet at $869,900 and a three-bedroom of 1,324 square feet at $1,038,000.

The trade is straightforward. In Highgate you buy floor area. In Metrotown you buy the location and the newer building, and you pay about $230 more per square foot for it.

Strata fees are what separate two buildings at the same price

Compare fees per square foot, not per month. A $520 fee on a 1,200 square foot Highgate unit is cheaper per foot than a $430 fee on a 700 square foot Metrotown unit, and the monthly numbers alone tell you the opposite. This is the single biggest carrying-cost difference between two otherwise similar BC condos.

The current listings show the pattern. Of Metrotown's 317 condo listings, 220 carry a strata fee of $500 a month or less and 301 are at $700 or less. In Highgate 44 of 57 are at $500 or less, and in Edmonds 58 of 61. Fee level tracks unit size and amenity load more than building age. Strata fees in BC are set by the strata corporation's approved budget, so they move with the building's costs rather than with the market, and a concierge, a pool and a guest suite are billed every month whether you use them or not.

The lever most buyers miss is the building's own paperwork. Use our Strata Browser, which covers strata buildings across BC, to look up a Burnaby building by address and pull what is on file for it, then read the depreciation report and the minutes before you write an offer. Our guides to BC strata fees, special levies and assessing a condo building before you buy cover what to look for in each.

Forest Glen and the SFU hill

Forest Glen has 41 condos listed at a median of $678,000 and $806 per square foot, at a median 71 days. The listings cluster on Hazel Street between Kingsway and Sussex Avenue, which is the tower group buyers usually search under a building name rather than a civic address.

• 4711 Hazel Street: two-bedroom homes of 955 and 958 square feet at $1,080,000 and $1,159,800.
• 4808 Hazel Street: from $748,000 for 1,036 square feet to $958,000 for a 1,160 square foot three-bedroom.

Simon Fraser University sits at 82 listings with a median of $556,900 and $689 per square foot, the cheapest square footage in Burnaby with real inventory behind it. Before that number pulls you up the hill, check the tenure on the specific listing. Land ownership on the mountain is not uniform, and in BC freehold and leasehold are different purchases with different resale behaviour. Our comparison of leasehold and freehold in BC explains what changes.

Bottom line

Burnaby is not one condo market. Metrotown and Brentwood Park run near $1,000 per square foot, Edmonds and Forest Glen sit in the $800s and $900s, Highgate is in the $750s, and the SFU hill is under $700. Inside any one of those towers, two homes of the same size can be 30 to 75 percent apart per square foot. Price per square foot plus the strata fee per square foot is the pair of numbers that makes the comparison real.

Browse current Burnaby listings, check the Burnaby housing market data for the trend behind these snapshots, and look up any building on the Strata Browser before you decide. If you want the neighbourhood level view rather than the building level view, our guide to the best Burnaby neighbourhoods to buy in 2026 covers that ground.