Mount Pleasant →
The other East Vancouver post-2010 cultural-fabric neighbourhood — Mount Pleasant trades Hastings-Sunrise's PNE proximity and Italian-Canadian heritage for SoMa, Brewery Creek, and the Broadway Plan tower overlay. Both inside R1-1.
East Vancouver
Hastings-SunriseBritish Columbia
East Vancouver's northeast corner — the 175-acre Hastings Park / PNE site, the Italian-Canadian heart along East Hastings, Templeton Secondary catchment, and the New Brighton Park waterfront edge.
The market in Hastings-Sunrise
Market snapshot · April 2026
Hastings-Sunrise · HPI Benchmark
Benchmark price
$1.10M
Month over month
-0.6%
Year over year
-6.9%
Sales (month)
1,984
Active listings
14,073
Fraser Valley Real Estate Board / Greater Vancouver REALTORS composite Home Price Index (HPI) — the industry-standard measure of typical home value, adjusted for property mix.
See the Hastings-Sunrise HPI chart on Market Insights
Source: Fraser Valley Real Estate Board · Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver. Composite (all property types). HPI benchmarks are aggregate measures — specific properties may transact above or below.
Overview
Hastings-Sunrise is a City of Vancouver local-area neighbourhood in the northeast corner of the city, bounded roughly by Burrard Inlet (north), 1st Avenue (south), Nanaimo Street (west), and Boundary Road (east). It contains Hastings Park / the Pacific National Exhibition (PNE) site — a 175-acre regional park and exhibition grounds that the multi-decade Hastings Park Master Plan (Park Board, City of Vancouver, adopted 2011) is converting from industrial exhibition use into a mixed-use park, amphitheatre, Empire Fields stadium, and adjacent cultural anchors including the Italian Cultural Centre and the operating Hastings Racecourse.
The western edge of Hastings-Sunrise — running from Nanaimo Street east to roughly Penticton/Renfrew Street and from 1st Avenue north to Burrard Inlet — is the most established part of the neighbourhood, with mature streets of pre-1960 detached on standard 33-foot Vancouver lots, the Italian Cultural Centre at 3075 Slocan Street, and the southern feeder lines into Templeton Secondary at 727 Templeton Drive. This is also where the Hastings commercial corridor begins — the East Hastings stretch from Nanaimo east to Renfrew has been the Italian-Canadian heart of the neighbourhood for decades — and where gentrification pressure first arrived in the 2010s. Pricing tends to be the highest sub-area within Hastings-Sunrise for detached.
The Central / Hastings Park sub-area wraps the 175-acre PNE site — home to the annual Fair at the PNE, Empire Fields, the Pacific Coliseum, and the operating Hastings Racecourse thoroughbred track (live-racing season traditionally late spring through early fall, Friday to Sunday plus selected weekday cards). Properties here trade two competing externalities: the master-planned park amenity upgrade (greenway expansion, the Sanctuary, urban farm, amphitheatre redevelopment) and the live-event noise impact during Fair season (mid-August through Labour Day) plus year-round Coliseum and Empire Fields events. Walk the block during a PNE event before committing.
For schools, the dominant secondary catchment is Templeton Secondary at 727 Templeton Drive — established 1925, with the Templeton Mini School running as an application-based enriched program. Southern-edge addresses near 1st Avenue may fall into the Vancouver Technical (Van Tech) catchment at 2600 East Broadway. Elementary feeders include Hastings (3096 Hastings Street), Lord Nelson (2235 Kitchener Street), Franklin, and A.R. Lord; the exact feeder varies by sub-area. Verify the live VSB catchment map for the specific address.
There is no direct SkyTrain station inside the Hastings-Sunrise local area, and none planned in the near term. Renfrew-Collingwood (south across 1st Avenue) is served by Renfrew, Rupert, and Joyce-Collingwood stations on the Expo Line. Hastings-Sunrise transit commuters use the E Hastings bus corridor and typically face 30 to 40 minute door-to-door to downtown, versus 20 to 25 from Renfrew-Collingwood. This is one of the structural reasons Hastings-Sunrise detached carries a lower per-square-foot benchmark.
The Hastings-Sunrise stretch of E Hastings (Nanaimo east to Boundary) is a different commercial environment than the East Hastings stretch in the Downtown Eastside (DTES) west of Clark Drive — the two are 4 to 5 km apart. The Hastings-Sunrise stretch is predominantly Italian-Canadian, Chinese-Canadian, Vietnamese-Canadian, and Filipino-Canadian small-business retail anchored by the Italian Cultural Centre. It is a working-class, family-oriented, daytime-active commercial street. The 'Sunrise' portion of the neighbourhood — the north slope running from East Hastings down toward Burrard Inlet, including New Brighton Park and the McGill Street / Wall Street corridor — is where view-pricing concentrates. North-facing lots above McGill Street can carry meaningful Burrard Inlet + North Shore mountain view premiums.
Vancouver implemented Bill 44 SSMUH through R1-1 zoning (effective 2024), permitting up to six units on most standard 33-foot lots subject to lot-frontage and servicing rules. R1-1 covers most of the Hastings-Sunrise residential grid; the C-2 commercial zoning along E Hastings carries its own mid-rise mixed-use entitlement; RT-2 character pockets add heritage-design overlays. Most standard detached lots now carry implicit multiplex optionality.
Inside Hastings-Sunrise
Hastings-Sunrise reads as one neighbourhood from a distance, but on the ground the housing fabric is layered. Each piece has its own rules, its own inventory, and its own buyer.
Nanaimo / Templeton
West Hastings-Sunrise
Most established part of the neighbourhood — mature streets of pre-1960 detached on 33-foot lots, the Italian Cultural Centre at 3075 Slocan, and the southern feeder into Templeton Secondary. East Hastings commercial corridor begins here (Nanaimo–Renfrew, Italian-Canadian heart). Highest detached pricing within Hastings-Sunrise.
Read more →PNE-adjacent
Central / Hastings Park
Wraps the 175-acre PNE site — annual Fair, Empire Fields, the Pacific Coliseum, the operating Hastings Racecourse. Master-planned park amenity upgrade (greenway expansion, urban farm, amphitheatre) vs. live-event noise during Fair season + year-round Coliseum events. Walk the block during a PNE evening.
Read more →Toward Boundary Road
East Hastings-Sunrise
From Renfrew east to Boundary, the Vancouver–Burnaby municipal line. Historically the most affordable part of the neighbourhood for detached on standard lots — strong Chinese-Canadian, Vietnamese-Canadian, Filipino-Canadian demographic. Burnaby Heights commercial along Hastings + SkyTrain access at Gilmore / Brentwood a short bus east.
Read more →View corridor
Sunrise (north slope)
The 'Sunrise' portion — north slope running from East Hastings down toward Burrard Inlet, including New Brighton Park and the McGill / Wall corridor. North-facing lots above McGill can carry Burrard Inlet + North Shore mountain view premiums. Closest residential streets to New Brighton outdoor pool, beach, Cassiar Connector to Highway 1.
Read more →1st Avenue southern edge
Pandora / 1st Avenue corridor
Southern boundary of Hastings-Sunrise — 1st Avenue is the official local-area boundary, Pandora runs one block north as residential complement. Interface with Grandview-Woodland gives proximity to Commercial Drive amenity (5–10 minute drive). New multiplex permits under R1-1 + Bill 44 SSMUH concentrate here.
Read more →Schools
The dominant secondary catchment is Templeton Secondary at 727 Templeton Drive — established 1925, with the Templeton Mini School running as an application-based enriched program. Southern-edge addresses near 1st Avenue may fall into the Vancouver Technical (Van Tech) catchment at 2600 East Broadway.
Elementary feeders include Hastings (3096 Hastings Street), Lord Nelson (2235 Kitchener Street), Franklin, and A.R. Lord; the exact feeder varies by sub-area. Verify the live VSB catchment map for the specific address before paying a school premium, and confirm any Mini School or program-of-choice application timeline directly with VSB.
Daily life
The East Hastings commercial corridor (Nanaimo east to Boundary) is the day-to-day spine — Italian-Canadian, Chinese-Canadian, Vietnamese-Canadian, and Filipino-Canadian small-business retail anchored by the Italian Cultural Centre at 3075 Slocan Street. Working-class, family-oriented, daytime-active commercial street. The eastern end approaching Boundary gets quieter and more industrial at night.
The 175-acre Hastings Park / PNE site anchors the regional event amenity — annual Fair, Empire Fields stadium, the Pacific Coliseum, the operating Hastings Racecourse, the Sanctuary + amphitheatre + urban farm phasing in under the Park Board's multi-decade Hastings Park Master Plan (2011). New Brighton Park (outdoor pool, beach, the Cassiar Connector to Highway 1) anchors the northern Sunrise edge.
Commute math
No direct SkyTrain station inside Hastings-Sunrise, and none planned in the near term. Renfrew-Collingwood (south across 1st Avenue) is served by Renfrew, Rupert, and Joyce-Collingwood stations on the Expo Line. Hastings-Sunrise transit commuters use the E Hastings bus corridor — typical door-to-door downtown is 30 to 40 minutes, versus 20 to 25 from Renfrew-Collingwood.
The Highway 1 / Cassiar Connector at the eastern edge provides freeway access for car commuters — downtown Vancouver is 15–25 minutes off-peak via 1st Avenue or Hastings; SFU (Burnaby Mountain) is 15–25 minutes east; Highway 1 north to North Shore via the Iron Workers / Second Narrows is 10–20 minutes. The structural lack of SkyTrain access is part of why Hastings-Sunrise detached carries a lower per-square-foot benchmark than equivalent Renfrew-Collingwood inventory.
Property Transfer Tax in Hastings-Sunrise
BC’s one-time provincial tax that the buyer pays on completion day, on top of the down payment and legal fees. Marginal brackets, paid in cash — not financed into the mortgage.
Property types
- Pre-1960 detached on 33-foot Vancouver lots (West + East Hastings-Sunrise)
- R1-1 multiplex sites (up to 6 units on standard lots)
- C-2 mixed-use commercial (Hastings Street spine, Nanaimo–Boundary)
- RT-2 character pockets (heritage-design overlay)
- View-corridor detached (Sunrise north slope, McGill / Wall corridor)
- Industrial / light-industrial frontage (Cassiar Connector, north of Hastings Park)
Compare Hastings-Sunrise to nearby
Lower Mainland (regional) →
The broader regional context — Hastings-Sunrise sits in the urban core of the City of Vancouver, rate-sensitive at the entry level and structurally discounted vs. Renfrew-Collingwood and Mount Pleasant on the lack of direct SkyTrain access.
Frequently asked
A few of the questions that come up most often about Hastings-Sunrise.
How does the lack of a SkyTrain station affect Hastings-Sunrise valuation vs. Renfrew-Collingwood?
Materially, on a per-square-foot basis. There is no direct SkyTrain station inside the Hastings-Sunrise local area, and none planned in the near term. Renfrew-Collingwood (south across 1st Avenue) is served by Renfrew, Rupert, and Joyce-Collingwood stations on the Expo Line. Hastings-Sunrise transit commuters use the E Hastings bus corridor and typically face 30 to 40 minute door-to-door to downtown, versus 20 to 25 from Renfrew-Collingwood. This is one of the structural reasons Hastings-Sunrise detached carries a lower per-square-foot benchmark.
What's the noise impact of Hastings Racecourse on adjacent properties?
Hastings Racecourse is the operating thoroughbred horse-racing track on the eastern portion of the PNE site. Live-racing season traditionally runs late spring through early fall (Friday to Sunday plus selected weekday cards). On race days, properties on Renfrew / Cassiar / McGill / Hastings within 2 to 3 blocks of the PNE perimeter expect a clearly audible event-day noise floor — crowd noise, PA system, traffic. Year-round, the site also hosts non-racing PNE events. Walk the block during a PNE Fair evening before committing — the externality is seasonal but real.
What schools serve Hastings-Sunrise?
The dominant secondary catchment is Templeton Secondary at 727 Templeton Drive — established 1925, with the Templeton Mini School running as an application-based enriched program. Southern-edge addresses near 1st Avenue may fall into the Vancouver Technical (Van Tech) catchment at 2600 East Broadway. Elementary feeders include Hastings (3096 Hastings Street), Lord Nelson (2235 Kitchener Street), Franklin, and A.R. Lord; the exact feeder varies by sub-area. Verify the live VSB catchment map for the specific address.
Is the East Hastings commercial corridor safe to walk in Hastings-Sunrise?
The Hastings-Sunrise stretch of E Hastings (Nanaimo east to Boundary) is a different commercial environment than the East Hastings stretch in the Downtown Eastside (DTES) west of Clark Drive — the two are 4 to 5 km apart. The Hastings-Sunrise stretch is predominantly Italian-Canadian, Chinese-Canadian, Vietnamese-Canadian, and Filipino-Canadian small-business retail anchored by the Italian Cultural Centre. It is a working-class, family-oriented, daytime-active commercial street. The eastern end approaching Boundary gets quieter and more industrial at night.
How does Bill 44 SSMUH apply to Hastings-Sunrise lots?
Vancouver implemented Bill 44 SSMUH through R1-1 zoning (effective 2024), permitting up to six units on most standard 33-foot lots subject to lot-frontage and servicing rules. R1-1 covers most of the Hastings-Sunrise residential grid; the C-2 commercial zoning along E Hastings carries its own mid-rise mixed-use entitlement; RT-2 character pockets add heritage-design overlays. Most standard detached lots now carry implicit multiplex optionality. Run the feasibility on the specific lot (servicing, zoning, RT-2 overlay if applicable) before underwriting redevelopment.
Should I buy a multiplex teardown or a renovated detached?
It depends on what you are optimising for. Multiplex teardowns — buying a 1950s detached on a 33-foot R1-1 lot to demolish and build a four-to-six-unit infill — increasingly drive the $1.8 to 2.2M end of the detached market; several blocks have multiple permits in active construction. Upside is post-construction stabilised value; trade-off is construction risk, financing complexity, the 24+ month timeline, and underwriting an exit market 2 to 3 years out. A renovated detached is simpler and lower-risk but caps equity creation at market appreciation. Talk to a builder about feasibility on the specific lot.
What tax exposure should a Hastings-Sunrise buyer model?
BC Property Transfer Tax applies on every purchase: 1% to $200K, 2% to $2M, 3% to $3M, and 5% above $3M. For most Hastings-Sunrise detached purchases the second bracket dominates; view-corridor Sunrise lots can engage the third bracket. For non-Canadian buyers (where the federal foreign buyer ban does not prohibit the transaction), the BC Foreign Buyer Tax applies in the GVRD. BC SVT applies in Vancouver at the highest tier for non-resident and non-occupying owners. Federal UHT (1% annual) layers on for affected owners.