Rent Reveal Methodology

Where the data comes from

The dataset holds 427 rental listings advertised across 17 Vancouver neighbourhoods, collected up to August 2026. Each listing records neighbourhood, monthly asking rent, bedrooms, bathrooms, square footage where advertised, and features such as parking, in-suite laundry, balcony, furnishing, pet policy and whether utilities are included.

These are asking rents from public rental advertisements — what landlords list units for, not what tenants signed, and not a government survey.

How listings are cleaned

• Listings without a neighbourhood or a positive rent are dropped.
• Shared and roommate listings are flagged separately and never mixed into whole-unit statistics.
• Where square footage is missing, a size typical for that bedroom count is used for similarity scoring only — never for reported rent-per-square-foot figures.
• Rent-per-square-foot statistics use only listings with an advertised square footage.

How comparables are scored

Each listing is scored against the apartment you describe. Neighbourhood and bedroom count dominate the score, followed by square footage, bathrooms and features. The highest-scoring comparables are kept, statistical outliers are removed using the interquartile range, and the median of what remains becomes the estimated market rent. The 25th to 75th percentile of the same set becomes the typical range.

The median is used rather than the average because a handful of luxury listings would otherwise pull the estimate upward. The average match percentage shown with each result tells you how close the comparables actually were.

Sample-size rules

A neighbourhood page is only published when it has at least five comparable listings, and a bedroom breakdown appears only when that bedroom type has at least five listings in the relevant area. Feature comparisons need listings on both sides of the comparison. Combinations that fall short are not published, so no page on this site rests on one or two listings.

City-wide reference figures

• Median advertised rent: $2,500 per month
• Average advertised rent: $2,725 per month
• Middle 50% of listings: $2,075 to $3,275 per month
• Full range: $520 to $8,000 per month
• Average rent per square foot: $3.86

Limitations

• Condition, renovations, view, floor level and building age are not captured.
• Asking rents can differ from what a unit finally rents for.
• The dataset is a snapshot, not a live feed; figures reflect the market as of August 2026.
• Rent Reveal provides informational market estimates only — not financial, legal or tenancy advice.