Monthly data report
BC Presale Price Report — August 2026
Newbuild tracks 299 presale and new-construction projects actively selling across 18 British Columbia cities — 54,525 homes in total. As of August 12, 2026, the median starting price across those projects is $698,000, and the median entry price per square foot is $936.
Data captured August 12, 2026. Figures are frozen on publication and are never revised.
Presale starting prices by city
Every BC city where we track at least one actively-selling project, biggest market first. “Lowest” is the cheapest home advertised anywhere in that city; “median” is the middle project’s starting price.
| City | Projects | Lowest start | Median start | Entry $/sq ft | Homes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Surrey | 49 | $299,900 | $529,900 | $746 | 10,230 |
| Vancouver | 45 | $487,900 | $928,000 | $1,271 | 5,229 |
| Coquitlam | 44 | $379,900 | $584,450 | $966 | 8,278 |
| Langley | 38 | $299,900 | $814,900 | $638 | 3,870 |
| Burnaby | 25 | $372,508 | $649,000 | $1,135 | 15,364 |
| Abbotsford | 21 | $279,900 | $624,900 | $614 | 2,059 |
| North Vancouver | 18 | $499,900 | $858,950 | $1,198 | 1,376 |
| Maple Ridge | 11 | $366,600 | $719,900 | $577 | 1,032 |
| Delta | 9 | $439,900 | $809,900 | $720 | 1,803 |
| Richmond | 9 | $459,900 | $669,903 | $1,102 | 1,022 |
| Port Coquitlam | 6 | $389,900 | $507,450 | $929 | 305 |
| Chilliwack | 5 | $399,900 | $459,900 | $540 | 515 |
| Mission | 5 | $449,900 | $511,920 | $492 | 421 |
| New Westminster | 5 | $419,900 | $595,900 | $812 | 1,349 |
| Port Moody | 4 | $399,900 | $617,450 | $1,063 | 627 |
| West Vancouver | 2 | $989,900 | $1,184,950 | $1,559 | 438 |
| White Rock | 2 | $639,900 | $814,450 | $1,109 | 387 |
| Pitt Meadows | 1 | $939,900 | $939,900 | $696 | 220 |
A median over a small number of projects moves easily — read the projects column alongside it.
What changed this month
This is the first edition of the report, so there is nothing to compare it against yet. From next month on, this section lists every project that came to market, sold out, or changed its published starting price since the previous report.
When these homes finish
Announced completion dates across every selling and coming-soon project we track. Developer estimates, not guarantees — presale timelines slip routinely.
What’s being built
Home types across selling projects. A project offering both condos and townhomes counts once in each.
How these numbers are made
What’s counted. Every development in our database marked now selling, not archived, with a published starting price of $100,000 or more. Sold-out projects and unreleased “coming soon” projects are excluded from all price figures. The completion pipeline above is the one exception — it includes coming-soon projects, because their timelines are already announced.
“Starting price” means asking price. It is the lowest price the developer publishes for that project — the cheapest home available, before options, GST or negotiation. It is not a sale price. We do not have access to what units actually close at, and we never estimate it.
Entry price per square foot is a project’s lowest published price divided by its smallest published floorplan; the figure shown is the median of that across projects. It describes what the entry-level home in each building costs per foot — not an average across all unit sizes, and not a market-wide price per foot.
Medians, not averages. The median is the middle project, so a single luxury tower can’t drag the number. Where a city has only a handful of projects, its median is thin by definition — the projects column is printed next to it for that reason.
Frozen on publication. Figures are captured on the date shown and are never revised afterwards. Corrections and movement appear in the following month’s report, not by editing this one.
Coverage.BC’s Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley. This is not a census of the province — it is every project we have been able to verify, tracked continuously and updated as developers publish changes.
Using this report
Journalists, analysts and researchers are welcome to quote these figures. Please credit Newbuild and link back to this page.
Newbuild, BC Presale Price Report, August 2026. viewnewbuild.com/presale-price-report/2026-08
The report is compiled by Jerry (Chih Chi) Huang, a licensed British Columbia realtor and co-owner of Newbuild, from the project database behind viewnewbuild.com.
Prices are developer-published starting prices, change frequently, and are shown for research only — verify current pricing with each developer and their disclosure statement. This is not an offering for sale. Any such offering can only be made with a disclosure statement filed under the Real Estate Development Marketing Act (REDMA). E.&O.E.