The rooms · a coastal community between Lantzville and Parksville

Nanoose Bay

A coastal view from the Nanoose Bay and Fairwinds guide

The character of the place

Choose your corner of the coast.

Nanoose Bay lies between Lantzville and Parksville, with sheltered coastal settings and rural roads. It is a broad community rather than one uniform neighbourhood. That is part of the appeal: the search can take you from a wooded property to a home whose daily outlook is shaped by the water.

The homes here

Detached houses, larger properties and coastal homes offer different versions of life here. Access to services, outdoor space and the amount of maintenance vary by address. A search for a view may lead somewhere quite different from a search for land.

Gillette & Associates

Our perspective

We would start by choosing the setting, then refine the house. How much driving fits your week? Do you want space to garden or an easier place to leave when travelling? Nanoose Bay gives those questions room, but the answers should guide the search.

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.

dgNANOOSE BAYMARKET 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 Nanoose Bay 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, Nanoose Bay answers on Nanaimo time.

This room's wall

The Nanoose Bay catalogue

ALL MLS® LISTINGS · COURTESY OF VIREB MEMBERS

THE CATALOGUE FOR THIS ROOM IS BEING UPDATED…