Monthly Market Report
The verified Coquitlam numbers from the August 2026 GVR release — read through the lens of the Plateau's established golf-course and view-home market.
Westwood Plateau · its own benchmarks
Most sites quote City of Coquitlam figures for Westwood Plateau, because that is what the monthly press release carries. The Greater Vancouver REALTORS® REALTOR® Report also breaks Coquitlam down by neighbourhood. These are Westwood Plateau’s own numbers for August 2026.
Source: Greater Vancouver REALTORS® REALTOR® Report — Coquitlam, August 2026, neighbourhood breakdown. Sales-to-active is sales divided by active listings.
The honest answer in 30 seconds
Westwood Plateau has its own published numbers inside the August 2026 REALTOR® Report: a detached benchmark of $1,772,800 (+0.4% year over year) against Coquitlam's $1,599,100 (-5.9%). The Plateau is an established move-up and luxury detached market: larger homes on larger lots, many with golf-course or city views, that transact above the city benchmark. With Coquitlam detached running a 9.1% sales-to-active ratio — the softest of the three property types — accurate pricing decides everything up here.
Data, honestly labelled
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 August 2026. The same report also breaks the city down by neighbourhood — Westwood Plateau's own figures appear above. The neighbourhood commentary that follows is Craig's local read of how Westwood Plateau typically trades against those city-wide figures; it is qualitative and clearly labelled as such.
Source: Greater Vancouver REALTORS® REALTOR® Report — Coquitlam, August 2026; benchmark = MLS® Home Price Index. Sales-to-active is sales divided by total active listings.
Regional context — Greater Vancouver, August 2026
Metro Vancouver benchmarks, August 2026: detached $1,799,400 (-7.2% YoY) · townhome $1,028,800 (-4.4%) · condo $686,200 (-6.6%). Sales-to-active ratios: detached 9.4%, condo 13.9%, townhome 15.7%. Below ~12% sustained, prices tend to face downward pressure; 12–20% is balanced; above 20% favours sellers.
Craig's local view
The Plateau is Coquitlam's established prestige detached market. Built out through the 1990s and 2000s around the golf courses, it offers what Burke's new construction can't: mature streetscapes, big lots, and a housing mix dominated by executive detached homes. The detached median ($1,554,500) sitting below the benchmark ($1,599,100) tells you smaller and mid-sized homes made up more of August's closed sales — larger move-up product, the Plateau's core, is moving more slowly and needs precise pricing.
Move-up and luxury segments behave differently in a soft market: showings thin out, 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, waits; the priced-right home still sells.
Go deeper: the Westwood Plateau guide, Plateau homes for sale, and Coquitlam luxury homes, and what each price band buys on the Plateau.
Buyer & seller playbook
Luxury and view product is where soft markets give patient buyers their best openings — more selection, longer days-on-market, sellers who've adjusted. Inspect older Plateau homes carefully (roofs, decks, perimeter drainage on slope lots) and price against what's sold, not what's listed.
In a -5.9% YoY detached market, Plateau sellers win on presentation and precision: stage the view, price to the last 90 days of comparables, and be ready for a longer runway than 2021-22. Start with the evaluation.
General market commentary, not individual advice — your street, product type and timeline change the answer. Book a strategy call for a read on your specific situation.
Where these numbers come from. Every figure on this page is taken directly from the Greater Vancouver REALTORS® (GVR) August 2026 statistics release, published September 2, 2026. The city table is drawn from the GVR REALTOR® Report for Coquitlam, August 2026; all percentage changes are year-over-year. Neighbourhood commentary is qualitative local knowledge, clearly labelled and kept separate from published figures. Benchmark prices use the 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.
Update cadence. This report is refreshed every month when GVR publishes new data. Next expected update: early October 2026 (September 2026 data).
Written by Craig Johnston, REALTOR®, BC licence V99960 · The MACNABS, Royal LePage Elite West · Last updated September 4, 2026 (August 2026 data). Not financial advice; data attribution: Greater Vancouver REALTORS®.
Straight answers
Yes — the monthly REALTOR® Report breaks Coquitlam down by neighbourhood. Westwood Plateau's August 2026 benchmarks are $1,772,800 detached (+0.4% year over year), $1,015,100 townhouse (−9.7%) and $645,700 apartment (−7.4%). This page pairs those figures and the verified city data with a neighbourhood-level read from a Coquitlam REALTOR®.
Coquitlam's August 2026 detached benchmark is $1,599,100 and the detached median is $1,554,500. Plateau executive homes typically trade above the city benchmark, with golf-course and view properties commanding the premium — the specific home decides how much.
City-wide detached prices are -5.9% YoY, and Coquitlam detached is running a 9.1% sales-to-active ratio — below the roughly 12% mark where GVR considers a segment balanced, so detached is genuinely the softer end of the market right now. Well-priced, well-presented Plateau homes are still selling; overpriced ones sit. If your move is discretionary, the pricing conversation matters more than the calendar.
Monthly, from the GVR statistics release. This page reflects August 2026 data published September 2, 2026; next update follows the early-October 2026 release.
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