Markets
Metro Vancouver, municipality by municipality.
The Forum maintains a market page for each principal industrial municipality: districts, infrastructure, zoning context, and conditions anchored to sourced, dated reporting. Vancouver’s own districts carry their own submarket pages.
Municipalities
The six markets.
- VancouverVancouver proper is the most constrained industrial market in the region. The city's industrial districts are small, historic, hemmed in by residential land and transit corridors, and almost never add supply — what exists is what there is.
- RichmondRichmond is the logistics and distribution heartland of Metro Vancouver. Between the airport, the river terminals and the Highway 99/91 interchange network, it holds the region's deepest pool of genuinely modern warehouse stock.
- BurnabyBurnaby is the first stop east of Vancouver, and often the best compromise in the region: bigger and more functional buildings than the city, closer in than the valley, with Highway 1 and SkyTrain running through the middle of it.
- DeltaDelta is where Metro Vancouver's goods movement actually concentrates. Deltaport at Roberts Bank is Canada's largest container terminal; Tilbury and Annacis Island hold the region's deepest inventory of large-format, yard-supported distribution space between it and the rest of the region.
- SurreySurrey is where new industrial supply in Metro Vancouver actually gets built. Campbell Heights and Port Kells have carried most of the region's recent construction, and the municipality holds the largest remaining runway of developable industrial land.
- LangleyLangley anchors the eastern end of Metro Vancouver's industrial market. Gloucester Industrial Estates — the large master-planned district at 264 Street and Highway 1 — is the centrepiece: modern large-format buildings, yard-supported sites, and some of the region's most active recent development.
Vancouver submarkets
The city, district by district.
Coverage
Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam, Pitt Meadows, Maple Ridge, North Vancouver and New Westminster are covered today through the regional data on the lease and sale market pages; dedicated pages follow as their content meets the standard the six above set. The Forum publishes a market page when it has something verified to say, not before.