Forty-one deep-dive pages on Burke Mountain — homes, schools, sub-pockets, parks, the Wesbild master plan, pre-sales, and what daily life actually looks like — organized into one place. Built by Craig Johnston, REALTOR® V99960. If you’re even thinking about Burke, this is the page to bookmark.
Updated: September 4, 2026 · License: V99960 · Brokerage: Royal LePage Elite WestBurke Mountain is Coquitlam’s newest neighbourhood — the family-oriented growth pocket in the city’s northeast, built mostly in recent decades under the City’s Northeast Coquitlam Area Plan, with Wesbild among its largest land developers. It’s anchored by Smiling Creek Elementary, the future Burke Mountain Village centre on Princeton Avenue, and a deep park and trail network running up into Pinecone Burke Provincial Park, across five lifestyle zones and 22 named sub-pockets.
As of August 2026, Burke Mountain has its own published benchmarks: $1,801,000 detached (−6.8% year over year) and $1,071,600 townhouse (−7.4%). Both sit above the Coquitlam city-wide figures, and Burke townhouses recorded 15 sales against 74 active listings, against 5 and 65 for detached.
Craig has lived on Burke for 9+ years. This guide covers every development, school, park and price band — honestly.
Source: Greater Vancouver REALTORS® REALTOR® Report — Coquitlam, August 2026, neighbourhood breakdown.
Burke Mountain trades differently from the rest of Coquitlam — newer construction stock, narrower price band across the dominant home types, and a steady stream of pre-sale supply that absorbs first-time and move-up demand. Here’s the current pulse, with every figure linking to its source page.
Burke Mountain reads as one place from the outside. Once you live here, it breaks down into five distinct zones — each with its own price band, school catchment angle, commute profile, and build vintage. Picking the right zone first saves a lot of wasted touring.
The City’s planned village centre on Princeton Avenue — about 120,000 sq ft of retail, a plaza and a greenway, with a grocery store named as the first commercial priority. The community centre and park broke ground in May 2026 for a 2029 opening; the retail and housing parcels have no developer selected yet. Best for: buyers with a long horizon.
Inside the VillageThe family detached heartland around Smiling Creek Elementary — established streets with newer Burke homes. Check the exact catchment with the SD43 School Locator. Best for: families with elementary-age kids.
Smiling Creek deep-diveNewer build, higher elevation and steeper ground on the southeastern slopes, where the City’s plan notes views of the Fraser Valley and Cascade Mountains. Bigger floorplans, longer driveways, often the last decision before estate-tier pricing. Best for: move-up buyers stretching for the long-hold home.
Partington Creek detailMid-tier detached — solid resale demand, classic Burke build vintage, balanced between family-house and view-house buyers. Best for: families who want Burke without paying the top of the Upper Burke ladder.
Highland zone overviewThe active edge of the mountain. As of October 1, 2026, releases selling include Polygon, Townline, StreetSide, Tangerine, Infinity, Wesbild, Morningstar and Foxridge homes, with Mosaic’s Marigold coming soon. Many are move-in ready or completing soon; deposit structures vary. Best for: buyers with timing flexibility and a 3-year horizon.
Browse pre-salesThe five lifestyle zones above each contain several named sub-pockets — specific strata communities, master-planned phases, or pre-construction releases. Every one of these has its own page on this site with build vintage, price band, floorplans, and how it differs from the strata next door.
Burke Mountain has been built out by roughly a dozen developers over the past 15 years. Each has a different reputation, a different finishing standard, and a different long-term resale story. Here's the active and recent lineup — with the page on this site that explains each one straight.
Or read the full graded directory of every Burke Mountain development →
Status checked October 1, 2026 against developer websites, then MLS® where a developer site was unavailable. Releases change week to week, so confirm with the developer, or ask me and I’ll check before you drive out.
3 & 4-bed · 1,380–2,220 sq ft
Polygon’s newest Burke release at 3630 Harper Road, with heat pumps, Level 2 EV charging and double garages. Polygon listed pricing from $968,000 on Oct 1, 2026.
Read the guide →159 homes · 2 & 3-bed
3550 McVicar Court beside the future Burke Mountain Village, with underground parking and a 4,000 sq ft clubhouse. Townline says a select number of homes remain.
Read the guide →133 homes · 3 & 4-bed
Nordic-inspired townhomes at 1295 Rocklin Street with a central amenity building. Sales opened in June 2026.
Learn more →107 homes · 3 & 4-bed
Scandinavian-inspired townhomes in 21 buildings at 1292 Rosenburg Way. Move-in-ready homes are on the market now.
Read the guide →66 homes · 3 & 4-bed
14 buildings at 3546 Monson Crescent. The developer says a limited number of greenbelt and view homes remain.
See the fact sheet →35 homes · 3-bed & 3-bed + den
About 1,400–1,600 sq ft at 3643 Litchfield Avenue, with move-ins from fall 2026.
Learn more →39 homes · 3 to 6-bed
29 single-family homes and 10 duplex homes (2,033–3,602 sq ft) at 3415 Galloway Avenue near Galloway Park. Move-in-ready homes are selling now.
See the fact sheet →19 homes · 3 to 9-bed
Single-family homes on the edge of Burke Mountain, some backing onto parkland. Sales centre at 3589 Mee Place.
See the fact sheet →81 homes · completed 2025
Three-storey townhomes in 18 buildings at 3535 Highland Drive near Harper Park, most with rooftop decks. A few move-in-ready homes may remain.
Read the guide →52 homes · 2 to 4-bed
3420 Queenston Avenue next to Smiling Creek Park, with an on-site daycare. Remaining developer homes are listed on MLS®.
Read the guide →23 homes · completed 2025
A boutique collection of 2 to 4-bed homes in four buildings at 3421 Queenston Avenue, steps from Smiling Creek Elementary and Queenston Park.
See the fact sheet →28 homes · 3 to 7-bed
Single-family homes up to about 4,000 sq ft with legal suites. Foxridge reported one move-in-ready home left.
See the fact sheet →Interested in these schools?
Explore homes for sale in the Burke Mountain area.
Considering a presale? Read the Burke Mountain presale homes guide and the presale townhomes shortlist before signing anything — deposit structure, completion-date risk, and GST applicability matter as much as the address.
Every development, graded →Most Burke decisions start with the home type, not the street. Here’s the breakdown by category with current benchmark pricing and the right page to keep going.
2010+ build, family floorplans, garage and yard standard. Lower Burke entry-tier, Upper Burke estate-tier, Highland and Heartwood in between.
Browse detached homesThe dominant first-purchase product on Burke. Townhome stratas at Versant, Terrayne, Towns at Burke, Amber Gate, Timbers Edge, and beyond.
Browse townhomesReleases from Polygon, Townline, StreetSide, Tangerine, Infinity, Wesbild, Morningstar and Foxridge (checked October 1, 2026), with Mosaic’s Marigold coming soon. Deposit schedules, completion dates and assignment rules vary.
Active pre-sale releasesUpper Burke and Partington Creek — larger homes on steeper ground, with view potential on the southeastern slopes.
Burke estate homesLive MLS® · refreshed continuously
Every active MLS® listing across Burke Mountain, refreshed continuously — detached, townhomes and presales. Use the map and filters to narrow by price, type and beds, and always confirm the exact street before relying on it. Questions on any listing? Book a 20-minute call with Craig.
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The two most-asked Burke Mountain questions are about schools and trails. The short version: depending on the address, Burke homes are in the Smiling Creek, Coast Salish or Leigh Elementary catchment, and parks and trails are close to many streets. Here’s the detail.
Burke Mountain is part of School District 43 (Coquitlam). Catchments can change from one block to the next, so check any address with the SD43 School Locator.
Pinecone Burke Provincial Park sits at the upper boundary; smaller urban parks thread the neighbourhood; the Coquitlam Crunch is a short drive west. And since September 25, 2026, the mountain has its own sports facility — Burke Mountain Athletic Park on David Avenue.
Burke Mountain wasn’t built piecemeal. It follows the City of Coquitlam’s Northeast Coquitlam Area Plan and its neighbourhood plans, which set where homes go, where parks stay and where the Village centre sits. Wesbild is one of the largest land developers on the mountain.
That planning shows up on the ground: a fairly consistent build vintage, trails and parks threaded through the streets, and school and park sites set aside as neighbourhoods were planned. Prices still vary across the mountain by home type, age, slope and position.
The agreement that shaped everything.
Direct comparisons against the other Tri-Cities options.
Burke Mountain is one neighbourhood on the map but several very different purchases on the ground. This is the order I work through it with buyers.
We start with how you live: commute, schools, budget and how long you plan to stay. Then I match that to the parts of the mountain that fit, from the established streets near David Avenue to the newer, steeper ground around Partington Creek and the future Burke Mountain Village.
Before you fall for a home, I check the address with the SD43 School Locator. Burke is served by Smiling Creek, Coast Salish or Leigh Elementary depending on the address, and a new SD43 secondary school is under construction, so I flag where catchments could change.
I put the developer releases selling now beside resale homes at the same price: deposits, GST, completion dates and warranty. I check each developer’s status on its own website and on MLS®, so you are comparing homes that are actually available, not last season’s brochure.
Before writing, I pull recent comparable Burke sales, review the strata or disclosure documents, and line up subjects with your lender and lawyer. On sloped lots I ask for geotechnical, retaining-wall and drainage information. Then we settle price and terms together, with no pressure to rush.
For real examples of how this plays out, read my Tri-Cities case studies. Read the Tri-Cities case studies →
The eight questions buyers and sellers ask first — with answers built from nine years of actually living up here and writing files on these streets.
Newer family-oriented growth pocket in northeast Coquitlam, built out over the past 15 years. Known for newer construction, family-sized homes, the Smiling Creek, Coast Salish and Leigh Elementary catchments (depending on the address), and a park and trail network that reaches up toward Pinecone Burke Provincial Park.
As of August 2026 the Burke Mountain HPI benchmark is $1,801,000 (−6.8% YoY) and the townhouse benchmark is $1,071,600 (−7.4% YoY), per the GVR® REALTOR® Report neighbourhood table. Across all property types the median August sale was $1,098,000 (GVR Stats Centre). Pre-sale and resale availability varies month to month. Specific street, lot orientation, school catchment and position on the mountain materially shift the number. The current full snapshot lives on /burke-mountain-homes/.
Yes — Burke Mountain was specifically built around family demand. The catchment elementary schools (Smiling Creek, Coast Salish and Leigh) are close to many homes; the neighbourhood has trail and park access on most streets; the new construction stock typically suits family floorplans. The trade-off is distance to SkyTrain and downtown commute time — see the cost of living on Burke and moving to Burke pages for the practical day-to-day picture.
Burke Mountain is newer, with active new-construction supply and newer elementary schools such as Smiling Creek (opened 2018) and Coast Salish. Westwood Plateau is more established, with more golf-course and view homes. Check any address in either area with the SD43 School Locator. Different decisions for different families. Full side-by-side at Burke vs Westwood Plateau.
Burke Mountain has roughly five distinct lifestyle zones (Village, Lower Burke / Smiling Creek, Upper Burke / Partington Creek, Highland / Heights, and the Pre-Sale Frontier). Which zone fits depends on budget, school catchment, and how much commute matters. The zone-by-zone breakdown is in the lifestyle-zones section above, with the full map and zone-vs-zone deep dive at Burke Mountain Map & Area Guide.
Burke Mountain is part of School District 43 (SD43 Coquitlam). The current catchment ladder is Leigh, Smiling Creek and Coast Salish at the K–5 level, Minnekhada or Kwayhquitlum Middle for grades 6–8, and Terry Fox Secondary for grades 9–12, 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. French immersion options exist in nearby catchments. Catchment lines shift street-by-street — the full catchment-by-address guide is at Burke Mountain Schools Guide.
Yes. As of October 1, 2026, releases are selling from Polygon, Townline, StreetSide, Tangerine, Infinity, Wesbild, Morningstar and Foxridge, and Mosaic’s Marigold is coming soon. Pre-sale options change monthly. Current pre-sale and pre-construction map at Burke Mountain Pre-Sale Homes and Burke Mountain Developments.
Yes — as of September 25, 2026. Burke Mountain Athletic Park at 3390 David Avenue officially opened that day with a 400-metre rubberized track, a lit artificial turf field lined for soccer, field hockey and field lacrosse, and four lit tennis courts. It shares its site with a new SD43 secondary school under construction next door (SD43 is targeting a Fall 2027 opening); on-site parking and washrooms open when that construction is finished.
I live here. I’ve spent more than nine years on these streets, watched the releases come and go, bought three properties on the mountain myself, and helped families moving in, moving out, and trying to figure out which pocket fits. That “lived-experience” layer is the thing AI summaries can’t fake and a fly-in realtor can’t copy.
9+ year Burke Mountain resident · Top 1% Team — Greater Vancouver REALTORS®, 2023–2025 · Medallion Club Team, 2021–2025 · Royal LePage Elite West · BC license V99960. Burke Mountain, Coquitlam, Port Moody, Anmore, Belcarra. Move-up specialist.
The fastest way to see what “done right” looks like on Burke is to read a real client’s walk-through. Below are the verified case studies on this site — full scenarios, sequencing decisions, and what the result was. Each linked case study is based on a real client file.
Real client file. Sell-and-buy sequencing, Equity Map decision, deposit + bridge handling, final outcome.
Read the case studyFirst-time buyer family entering Coquitlam. Pre-approval through close, what went sideways, how it got resolved.
Read the case studyHow a Coquitlam family sequenced selling their starter home and buying their forever home in the same season.
Read the walkthroughInvestor file. Cap rate analysis, rental-comparable selection, and the actual returns on a specific Coquitlam asset.
Read the case study5.0 stars across 35+ verified Google reviews. Three, verbatim.
“We received seven offers, and Craig held firm on our priorities: no subject to sale and achieving our price.”
Jim Turnbull · Google Review“Craig sold my property in just 6 days. Before I knew it, we had multiple offers — all over asking price.”
Heather Fox · Google Review“Craig worked with my wife and me for over 3 years to find the perfect home.”
David Catterall · Google ReviewEvery figure on this page is sourced. Stats update monthly when GVR publishes new data.
Authored by Craig Johnston, REALTOR® V99960 · Royal LePage Elite West · Burke Mountain resident since 2017. This page is editorial commentary, not legal or tax advice. Always verify current MLS® data and consult your own legal & tax professionals before transacting.
Forty-one Burke Mountain pages, organized by topic. Bookmark this section — or hit ⌘K any time to search.
Whether you’re scouting a first home, planning the move up to detached, sequencing a sell-and-buy, or just trying to figure out if Burke is the right fit — the next step is the same. A 20-minute call, no pressure, every question answered.
The K–12 catchment ladder
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.
View school →Catchments can change. Verify any specific address against the official SD43 school locator before relying on it.
Full Burke Mountain schools guide →Continue your research
Price bands
August 2026 GVR data + the honest tier-by-tier read.
Lifestyle
Nine years up here — schools, commute, weather, the daily rhythm.
New builds
Polygon, Wesbild, Foxridge — active 2026 inventory.
Tri-Cities monthly
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