Court-Ordered Sales · Metro Vancouver · Weekly List Archive
Sent to subscribers August 14, 2026 · Addresses, photos and listing links went to subscribers by email
Seven court-ordered listings this week, and not one of them in Vancouver proper. The board went east: Surrey, Langley, Maple Ridge and Port Coquitlam, plus two larger plays further out in Mission and Abbotsford, which sit outside the usual coverage area and were labelled plainly as such. It was also a development-heavy week: four of the seven were being sold mainly for land or redevelopment value, so the two you could actually live in went first.
$1,399,900
The remarks are brief: recently renovated, suite potential, and redevelopment potential that buyers will need to verify with city hall. The listing carried a single exterior photo, which usually means you should plan on assessing it in person rather than from the couch. It also asked that you allow time for showings, which often points to the property being occupied; worth knowing before you book. Listed 4 days at time of sending.
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$1,499,900
A two-storey with basement in Citadel, built 1991 and, per the remarks, renovated twice over the years. Three bedrooms upstairs and a basement the listing says has potential for additional living space or a future suite. The photos show a finished, livable house, which is not something every court-ordered listing can claim. Sold as is, where is, with the usual instruction to verify measurements, condition and suite potential yourself. Listed 8 days at time of sending.
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$746,000
The least expensive way into the week's list: a cul-de-sac lot bordering Clayton and Willoughby, zoned RC-L, which the listing says allows a single-family home. The remarks point to express buses nearby and the future SkyTrain extension about 3 km away, and they are explicit that buyers should verify their building plans with the Township. Listed 10 days at time of sending.
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$1,100,000
Read this one as a land purchase with a structure on it. The remarks are unusually direct: the house is not livable right now, it is boarded up, and the value is mostly in the land, their words rather than mine. What you would be buying is a flat rectangular lot with 64 feet of frontage, close to shopping, schools and transit. The way to test the ask is against recent sales of similar-sized lots in the area, not against houses. Sold as is, where is. Listed 8 days at time of sending.
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$3,580,000
A house you could hold and rent, priced for what may come next. The property sits in a neighbourhood plan area the remarks say has been identified for potential higher-density residential development, townhouse or multi-family, subject to municipal approvals. That last clause is the one to weigh: nothing is approved yet, so the planning documents matter more than the floor plan. Sold as is, where is. Listed 7 days at time of sending.
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$3,200,000
Outside the usual coverage area, roughly 70 km east of Vancouver. Nearly 24 acres in Silverdale, where the remarks note part of the property falls within a neighbourhood plan area with major redevelopment underway nearby. The house is an older two-storey the listing says needs some work. The remarks call it priced well below assessed value; that is the listing's claim, and assessed value is not market value, so treat it as a starting point for your own numbers rather than a conclusion. Sold as is, where is. Listed 3 days at time of sending.
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$4,000,000
Also outside the usual coverage area, included because court-ordered development land at this scale does not come up often. A central infill site the remarks describe as having potential for 24 to 28 townhomes, with the important caveat in the listing's own words: a new development application and rezoning will be required. The price anticipates an approval nobody has yet, and for a builder who knows the local process, that is the whole underwriting question. Sold as is, where is. Listed 4 days at time of sending.
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This week's tip: Three of the week's listings lean on the word "potential", and in each case the remarks themselves admit the approvals are not in place: verify with city hall, subject to municipal approvals, rezoning will be required. That is not automatically a problem, but it changes what you are buying. The useful question is not what could be built but what the neighbourhood plan actually designates and what council has recently approved nearby. Price the property on what is permitted today, and treat the upside as something you are underwriting yourself, because in a court-ordered sale nobody is going to warrant it for you. If you are new to how these sales work: Order nisi and order absolute, explained.
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