Selling a duplex in Arbutus

Duplex halves are the format buyers most often misunderstand. Buyers confuse a half duplex with a strata townhouse and with a whole duplex building, and they are unsure what they own and what they share. That uncertainty stalls offers more often than price does.

Arbutus: Leafy west-side neighbourhoods near Arbutus Greenway and Kerrisdale Village.

What you are competing with in Arbutus

Active duplexes in Arbutus, Vancouver, as of August 25, 2026

Active listings

35 days

Median days listed

Past 90 days

0% of active inventory

$2,268,000

Median asking price

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 8 listing brokerages.

Reading those numbers against your listing

None of the 12 active listings in this category has passed 90 days. This is a category that is turning over, so if your listing is the exception, look at price and at the unit itself before you look at marketing.

Say plainly what the buyer owns, how the two owners share anything, and what the monthly cost actually is. Most duplex listings never spell this out.

What a duplex listing here needs

A page per unit rather than one page for the building, because the units are not interchangeable and the buyer who wanted the one with the yard needs to see that it exists. Findability for the terms buyers actually type, which for this format means the format and the area rather than the address. And the format questions answered in full: what the buyer owns, what the monthly cost is, and how a small strata runs when the building is new.

Your listing is already syndicated everywhere. Re-publishing it is not what we do. The work is the material a listing record cannot carry.

Other formats in Arbutus

Fourplexes Multiplexes

Other areas in Vancouver

Kitsilano Mount Pleasant Kerrisdale Dunbar Point Grey Cambie Oakridge Shaughnessy South Granville Main Kensington-Cedar Cottage Grandview-Woodland

Questions

The median active listing in this category has been on the market 35 days, and 0 of the 12 active listings have passed 90 days. That measures inventory still standing rather than completed sales, so a sold-side figure would be lower.

Yes to both. The listing stays yours, we do not approach your seller, and marketing is priced separately from commission rather than taken out of it.

Sold prices are VOW data under the Rules of Cooperation and are shown only to registered users who have accepted the terms and confirmed their email. They are not published on any public page, here or elsewhere on the site.

No. We have no measured before-and-after on time-to-sell for this format, so a percentage promise would be invented. We will show you the live competing inventory and describe exactly what work we do.

Have a duplex listing in Arbutus?

Send the address and the unit mix. We will read it against the inventory above and tell you what we see, including if the problem looks like price rather than marketing. It costs nothing to ask, and listing a project on the marketplace is free.

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