The rooms · a neighbourhood in northwest Nanaimo

Pleasant Valley

A landscape from the Pleasant Valley neighbourhood guide

The character of the place

A little room around the routine.

Pleasant Valley sits in northwest Nanaimo, with residential streets and the Brannen Lake area contributing to its character. The north end’s shops and services remain part of the practical appeal. It is a useful place to look when you want to combine outdoor time with an ordinary working week.

The homes here

Housing varies in age, layout and ownership format. Established properties and newer homes can offer quite different amounts of garden, privacy and upkeep. A neighbourhood name will not tell you whether a particular home has the setting you have in mind.

Gillette & Associates

Our perspective

We would look at the relationship between the house, its neighbours and the route into the rest of the city. The details that make a property comfortable are often modest: a sheltered outdoor seat, practical parking and daylight where you want it.

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.

dgPLEASANT VALLEYMARKET 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 Pleasant Valley 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, Pleasant Valley answers on Nanaimo time.

This room's wall

The Pleasant Valley catalogue

ALL MLS® LISTINGS · COURTESY OF VIREB MEMBERS

THE CATALOGUE FOR THIS ROOM IS BEING UPDATED…