Vancouver UBC Condos & Apartments for Sale MLS Listings
About UBC Condos for Sale
At the top of this page are current listings of UBC Condos for Sale in each of the five residential UBC neighbourhoods. Each of these neighbourhoods in UBC – Hampton Place, East Campus, Hawthorn Place, Chancellor Place, and Wesbrook Village – has a distinctive personality and unique characteristics.
Hampton Place UBC is the first residential development on campus. UBC Properties Trust started building Hampton Place in the early 1990s.
East Campus is closest to UBC Dental School, Medical School, and Pharmacy School. It is also next to University Village UBC. University Village Food Court is where all the UBC students go for lunch and buy food. Besides food, you can find other services and shops including University Pharmacy UBC, Medical & Dental Clinic, Bank, Staples, and Starbucks.
Wesbrook Village is the newest residential development along the Wesbrook Mall on the south side of the UBC Campus. University Hill Secondary School, Save-on-Foods, and Wesbrook Village Community Centre are all located in the Wesbrook Village.
The neighbourhoods are micro-communities in themselves. They all joined in context and community with the larger UBC Campus area that lies to the west of Vancouver. The current total UBC population is over 60,000 residents.
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Why Buy a UBC Condo?
People choose to live in UBC's integrated community for several reasons. For students and those who conduct research, advanced study or work on campus, such as Professors, Teachers, Department Managers, Researchers, UBC Hospital staff and the like, easy commuting from home to work is an apparent reason. However, many non-faculty professionals, retirees and families opt for condo living at UBC for many other compelling reasons.
Condos for Sale UBC
Since January 1, 2022, the average list price for UBC Condo has been $1,241,534, and the average sold price is $1,158,060. The average days it takes to sell a UBC Condo is 52 days.
Parkland, Green Space, and Waterfront Living
UBC campus, the surrounding University Endowment Lands (UEL) and parkland are collectively a rural area and not part of the City Of Vancouver. Living on rural land at UBC doesn't feel as if you are anywhere close to a city at all. Yet UBC is only a 22-minute drive away (11.1 km) to downtown Vancouver and a mere 5- to 10-minute drive away from the nearby, trendy and upscale Vancouver neighbourhoods of Point Grey and Kitsilano, full of restaurants, shops, boutiques and cafés.
Surrounded by ocean and forest, the UBC region is a leader in sustainability and conservation. Outdoorsy residents enjoy immediate access to the adjacent Pacific Spirit Park's 763 hectares of forested walking, biking and hiking trails, which stretch across Point Grey. The peninsula's shoreline touches the Fraser River, the Strait of Georgia and Burrard Inlet, offering easy beach access and breathtaking ocean vistas.
Excellent Schools, Amenities, and Infrastructure
The UBC area is a hub of activities, programs and services designed to support education, family life and recreation. UBC neighbourhoods are child-friendly and promote healthy families through community activities, workshops, support programs and daycare services. With the region's low crime rate and a strong sense of community, UBC parents and retirees feel safe and at ease walking alone or with family and friends around the campus community.
Athletes and active residents also appreciate access to world-class fitness facilities, including the UBC Pool, The UBC Tennis Centre, Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre, The Student Recreation Centre and enclosed BirdCoop Fitness Centre and Thunderbird Park Track and Field facilities.
For families with school-age children, the area schools are highly-ranked. The new University Hill Secondary School, locally known as U-Hill, was recently relocated to the Wesbrook Village neighbourhood. University Hill Secondary ranked as the Number 1 Public Secondary School in the province since 1995. It is also the only public school in the BC to have received a 10.0 mark from the Fraser Institute, and it has regularly tied for first in the past few years with BC's top private schools in the Fraser Institute's Report Card.
The new $29-million Norma Rose Point School is a combined K-8 Elementary and Middle School. It is situated on the former University Hill Secondary site, southeast of campus, nearest to the Hampton Place and East Campus neighbourhoods. It offers a variety of a wide range of 21st-century learning tools, including a digital media lab, wireless internet access and classrooms are designed to support the use of integrated technologies.
With excellent schools and a well-planned infrastructure that includes nearby shopping, green spaces, fitness facilities and outdoor recreational opportunities, UBC has much to offer.
It is important to note that the majority of the UBC Apartments and Townhouses are Leasehold properties. For more information about leasehold property ownership, please visit our UBC Houses for Sale page.
Other UBC Housing Options
Besides buying a UBC Condo, there are also other options available for students and UBC faculty members. The UBC Housing Office can assist and provide alternative UBC Family Housing options.
UBC Apartments for rent
If you are looking for UBC Apartments for Rent, you can visit the following websites.
Wesbrook Properties. The Wesbrook Properties Rental Management Services manages many rental properties on behalf of UBC Properties Trust.
University MarketPlace. The University MarketPlace manages 108 luxury apartments in the University Village area.
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