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Burke Mountain · Presale Townhomes
Which Burke Mountain townhome releases are selling now, what to check in the disclosure statement and strata budget, and my honest take on who should buy a townhome presale on Burke — and who’s better off in resale.
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Which Burke Mountain townhome releases are selling now, what to check in the disclosure statement and strata budget, and my honest take on who should buy a townhome presale on Burke — and who’s better off in resale. Craig Johnston, Top 1% Team — Greater Vancouver REALTORS®, 2023–2025 and 47+ year Tri-Cities resident, can walk you through the local context. Free Strategy Call ends with a written one-page plan in 24 hours.
Who this is for
After more than nine years of living on Burke Mountain, I see three broad groups of townhome buyers. The three groups:
Thirty-somethings with one or two kids under six. Priced out of Burke detached, still want the schools and the safety. You want 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, a double garage, and a yard you don't have to mow. For context, the Burke Mountain townhouse benchmark was $1,040,600 in September 2026.
Coquitlam or PoCo detached home seller, kids out of the house, looking to unlock equity without leaving the Tri-Cities. You want single-level flow if possible, a den, a principal suite on the main. Budget depends on the plan and finishes, so compare each one with the townhouse benchmark above.
Corporate move from Toronto or Calgary. You can't yet tell Burke from Westwood, but someone told you Burke is the family neighbourhood. You want concierge, speed, and certainty. Speed and certainty usually matter most.
The developments that work for you are different depending on which group you're in. There's no universal "best" townhome presale on Burke — only the best one for your life.
Skin in the game
I've lived on Burke Mountain for more than nine years, and I've bought three properties here for my own family. I also stay in touch with sales teams at several of the developers building townhomes on the mountain, so I hear about releases, pricing changes and timing early.
When I walk you through a Burke Mountain townhome presale, we read the disclosure statement and the proposed strata budget together, check parking and storage on the strata plan, and compare the release with resale townhomes nearby before you commit.
The map
Pricing and availability shift weekly. These are the Burke Mountain townhome communities advertising homes for sale when I checked each developer’s own site on October 20, 2026. For the current release sheet, incentives and floor plans, I’ll pull the latest from each developer.
Now selling · checked October 20, 2026
Segment: Family, three- and four-bedroom townhomes. Status: Now selling, as of October 20, 2026. Polygon lists homes priced from $968,000.
Polygon’s newest Burke Mountain townhome project, at 3630 Harper Road. The homes are three and four bedrooms, from 1,380 to 2,220 sq ft, with heat pumps, Level 2 EV charging and double garages. Prices and available plans change week to week, so check the current price sheet before you visit. Polygon has completed several earlier Burke communities, including Kentwell, Ridgewood and Partington Creek, so you can walk finished homes and check resale results before you decide. If you’re seriously considering a Burke townhome and the timing fits, let me pull the current price sheet and compare it with resale townhomes nearby.
Project details first confirmed via the developer listing (Polygon Homes / Livabl, August 2026). Status, home sizes and pricing rechecked on Polygon’s Beaumont page on October 20, 2026. Specifications and pricing are subject to the developer’s final disclosure documents.
Now selling · checked October 20, 2026
Segment: Family, three- and four-bedroom townhomes. Status: Now selling. Polygon reopened sales with its Partington Creek South release and is inviting buyers to visit.
The next release in Polygon’s Partington Creek neighbourhood, on a terraced hillside on Burke Mountain. The community’s draw is the Creekside Club, an 8,000+ sq ft private amenity with an outdoor pool, fitness studio, kids’ playroom and dog wash. Earlier homes here came with heat pumps (heat and air conditioning), a Level 2 EV outlet in every garage and double side-by-side garages; confirm the spec for the South release on its own price sheet and disclosure statement. Polygon hasn’t published pricing for this release online, so ask me for the current sheet, or read my full Partington Creek guide.
Status checked on Polygon’s Partington Creek page on October 20, 2026. Specifications and pricing are subject to the developer’s final disclosure documents.
Status: Now selling (October 20, 2026).
133 Scandinavian-inspired three-storey townhomes, three and four bedrooms, at 1295 Rocklin Street next to the future Burke Mountain Village. A central amenity building, play area and fenced dog park are part of the plan.
Status: Now selling move-in-ready Phase 1 homes (October 20, 2026).
A 107-home collection of three- and four-bedroom townhomes at 1292 Rosenburg Way. Because Phase 1 is built, you can walk the actual home before you buy rather than a showhome.
Status: Now selling; Infinity says only a limited number of greenbelt and view homes remain (October 20, 2026).
Mountainside townhomes, three and four bedrooms, at 3546 Monson Crescent. With few homes left, the choice of exposure and plan is narrow, so compare what’s left with resale before you commit.
Status: Now selling; Wesbild has just released 10 more homes (October 20, 2026).
A 35-home collection of three-bedroom and three-bedroom-plus-den townhomes at 3643 Litchfield Avenue. A small strata spreads shared costs over fewer owners, so read the interim budget closely.
Status: Now selling (October 20, 2026).
159 two- and three-bedroom townhomes at 3550 McVicar Court, beside the future Burke Mountain Village.
Status: Completed in 2025; StreetSide still lists it as selling (October 20, 2026).
81 three-storey townhomes at 3535 Highland Drive. Any remaining homes are finished, so you can see exactly what you’re buying and move in on a resale-style timeline.
Status: Coming soon (October 20, 2026). No pricing or release date yet.
Mosaic’s next Burke Mountain community of three- and four-bedroom family townhomes, planned at 1326 Marigold Street. If it suits you, get on the interest list early so you see the first price sheet.
Status: Sold out. Buy here through resale listings.
Mosaic’s Riley Park (Olmsted Street and Princeton Avenue) and Polygon’s Kentwell (3500 Burke Village Promenade) are sold out, so homes come up only as resale listings.
Status: Completed. Resale only.
Amber Gate (52 homes, 3420 Queenston Avenue) and Queenston (23 homes, 3421 Queenston Avenue) are completed communities next to Smiling Creek Park and Elementary. Buy here through resale listings.
Segment: Urban-leaning townhomes near the commercial centre. Status: The Village’s retail and housing parcels have no developer selected yet, so there are no Village homes to buy today.
The Village is planned as the denser, walkable centre of Burke. Less yard, more neighbours. Be clear-eyed about the walkability, though: there is a café on Princeton Avenue, next to the City’s Burke Mountain Discovery Centre, and the City has named a grocery store as the first priority for Burke Mountain Village’s commercial core — but no grocer is signed and the Village’s retail parcels have no developer yet. Until a developer is selected, there are no Village homes to compare.
The trade-offs
Rising prices during construction favour a presale buyer; flat or falling prices favour resale, where you see the home and usually pay no GST. Nobody can promise which way prices will move, so the answer depends on your situation. Which is why this is a phone call, not a checklist.
A townhome presale is a contract for a home that may not exist yet. These four steps are how I keep you in control of it.
I start with the releases selling now and confirm each one with the developer that week: which plans are left, the current price sheet and the estimated completion date. Then we narrow it to two or three that fit your budget, bedroom count and timing.
Once you sign, you have seven days after the later of signing and receiving the disclosure statement to cancel. We use that time to read the disclosure statement, the interim strata budget and the proposed bylaws, so nothing in them surprises you later.
I go through the strata plan for your garage type, storage and visitor parking, and read the proposed bylaws on pets and short-term rentals. If something doesn’t fit how your family lives, it’s better to know before the rescission period ends.
I compare the price with recent resale townhomes nearby and the Burke townhouse benchmark, then add GST and any rebates you qualify for. We also plan a buffer in case completion moves, so your mortgage approval and current home sale still line up.
See how this approach has worked for real buyers in my Tri-Cities case studies. Read the Tri-Cities case studies →
Buy a presale townhome if: your timeline is flexible, you want new-build warranty, you've budgeted GST as a separate cash expense, and you're buying for your own use. I’ll go through the interim strata budget with you before you sign. If actual first-year costs run more than 10 percent over that budget, BC rules make the owner developer pay part of the overrun, but fees can still rise after the first year.
Buy resale instead if: you need to move in 90 days, your down payment is stretched, you want to see what you're buying, or you're price-sensitive and don't want to write a GST cheque. A two-to-four-year-old resale townhome on Burke is worth comparing, since you see what you’re buying and usually pay no GST.
A common presale problem is signing without reading the disclosure statement closely, then facing a later completion date and a GST bill that wasn’t in the budget. Read it within the seven-day rescission period under BC’s Real Estate Development Marketing Act, while you can still walk away.
As of October 20, 2026, eight Burke townhome communities were advertising homes for sale: Polygon’s Beaumont and Partington Creek South, Townline’s Terrayne, StreetSide’s Rocklin, Tangerine’s Culmena, Infinity’s Versant, Wesbild’s Towns at Burke, and StreetSide’s completed Heartwood. Mosaic’s Marigold is coming soon with an interest list open. Amber Gate and Queenston are completed and resale only. Statuses change week to week, so I confirm with each developer before you visit a sales centre.
They aren’t locked. Before you sign, the developer must give you a 12-month interim budget. If actual first-year expenses run more than 10 percent over it, the owner developer must pay a multiple of the overrun. The first annual general meeting must be held within six weeks of the earlier of nine months after the first sale closes or when more than half the homes have sold. After that, the owners set the budget, and fees can rise.
Each developer sets its own deposit schedule in the purchase contract, often paid in stages. Read the amounts and due dates before you sign, and make sure the cash is ready on each date. Under BC’s Real Estate Development Marketing Act, your deposits must be held in trust by a lawyer, notary or real estate brokerage. You can also cancel within seven days after the later of signing and receiving the disclosure statement, and your deposit comes back.
Yes, long-term. Since November 24, 2022, BC strata bylaws that restrict rentals are no longer enforceable; only 55+ age restriction bylaws remain allowed. A strata can still restrict short-term rentals by bylaw. Coquitlam is also under BC’s principal residence requirement, so short-term rentals are limited to the host’s own home plus one secondary suite or accessory dwelling unit. If you plan to rent, budget for the tenancy rules and read the proposed bylaws in the disclosure statement.
Yes. Pet bylaws are still allowed, so read them before you sign. If a strata uses BC’s Standard Bylaws without its own pet rules, an owner may keep one dog or one cat, a reasonable number of fish or small caged mammals, and up to two caged birds, and animals must be leashed on common property. Many new stratas file their own bylaws instead, with different limits. The proposed bylaws come with the disclosure statement, so check them if you have more than one pet.
It can work, and the tax rules for new homes help. BC’s first-time buyer property transfer tax exemption ends at $860,000, so most Burke townhomes are above it. BC’s newly built home exemption, though, can remove the tax on a new home you’ll live in up to $1.1 million, with a partial exemption to $1.15 million. The federal first-time home buyers’ GST rebate covers the full GST up to $1 million and phases out at $1.5 million for agreements signed from May 27, 2025. Confirm eligibility before you sign.
Check it on paper before you sign, because parking can’t be added later. Look at the floor plan for the garage type (side-by-side or tandem) and how many vehicles fit. Then check the disclosure statement, which must disclose all material facts, for how stalls and visitor parking are allocated. Polygon, for example, lists double side-by-side garages at Partington Creek. If you’re a two-car family, measure your vehicles against the garage dimensions, not the brochure.
Keep reading
Townhomes are one slice of Burke. Here's the rest of the guide network I've written for Burke buyers — developer grades, resale inventory, neighbourhood life, and the honest trade-offs.
The topic hub — everything on the mountain in one place.
Resale townhome inventory and pricing trend.
Builder-by-builder directory, A+ through C+.
Single-family presale playbook, five contract traps.
Craig's personal picks for coffee, food, groceries, and kids.
The real trade-offs of living on the mountain.
The data-driven answer versus the gut-feel answer.
The empty-nester playbook for Tri-Cities detached sellers.
The full Tri-Cities move-up orchestration playbook.
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Schools that serve Burke Mountain
Burke Mountain homes are in the Smiling Creek, Coast Salish or Leigh Elementary catchments, then Minnekhada or Kwayhquitlum Middle and Terry Fox Secondary, depending on the address. A new SD43 secondary school is under construction on Burke Mountain. SD43 is targeting a Fall 2027 opening and will confirm its grades and catchment. Check any specific address with the SD43 School Locator before you write an offer.
Verify your exact address
Look up any Burke Mountain address in SD43’s official school locator.
Type an address → see the specific neighbourhood catchment schools. This is the authoritative source.
Opened in 2018 on Princeton Avenue in upper Burke Mountain.
View school →On Sheffield Avenue; one of the newest SD43 schools on Burke Mountain.
View school →Serves parts of lower Burke Mountain.
View school →Port Coquitlam middle school that serves Burke Mountain addresses.
View school →Port Coquitlam middle school that serves Burke Mountain addresses.
View school →Port Coquitlam secondary school that serves Burke Mountain addresses.
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School information is a starting reference. Catchments are assigned by SD43 based on your specific home address and can change between review cycles. Always verify the definitive catchment for any specific home via the SD43 school locator before writing an offer.
Full Burke Mountain schools hub →Presales work differently from resale. Four things are worth understanding before you commit.
Deposits
Presales are purchased on a staged deposit schedule rather than a single down payment. Know the amounts and dates before you sign.
Flexibility
Whether — and how — you can assign the contract before completion affects your flexibility, and can carry tax implications worth understanding early.
Timing
Estimated completion dates can shift. Plan your financing and living arrangements with a buffer so a delay is manageable.
Taxes
New construction is subject to GST, with rebates that may apply depending on your situation. Confirm the specifics for your purchase.
None of this is a reason to avoid presales — many buyers do very well with them. It is simply the homework that separates a confident presale purchase from a stressful one.
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