Marpole (Vancouver) — Buyer Research Bible
Block-by-block buyer and investor research for the Marpole micro-market — the southwestern Vancouver neighbourhood that sits at the intersection of two major City of Vancouver planning frameworks (the Marpole Community Plan and the Cambie Corridor Plan Phase 3), is anchored by the Marine Drive Canada Line station, contains the Pearson Dogwood Lands master redevelopment by Onni, and feeds Sir Winston Churchill Secondary (with its IB Diploma Programme and French Immersion stream). Companion to the Marpole area page and a complement to the wider Vancouver area pages.
The defendable opinion
Most Vancouver MLS listings in Marpole bury the most decision-relevant fact about the neighbourhood: the lot you are buying is sitting on top of a layered planning framework that determines its redevelopment optionality, and the listing agent will almost never tell you which layer applies. Is your lot inside a Marpole Community Plan growth area, a preserved single-family pocket, the Cambie Corridor Plan Phase 3 frontage, or all three at once? The answer changes the long-term land value materially — and the difference rarely shows up in the headline list price.
The same listing usually reduces “close to the Canada Line” to a single bullet. In Marpole, that bullet is doing a lot of work. Marine Drive Station and the Pearson Dogwood / Heather sub-area sit inside a comfortable walk; much of West Marpole and East Marpole are 15–25 minutes plus a feeder bus. The pricing differential between “walkable to station” and “feeder-bus to station” is real and persistent, but you have to measure the actual walking distance to see it.
And then there is the Pearson Dogwood Lands. The site is one of the largest active redevelopments on Vancouver’s west side, with healthcare, community amenity, market and below-market housing, and an urban farm all delivered in phases. For a buyer in adjacent blocks, the upside is real (amenity, future neighbours, increased eyes on the street); the downside is real construction noise and dust over a multi-year horizon. The listing agent will sell you on the upside without quoting the timeline. Read the City of Vancouver development application records before signing.
Marpole’s pricing is a function of three overlapping plans, two Canada Line stations, and one giant redevelopment site. If you don’t know which of those three plans governs your lot, you don’t know what you’re paying for.
The five sub-areas, mapped
Marpole is bounded roughly by West 57th Avenue (north), the Fraser River (south), Granville Street (west), and Main Street (east). It is not a single block — it is five named pieces with different inventory mixes, different planning-framework overlays, and different walking distances to the Canada Line. West Marpole and East Marpole bracket a Cambie corridor spine; the Pearson Dogwood / Heather sub-area sits in between; and the Marine Drive frontage along the Fraser River anchors the southern edge.
West Marpole (Granville–Hudson)
49.210°N, 123.140°W
West Marpole is the Granville-to-Hudson strip, bounded by West 57th Avenue on the north and the Fraser River on the south. The Granville Street frontage carries higher-traffic mid-rise mixed-use, while the interior blocks (Hudson, Adera, Cartier, Selkirk, Osler) carry a mix of older single-family bungalows and 1960s walk-up apartments — the layered building stock the Marpole Community Plan specifically inherits. Lots are typical Vancouver 33' or 50' frontage on roughly 122' depth (~4,000–6,100 sq ft). The Marpole Community Plan (City of Vancouver, adopted April 2014) designates much of this sub-area for low-rise apartment and townhouse forms outside the Granville arterial. Quiet, family-oriented streets; a meaningful share of the longstanding Filipino-Canadian community sits in this sub-area, particularly along West 57th Avenue.
Central Marpole (Cambie corridor)
49.210°N, 123.130°W
Central Marpole runs along the Cambie Street spine south of West 57th Avenue. This is the overlap zone between the Marpole Community Plan (City of Vancouver, adopted April 2014) and the Cambie Corridor Plan Phase 3 (City of Vancouver, 2018) — the eastern Cambie frontage carries the higher-density mid-rise apartment forms enabled by Phase 3, while the interior blocks west of Cambie default to the Marpole Community Plan framework. The corridor connects directly to the Marine Drive Canada Line station at Cambie / Marine Drive. Newer concrete and wood-frame condo product is concentrating along Cambie itself; the side streets retain a mix of older detached and small-form multifamily.
East Marpole (Cambie–Main)
49.210°N, 123.110°W
East Marpole runs from Cambie Street east to Main Street, with its eastern edge framed by the Fraser River on the south. The character is more eclectic than West Marpole — older single-family stock on Ash, Heather, Manitoba, Columbia, Quebec, and Sophia streets, intermixed with small-form rental apartments and longstanding industrial / light-industrial frontage closer to the river along Kent Avenue North and South. The Marpole Community Plan retains much of the interior as low-density residential while permitting limited intensification on the larger collector streets. The eastern boundary at Main Street is the Sunset / Riley Park transition — Marpole proper ends at Main.
Pearson Dogwood / Heather (Cambie at 59th)
49.215°N, 123.125°W
The Pearson Dogwood Lands sit at Heather Street and West 59th Avenue — the former G.F. Strong / George Pearson Centre and Dogwood Lodge BC Housing healthcare campus, now a multi-tower redevelopment led by Onni Group. The Pearson Dogwood Lands redevelopment (City of Vancouver, master-planned through the Cambie Corridor Plan Phase 3, 2018) is a large-scale mixed-use community delivering market and below-market housing alongside replacement healthcare, a community centre, an urban farm, and a YMCA childcare facility on the original campus footprint. The site is roughly equidistant between Oakridge Centre to the north and the Marine Drive Canada Line station to the south. Construction is ongoing in phases; buyers should pull current City of Vancouver development application records for the specific tower and completion timing.
Marine Drive frontage (Fraser River)
49.205°N, 123.130°W
The Marine Drive frontage is the Fraser River edge — SW Marine Drive runs east-west along the river bluff, with the Marine Drive Canada Line station anchoring the Cambie / Marine intersection. The MC2 and Marine Gateway mixed-use towers (built post-2014 on the immediate station footprint at Cambie and Marine) defined the first wave of Canada Line transit-oriented redevelopment in Marpole. The river-bluff frontage to the west and east of the station carries a mix of older walk-up apartments, newer mid-rise concrete, and selected detached lots backing onto the river. South across the Arthur Laing Bridge sits Sea Island and YVR; south across the Oak Street Bridge sits Richmond. This is the most transit-rich, lowest-commute-time pocket of Marpole.
Schools — Sir Winston Churchill Secondary IB + French Immersion
Most Marpole addresses fall within the Sir Winston Churchill Secondary catchment (7055 Heather Street). Churchill is one of the larger Vancouver School Board secondary schools and is an authorised IB World School running the IB Diploma Programme, alongside an established French Immersion programme. IB admission and French Immersion are application streams, not pure catchment — verify the specific programme eligibility and current application timeline directly with the Vancouver School Board (VSB).
Marpole elementary feeders include Sir Wilfrid Laurier Elementary (and the Laurier Annex), David Lloyd George Elementary, and Sexsmith Elementary, depending on the specific address. Each carries its own VSB catchment polygon — Laurier and David Lloyd George serve much of West and Central Marpole; Sexsmith serves portions of East Marpole closer to the Cambie corridor and the Oakridge boundary. French Immersion at the elementary level is a separate admission stream, not pure catchment.
VSB catchment lines shift periodically as the District balances enrolment. Two practical risks: (1) addresses along Main Street on Marpole’s eastern edge can fall into the Sunset / John Oliver catchment depending on the specific block, and (2) the Pearson Dogwood Lands redevelopment is bringing meaningful new family inventory online over a phased horizon, which the VSB will eventually need to absorb in a future catchment review. Pull the live VSB catchment map for the specific address before paying a school-catchment premium.
The Canada Line — Marine Drive + Bridgeport
The Canada Line is a TransLink rapid-transit rail line connecting downtown Vancouver to YVR (Sea Island) and Richmond, opened in 2009 and operated by ProTransBC under a long-term concession. Two stations directly shape Marpole’s commute and pricing math: Marine Drive (at Cambie Street and SW Marine Drive, on the Vancouver side of the Fraser River) and Bridgeport (across the river on Sea Island, with the Bridgeport bus exchange and Park & Ride).
Marine Drive Station was the catalyst for the first wave of transit-oriented redevelopment in Marpole — the Marine Gateway and MC2 mixed-use towers at Cambie and Marine were built post-2014 on the immediate station footprint. The Pearson Dogwood Lands sit a few blocks north of the station, and the Cambie Corridor Plan Phase 3 (City of Vancouver, 2018) governs the corridor that connects them.
For a buyer, the practical question is walking distance, not driving distance. Properties along the Marine Drive frontage and the Pearson Dogwood / Heather sub-area are typically a 5–15 minute walk to the station. West Marpole (Granville – Hudson) and East Marpole (Cambie – Main) addresses are typically 15–25 minutes plus the local-bus network — TransLink Routes 100 (22nd Street Station ↔ Marpole Loop), 41 (Joyce Station ↔ UBC), 49 (Metrotown ↔ UBC), and the R4 Marine Drive RapidBus all serve the neighbourhood. The pricing differential between station-walkable and bus-feeder addresses is real, persistent, and worth measuring.
The 800-metre radius, Marpole edition
BC Transit-Oriented Development literature and the Province’s Transit-Oriented Areas framework (Bill 47, in force 2024) identify roughly 800 metres (~10 minutes walking) as the radius inside which TOD price premiums concentrate around rapid-transit stations. For Marpole, that radius around Marine Drive Station covers the Marine Drive frontage broadly, the southern half of Pearson Dogwood / Heather, and the southwestern blocks of Central Marpole on the Cambie spine.
West Marpole interior blocks west of Granville and East Marpole blocks east of Ontario / Manitoba sit outside the strict 800-metre walkable radius. Buyers paying a Canada Line corridor premium need to confirm the actual walking distance from the specific address to the station — not the driving distance, not the “close to the Canada Line” marketing language — before paying for the premium.
Pricing tiers — what to expect by sub-area
Marpole pricing benchmarks are best read from the live MLS HPI published by the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver (REBGV / GVR). Marpole spans both the Vancouver West HPI area (covering most of the neighbourhood) and the Vancouver East HPI area (covering the eastern strip near Main Street) — the live HPI benchmark for detached, attached, and apartment product moves with the market and should be pulled fresh at offer time.
Qualitatively, the practical pricing pattern across Marpole sub-areas, in tiers (verify any specific dollar threshold against the live HPI):
- Cambie corridor / Marine Drive frontage condos — the most transit-rich, lowest commute-time pocket; concrete mid-rise and the Marine Gateway / MC2 tower stock command a corridor premium relative to interior Marpole walk-ups.
- Pearson Dogwood presale condos — pricing is set at developer marketing rounds for each phase; verify the current price list and completion date directly against the Onni / City of Vancouver development application records.
- West Marpole detached — Vancouver West HPI area; standard 33' or 50' lots with single-family or duplex character carry the highest detached pricing in the neighbourhood, particularly on the Granville-side blocks closer to Kerrisdale.
- East Marpole detached — Vancouver East HPI area; eclectic stock with selected light-industrial frontage near the river; typically transacts at a meaningful discount to West Marpole detached at comparable lot size and age.
- Older walk-up apartment stock — throughout the interior of all three sub-areas; pricing reflects the Marpole Community Plan land-use designation (a redevelopment-flagged lot prices differently than a preserved low-density designation).
Always pull the live REBGV / GVR MLS HPI benchmark for the specific area and product type at offer time, and confirm the City of Vancouver Marpole Community Plan and Cambie Corridor Plan Phase 3 layers for the specific parcel.
Zoning, the Marpole Community Plan, and the Cambie Corridor
Marpole is governed by the City of Vancouver zoning bylaw alongside two overlapping planning frameworks: the Marpole Community Plan (City of Vancouver, adopted April 2014) and the Cambie Corridor Plan Phase 3 (City of Vancouver, 2018). The Marpole Community Plan covers the entire neighbourhood and designates land use, building forms (low-rise apartment, townhouse, mixed-use), and growth areas while preserving much of the interior single-family character. The Cambie Corridor Plan Phase 3 governs the Cambie Street arterial frontage from West 16th Avenue south to the Fraser River, with its southernmost segment overlapping Central Marpole and the Pearson Dogwood Lands.
City of Vancouver zoning categories applied across Marpole include the City’s post-September-2023 R1-1 multiplex zoning (which replaced RS-1 city-wide and permits up to 6 units on standard single-family lots), the Marpole-specific RM-9 / RM-9N medium-density apartment and townhouse zones (introduced through the Marpole Community Plan), selected RT-2 character-area designations on specific blocks, and the Cambie Corridor Plan Phase 3 mid-rise apartment and mixed-use designations along the Cambie frontage.
The City of Vancouver moved on multiplex zoning ahead of the Province — R1-1 took effect September 2023, while BC Bill 44 (the Housing Statutes (Restoring Homes) Amendment Act, royal assent December 2023) set a province-wide SSMUH floor in December 2023. For most Marpole single-family lots, the City’s R1-1 framework already exceeds Bill 44’s baseline. Always pull the current zoning layer from the City of Vancouver VanMap for the specific parcel, and do not rely on a category name without checking the live designation. See the Bill 44 / SSMUH guide for the deeper provincial-framework explainer.
The Pearson Dogwood Lands redevelopment
The Pearson Dogwood Lands at Heather Street and West 59th Avenue are the former site of the George Pearson Centre and Dogwood Lodge — longstanding BC Housing healthcare campuses on a roughly 25-acre footprint near the centre of Marpole. The site sits between Oakridge Centre to the north and the Marine Drive Canada Line station to the south, with Heather Street as its western edge and Cambie Street as its eastern edge. The City of Vancouver, working through the Cambie Corridor Plan Phase 3 (2018), approved a master-planned redevelopment of the entire site led by Onni Group.
The approved master plan delivers a multi-tower mixed-use community: market condominium and rental housing, below-market and supportive housing, a replacement healthcare facility (continuing care), a new community centre, an urban farm, and a YMCA childcare facility, all on the original campus footprint. Construction is phased — individual towers complete on staggered timelines and the healthcare and community amenities open as part of the broader sequencing. For a buyer evaluating a Pearson Dogwood presale or considering the impact on adjacent blocks, the practical due-diligence step is to pull the current City of Vancouver development application records and the Onni marketing materials for the specific phase or tower under consideration.
The honest practitioner take: Pearson Dogwood is a real and durable amenity story for Marpole, but the construction timeline is multi-year and the noise / dust impact on adjacent blocks is not negligible during active phases. Buyers in adjacent inventory (Heather Street, Cambie Street between 57th and Marine, West 59th and surrounding) should weigh the long-term amenity uplift against the medium-term construction-period drag.
Cultural fabric — Filipino-Canadian Marpole + Cambie corridor commercial
Marpole has a longstanding and meaningful Filipino-Canadian community, with concentrations along West 57th Avenue and the Granville frontage. The unofficial “Little Manila” designation references this historical and ongoing presence — the neighbourhood hosts Filipino-Canadian-owned restaurants, grocery stores (most prominently along West 57th), community organisations, and places of worship that anchor the demographic fabric.
The Cambie Street commercial corridor through Central Marpole carries a meaningful Chinese-Canadian commercial fabric, continuous with the broader Cambie corridor north toward Oakridge. The corridor mixes Chinese-Canadian restaurants and retail with mid-rise mixed-use development under the Cambie Corridor Plan Phase 3, and the demographic mix shifts block-by-block.
For specific census-derived demographic data — median household income, percentage rental tenure, immigrant population share, language spoken at home — refer to the Statistics Canada 2021 Census neighbourhood profile and the City of Vancouver’s Marpole Community Statistics summary derived from the same census base. The qualitative pattern (multiple immigrant communities well-represented; a mix of long-tenure homeowners and newer rental tenants; meaningful intergenerational households) is well-documented in the published profile.
Worked example — Marpole detached at $2.4M
Setup
Standard 33' × 122' lot in West Marpole, single-family detached older home, R1-1 multiplex-zoned. Vancouver West HPI area. Purchase price: $2,400,000. Down payment: 20% = $480,000. Financed: $1,920,000.
Property Transfer Tax (no exemptions)
Base PTT (BC bracket schedule): 1% × $200,000 + 2% × $1,800,000 + 3% × $400,000 = $2,000 + $36,000 + $12,000 = $50,000. Run the live numbers through the PTT calculator for the specific scenario.
First-Time Home Buyer (FTHB) and Newly Built exemptions
Both exemptions are threshold-limited and effectively do not apply at this price point on an older detached purchase — $2.4M sits well above the partial-exemption ceilings. The Newly Built exemption is irrelevant on an existing-construction purchase. Verify the current thresholds against the BC government Property Transfer Tax page before underwriting either exemption.
CMHC default insurance
CMHC default insurance applies for sub-20%-down purchases up to the $1.5M cap. At $2.4M, sub-20%-down financing is unavailable through CMHC (or Sagen / Canada Guaranty under equivalent caps); the 20% down is effectively a floor on standard insured-mortgage product. Conventional uninsured financing is the path at this price point.
Multiplex redevelopment optionality
The R1-1 multiplex zoning permits up to 6 units on a standard 33' lot subject to design and servicing review — a meaningful redevelopment-optionality consideration the listing agent may or may not have priced into the headline number. Pull the City of Vancouver VanMap layer for the specific parcel and confirm whether the lot also sits inside a Marpole Community Plan growth area or carries a Cambie Corridor Plan Phase 3 designation that may supersede or augment the multiplex baseline.
A $2.4M Marpole detached purchase is a $2.46M decision once you add PTT, legal, and adjustments. CMHC won’t help you above the cap. The redevelopment optionality of the lot under R1-1 is real but illiquid — do not pay for optionality you have no plan to exercise.
Frequently asked questions
What is the secondary school catchment for Marpole?
Most Marpole addresses fall within the Sir Winston Churchill Secondary catchment (7055 Heather Street). Churchill is one of the larger Vancouver School Board secondary schools and offers an authorised IB Diploma Programme as well as a French Immersion programme — verify the specific programme eligibility (admission to the IB stream is by application, not by catchment alone) directly with the Vancouver School Board (VSB). The exact catchment line shifts periodically; pull the live VSB catchment map for the specific address before paying a school-catchment premium, particularly along the Main Street eastern boundary where Marpole transitions to the Sunset / John Oliver catchment.
Which elementary schools serve Marpole?
Marpole elementary feeders include Sir Wilfrid Laurier Elementary (and Laurier Annex), David Lloyd George Elementary, and Sexsmith Elementary, depending on the specific address. Each has a defined VSB catchment polygon — Laurier and David Lloyd George serve much of West and Central Marpole, Sexsmith serves East Marpole closer to the Cambie corridor / Oakridge boundary. French Immersion and other programme streams are admission-based, not pure catchment. Verify the live VSB catchment map for the specific address and grade configuration before treating elementary access as guaranteed.
Are there any Canada Line stations in Marpole?
The closest Canada Line station to Marpole is Marine Drive (at Cambie Street and SW Marine Drive), on the immediate northern bank of the Fraser River. Bridgeport Station sits across the river on Sea Island — the next stop south, with the Bridgeport bus exchange and Park & Ride. The Canada Line is a TransLink rapid-transit rail line operated by ProTransBC under a long-term concession; published peak-hour headways from TransLink are in the 3–6 minute range on the Vancouver-bound segment. Marine Drive Station sits within walking distance for much of the Marine Drive frontage and Pearson Dogwood / Heather sub-areas; West Marpole and East Marpole addresses are typically a 10–25 minute walk plus the local bus network for the trip to the station.
What is the Marpole Community Plan, and how does it affect a buyer?
The Marpole Community Plan (City of Vancouver, adopted April 2014) is the council-approved long-range planning framework for the neighbourhood. It designates land use, building forms (low-rise apartment, townhouse, mixed-use), and growth areas — most notably along the Granville and Cambie arterials and selected internal streets — while preserving much of the interior single-family character. For a buyer, the Plan matters because it defines the redevelopment optionality (or lack of it) on a specific lot. Lots designated for higher-density future use carry land-value uplift that detached owner-occupiers may not realise; conversely, lots in the preserved single-family pockets carry lower redevelopment optionality but greater character stability. Pull the City of Vancouver VanMap layer for the specific address and confirm the Marpole Community Plan land-use designation before pricing redevelopment optionality into your offer.
How does the Cambie Corridor Plan Phase 3 overlap with Marpole?
The Cambie Corridor Plan Phase 3 (City of Vancouver, 2018) governs the Cambie Street arterial from West 16th Avenue south to the Fraser River. Its southernmost segment — from West 57th Avenue south — overlaps the Marpole neighbourhood along the Cambie frontage, specifically the Central Marpole and Pearson Dogwood sub-areas. Where the two plans overlap, the Cambie Corridor Plan Phase 3 framework typically governs the Cambie arterial frontage itself (higher-density mid-rise and mixed-use forms tied to the Marine Drive Canada Line station catchment), while the Marpole Community Plan governs the interior blocks. The Pearson Dogwood Lands redevelopment is the largest single application of this overlap. Buyers and redevelopers should always pull both layers — Marpole Community Plan and Cambie Corridor Plan Phase 3 — for any parcel in Central Marpole or along the Cambie frontage.
What is happening at Pearson Dogwood?
The Pearson Dogwood Lands at Heather Street and West 59th Avenue are the former site of the George Pearson Centre and Dogwood Lodge — long-running BC Housing healthcare campuses. The City of Vancouver, via the Cambie Corridor Plan Phase 3 (2018), approved a master-planned redevelopment led by Onni Group that delivers a multi-tower mixed-use community: market condominium and rental housing, below-market and supportive housing, a replacement healthcare facility, a community centre, an urban farm, and a YMCA childcare facility on the original campus footprint. Construction is phased — individual towers complete on staggered timelines. For accurate per-tower completion dates, pull the current City of Vancouver development application records and the developer marketing for each phase before underwriting a presale contract.
Is Marpole zoned RS-1 single-family, or higher density?
Marpole carries a layered mix of City of Vancouver zoning categories. Much of the interior remains in low-density single-family or duplex zones (RS-1 lineage and the City's R1-1 multiplex zoning that replaced RS-1 effective September 2023, allowing up to 6-unit multiplexes on standard lots). Selected blocks along the arterials and inside the Marpole Community Plan growth-area boundaries carry RM-9 / RM-9N (Marpole-specific medium-density apartment and townhouse zones that the Plan introduced), and the Cambie corridor frontage carries Cambie Corridor Plan Phase 3 designations enabling mid-rise apartment and mixed-use forms. The September 2023 R1-1 multiplex bylaw is City-of-Vancouver-specific and predates the Province's Bill 44 SSMUH framework — the City moved on multiplex zoning ahead of the Province. Always pull the current zoning layer from VanMap for the specific parcel.
How does BC Bill 44 SSMUH apply in Marpole?
BC Bill 44 — the Housing Statutes (Restoring Homes) Amendment Act, royal assent December 2023 — requires municipalities across BC to permit small-scale, multi-unit housing (SSMUH) on most single-family-zoned lots. In Vancouver, the City had already moved on multiplex zoning ahead of the Province (R1-1 effective September 2023, which permits up to 6 units on standard lots). For Marpole specifically, this means most interior single-family blocks already permit 4-to-6-unit multiplex redevelopment under the City's own framework, with the Province's Bill 44 setting a floor that the City exceeds in many cases. Lots inside the Marpole Community Plan growth areas or the Cambie Corridor Plan Phase 3 frontage may carry higher entitlements still. Always check the live VanMap zoning layer rather than relying on a category name.
What is the cultural fabric of Marpole?
Marpole has a longstanding and meaningful Filipino-Canadian community, with concentrations along West 57th Avenue and the Granville frontage — the unofficial 'Little Manila' designation references this historical and ongoing presence. The Cambie Street commercial corridor carries a meaningful Chinese-Canadian commercial fabric, both within Marpole and continuous with the Cambie corridor north toward Oakridge. Multiple immigrant communities are well-represented in the neighbourhood demographic profile. For specific census-derived demographic data (median household income, percentage rental tenure, immigrant population share, language spoken at home), refer to the Statistics Canada 2021 Census neighbourhood profile for Marpole — the City of Vancouver also publishes a Marpole Community Statistics summary derived from the same census data.
Marpole is the right answer for a buyer who values Sir Winston Churchill IB, a Canada Line commute, and the long-horizon land-value optionality of a layered planning framework. It is the wrong answer if you want predictable single-family character without the planning-framework complexity.
What to read next
- · Marpole area page — the listings-side companion to this pillar
- · Vancouver area pages — the wider city context for Marpole
- · BC Bill 44 SSMUH guide — the provincial framework that R1-1 multiplex zoning sits on top of
- · BC Transit-Oriented Development Areas — the Bill 47 TOD framework + 800-metre TOD radius
- · Transit-Oriented Development Areas glossary — the one-paragraph definition + Fact Bank cite
- · Newly Built Home exemption glossary — the line item every Pearson Dogwood / Cambie corridor presale buyer needs to verify
- · BC Property Transfer Tax — the bracket schedule + worked examples
- · PTT calculator — model the bracket math against a specific Marpole price point
- · Closing-day cash calculator — the all-in number for a Marpole purchase
- · BC affordability calculator — model the qualifying rate against a Marpole detached or condo target
- · BC Real Estate Codex — primary-source-cited reference for every fact above
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Every claim on this page is sourced to a primary government, regulator, or industry-association URL. We re-verify quarterly; the verification dates below show when each source was last confirmed against the live government page.
- BC Governmentretrieved 2026-05-09Bill 47 — Housing Statutes (Transit-Oriented Areas) Amendment Act, 2023https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/lc/billscur/4th42nd:gov47-3
- BC Governmentretrieved 2026-05-09Transit-Oriented Development Areas — Province of British Columbiahttps://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/housing-tenancy/local-governments-and-housing/housing-initiatives/transit-oriented-development-areas
- BC Governmentretrieved 2026-05-09· published 2023-11-08New legislation requires homes near transithttps://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2023HOUS0153-001706
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Every claim on this page is sourced to a primary government, regulator, or industry-association URL. We re-verify quarterly; the verification dates below show when each source was last confirmed against the live government page.
- BC Governmentretrieved 2026-05-08Small-scale multi-unit housing (SSMUH)https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/housing-tenancy/local-governments-and-housing/housing-initiatives/smale-scale-multi-unit-housing
- Otherretrieved 2026-05-08Township of Langley — Zoning and Bylaws (Bylaw 6020)https://www.tol.ca/en/services/zoning-and-bylaws.aspx
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