East Vancouver
Mount PleasantBritish Columbia
A mixed Vancouver neighbourhood east of Cambie Street, with a Canada Line station inside it, three secondary catchments and almost no house-lot zoning.
H.V. Edmonds named the hillside for a Dublin-area village, same year as Vancouver Brewery
Built city-wide 1965–1985, more than any other Vancouver house style
3102 Main: former Postal Station C; heritage-designated 1974
7 km Millennium Line extension, VCC-Clark to Broadway and Arbutus (project site)
The market in Mount Pleasant
Market snapshot · October 2026
Mount Pleasant · HPI Benchmark
Benchmark price
$825K
Month over month
+1.5%
Year over year
-3.2%
Sales (month)
25
Detached, townhouse and apartment only
Active listings
163
Detached, townhouse and apartment only
Months of inventory
5.8
Active listings divided by average monthly sales over the past 12 months, so it will not equal this month’s active listings divided by this month’s sales.
Greater Vancouver REALTORS® composite Home Price Index (HPI), the industry-standard measure of typical home value, adjusted for property mix. Sales were 15.3% of active listings in the month, a balanced market by board convention. Boards call under 12% a buyers’ market and over 20% a sellers’ market.
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Source: Greater Vancouver REALTORS®. The benchmark is the composite index; sales and active listings count detached, townhouse and apartment homes only. HPI benchmarks are aggregate measures; specific properties may transact above or below.
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A in Mount Pleasant, bought in 2019
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Overview
Mount Pleasant is the City of Vancouver's name for a local area of about 370 hectares. It runs from West 16th Avenue in the south to the False Creek Flats and Great Northern Way in the north, and from Cambie Street in the west to Clark Drive in the east. The north-west corner reaches the False Creek waterfront, so Olympic Village and Hinge Park are inside the area.
Only about 2.5% of the land is R1-1, the City's zone for house lots. About 53% is other residential zones, led by R3-2 (23%), R3-3 (11%) and R5-3 (8%). Industrial zones are about 19%, commercial about 14% (C-3A is the largest at 8%) and CD-1 sites about 12%. The zone of any one lot is on the City's VanMap, and for most lots the zone, not Bill 44, sets what can be built.
Three secondary catchments cover the area. Eric Hamber Secondary (960 West 33rd Avenue) covers about 48% of the land, Sir Charles Tupper Secondary (419 East 24th Avenue) about 27% and Vancouver Technical Secondary (2600 East Broadway) about 24%. Hamber takes the west, from Cambie Street to about Main Street. For elementary, Simon Fraser (100 West 15th Avenue) covers about 48%, Florence Nightingale (2740 Guelph Street) about 21%, Mount Pleasant (2300 Guelph Street) about 16%, and Charles Dickens and Queen Alexandra about 6% each.
Broadway-City Hall Station on the Canada Line is inside the area, on Cambie Street. Olympic Village Station is at the western edge and Main Street-Science World Station on the Expo Line at the northern edge. The Broadway Subway is a 7 kilometre extension of the Millennium Line from VCC-Clark Station to Broadway and Arbutus, and the project site says it opens in 2027.
What you get living here
The things that don't show up in a listing — the standing rituals and quiet anchors that make Mount Pleasant feel like a place rather than a postal code.
H.V. Edmonds chose the hillside's name after his wife's birthplace
The hillside above False Creek was christened 'Mount Pleasant' in 1888 by Henry Valentine Edmonds (a New Westminster land speculator and former municipal clerk who owned the District Lot 200A subdivision that became the neighbourhood) after the Irish village outside Dublin where his wife Jane Fortune Kemp was born. (The Brookline, Massachusetts attribution that circulates in popular write-ups is a frequent error.) Streets were named after Canadian provinces, west-to-east, with Ontario chosen as the central spine.
City of Vancouver · Wikipedia · Vancouver Archives
Brassneck and 33 Acres landed on the same creek that powered the city's first breweries
In 1888, Charles Doering opened Vancouver Brewery at Scotia and 7th, drawing on Brewery Creek as it ran from Tea Swamp down to False Creek. At its early-1900s peak the neighbourhood had four breweries operating at once. The creek was paved over and the breweries gone by mid-century, until R&B Brewing opened in 1997 and triggered the modern wave. Brassneck (October 2, 2013) and 33 Acres (2013) sit within blocks of the original brewery sites.
BC Ale Trail · Vancouver Heritage Foundation
The 3102 Main building was on Vancouver's first heritage list in 1974
Built 1914–1916 to architect A. Campbell Hope's Beaux-Arts design, the building served as a post office until 1949, then housed the Department of Agriculture (1937) and RCMP (1963). The City designated it a heritage building in 1974 (among the first on Vancouver's inaugural heritage list) and after sitting vacant 1976–1981 it was rehabilitated under City ownership in 1983.
Heritage Hall Vancouver · Vancouver Heritage Foundation · City Archives
Tallest structure south of False Creek when it went up, and the neighbourhood centre ever since
Designed by Stroud & Keith with Arthur J. Bird for grocer H.O. Lee, the seven-storey Edwardian block at 175 East Broadway opened with six shops, offices, and 21 apartments. It carries a "B" (Significant) classification on the Vancouver Heritage Register and won a Mount Pleasant Legacy Award in 2002. Around the same time (~1910), local merchants successfully lobbied to rename Westminster Street to Main Street.
Vancouver Heritage Foundation · Changing Vancouver
The Vancouver Special was the city's 1960s–80s zoning answer, and Mount Pleasant carries the stock
Between roughly 1965 and 1985, builders exploited a City by-law that excluded basements from maximum floor-area calculations, producing the boxy stucco-and-brick two-storey on a narrow lot now known city-wide as the Vancouver Special. More than ten thousand were built (more than any other house style in Vancouver) and Mount Pleasant's blocks east of Main remain a living catalogue. The Broadway Subway's Mount Pleasant Station (Broadway and Main, opening fall 2027) will reshape what gets built next.
Canadian Encyclopedia · Vancouver Heritage Foundation · Province of BC
Inside Mount Pleasant
Mount Pleasant 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.
Main Street and the core
Commercial zoning is about 14% of the area, and C-3A is the largest commercial zone at 8%. Heritage Hall is at 3102 Main Street and Mount Pleasant Community Centre at 1 Kingsway.
Read more →Olympic Village and the waterfront
The north-west corner reaches False Creek, so Olympic Village is inside the area. Hinge Park is at 215 West 1st Avenue. Olympic Village Station sits on the western edge.
Read more →Industrial land
Industrial zones are about 19% of the area, led by I-1 at 12% and M-2 at about 4%.
Read more →Schools
Eric Hamber Secondary (960 West 33rd Avenue) covers about 48% of Mount Pleasant, Sir Charles Tupper Secondary (419 East 24th Avenue) about 27% and Vancouver Technical Secondary (2600 East Broadway) about 24%. Hamber takes the west, from Cambie Street to about Main Street.
Elementary catchments are Simon Fraser (about 48%), Florence Nightingale (about 21%), Mount Pleasant (about 16%), Charles Dickens (about 6%) and Queen Alexandra (about 6%). The school locator settles any one address. Verify the live SD #39 catchment map for the specific address.
Estimated catchments in and around Mount Pleasant
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Heritage + history
Only about 2.5% of Mount Pleasant is R1-1. About 53% is other residential zones, industrial is about 19%, commercial about 14% and CD-1 sites about 12%. The zone of any one lot is on the City's VanMap.
Daily life
Heritage Hall is at 3102 Main Street, Mount Pleasant Community Centre at 1 Kingsway, Hinge Park at 215 West 1st Avenue and Creekside Community Recreation Centre at 1 Athletes Way.
Commute math
Broadway-City Hall Station on the Canada Line is inside the area, on Cambie Street. Olympic Village Station is at the western edge and Main Street-Science World Station on the Expo Line at the northern edge.
The Broadway Subway is a 7 kilometre extension of the Millennium Line from VCC-Clark Station to Broadway and Arbutus. The project site says it opens in 2027.
Property types
- Other residential zones (about 53% of the area, led by R3-2, R3-3 and R5-3)
- R1-1 house lots (about 2.5% of the area)
- Commercial and mixed-use (about 14%, C-3A the largest)
- CD-1 sites, each with its own bylaw (about 12%)
Compare Mount Pleasant to nearby
Kerrisdale →
The Westside trade: Kerrisdale's intact small-format village high street, deep pre-war character stock, and Crofton House / Magee school cluster vs. Mount Pleasant's mix of multi-family, commercial and industrial zones. Same city, fundamentally different decision tree.
Kitsilano →
The other side of the Broadway corridor: Kits trades Mount Pleasant's East Van grid and Brewery Creek heritage for Kits Beach amenity, the W 4th Avenue spine, and a higher per-square-foot price band.
Lower Mainland (regional) →
The broader regional context: Mount Pleasant sits in the urban core of the City of Vancouver, rate-sensitive at the top end and largely uncorrelated with Fraser Valley markets.
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