Monthly data report
BC Presale Price Report — October 2026
Newbuild tracks 373 presale and new-construction projects actively selling across 20 British Columbia cities — 63,825 homes in total. As of October 1, 2026, the median starting price across those projects is $719,900, and the median entry price per square foot is $958.
Data captured October 1, 2026. Figures are frozen on publication and are never revised.
What the October 2026 numbers show
Every claim below is drawn from the figures in this report and is frozen alongside them. Each carries the limit of what it can be read to mean.
The completion pipeline thins out in 2027
14,382 homes across 92 projects are scheduled to finish in 2027 — 35% fewer than the 22,017 due in 2026, and 25% fewer than the 19,139 scheduled for 2028.
Completion years are developer estimates, not guarantees — presale timelines slip routinely, and a project that misses 2026 lands in 2027.
Burnaby is building more homes than Vancouver out of a fraction of the projects
Burnaby's 29 selling projects account for 16,537 homes — an average of 570 each. Vancouver has the most projects of any BC city at 77, but 7,294 homes, or 95 each.
Unit counts are the total homes announced for a project, including phases not yet released for sale.
Entry price per square foot varies 3.3× across BC
The entry-level home runs a median $1,565 per square foot in West Vancouver and $480 in Mission, across the cities where we track at least three selling projects.
This is each project's lowest published price divided by its smallest floorplan — the cost of getting in the door, not a market-wide price per foot.
Langley holds one of BC's cheapest presales and one of its highest median starting prices
The cheapest home in Langley starts at $299,900, among the three lowest of any BC city we track. Across its 40 selling projects, though, the median Langley project starts at $814,900 — above the provincial median of $719,900.
A median describes the middle project, not the typical home. One cheap project does not make a city affordable, and a high median does not mean nothing cheap is available.
Townhouses are nearly as common as condos
197 of the selling projects include townhouses, against 215 that include condos. A project offering both counts once in each.
This counts projects, not homes — we do not break unit counts out by home type.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vancouver | 77 | $444,900 | $859,010 | $1,265 | 7,294 |
| Surrey | 61 | $299,900 | $499,900 | $777 | 13,942 |
| Coquitlam | 45 | $379,900 | $588,900 | $958 | 8,228 |
| Langley | 40 | $299,900 | $814,900 | $623 | 4,301 |
| Burnaby | 29 | $372,508 | $619,900 | $1,135 | 16,537 |
| Abbotsford | 24 | $279,900 | $654,900 | $522 | 2,387 |
| North Vancouver | 18 | $499,900 | $858,950 | $1,202 | 1,733 |
| Richmond | 14 | $445,000 | $1,093,840 | $1,078 | 1,200 |
| Delta | 12 | $439,900 | $794,394 | $849 | 2,265 |
| Maple Ridge | 12 | $349,900 | $749,900 | $547 | 1,068 |
| Chilliwack | 8 | $369,900 | $637,400 | $489 | 625 |
| Mission | 7 | $449,900 | $599,900 | $480 | 527 |
| Port Coquitlam | 7 | $389,900 | $475,000 | $864 | 422 |
| New Westminster | 6 | $419,900 | $647,900 | $887 | 1,358 |
| Port Moody | 4 | $399,900 | $629,900 | $1,007 | 627 |
| West Vancouver | 4 | $989,900 | $1,049,500 | $1,565 | 673 |
| White Rock | 2 | $639,900 | $814,450 | $1,109 | 387 |
| Surrey | 1 | $819,800 | $819,800 | $589 | 24 |
| Pitt Meadows | 1 | $939,900 | $939,900 | $696 | 220 |
| Township of Langley | 1 | $1,800,000 | $1,800,000 | $773 | 7 |
A median over a small number of projects moves easily — read the projects column alongside it.
Entry price per square foot, ranked
What it costs to get into the cheapest home in each city, per square foot — the clearest single view of the province’s price spread.
What changed since September 2026
Since September 2026: 33 projects came to market, 14 stopped selling (sold out, paused or withdrawn), 18 cut their published starting price and 11 raised it.
Starting price cut18
- Lakewood E13Vancouver$1,549,895 → $799,900 -48.4%
- YorkVancouver$1,900,000 → $1,299,900 -31.6%
- ThesisVancouver$609,900 → $499,900 -18.0%
- Rowen W47thVancouver$649,900 → $538,800 -17.1%
- BotanicaCoquitlam$580,000 → $489,900 -15.5%
- LuxoraPort Coquitlam$539,900 → $459,000 -15.0%
- RindallPort Coquitlam$1,009,900 → $899,900 -10.9%
- Hamilton Village Phase 2 WestRichmond$498,800 → $445,000 -10.8%
- AnsokuVancouver$1,848,000 → $1,648,000 -10.8%
- RhodesVancouver$799,900 → $719,900 -10.0%
- Mountainview LaneChilliwack$399,900 → $369,900 -7.5%
- RocklinCoquitlam$949,900 → $889,900 -6.3%
- Elwynn GreenSurrey$899,900 → $849,900 -5.6%
- King and ColumbiaVancouver$1,649,000 → $1,569,000 -4.9%
- Unity SouthLangley$414,900 → $394,900 -4.8%
Showing the 15 largest of 18. The full set is in the CSV.
Starting price raised11
- 1818 AlberniVancouver$1,800,000 → $2,480,000 +37.8%
- Salt and MeadowDelta$380,000 → $474,900 +25.0%
- SOCO TwoCoquitlam$389,900 → $480,900 +23.3%
- Addition LivingLangley$829,000 → $929,000 +12.1%
- RaphaelVancouver$1,349,900 → $1,499,900 +11.1%
- Edgewood DuplexSurrey$1,099,900 → $1,149,900 +4.5%
- GlenmontSurrey$819,900 → $854,900 +4.3%
- PuraSurrey$369,900 → $379,900 +2.7%
- Sundays on GrantCoquitlam$499,900 → $509,900 +2.0%
- InspireMaple Ridge$344,900 → $349,900 +1.4%
- East RidgeAbbotsford$769,900 → $779,900 +1.3%
New to market 33
- Fellow Condos Second ReleaseSurreyfrom $369,900
- Aldergrove Town CentreLangleyfrom $419,900
- Fraser ManseSurreyfrom $449,900
- Park GeorgeSurreyfrom $458,900
- LexfordPort Coquitlamfrom $499,900
- South GroveAbbotsfordfrom $639,900
- 2 Burrard PlaceVancouverfrom $649,000
- Trailside at LynnNorth Vancouverfrom $650,000
- Marco PoloVancouverfrom $688,000
- W45thVancouverfrom $689,900
- OnyxBurnabyfrom $709,900
- Icon at Southgate CityBurnabyfrom $723,900
- WordsworthVancouverfrom $748,800
- Rising SunLangleyfrom $794,900
- The WestminsterSurreyfrom $799,000
- Slate & AshVancouverfrom $800,000
- Kin & Kismet Surreyfrom $819,800
- Water Tower HillAbbotsfordfrom $844,000
- Kitsilano BlockVancouverfrom $879,900
- CoralVancouverfrom $888,888
- Horseshoe Bay SanctuaryWest Vancouverfrom $999,000
- Shannon HeightsChilliwackfrom $1,149,900
- Ferndale Garden 4Richmondfrom $1,198,000
- Park & GranvilleVancouverfrom $1,200,000
- Quilchena WestRichmondfrom $1,249,900
When these homes finish
Announced completion dates across every selling and coming-soon project we track. Developer estimates, not guarantees — presale timelines slip routinely, which pushes homes later rather than earlier.
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.
Who compiles it. Newbuild, a BC presale database maintained by a licensed REALTOR® and a small data team. Who we are, where the data comes from and what it doesn’t cover.
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, October 2026. viewnewbuild.com/presale-price-report/2026-10
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.
Past reports
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.