Understand Port Moody before you commit to an address
Port Moody sits at the head of Burrard Inlet where the transcontinental railway originally ended, and it is the smallest of the Tri-Cities and the most deliberately designed. A brewery row on Murray Street, Rocky Point Park on the water, Suter Brook and Klahanie built around two Evergreen stations, and the Belcarra and Buntzen trailheads at the edge of town. Figures come from one provincial table measured the same way in all 20 municipalities here. The rent shown is an interpolated regional figure rather than a survey of Port Moody specifically, and is marked as such wherever it appears.
The cost of living in Port Moody, 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 Port Moody
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 Port Moody is the right part of the region
No neighbourhood guides for Port Moody 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 Port Moody actually involves
Port Moody is a small city buying a full set of services, and the general municipal levy shows it: $5,035 on a representative house, higher in dollars than Burnaby's on a house worth $200,000 less, and the reason the city's rate of 0.4291% sits well above its neighbours'. Thirty-three thousand people funding a police force, a fire department, an arts centre and a recreation complex without a large commercial base is arithmetic that does not have a way out, and the city's tax increases have been among the region's steepest for several years running.
What the money buys is a genuinely walkable small city with rapid transit, which is rare at this size anywhere in Canada. Moody Centre and Inlet Centre stations put downtown Vancouver within about forty minutes, the West Coast Express is faster when it runs, and the inlet, the trails and the brewery district are all reachable on foot from most of the newer housing. The catch is that most of the newer housing is strata, so the fee is a second monthly number worth getting before you compare anything.
The Ioco lands and the industrial waterfront are the largest undeveloped opportunity in the Tri-Cities and their future has been under discussion for years. What eventually happens there will change this small city more than anything else on this page, and the current status is worth reading rather than assuming.
Freight rail runs along the inlet and through the city, and the noise and crossing delays that come with it vary sharply by street. In a city this narrow, an address a few hundred metres apart can be a very different proposition on that count alone.
Moving to Port Moody: check these before you commit
- The strata fee and the depreciation report, since most of what trades near the stations here is apartment or townhouse.
- The city's tax increase history rather than its current rate. It has been rising faster than its neighbours'.
- Whether you are in walking distance of a station in fact, since Port Moody is narrow and long and the two stations serve the middle of it.
- Rail noise and crossing delays on the specific street, which vary sharply across this narrow city.
- The current position on the Ioco lands, if the address is anywhere near them.
Sourced, dated, and separated from the guesswork
Every Port Moody 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 Port Moody 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