East Vancouver
Vancouver's post-2010 cultural core — Main Street SoMa, Brewery Creek's craft-brewery cluster, the 2010 Community Plan + 2022 Broadway Plan overlay, and a 2027-target Mount Pleasant Subway station at Main + Broadway.
Market snapshot · April 2026
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.
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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.
Mount Pleasant is one of the City of Vancouver's 22 designated local-area neighbourhoods, bounded roughly by 16th Avenue (south), Great Northern Way / 2nd Avenue (north), Cambie Street (west), and Clark Drive (east), centred on the Main Street and Kingsway commercial spines. The neighbourhood is governed by the Mount Pleasant Community Plan (adopted by City Council in November 2010) and is now overlaid along its Broadway corridor by the Broadway Plan (adopted June 22, 2022). Phase 1 of the Broadway Subway Project will add a new underground Mount Pleasant station at Main Street + Broadway with in-service currently targeting 2027 per the TransLink / BC Ministry of Transportation schedule (slipped from the original 2025 estimate).
The cultural identity of post-2010 Mount Pleasant is the Main Street commercial spine south of Broadway — colloquially "SoMa" (South Main) — anchored by independent restaurants, cafés, design and boutique retail, and a tight cluster of tattoo studios, bookshops, and vintage clothing. The C-3A commercial zone runs the length of the corridor, with mid-rise mixed-use redevelopment incrementally replacing two-storey 1920s–1960s commercial stock above grade-level retail. Heritage Hall (3102 Main Street, 1916 federal post office, designated A-rated City heritage) sits in the middle of the corridor. Brewery Creek — the historic 1880s–1890s industrial corridor along the buried watercourse — has a contemporary echo in the East 4th craft-brewery cluster (Brassneck Brewery, 33 Acres Brewing, Main Street Brewing, R&B Brewing) that established along East 4th Avenue in the 2010s.
The City of Vancouver's R1-1 zoning (in force September 14, 2023) implements the spirit of BC's Bill 44 SSMUH framework on most former single-family lots and allows up to six units in a multiplex on standard lots subject to frontage and servicing. For most Mount Pleasant character-home lots, the economics of tearing down a sound 1910s–1930s character home for a six-unit multiplex are tight at current construction costs — most redevelopment has been retention-and-addition rather than full tear-down. The Mount Pleasant Heritage Conservation Area (designated as part of the 2010 Community Plan) layers additional protections on identified character resources.
The Broadway Plan overlays tower-form residential entitlements (typically 18–40 storeys at major intersections, lower mid-rise elsewhere) along the West and East Broadway corridor, with affordable-housing and rental-protection requirements layered on. South of the Broadway Plan area, Mount Pleasant continues to be governed by the 2010 Community Plan and the underlying RT / RM / R1-1 / C-3A zones. The entitlements vary block by block and are conditional — pull the live City of Vancouver zoning + Broadway Plan layer for the specific parcel before pricing redevelopment optionality.
For schools, most Mount Pleasant addresses fall into the Sir Charles Tupper Secondary catchment (Tupper sits at 419 East 24th Avenue, just south of the neighbourhood). The far west edge of Mount Pleasant overlaps the Eric Hamber Secondary catchment depending on the specific lot. Elementary feeders include Charles Dickens Elementary, Florence Nightingale Elementary, Mount Pleasant Elementary, Brock Elementary, and Henderson Elementary, with the specific feeder depending on the address. VBE catchment boundaries are reviewed periodically — verify against the current SD #39 catchment for the specific address.
Olympic Village (Southeast False Creek) sits at the north edge on the False Creek waterfront — ~1,100 housing units built as the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games athletes' village and converted to mixed-tenure permanent housing post-Games. The Canada Line Olympic Village station (Cambie + 2nd Ave) opened with the Games. Strata fees in SEFC run higher than comparable East Vancouver inventory because of the green-building infrastructure (Neighbourhood Energy Utility district energy) and elevated common-area + park-edge maintenance — verify the depreciation report and contingency reserve fund balance before assuming the headline price tells the full carrying-cost story.
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.
The Main Street commercial spine south of Broadway — colloquially SoMa. C-3A commercial zone, mid-rise mixed-use redevelopment incrementally replacing two-storey 1920s–1960s stock. Heritage Hall (3102 Main, 1916 federal post office, A-rated heritage) sits in the middle.
Read more →Cambie Street from West Broadway south to roughly West 18th Avenue — the western edge where Mount Pleasant overlaps the Cambie Corridor planning area. Mid-rise condo and rowhouse redeveloped through the Cambie Corridor Plan (Phase 1 adopted 2011, Phase 3 adopted 2018). Canada Line Broadway-City Hall at the corner.
Read more →From Cambie east to Main, between West Broadway and West 16th. 1910s–1930s character homes on 33-foot lots interleaved with RM-3 / RM-4 mid-density from the 1960s–1970s and growing strata townhouse infill. R1-1 zoning (Sept 2023) makes most lots multiplex-eligible up to six units.
Read more →From Main east to Clark, between East Broadway and East 16th. Historic working-class East Van pattern — narrower 25-ft and 33-ft lots with 1900s–1930s character homes. Brewery Creek heritage near East 6th + Main. The Kingsway diagonal cuts through with a Filipino-Canadian cluster around Kingsway + Fraser.
Read more →At the north edge on the False Creek waterfront — ~1,100 units built for the 2010 Olympics, converted to mixed-tenure post-Games. Built to portfolio LEED standard with multiple LEED Gold buildings. NEU district energy. Canada Line Olympic Village station at Cambie + 2nd opened with the Games.
Read more →Mount Pleasant is in the Vancouver Board of Education (SD #39). Most Mount Pleasant addresses fall into the Sir Charles Tupper Secondary catchment for grades 8–12 (Tupper sits at 419 East 24th Avenue, just south of the neighbourhood). The far west edge of Mount Pleasant overlaps the Eric Hamber Secondary catchment depending on the specific lot.
Elementary feeders include Charles Dickens Elementary, Florence Nightingale Elementary, Mount Pleasant Elementary, Brock Elementary, and Henderson Elementary, with the specific feeder depending on the address. VBE catchment boundaries are reviewed periodically — verify the current SD #39 catchment for the specific address before paying a school-catchment premium, and note VBE also operates city-wide and cross-boundary application processes for some specialty programs.
Mount Pleasant carries a meaningful pre-1940 character home inventory across both Mount Pleasant West (Cambie to Main, 33-foot lots) and Mount Pleasant East (Main to Clark, 25-foot and 33-foot lots) — 1900s–1930s working-class East Vancouver pattern with a meaningful share of original-condition stock plus a wave of post-2000 character-replica infill. The Mount Pleasant Heritage Conservation Area (designated as part of the 2010 Community Plan) layers additional protections on identified character resources.
Brewery Creek is the historic 1880s–1890s industrial corridor along the buried watercourse — major late-19th-century breweries clustered between East 14th Avenue and False Creek. The contemporary echo is the East 4th craft-brewery cluster (Brassneck, 33 Acres, Main Street Brewing, R&B Brewing) that established along East 4th Avenue in the 2010s. The City of Vancouver's R1-1 zoning (in force September 14, 2023) implements Bill 44 SSMUH on most former RS-1 lots, allowing up to six units in a multiplex on standard lots.
Daily life concentrates on the Main Street SoMa spine south of Broadway — independent restaurants, cafés, design and boutique retail, a tight cluster of tattoo studios, bookshops, and vintage clothing. Heritage Hall at 3102 Main Street (1916 federal post office) sits in the middle. The East 4th craft-brewery cluster anchors the contemporary identity. Kingsway runs diagonally through Mount Pleasant East and is its own commercial spine with a Filipino-Canadian cluster around Kingsway + Fraser.
Olympic Village / Southeast False Creek at the north edge brings False Creek waterfront amenity — Hinge Park, Habitat Island, the seawall connection west to Kits Beach. Strata fees in SEFC run higher than comparable East Vancouver inventory because of the NEU district-energy infrastructure and elevated common-area maintenance. Mount Pleasant Park and Robson Park serve the residential interior; community gardens are scattered throughout the East Van grid.
Main Street–Science World station (Expo Line, opened 1985) sits at the very north edge of Mount Pleasant at Main + Terminal — roughly a 15–20 minute walk from Main + Broadway, longer from south of East Broadway. The Canada Line at Broadway-City Hall (Cambie + Broadway) serves the western edge. The Olympic Village Canada Line station (Cambie + 2nd) serves the northern waterfront. Downtown is 10–15 minutes by SkyTrain from either station.
The new Mount Pleasant Subway station at Main + Broadway (Phase 1 Broadway Subway Project, current 2027 in-service target) will materially change the convenience math: addresses south of Broadway move from a 15–20 minute walk to a sub-5-minute walk to rapid transit — the band where TOD price premiums historically concentrate. Verify the live opening schedule against TransLink before treating any specific year as fixed.
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.
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 SoMa cultural fabric and Broadway Plan tower entitlements. Same city, fundamentally different decision tree.
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. Both inside the Broadway Plan overlay.
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.
A few of the questions that come up most often about Mount Pleasant.
