The rooms · a hillside neighbourhood above Nanaimo's harbour

Brechin Hill

A view from the Brechin Hill neighbourhood guide

The character of the place

Above the harbour, close to the city.

Brechin Hill sits between downtown and Departure Bay, with residential streets rising above the waterfront. Boats and the working harbour give the outlook a sense of movement. It is a place to consider if you enjoy being connected to the city while returning to a smaller residential street.

The homes here

Established houses, renovated homes and strata properties offer different ways into the area. On the hill, the outlook and the approach to a property can change within a single block. Some homes face the water; others draw their appeal from a garden or their layout.

Gillette & Associates

Our perspective

We would weigh the view alongside the less photogenic details: steps, driveway access, parking and nearby activity. A home should feel right when you arrive with groceries as well as when you stand at its best window. Brechin Hill rewards that kind of close inspection.

The local clock

Every neighbourhood keeps its own time

A market has a pulse the way a movement has a beat, and it differs street by street. The numbers below are read straight from the MLS® record — counted, not estimated — and refreshed through the day.

dgBRECHIN HILLMARKET CHRONOGRAPH · NANAIMO TIME—DAYS TO SELL—MONTHS SUPPLY—SOLD · PAST YEAR

LIVE — THE HANDS KEEP NANAIMO TIME · THE INSTRUMENTS READ THE MARKET

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For sale right now

Homes on the market in Brechin Hill at this moment.

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Sold in the past year

Completed sales here over the last 12 months, on the MLS® record.

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Typical sale price

The median of the past year's sales.

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Months of inventory

At the past year's pace, everything for sale would take about — to sell —

Getting here

From everywhere, on Nanaimo time

From Vancouver

20 min by seaplane · 80 by Hullo fast ferry

From Victoria

90 min up the Island Highway

From Calgary or Toronto

by lunch, through YCD or a floatplane from YVR

From London or Hong Kong

by tomorrow morning

Wherever you start, Brechin Hill answers on Nanaimo time.

This room's wall

The Brechin Hill catalogue

ALL MLS® LISTINGS · COURTESY OF VIREB MEMBERS

THE CATALOGUE FOR THIS ROOM IS BEING UPDATED…