Best Vancouver neighbourhoods for an Investor

Where do rental demand, yield and appreciation line up for a buy-to-let purchase? 22 of 22 Vancouver neighbourhoods qualify, top 22 shown. Updated 2026.

How this ranking is built
No hard filter

This page applies no hard filter. An investor's real constraints (financing, target yield, unit type) are set by the deal rather than the neighbourhood, so everything with enough evidence is ranked and the yield signal is shown per row.

22 of 22 neighbourhoods qualify.

Then ranked on
rental yield25%value growth20%entry price15%transit access15%safety15%development activity10%

These weights are our judgment about what this situation usually calls for, not a fact about the city. They are published here so you can disagree with them.

1
Fairview
71 rental yield77 value growth76 entry price

Trade-off: development activity at 47 out of 100.

66
2
Downtown
73 rental yield94 transit access81 entry price

Trade-off: value growth at 35 out of 100.

65
3
Mount Pleasant
69 rental yield59 value growth78 transit access

Trade-off: safety at 37 out of 100.

63
4
West End
73 rental yield61 value growth70 entry price

Trade-off: development activity at 35 out of 100.

60
5
Kitsilano
56 rental yield66 value growth60 safety

Trade-off: transit access at 35 out of 100.

54
6
Kensington-Cedar Cottage
61 value growth67 transit access38 rental yield

Trade-off: rental yield at 38 out of 100.

53
7
Renfrew-Collingwood
76 transit access43 rental yield52 value growth

Trade-off: rental yield at 43 out of 100.

53
8
Killarney
63 value growth48 rental yield56 entry price

Trade-off: transit access at 46 out of 100.

52
9
Riley Park
65 value growth57 safety33 rental yield

Trade-off: rental yield at 33 out of 100.

50
10
Strathcona
44 rental yield51 value growth64 entry price

Trade-off: safety at 34 out of 100.

50
11
Grandview-Woodland
54 rental yield68 entry price48 value growth

Trade-off: development activity at 35 out of 100.

48
12
South Cambie
45 rental yield50 value growth78 development activity

Trade-off: safety at 32 out of 100.

48
13
Hastings-Sunrise
49 value growth36 rental yield50 entry price

Trade-off: transit access at 30 out of 100.

45
14
Victoria-Fraserview
54 value growth63 safety50 transit access

Trade-off: rental yield at 25 out of 100.

44
15
Sunset
53 value growth46 safety27 rental yield

Trade-off: rental yield at 27 out of 100.

41
16
Marpole
51 rental yield58 entry price27 value growth

Trade-off: transit access at 13 out of 100.

38
17
Arbutus Ridge
36 rental yield57 safety31 value growth

Trade-off: entry price at 25 out of 100.

37
18
Oakridge
37 rental yield43 safety31 value growth

Trade-off: entry price at 28 out of 100.

36
19
Kerrisdale
57 safety34 rental yield60 development activity

Trade-off: entry price at 17 out of 100.

34
20
West Point Grey
30 rental yield50 safety71 development activity

Trade-off: transit access at 9 out of 100.

33
21
Dunbar-Southlands
58 safety70 development activity32 value growth

Trade-off: transit access at 14 out of 100.

31
22
Shaughnessy
50 safety65 development activity32 transit access

Trade-off: entry price at 12 out of 100.

28

Frequently asked

What is the best Vancouver neighbourhood for an Investor?
On this ranking, Fairview leads at 66 out of 100, driven by rental yield, value growth, entry price. Downtown and Mount Pleasant follow. There is no single best neighbourhood: this is the ranking that falls out of the priorities published above, and different priorities give a different order.
How is the Investor ranking calculated?
All 22 recommendable Vancouver neighbourhoods are scored on a weighted blend of rental yield 25%, value growth 20%, entry price 15%, transit access 15%, safety 15%, development activity 10%, using population-weighted dissemination-area data. The weighting is our editorial judgment about what this situation usually calls for, published here so you can disagree with it and re-rank on your own priorities.
What data is missing from this ranking?
Scores are computed only where the underlying data exists. A factor with no data for a neighbourhood is dropped from that neighbourhood's average rather than scored as zero, and each row states which factors were unavailable. Neighbourhoods with data for less than half their weighted factors are not ranked at all.
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