Your multiplex listing is not sitting because of the photos.
It is sitting because the buyer for a duplex half or a fourplex unit has questions that a listing has no room to answer, and because the portals file this format under the wrong category. We build the pages that answer those questions, one per unit, on the only site in BC that covers this format and nothing else.
Right now 160 of the 571 active ground-oriented listings in Vancouver and Burnaby have been on the market longer than 90 days. If one of them is yours, you are not an outlier.
What standing multiplex inventory actually looks like today.
There is no published benchmark for this format, so we compute these figures ourselves from the active feed and show the method. Read them against your own listing rather than against a city-wide average.
Vancouver standing inventory
All ground-oriented listings in Vancouver, as of August 25, 2026
29% of active inventory
Counted from active MLS® listings in our own mirror of the feed. Days listed is measured from each listing's contract date to today, because the BC feed does not populate a days-on-market field. This describes inventory still standing on the market, so it reads higher than a sold-side figure would. Sold and closed data is not shown here: it is VOW data and is available only to registered users. There is no published multiplex benchmark from Greater Vancouver REALTORS, so nothing on this page is attributed to the board. This inventory is held across 62 listing brokerages.
Burnaby standing inventory
All ground-oriented listings in Burnaby, as of August 25, 2026
26% of active inventory
Counted from active MLS® listings in our own mirror of the feed. Days listed is measured from each listing's contract date to today, because the BC feed does not populate a days-on-market field. This describes inventory still standing on the market, so it reads higher than a sold-side figure would. Sold and closed data is not shown here: it is VOW data and is available only to registered users. There is no published multiplex benchmark from Greater Vancouver REALTORS, so nothing on this page is attributed to the board. This inventory is held across 33 listing brokerages.
What we are, without the marketing number.
A page like this normally claims a database of thousands of waiting buyers. We are not going to, because we would be inventing the figure and you would be right to ask how it was counted. What we have instead is category coverage, and that part is countable.
Every one a duplex, triplex, fourplex, or townhome. No towers, no detached.
So a buyer can look up who built the building before they enquire.
The other half of the question buyers ask about a brand new building.
Counted from our own database on page load. A buyer comparing four fourplex projects across two cities cannot do that on a general portal, which is why the buyers who reach us have usually already decided on the format.
The questions you would ask before sending us anything.
Answered properly, on their own pages, including the two that most marketing sites avoid.
If you are a listing agent
- Why a multiplex listing sits longer than a condoA condo in a tower has a known audience. Buyers understand what they are getting, comparable sales are easy to find, and the search filters on every portal are built around it. A four-unit building on a former single-family lot has none of that. The buyer pool is smaller and more specific, and most of the people in it do not yet know this format exists.
- Who owns the client when you list with usThis is the first question we get, and it deserves a direct answer rather than a paragraph that dances around it.
- How commission works on a listing we marketCommission in BC is negotiable and is set in the agreements between the parties, not by us and not by a rate published on a website. So this page describes the structure rather than quoting a number, because a number here would be wrong for most of the people reading it.
- What we do that the MLS® feed does notYour listing is already on every major portal. Adding one more site that shows the same photos and the same paragraph would do nothing for you, and we are not going to pretend otherwise.
- Days on market for multiplex homes in Vancouver and BurnabyThere is no published benchmark for multiplex days on market. Greater Vancouver REALTORS publishes its MLS® Home Price Index for detached, townhouse, and apartment only, so any figure you see attributed to the board for multiplexes specifically was not produced by the board.
- Pricing a multiplex unit when there are no clean comparablesThe usual method does not work well here. There is no HPI benchmark for this format, comparable sales in the same building type and neighbourhood are thin, and the units inside one building are not equivalent to each other.
- Photos and floor plans that work for a multiplex unitStandard listing photography is built for a house or a condo. A multiplex unit has a few specific things a buyer wants to see that a normal shoot does not cover.
- Where the buyers come from and how enquiries reach youThis is the page where a marketing site normally claims a large database of waiting buyers. We are not going to, because we would be making the number up and you would be right to check it.
- What it costs to have us market a listingPricing depends on how much of the work is ours and how many units are involved, so the honest answer is a range and a conversation rather than a table. What follows is how the levels differ and what moves the number.
- What happens if the listing still does not sellMarketing does not overcome every problem, and a page that pretends otherwise is not worth reading. Some listings do not sell because the price is wrong for the market, because the unit has a real drawback, or because the buyer for that specific home is not shopping this quarter.
- How to send us a multiplex listingShort version: send the address, the unit mix, and whatever material you already have. We will tell you what is missing before you spend anything.
If you are a developer
- Why a multiplex listing sits longer than a condoA condo in a tower has a known audience. Buyers understand what they are getting, comparable sales are easy to find, and the search filters on every portal are built around it. A four-unit building on a former single-family lot has none of that. The buyer pool is smaller and more specific, and most of the people in it do not yet know this format exists.
- What we do that the MLS® feed does notYour listing is already on every major portal. Adding one more site that shows the same photos and the same paragraph would do nothing for you, and we are not going to pretend otherwise.
- Days on market for multiplex homes in Vancouver and BurnabyThere is no published benchmark for multiplex days on market. Greater Vancouver REALTORS publishes its MLS® Home Price Index for detached, townhouse, and apartment only, so any figure you see attributed to the board for multiplexes specifically was not produced by the board.
- Pricing a multiplex unit when there are no clean comparablesThe usual method does not work well here. There is no HPI benchmark for this format, comparable sales in the same building type and neighbourhood are thin, and the units inside one building are not equivalent to each other.
- Marketing a multiplex before it is finishedSelling before completion removes your best sales tool. Nobody can walk through the unit, stand in the kitchen, or see the view from the top floor. Everything the buyer decides on has to be supplied some other way.
- Photos and floor plans that work for a multiplex unitStandard listing photography is built for a house or a condo. A multiplex unit has a few specific things a buyer wants to see that a normal shoot does not cover.
- Where the buyers come from and how enquiries reach youThis is the page where a marketing site normally claims a large database of waiting buyers. We are not going to, because we would be making the number up and you would be right to check it.
- What it costs to have us market a listingPricing depends on how much of the work is ours and how many units are involved, so the honest answer is a range and a conversation rather than a table. What follows is how the levels differ and what moves the number.
- What happens if the listing still does not sellMarketing does not overcome every problem, and a page that pretends otherwise is not worth reading. Some listings do not sell because the price is wrong for the market, because the unit has a real drawback, or because the buyer for that specific home is not shopping this quarter.
- A realistic timeline for selling out a small multiplex projectWe are not going to give you an absorption forecast. We have no measured sell-out data for this format at this scale, and a made-up curve would be the least useful thing on this page.
- How to send us a multiplex listingShort version: send the address, the unit mix, and whatever material you already have. We will tell you what is missing before you spend anything.
Your own market, by area and format.
Standing inventory, median days listed, and asking prices for the specific area and building type you are selling in. Pick a city to start.
Straight answers.
Send us the address and the unit mix.
We will look at the live competing inventory for that format and area and tell you what we see, including if we think the problem is the price rather than the marketing. It costs nothing to ask.
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