Vancouver Westside
West Point GreyBritish Columbia
The northwest Westside neighbourhood — Jericho Beach + Locarno Beach + Spanish Banks, the West Point Grey Academy + Lord Byng catchment, and direct UBC + Pacific Spirit Park adjacency.
Independent municipality until amalgamation with Vancouver, Jan 1, 1929
First air force station in BC — seaplanes for coastal surveys
Twizell & Twizell Collegiate Gothic on Trimble Street
BC University Loan Act — created the Blanca Street boundary
The market in West Point Grey
Market snapshot · May 2026
West Point Grey · HPI Benchmark
Benchmark price
$1.10M
Month over month
+0.2%
Year over year
-6.2%
Sales (month)
1,995
Active listings
14,755
Months of inventory
8.3
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. Soft supply (buyers’ territory).
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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.
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Overview
West Point Grey is a City of Vancouver Westside local-area on the northwest edge of the city, bounded roughly by Burrard Inlet (north), 16th Avenue (south), Alma Street (east), and the University Endowment Lands / Pacific Spirit Regional Park (west). The neighbourhood is anchored by Jericho Beach (the eastern half of the Jericho Beach Park), Locarno Beach, and Spanish Banks at the northern waterfront edge, with West Point Grey Academy and Lord Byng Secondary anchoring the school catchment.
Inventory is predominantly RS-5 / R1-1 single-family residential on conventional 33-foot to 50-foot Vancouver lots, with a meaningful share of pre-1940 character-residential heritage stock plus a steady wave of post-2000 character-replica infill and major renovations. The City of Vancouver R1-1 multiplex bylaw (September 14, 2023) implements Bill 44 SSMUH on most former RS-1 lots, allowing up to 6 units in a multiplex on standard lots subject to frontage and servicing. The character-retention overlay in some West Point Grey blocks interacts with the multiplex framework; for any specific parcel, the live zoning + overlay status is easy to confirm with the City.
For schools, most West Point Grey addresses feed Lord Byng Secondary (3939 West 16th Avenue) for grades 8–12 — the same catchment as the eastern half of adjacent Dunbar-Southlands. Elementary feeders include Queen Mary Elementary (West 22nd + Trimble), Queen Elizabeth Elementary (4102 West 16th Avenue), and Jules Quesnel Elementary (Pacific Spirit Park edge) depending on the specific address. Lord Byng runs multiple mini-school programs (Lord Byng Mini and Byng Arts) as application-based streams.
The independent school cluster is one of the structural value drivers. West Point Grey Academy at 4125 West 8th Avenue (founded 1996) sits centrally within the neighbourhood — a K–12 independent school delivering the BC curriculum enriched with Advanced Placement courses. St. George's School (boys, Junior + Senior campuses at West 29th + Dunbar / Crown) sits just south of the 16th Avenue boundary. Crofton House School (girls, 3200 West 41st Avenue) is in adjacent Kerrisdale. The combination of strong public catchment (Lord Byng) + three top independent schools within a short commute is the demographic pull that has shaped West Point Grey pricing for two decades.
Jericho Beach is the structural amenity. Jericho Beach Park covers the eastern half of the Jericho waterfront — a continuous beach + park corridor connecting east through Locarno Beach to Spanish Banks at the western edge of the City of Vancouver. The Jericho Sailing Centre Association operates the longstanding sailing club at the foot of Discovery Street. The Jericho Lands redevelopment (the former Jericho Garrison federal Department of National Defence site, being redeveloped by the MST Development Partnership (Musqueam, Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh Nations) + Canada Lands Company, acquired 2014 — a ~90-acre site with the Policy Statement approved by Council in 2024) is a multi-decade transformation at the western edge of the neighbourhood with substantial residential capacity planned.
By transit, the closest SkyTrain is not directly inside West Point Grey — the Broadway Subway Phase 1 (Millennium Line extension to Arbutus, 2027 in-service) will terminate at Arbutus + Broadway, which is a 15–25 minute walk or short bus ride from most West Point Grey addresses. Bus service is via the 4 / N17 (4th Avenue), the 14 (Hastings / Granville / 10th), and the R4 41st Avenue B-Line at the southern edge. By car, downtown is 15–25 minutes via 4th Avenue or Burrard Bridge; UBC is 5–10 minutes west via 16th Avenue or 4th Avenue.
What you get living here
The things that don't show up in a listing — the standing rituals and quiet anchors that make West Point Grey feel like a place rather than a postal code.
West Point Grey was an independent municipality before it joined Vancouver
Point Grey incorporated as its own municipality in 1908 after seceding from South Vancouver — residents objected to South Van's tight-fisted approach to civic improvements. For two decades, Point Grey ran its own school board, its own waterworks, and its own building standards (notably higher than Vancouver's). On January 1, 1929, following a ratepayer vote, Point Grey amalgamated with Vancouver and South Vancouver to form the city's current boundaries. The architectural ambition you can still read in Queen Mary Elementary, the old Municipal Hall (now Kerrisdale Community Centre), and the Point Grey street grid all date to that 21-year run of self-government.
City of Vancouver Archives — Greater Vancouver Act, 1928 · Corporation of Point Grey fonds
The "Spanish" in Spanish Banks marks the day Galiano and Valdés met Captain Vancouver
On June 22, 1792, the Spanish schooners Sutil (Dionisio Alcalá Galiano) and Mexicana (Cayetano Valdés) encountered Captain George Vancouver off Point Grey. The two expeditions exchanged charts and continued north together — a rare moment of imperial cooperation. The shoal itself was first charted by Galiano and later named by Captain G.H. Richards of HMS Plumper during his 1859 survey of Burrard Inlet, commemorating that 1792 meeting. The Spanish never built anything here; the name records a handshake.
Vancouver Expedition records · HMS Plumper 1859 Admiralty survey
From 1920 to 1947, the seaplanes taking off from Jericho were how BC's coast was charted
Jericho Beach Air Station was authorized February 14, 1920 as a Canadian Air Board station — the first air force establishment in British Columbia — and later became RCAF Station Jericho Beach. Through the 1920s and early 30s, its Curtiss HS-2L flying boats ran forestry surveys, fisheries patrols, anti-smuggling runs (Prohibition-era rum-running), and the federal mail to remote coastal communities. During WWII, Western Air Command's return brought the station's strength to 2,000 personnel. It closed in March 1947 — and the Jericho Sailing Centre's main building is the original 1940 Marine and Stores Building, still standing.
Veterans Affairs Canada — Jericho Beach Flying Boat Station Memorial
The West Point Grey Community Centre is a 1913 Tudor Revival commissioned from BC's most famous Edwardian architect
Aberthau ("a place filled with light," in Welsh) was commissioned by businessman J.S. Rear in 1909 and built 1910–1913 to designs by Samuel Maclure — the first major residential commission Maclure took in the new Point Grey municipality. Colonel Victor Spencer (of the Spencer's department store family) bought it in 1918 and gave it the Welsh name. The federal government used it through both World Wars as part of the Jericho military reserve; the City took ownership in 1972 when Jericho was transferred to the Park Board, and Aberthau opened as the West Point Grey Community Centre in 1974.
Vancouver Heritage Foundation · West Point Grey Community Centre archives
Why West Point Grey ends at a line drawn by the provincial Crown
The 1907 University Endowment Act set aside two million acres of Crown land in the Cariboo to fund a future provincial university. By 1920 the province conceded the Interior land would never generate the revenue UBC needed — so the BC University Loan Act authorized the sale of 3,000 acres of Point Grey Crown land instead, for residential development. That's the legal origin of the UEL's distinctive boundary at Blanca Street, the curated street layout west of it, and the fact that the UEL remains unincorporated provincial land to this day — a separate jurisdiction from the City of Vancouver that begins where West Point Grey ends.
BC University Endowment Act (1907) · BC University Loan Act (1920) · UBC Archives
Inside West Point Grey
West Point Grey 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.
Jericho Beach edge
Northern waterfront — Jericho Beach Park, Locarno Beach, Spanish Banks. Jericho Sailing Centre Association, Vancouver Folk Music Festival annual venue. Adjacent residential blocks carry waterfront-proximity premiums on the upper blocks with Burrard Inlet + North Shore mountain views.
Read more →WPGA + school cluster
West Point Grey Academy (4125 West 8th Avenue, K–12 independent school, BC curriculum + Advanced Placement) sits centrally within the neighbourhood. St. George's, Crofton House nearby — the independent school cluster is a structural value driver. Family-buyer demographic concentrates here.
Read more →Jericho Lands
Western edge — former Jericho Garrison federal DND site. MST Development Corporation + Canada Lands Company multi-decade Indigenous-led redevelopment with substantial residential capacity planned. The redevelopment will reshape the western half of West Point Grey over coming decades.
Read more →Point Grey Village (10th Avenue)
Day-to-day commercial spine along West 10th Avenue near Sasamat + Trimble. Small-format retail, restaurants, services. Walking distance to most West Point Grey residential blocks. Catches student + UBC-staff demand from west across Pacific Spirit Park.
Read more →Schools
Most West Point Grey addresses feed Lord Byng Secondary (3939 West 16th Avenue) for grades 8–12 — the same catchment as the eastern half of adjacent Dunbar-Southlands. Lord Byng runs multiple mini-school programs (Lord Byng Mini and Byng Arts) as application-based streams.
The independent school cluster is one of the structural value drivers — West Point Grey Academy (K–12 independent, BC curriculum + AP), St. George's (boys, two campuses near the southern boundary), Crofton House (girls, in adjacent Kerrisdale). Elementary feeders include Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth, and Jules Quesnel depending on the address.
Daily life
Jericho Beach + Locarno Beach + Spanish Banks at the northern waterfront edge — continuous beach + park corridor, the Jericho Sailing Centre Association, the annual Vancouver Folk Music Festival venue. The Pacific Spirit Regional Park (~763 ha, Metro Vancouver Parks) at the western edge gives most West Point Grey addresses direct park-edge access via Pacific Spirit trails.
Point Grey Village along West 10th Avenue near Sasamat + Trimble carries the day-to-day commercial spine — small-format retail, restaurants, services. UBC is a 5–10 minute drive west via 16th or 4th Avenue. The combination of waterfront amenity + Pacific Spirit Park + UBC proximity + independent school cluster is unique inside the City of Vancouver.
Commute math
No direct SkyTrain currently. The Broadway Subway Phase 1 (Millennium Line extension to Arbutus, 2027 in-service target per Province) will terminate at Arbutus + Broadway — a 15–25 minute walk or short bus ride from most West Point Grey addresses. Phase 2 (Arbutus to UBC) is in advance planning with no construction date confirmed.
Bus service is via the 4 / N17 (4th Avenue), the 14 (Hastings / Granville / 10th), and the R4 41st Avenue B-Line at the southern edge. By car, downtown is 15–25 minutes via 4th Avenue or Burrard Bridge; UBC is 5–10 minutes west via 16th Avenue or 4th Avenue. Most West Point Grey buyers are car + bus dependent.
Property types
- Pre-1940 character-residential detached (RS-5 / R1-1, 33-foot + 50-foot lots)
- R1-1 multiplex sites (Bill 44 × Vancouver Sept 2023 framework)
- Post-2000 character-replica detached + major renovations
- View-corridor detached (Burrard Inlet + North Shore mountain views from upper blocks)
- Townhouse + low-rise condo (4th Avenue + 10th Avenue C-2 frontages)
- Jericho Lands future redevelopment sites (MST Development Partnership + Canada Lands plan)
Compare West Point Grey to nearby
Dunbar-Southlands →
The Westside neighbour to the south — Dunbar-Southlands trades West Point Grey's Jericho waterfront for Pacific Spirit Park edge + Southlands equestrian district + Dunbar Street village. Both inside the Lord Byng + St. George's school cluster.
Kitsilano →
The eastern neighbour — Kits trades West Point Grey's quieter detached + WPGA school anchor for Kits Beach + W 4th Avenue spine + the Broadway Plan tower overlay. Both Westside, different density profiles.
Kerrisdale →
The southeastern Westside counterpart — Kerrisdale's intact small-format village high street + pre-war character home stock trade West Point Grey's waterfront amenity for Crofton House proximity + the West Boulevard / 41st core.
Frequently asked
A few of the questions that come up most often about West Point Grey.
What schools serve West Point Grey?
What independent schools are in or near West Point Grey?
What's the Jericho Lands redevelopment?
What's at Jericho Beach?
How does Bill 44 SSMUH apply in West Point Grey?
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