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Port Moody Centre — A Buyer’s Guide

Last reviewed by Bronson Job PREC, REALTOR®Sources: City of Port Moody OCP, Port Moody Centre Plan (2014), Inlet Centre Sub-Area Plan, Moody Centre TOD Area Plan, School District 43 (Coquitlam), REBGV (Port Moody sub-area), Province of BC (Bill 47 TOD, Bill 44 SSMUH), Port Moody Station MuseumCC BY 4.0How we verify

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Port Moody Centre is the only Tri-Cities town centre with two SkyTrain stations inside its walkshed, and it pairs that transit with a working Burrard Inlet waterfront at Rocky Point Park, the Brewer’s Row craft brewery cluster, Heritage Woods Secondary’s International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme catchment, and the City of Port Moody’s “City of the Arts” cultural fabric. The inventory is varied — a concrete tower core in Suter Brook, a transitional industrial grid in Moody Centre, established mid-rise in Newport Village, older cottages at Rocky Point, and post-1995 family detached on the Heritage Woods slope — so what a buyer is choosing depends sharply on the sub-area. This guide walks all five, the schools, the two stations, and the planning frameworks. It pairs with the Port Moody Centre area page.

The map

The five sub-areas, mapped

Port Moody Centre is five named pieces, each at its own walking distance to a SkyTrain station and each under its own planning framework. Inlet Centre / Suter Brook Village is the high-density TOD tower core; Moody Centre / Brewer’s Row is the older, transitional industrial-to-mixed-use grid around the second SkyTrain station; Newport Village is the established mid-rise village to the north of Suter Brook; Rocky Point waterfront is the inlet-edge cottage band; and the Heritage Woods slope is the post-1995 family-detached neighbourhood east of Ioco Road.

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Satellite view of the Port Moody Centre frame — Inlet Centre Station anchors the Suter Brook / Newport Village core, with Moody Centre Station and Brewer Row to the west, Rocky Point on Burrard Inlet to the north, and the Heritage Woods slope east of Ioco Road.

Inlet Centre / Suter Brook Village

49.280°N, 122.850°W

Inlet Centre is the high-density Transit-Oriented Development core of Port Moody Centre, anchored by Inlet Centre SkyTrain Station (Evergreen Extension, opened December 2, 2016). Suter Brook Village is the master-planned mixed-use precinct immediately south of the station — six- to twenty-six-storey concrete condo towers above ground-floor retail (Thrifty Foods, Shoppers Drug Mart, Starbucks, restaurants, a Cineplex movie theatre), with a townhouse podium ring around the tower core. Inventory skews newer (built 2008–present) and is overwhelmingly stratified: 1- and 2-bedroom condos transacting in the broad Tri-Cities concrete-tower band, with a meaningful share of square-foot-efficient floor plans purpose-built for the SkyTrain commuter. The Port Moody Recreation Complex (Murray Street) is a short walk west; Inlet Park is a short walk north toward the inlet. The Inlet Centre Sub-Area Plan governs density and design here and is the plan to read before pricing redevelopment optionality on any older parcel.

Moody Centre / Brewer's Row

49.280°N, 122.840°W

Moody Centre is the older heart of Port Moody — the historic 1880s townsite where the Canadian Pacific Railway's transcontinental line first reached saltwater (Port Moody was the original western terminus of the CPR before the line was extended to Vancouver in 1887). The contemporary character is a transitional industrial-to-mixed-use grid along Murray Street and Spring Street: heritage cottages on small lots, post-war detached, low-rise rental, and the genuinely distinctive Brewer's Row craft brewery cluster — Yellow Dog Brewing (founded 2014), Moody Ales, Twin Sails Brewing, and several adjacent tasting rooms within a few blocks of each other. Moody Centre SkyTrain Station (Evergreen Extension, December 2, 2016) anchors the southwest corner; the City's Moody Centre Transit-Oriented Development Area Plan (under active update) is repositioning the brewery-adjacent industrial blocks for higher-density mixed-use. Inventory is the most heterogeneous in Port Moody Centre — older rental, redevelopment-pending parcels, a small share of pre-2000 strata, and a handful of newer infill projects.

Newport Village

49.285°N, 122.850°W

Newport Village is the established Mediterranean-styled mixed-use village immediately north of Suter Brook, set around a central piazza with European-village massing — restaurants, a Thrifty Foods, Shoppers Drug Mart, professional offices on the upper levels, and a podium of low-rise residential. The village pre-dates the SkyTrain (opened in stages from the late 1990s through the early 2000s) but became a TOD beneficiary when Inlet Centre Station opened in 2016. Inventory is mostly mid-rise condo (built circa 1998–2008), with a meaningful share of larger-format owner-occupier units rather than investor product. Newport Village reads as the more domestic, lower-density counterpart to Suter Brook's tower core — same SkyTrain proximity, different density and demographic.

Rocky Point waterfront

49.288°N, 122.847°W

Rocky Point Park is the principal Burrard Inlet waterfront amenity for Port Moody Centre — a city park on the head of the inlet with a swimming beach, a working pier, the Pajo's Fish & Chips concession, the Port Moody Spirit of the Sea sculpture, the Rocky Point Boat Launch, the Shoreline Trail (a multi-use trail that runs along the inlet and connects to the Trans Canada Trail), and the Port Moody Farmers Market on Sundays during the summer season. The Rocky Point waterfront residential band — older detached cottages on Williams Street and the adjacent grid, plus a small share of post-2000 condo product — carries an inlet-edge premium that is real but uneven (lot orientation, water-view sightlines, and proximity to the park entrance all matter more than headline distance). Brewer's Row and the Moody Centre SkyTrain Station are a short walk south.

Heritage Woods slope

49.275°N, 122.830°W

The Heritage Woods slope is the sloped detached neighbourhood east of Ioco Road, set into the forested ridge that climbs from the Burrard Inlet south shore toward Heritage Mountain. Heritage Woods Secondary School (1300 David Avenue) is the catchment anchor — a Coquitlam School District (SD 43) secondary that runs the IB Diploma Programme, drawing application-stream students from across the Tri-Cities and giving the slope its school-catchment premium. The detached inventory is post-1995 conventional family product on ~5,000–7,000 sq ft lots, with a smaller share of newer-build executive on larger parcels at the upper elevations. The slope sits outside the immediate SkyTrain walkshed for both Inlet Centre and Moody Centre stations — driving, cycling, or local-bus access to Inlet Centre is the realistic commute pattern. The school catchment, the forest interface, and the inlet-view sightlines from upper-elevation lots are the three factors that price this sub-area.

Catchments

Heritage Woods Secondary and the SD 43 IB catchment

Port Moody Centre falls inside School District 43 (Coquitlam). Common elementary feeders for the various Port Moody Centre sub-areas include Pleasantside Elementary, Moody Elementary, and Aspenwood Elementary; the middle-school feeder for grades 6–8 is most commonly Moody Middle School. The specific elementary feeder depends on the address — Suter Brook tower addresses, Moody Centre cottage addresses, and Heritage Woods slope detached addresses do not all feed the same elementary, and the SD 43 catchment map is the authoritative reference. Verify the live catchment for the specific address before paying a school-catchment premium.

For secondary, the Heritage Woods slope and parts of the eastern Port Moody Centre grid feed Heritage Woods Secondary (1300 David Avenue) — one of the IB Diploma Programme schools in SD 43. The Pre-IB Programme runs Grades 9–10 and the IB Diploma Programme runs Grades 11–12. IB admission is an application stream — open to SD 43 residents by application — not pure catchment, so paying a Heritage Woods catchment premium does not automatically guarantee IB Diploma admission for the household’s student. Other Port Moody Centre addresses (depending on the specific lot) feed Port Moody Secondary at 300 Albert Street, which has its own established academic and extra-curricular programmes.

The City of Port Moody’s family demographic skews well-educated and the school-catchment effect on Port Moody Centre pricing is measurable — particularly on Heritage Woods slope detached and on family-format Suter Brook townhouses. The catchment buys you eligibility-to-apply for IB; the IB application timeline, the specific cohort year, and the household’s academic record are what convert eligibility into admission.

Transit

Two SkyTrain stations — Inlet Centre and Moody Centre

Port Moody Centre is the only Tri-Cities town centre with two SkyTrain stations inside its walkshed: Inlet Centre Station (anchoring the Suter Brook / Newport Village TOD core) and Moody Centre Station (anchoring the older Moody Centre / Brewer’s Row precinct). Both opened on December 2, 2016 as part of the Evergreen Extension of the Millennium Line, which extended the SkyTrain network from Lougheed Town Centre through Burquitlam, Moody Centre, Inlet Centre, Coquitlam Central, Lincoln, and Lafarge Lake-Douglas.

From an Inlet Centre or Moody Centre Station platform, a downtown Vancouver commute via the Millennium Line transfer to the Expo Line at Commercial-Broadway runs in roughly 35–45 minutes door-to-door depending on time of day — meaningfully more competitive than a parallel-corridor SkyTrain commute from Surrey or Langley. The Heritage Woods slope (east of Ioco Road) sits outside the strict 800-metre walkable radius of either station — driving, cycling, or local-bus access is the realistic commute pattern for the slope. For TOD price-premium math, the Suter Brook / Inlet Centre core, parts of Moody Centre, and parts of Newport Village fall inside the 800-metre Bill 47 TOD radii; Rocky Point waterfront cottages are typically just outside.

The two-station configuration creates a genuinely distinctive walkshed: a Port Moody Centre buyer can effectively choose between the Inlet Centre tower-and-podium TOD core and the Moody Centre transitional / heritage character precinct without sacrificing rapid-transit access to either. This optionality is part of what underwrites the Port Moody Centre lifestyle premium.

The 800-metre radius, in 2 sentences

BC TOD literature identifies roughly 800 metres (~10 minutes walking) as the radius inside which TOD price premiums concentrate. For Port Moody Centre, that radius covers Suter Brook / Inlet Centre broadly, Moody Centre / Brewer’s Row broadly, parts of Newport Village, and the southern edge of the Rocky Point waterfront band — with the Heritage Woods slope generally outside both station radii.

Buyers paying a SkyTrain-corridor premium need to confirm the actual walking distance from the specific address to the closer of the two stations — not the driving distance, not the “close to SkyTrain” marketing language — before paying the premium. The two-station configuration means most Port Moody Centre addresses are inside one radius or the other; few are inside both.

Bill 47 TOD

Transit-Oriented Areas tiers

BC’s Bill 47 (the Transit-Oriented Areas Act, in force 2024) requires municipalities including the City of Port Moody to allow specified densities in tiered radii around designated rapid-transit stations. The framework is layered — Tier 1 typically covers parcels within ~200 metres of a station (highest density / highest FAR / tallest height eligibility), Tier 2 covers ~400 metres (mid-density), and Tier 3 covers ~800 metres (lowest of the three but still above baseline single-family zoning). The exact density and height entitlements vary by station class and by municipal designation.

For Port Moody Centre specifically, both Inlet Centre Station and Moody Centre Station are designated rapid-transit stations — the Bill 47 tier radii apply to both. The Inlet Centre tiers cover most of Suter Brook and parts of Newport Village; the Moody Centre tiers cover most of Moody Centre / Brewer’s Row and reach northward toward the Rocky Point waterfront. The City’s Moody Centre TOD Area Plan (in active update through 2024–2026) is operationalising the Bill 47 statutory minimums against the existing Port Moody Centre Plan policy framework. Verify the current Bill 47 designation against the live Province TOD page and the City OCP layer for the specific parcel before pricing any redevelopment optionality — the legislation is still being operationalised at the municipal level.

See the cross-link to /glossary/transit-oriented-development-areas for the glossary entry and the /guides/transit-oriented-development-bc deep-dive guide.

The waterfront

Rocky Point Park — the working inlet

Rocky Point Park is the principal Burrard Inlet waterfront amenity for Port Moody Centre — a city park on the head of the inlet that anchors the lifestyle bundle differentiating Port Moody Centre from every other Tri-Cities town centre. The park includes a swimming beach, a working pier, the Pajo’s Fish & Chips concession, the Spirit of the Sea sculpture, the Rocky Point Boat Launch, the Shoreline Trail (a multi-use trail running along the inlet that connects into the Trans Canada Trail network), Inlet Park immediately west, and the seasonal Sunday Port Moody Farmers Market.

For real estate, Rocky Point Park is the reason the Port Moody Centre lifestyle premium isn’t purely a SkyTrain story. Detached cottages on Williams Street and the adjacent Rocky Point grid that have an inlet-view sightline transact at a measurable premium to interior Moody Centre detached on similar lots. Inlet-view condos in the Suter Brook tower core and parts of Newport Village carry their own premium — typically a $50,000–$200,000 range over comparable interior-facing units in the same building, depending on tower, floor, and view quality. Verify the view-quality premium against recent comps in the specific tower or building.

Port Moody Centre is a working inlet. Log booms, tug traffic, the rail line that hugs the south shore, and the Pacific Coast Terminals industrial frontage at the head of the inlet are part of the view, not a flaw. Buyers who want a sanitised waterfront experience price differently from buyers who like the working-inlet character — the same view sightline can read as a premium or a reservation depending on the buyer.

Culture

Brewer’s Row and the City of the Arts

Brewer’s Row is the craft brewery cluster centred on Murray Street and the adjacent Moody Centre industrial / mixed-use grid. The anchor tenants include Yellow Dog Brewing (founded 2014), Moody Ales, and Twin Sails Brewing, with several adjacent tasting rooms and brewery-adjacent food businesses. The cluster is a measurable tourism and cultural asset for the City — identified as such in the Moody Centre TOD Area Plan, which explicitly aims to preserve the brewery-and-arts character as part of the higher-density redevelopment trajectory.

The City of Port Moody’s “City of the Arts” branding is formally adopted by Council and visible across municipal signage, tourism marketing, and the cultural infrastructure: the Port Moody Arts Centre (2425 St Johns Street) runs studios and gallery space; the Inlet Theatre at City Hall hosts community performance; the Port Moody Station Museum preserves the original CPR station building; the Port Moody Public Art Programme commissions civic public art; and the City actively supports artist studio space in the Moody Centre / Murray Street corridor.

For a buyer, the practical implication is that Port Moody Centre’s cultural amenity density per capita is high relative to comparable Lower Mainland suburbs, the City’s planning policy actively preserves studio space, and the Brewer’s Row cluster is unlikely to be displaced wholesale by redevelopment — the explicit policy goal in the Moody Centre TOD Area Plan is to integrate the breweries into the redeveloped urban fabric rather than to redevelop them out.

Heritage

CPR western terminus (1885–1887)

Port Moody was the original western terminus of the Canadian Pacific Railway’s transcontinental line. The first transcontinental train arrived at Port Moody on July 4, 1886 (the formal completion having been the previous year’s Last Spike at Craigellachie on November 7, 1885). The terminus designation lasted only briefly: the CPR negotiated with the Province for an extension into Vancouver, and on May 23, 1887, the first scheduled passenger train ran the extended line into the new Vancouver terminus.

The original Port Moody CPR station building survives and is operated as the Port Moody Station Museum, which preserves the railway heritage and the early history of the Moody Centre townsite. For Port Moody Centre real estate, the heritage matters in two practical ways: the Moody Centre street grid still reflects the original 1880s CPR townsite layout (which is part of why Moody Centre reads as a different urban texture than the master-planned Suter Brook tower core), and the City’s Moody Centre TOD Area Plan explicitly identifies heritage character preservation as a planning policy goal alongside the higher-density redevelopment.

Bill 44 SSMUH

The multiplex overlay on the detached grid

BC’s Bill 44 (the Housing Statutes (Residential Development) Amendment Act, in force from 2024) requires municipalities including the City of Port Moody to allow Small-Scale Multi-Unit Housing (SSMUH) on most single-family and duplex lots, with the specific allowed unit count varying by lot size and existing servicing capacity. Practically, this means Heritage Woods slope detached lots, Moody Centre cottage lots, and the Rocky Point waterfront detached grid are all subject to SSMUH redevelopment optionality (typically 3–4 units per lot, with up to 6 units in larger lots near transit subject to municipal implementation).

The Bill 47 Transit-Oriented Areas framework typically supersedes baseline SSMUH for parcels within the tier radii of Inlet Centre and Moody Centre stations — those parcels carry higher density entitlements than SSMUH alone. Heritage Woods slope detached lots, sitting outside both station radii, get the SSMUH overlay but not the Bill 47 overlay. Verify the live City of Port Moody zoning and OCP layer for the specific parcel before pricing any SSMUH or TOD redevelopment optionality. See the Bill 44 / SSMUH guide for the deeper provincial-framework explainer.

Property mix

~65/20/15 condo / townhouse / detached

Port Moody Centre’s inventory mix is roughly 65–70% condo / apartment, 15–20% townhouse, and 10–15% detached — numbers that reflect the deliberate Inlet Centre Sub-Area Plan and the Moody Centre TOD Area Plan concentrating multifamily product around the two SkyTrain stations. The mix varies sharply by sub-area: Suter Brook / Inlet Centre is overwhelmingly concrete tower condo, Newport Village is mid-rise condo with a meaningful share of larger-format owner-occupier units, Moody Centre / Brewer’s Row is heterogeneous (older rental, transitional industrial, some new infill), Rocky Point waterfront is mostly older detached cottages with a small condo share, and the Heritage Woods slope is overwhelmingly post-1995 detached on conventional family lots.

The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver (REBGV) reports Port Moody as one of its sub-areas; the live REBGV benchmark for apartment / townhouse / detached product moves with the market and should be pulled fresh at offer time. Sub-area variation is meaningful enough that a single “Port Moody Centre benchmark” can mislead the offer math — Suter Brook tower condos, Newport Village mid-rise, Rocky Point cottages, and Heritage Woods slope detached do not move on the same per-square-foot rhythm.

Bylaws

Zoning context, OCP, and the four sub-area plans

Port Moody Centre is governed by the City of Port Moody Official Community Plan, the Port Moody Centre Plan (adopted 2014, with subsequent updates), the Inlet Centre Sub-Area Plan (covering the Suter Brook / Newport Village TOD core), and the Moody Centre TOD Area Plan (in active update through 2024–2026 to align with Bill 47 statutory densities). The OCP designates Port Moody Centre as the City’s primary growth area with the highest concentration of permitted density.

Inlet Centre is zoned predominantly Comprehensive Development (CD) at high density to support the tower-and-podium TOD core; Moody Centre is transitioning from older residential and light-industrial zoning to RM-3 mid-density and CD designations as the TOD Area Plan operationalises Bill 47; surrounding detached areas including the Heritage Woods slope and parts of the Rocky Point waterfront are zoned RS-1 single-family with the Bill 44 SSMUH overlay layered on top.

Pull the current OCP layer plus the relevant sub-area plan for the specific parcel and confirm whether any redevelopment-relevant overlay is in active consultation or Council readings before pricing optionality — the Moody Centre TOD Area Plan in particular is moving through readings, and the entitlements for any individual parcel can shift between Council meetings.

Market snapshot · May 2026

Port Moody Centre · 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).

See the Port Moody Centre 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.

Frequently asked questions

  • What is the Heritage Woods Secondary IB programme?
    Heritage Woods Secondary (1300 David Avenue) is one of the IB Diploma Programme schools in SD 43 (Coquitlam). Pre-IB runs Grades 9-10; IB Diploma runs Grades 11-12. IB admission is an application stream open to SD 43 residents — paying a Heritage Woods catchment premium does not automatically guarantee IB Diploma admission. Verify the live SD 43 catchment map (some western addresses feed alternate secondaries) and confirm the IB application timeline.
  • Are the Brewer Row industrial zones being rezoned?
    Yes. The City of Port Moody Moody Centre Transit-Oriented Development Area Plan (in active update through 2024-2026) is repositioning the brewery-adjacent and station-adjacent industrial blocks for higher-density mixed-use, with the explicit policy goal of preserving the Brewer Row character. Bill 47 overlays Moody Centre Station with statutory minimum densities the City has had to operationalise. Pull the current TOD Area Plan layer for the specific parcel.
  • How does the Burrard Inlet waterfront premium price?
    The Rocky Point waterfront premium is real and uneven. The factors that matter most are direct water-view sightlines, proximity to the Rocky Point Park entrance and Shoreline Trail, and lot orientation (north-facing toward the inlet versus south-facing toward the Barnet Highway corridor). Inlet-view condos in Suter Brook and Newport Village commonly carry a $50,000–$200,000 premium over comparable interior-facing units in the same building. Port Moody Centre is a working inlet — log booms, tug traffic, and the Pacific Coast Terminals industrial frontage are part of the view.
  • How close is Port Moody Centre to the SkyTrain?
    Port Moody Centre is the only Tri-Cities town centre with two SkyTrain stations inside its walkshed — Inlet Centre Station (Suter Brook / Newport Village TOD core) and Moody Centre Station (older Moody Centre / Brewer Row precinct). Both opened December 2, 2016 as part of the Evergreen Extension. Downtown Vancouver commute via the Millennium Line transfer to the Expo Line at Commercial-Broadway runs 35-45 minutes door-to-door. Heritage Woods slope sits outside the 800-metre walkshed.
  • Why is Port Moody called City of the Arts?
    City of the Arts is the City Port Moody official branding. The Port Moody Arts Centre at 2425 St Johns Street runs studios and gallery space; the Inlet Theatre at City Hall hosts community performance; the Port Moody Station Museum preserves the original 1880s CPR station building (Port Moody was the original western terminus); the Port Moody Public Art Programme commissions civic public art; and the City actively supports artist studio space in the Moody Centre corridor as part of the TOD Area Plan.
  • What is the property mix in Port Moody Centre?
    Roughly 65-70% condo / apartment, 15-20% townhouse, and 10-15% detached — reflecting the Inlet Centre Sub-Area Plan and Moody Centre TOD Area Plan concentrating multifamily product around the two SkyTrain stations. Suter Brook / Inlet Centre is concrete tower; Newport Village is mid-rise condo; Moody Centre / Brewer Row is heterogeneous (older rental, transitional industrial, new infill); Rocky Point is older detached cottages; Heritage Woods slope is post-1995 detached on conventional family lots.

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