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Westwood Plateau Market Report — September 2026

Westwood Plateau’s own numbers and the verified Coquitlam figures from the Greater Vancouver REALTORS® September 2026 release, read through the lens of the Plateau’s established golf-course and view-home market.

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Westwood Plateau has its own published numbers inside the September 2026 REALTOR® Report: a detached benchmark of $1,733,500 (−3.3% year over year) against Coquitlam’s $1,584,400 (-6.6%). The Plateau is an established move-up and luxury detached market: larger homes on larger lots, many with golf-course or city views. Its own detached segment posted 10 sales against 69 active listings (a 14.5% sales-to-active ratio), with Coquitlam detached city-wide at 9.8%. GVR notes prices tend to face downward pressure when the ratio stays below 12% and upward pressure above 20%. With samples this small, pricing from accurate comparables matters more than any monthly average.

Neighbourhood market tracker · September 2026

Westwood Plateau: the market, month by month.

The Greater Vancouver REALTORS® benchmark for Westwood Plateau, by home type, with its trend over the last 3 months, how fast homes are selling, and how it compares with the city. Tell it whether you’re selling, buying, moving up or downsizing and it shows what matters for you. A benchmark describes a typical home here — your home’s value depends on its own lot, condition and street.

Detached

$1,733,500

−3.3% over 12 months

10 sales · 69 active listings
14.5% sales-to-active · balanced range

JulAugSep

Townhouse

$1,037,100

−1.6% over 12 months

2 sales · 21 active listings
9.5% sales-to-active · small sample

JulAugSep

Condo / apartment

$633,300

−6.7% over 12 months

5 sales · 25 active listings
20.0% sales-to-active · balanced range

JulAugSep

Small sample: the townhouse figures rest on fewer than 5 sales or 10 active listings this month, so one sale can swing the ratio. Read them alongside the city figure and the trend over several months.

Learn the basics: what the MLS® benchmark price is · how to price your home · the move-up guide · sell first or buy first? · every neighbourhood on one map

Source: Greater Vancouver REALTORS® REALTOR® Reports, neighbourhood and price-range tables; current figures are for September 2026 (MLS® Home Price Index). Data © Greater Vancouver REALTORS®. Updated after each monthly GVR report.

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Across the Tri-Cities

How prices compare across the Tri-Cities.

Six months of MLS® benchmark prices for Coquitlam, Port Moody and Port Coquitlam on one chart, by home type. Each city’s map shows prices neighbourhood by neighbourhood.

Tri-Cities benchmark trend · September 2026

The Tri-Cities, side by side: 6 months of prices.

The MLS® benchmark price for Coquitlam, Port Moody and Port Coquitlam on one chart. Pick a home type, then hover or tap a month to see all three cities’ prices that month. GVR doesn’t publish a single Tri-Cities benchmark, so each city keeps its own line. Each city’s map shows prices neighbourhood by neighbourhood.

AprMayJunJulAugSepPort MoodyCoquitlamPort Coquitlam

Source: Greater Vancouver REALTORS® REALTOR® Reports and MLS® Home Price Index, city tables; current figures are for September 2026. Sales-to-active is shown for one home type and one city. Data © Greater Vancouver REALTORS®. Updated after each monthly GVR report.

Data, honestly labelled

The verified numbers — September 2026.

How to read this honestly. The table below is the City of Coquitlam, Westwood Plateau’s parent market, taken from the Greater Vancouver REALTORS® REALTOR® Report for September 2026. The same report breaks the city down by neighbourhood, and Westwood Plateau’s own figures are in the Westwood Plateau tracker above. The commentary that follows is my local read of how the Plateau typically trades against the city-wide figures; it is qualitative and labelled as such.

Property typeBenchmark (September 2026)1-yr changeSalesActive listingsSales-to-active
Detached$1,584,400-6.6%464709.8%
Townhouse$976,600-6.4%2619613.3%
Apartment$640,100-7.3%6360010.5%

Source: Greater Vancouver REALTORS® REALTOR® Report — Coquitlam, September 2026; benchmark = MLS® Home Price Index. Sales-to-active is sales divided by total active listings. GVR notes prices tend to face downward pressure when the ratio stays below 12% and upward pressure above 20%. Full city read: Coquitlam market report.

Regional context — Greater Vancouver, September 2026

Metro Vancouver benchmarks: detached $1,784,700 (-7.3% year over year), townhome $1,016,700 (-4.7%) and condo $682,500 (-6.2%). Sales-to-active ratios: detached 9.5%, condo 11.7%, townhome 12.9%.

Coquitlam · interactive map

All of Coquitlam on one map: neighbourhoods, new developments, schools and SkyTrain.

Start with the neighbourhoods: tap one to see what it’s like and open my guide for it. Then add only the details you care about, like schools, groceries, new developments, parks or daycares, using the buttons under the map heading. Check any address, or tap Show home prices to see what homes cost neighbourhood by neighbourhood. Burke Mountain has its own detailed developments map, linked from the gold pin.

Benchmark prices for each neighbourhood, from the latest Greater Vancouver REALTORS® report.

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Neighbourhood outlines are the City of Coquitlam’s 13 community profile areas (City open data, retrieved October 25, 2026); the names buyers and MLS® listings use don’t always follow these lines, so each outline links to my guides for the streets inside it. Developments outside Burke Mountain are pinned from each project’s civic address with the BC Address Geocoder; Goldfinch, Stirling Block, Burquitlam Park District, Ironwood, Sundays on Grant and Dwell are placed at block level, and Coronation Heights and the two Fraser Mills buildings at street level from OpenStreetMap. Statuses come from each developer’s own website, checked October 25, 2026: “Selling now” means the developer lists homes for sale, including completed buildings with homes left. Home counts are shown only where the developer publishes them. Rental-only buildings aren’t shown, and projects I couldn’t verify on the developer’s own site are left off rather than guessed. Burke Mountain’s developments are on their own map. Prices are MLS® HPI benchmark prices from the Greater Vancouver REALTORS® REALTOR® Report for the latest month on file, updated with my monthly stats run; price pins mark approximate GVR neighbourhood centres, because GVR doesn’t publish neighbourhood boundaries. Address lookups use the Province of B.C.’s geocoder, distances are straight-line, and the nearest school isn’t always the catchment school. School locations come from the Province of B.C.’s K–12 school file (July 2026 update); Coast Salish Elementary and the Burke Mountain Middle-Secondary site are placed with the BC Address Geocoder. SD43 doesn’t publish catchment boundaries as a map, so they aren’t drawn: always confirm a catchment with the SD43 School Locator. Groceries and shops are placed from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL) and the BC Address Geocoder; community centres, libraries and City Hall from City open data. SkyTrain, West Coast Express and bus routes come from TransLink’s GTFS schedule (feed valid to January 3, 2027); trip counts are scheduled weekday trips for Wednesday, October 28, 2026. Route and arrival data used in this product or service is provided by permission of TransLink. The land-use and creek layers load live from the City of Coquitlam’s open-data map service. A land-use designation shows what the Official Community Plan allows, not what’s built or approved; rezoning decides each site. The City says its watercourse mapping may not show every watercourse exactly, and streamside setbacks are confirmed site by site: check the City’s Watercourse Setbacks map before relying on any lot. Parks, dog off-leash areas, spray parks and walking routes come from City open data (October 25, 2026). Daycares are licensed facilities from the Province of B.C.’s Child Care Map data (Open Government Licence – British Columbia), updated October 25, 2026; check the BC Child Care Map for spaces and fees.

Craig’s local view

The Westwood Plateau read.

The Plateau is Coquitlam’s established executive detached market. Built out through the 1990s and 2000s around the golf courses, it offers what Burke Mountain’s new construction can’t: mature streetscapes, big lots, and a housing mix dominated by executive detached homes.

Read the median against the benchmark. In September, Coquitlam’s detached median sale price was $1,449,000; the detached benchmark is in the table above. When the median sits below the benchmark, smaller and mid-sized homes made up more of the month’s closed sales, and larger move-up homes, the Plateau’s core, need especially precise pricing.

Move-up and luxury homes behave differently when sales slow. Showings thin out and days on market stretch, but well-priced homes with real view or golf-course positioning still find their buyer. The discretionary seller who can wait often waits; the home priced from accurate comparables still sells.

Go deeper: the Westwood Plateau guide, Plateau homes for sale, Coquitlam luxury homes, and what each price band buys on the Plateau.

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Buyer & seller playbook

How to play it.

If you’re buying

Luxury and view homes are where a buyer’s preparation shows: compare each listing’s days on market and price history against recent Plateau sales. Inspect older Plateau homes carefully (roofs, decks, perimeter drainage on slope lots) and price against what has sold, not what is listed.

If you’re selling

Plateau sellers do best on presentation and precision: stage the view, price to the last 90 days of comparables, and set your timeline from current days on market. Start with the evaluation.

This is general market commentary, not individual advice: your street, product type and timeline change the answer.

Every community, every month

More September 2026 market reports.

The same GVR release, read for each Tri-Cities city and neighbourhood.

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Straight answers

Westwood Plateau market questions, answered.

Is there a published benchmark just for Westwood Plateau?

Yes. The monthly REALTOR® Report breaks Coquitlam down by neighbourhood. Westwood Plateau’s September 2026 benchmarks are $1,733,500 detached (−3.3% year over year), $1,037,100 townhouse (−1.6%) and $633,300 apartment (−6.7%). This page pairs those figures and the verified city data with a neighbourhood-level read.

What are Westwood Plateau homes worth right now?

The Plateau’s own September 2026 detached benchmark was $1,733,500, $149,100 above Coquitlam’s $1,584,400; the city’s detached median sale price was $1,449,000. Within the Plateau, golf-course and view properties sit at the top of the range, and the specific home decides how much. For a number on your own home, use the Westwood Plateau home evaluation.

Is now a good time to sell on Westwood Plateau?

City-wide, Coquitlam’s detached benchmark changed -6.6% year over year and detached ran a 9.8% sales-to-active ratio. On the Plateau itself, detached posted 10 sales against 69 active listings (14.5%) with the benchmark at −3.3% year over year: a small sample, but the neighbourhood’s own data. GVR notes prices tend to face downward pressure when the ratio stays below 12% and upward pressure above 20%. Well-priced, well-presented Plateau homes sell on their comparables; overpriced ones tend to sit. If your move is discretionary, the pricing conversation matters more than the calendar.

Why does the Coquitlam detached median differ from the benchmark?

They measure different things. The median sale price ($1,449,000 in September) is the middle of whatever detached homes happened to sell that month, while the benchmark ($1,584,400) describes a typical detached home. When the median sits below the benchmark, smaller and mid-sized homes made up more of the closed sales, which is why larger Plateau homes need to be priced from their own comparables rather than the city average.

What should I inspect on an older Westwood Plateau home?

Much of the Plateau was built through the 1990s and 2000s, so look closely at roofs, decks and perimeter drainage, especially on slope lots, and budget for anything near the end of its life before you set your price. Then price against what has sold nearby, not what is listed. The Westwood Plateau pros and cons guide covers the neighbourhood trade-offs.

How often is this report refreshed?

Monthly, from the GVR statistics release. This page reflects September 2026 data published October 2, 2026; the next refresh follows the early-November 2026 release.

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Who’s writing this

A Tri-Cities REALTOR® reading the Plateau’s numbers.

Craig Johnston, REALTOR®

I’ve lived in the Tri-Cities for more than 47 years and on Burke Mountain for more than nine. I work Westwood Plateau, Burke Mountain, Heritage Mountain and the rest of the Tri-Cities every day, helping families move up without owning two homes at once or selling under value. A monthly report tells you where the market sits; pricing one Plateau home well takes the sales on the streets around it.

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Methodology

Where the numbers come from.

Sources & MethodologyShow all 6 sources
  • Westwood Plateau benchmarks, sales, listings and ratios: Greater Vancouver REALTORS® REALTOR® Report — Coquitlam, September 2026, neighbourhood breakdown.
  • Coquitlam city table: GVR REALTOR® Report — Coquitlam, September 2026, released October 2, 2026: MLS® HPI benchmark prices plus by-type sales, active listings and days on market.
  • Regional benchmarks: GVR monthly release for Metro Vancouver, September 2026.
  • Benchmark method: MLS® Home Price Index (HPI): a “typical home” measure that strips out mix effects, which is why it differs from average or median sale prices. All percentage changes are year over year.
  • Local read: Neighbourhood commentary is Craig’s qualitative local knowledge, labelled as such and kept separate from published figures.
  • Refresh cadence: Refreshed every month when GVR publishes new data. Next expected: early November 2026 (October 2026 data).

Written and reviewed by Craig Johnston, REALTOR® (BCFSA Licence #187645), Royal LePage Elite West · Last reviewed October 29, 2026. Figures checked October 25, 2026 (GVR September 2026 data). General market commentary, not financial or individual advice; data attribution: Greater Vancouver REALTORS®.

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