Understand Anmore before you commit to an address
Anmore is a village of twenty-three hundred people on the slope above Port Moody, at the gate of Buntzen Lake, incorporated in 1987 to stay what it is: large lots, no sidewalks, no sewers, and a development pattern that stops where the parkland starts. Its representative house is assessed at $2.60 million, second only to West Vancouver's in this region. Figures come from one provincial table measured the same way in all 20 municipalities here. Nobody publishes a rent for a municipality of 2,356 people with almost no rental stock, so the rent shown is the Metro Vancouver average and is marked as such wherever it appears.
The cost of living in Anmore, and what a home costs
Two calculators on British Columbia's own rules: semi-annual compounding and the real minimum down payment tiers, and the closing costs this province actually charges.
Rent or buy in Anmore
Whether buying here beats renting, and the year it turns over. Both households start with the same cash, so the comparison is not rigged either way.
Mortgage calculator
Semi-annual compounding, the CMHC premium under twenty percent down, and the price cap that puts most of this region beyond an insured mortgage.
Then work out whether Anmore is the right part of the region
No neighbourhood guides for Anmore yet. What is here instead is the whole regional district on one comparable footing.
All 20 municipalities around Vancouver
Every municipality side by side on assessed value, the rate charged on it, and the bill that arrives, which does not rank the way the rate does.
Compare the regionVancouver, local area by local area
Twenty-two sourced guides to the city at the middle of all this, by its own official local areas.
Browse the city guidesWhat buying in Anmore actually involves
The bill here is the second-highest in Metro Vancouver at $12,736 a year, and its shape is unusual. The variable-rate taxes are $9,386 on a $2.60 million house: a rate of 0.3617%, comfortably below the regional middle, but there is another $1,795 in parcel taxes, the highest of the twenty, because a village with no commercial base funds fire protection and roads through flat annual charges rather than through the mill rate. Reading Anmore's rate and stopping there understates what an owner pays by nearly a fifth.
The other thing that makes Anmore unlike its neighbours is that most of it is on septic. There is no municipal sewer system, lots are large partly because they have to be, and the village's long-running argument about whether to extend sewers into the Anmore South lands is an argument about whether to become somewhere else. For a buyer this means a septic inspection, a well or a connection to Port Moody's water depending on the address, and a realistic view of what maintenance on an acre costs.
There is no commercial centre at all, no transit and no school in the village, so every trip starts with a car and most of them end in Port Moody or Coquitlam. That is the trade for acre lots twenty minutes from a SkyTrain station.
A large development on the village's southern lands has been proposed and contested for years, and it would change the character of a municipality that currently has almost no density. For anyone buying here on the strength of the setting, the current status of that proposal is material rather than background.
Moving to Anmore: check these before you commit
- Septic and water for the specific property: the village has no sewer system and servicing varies address by address.
- Parcel taxes, which are $1,795 a year here and are not in any rate you will be quoted.
- That there is no transit, no sidewalk network and no commercial centre; everything is a drive, including to a shop.
- The current status of the proposed development on the village's southern lands.
- Water supply and fire flow for the specific property, which on acre lots without hydrants is a real question.
Sourced, dated, and separated from the guesswork
Every Anmore figure below is cited, stamped with the period it describes, and editable, because a number for the whole city rarely describes your purchase. Appreciation and investment returns are assumptions rather than facts, and they are labelled that way. Read the methodology for how the line is drawn.
- Prices, rents and tax rates: published statistics and the official schedules.
- Nothing here is a lender quote, a pre-approval or financial advice.
Where the Anmore figures come from
- Schedule 704: Taxes and Charges on a Representative House, 2026 · Province of British Columbia, Ministry of Municipal Affairs · retrieved Supports: The assessed value of a representative single-family house in every British Columbia municipality, as valued by BC Assessment on 1 July 2025, School, general municipal, regional district and BC Assessment/MFA levies on that house, from which the total residential rate is computed, Parcel taxes and user fees per municipality: $1,459 a year in Port Coquitlam against $4,776 in Lions Bay
- Additional school tax rate · Province of British Columbia · retrieved Supports: 0.2% on the residential value between $3,000,000 and $4,000,000 and 0.4% above it for the 2026 tax year, Budget 2026's increase to 0.3% and 0.6% effective for the 2027 and subsequent tax years
- Metro Vancouver Rent Report, June 2026: averages by municipality · liv.rent · retrieved Supports: Average asking rent for unfurnished units by municipality, for the nine municipalities the publisher reports by name, A Metro Vancouver average of $2,090 for a one-bedroom and $2,750 for a two-bedroom in June 2026, Year-over-year declines in unfurnished one-bedroom rent across every municipality reported
- Metro Vancouver home sales lose brief momentum: July 2026 statistics · Greater Vancouver REALTORS® · retrieved Supports: An MLS® HPI composite benchmark of $1,088,800 across the board area in July 2026, down 6.2% year over year, The market-wide series these pages are careful not to confuse with an assessment roll value
- Regulations amending the Insurable Housing Loan Regulations and the Eligible Mortgage Loan Regulations (SOR/2025-55) · Canada Gazette, Part II · retrieved Supports: The $1.5 million insured price cap, which more than half these municipalities' representative houses now exceed, 30-year insured amortization for first-time buyers and new builds
- Property transfer tax · Province of British Columbia · retrieved Supports: Transfer tax brackets, First-time buyer and new build exemptions