Commercial financing in Burnaby, BC

Burnaby is a tier 2 market in the Capitalor coverage set: 249,125 residents, 6,900 tracked commercial buildings, and 33 lenders and brokers observed writing paper here. That works out to one active lender for roughly every 209 commercial buildings, a Lender Density Score of 100 — 17 of 134 nationally and 4 of 24 within BC.

Pricing starts from value, and value starts from the 4.6% Burnaby cap-rate seed — the 2nd tightest of the 134 markets Capitalor tracks. Applied to the $7,200,000 average transaction, that implies about $331,200 of net operating income before financing.

Take the anchor case: a conventional commercial mortgage at 5.05% over 25 years. Seventy percent of the average Burnaby deal is $5,040,000, costing $355,324 a year to service. Coverage at a 1.25x floor caps the same loan at $3,758,254, so on the typical Burnaby file coverage is the binding constraint and the number to solve for first.

Burnaby is a deep lender market. On well-covenanted paper you should collect at least three competing quotes; spread dispersion between the best and worst bid in a market this deep is usually worth more than any rate-timing decision. 10 of the Capitalor product set are published for Burnaby.

Deal flow in Burnaby concentrates in named commercial and employment areas such as Metrotown, the Big Bend industrial area and Brentwood. Capitalor publishes no separate figure for those areas: cap-rate seeds, lender counts, and deal sizes are collected and reported at the municipal level, so the numbers on this page apply across the city, and a corridor-level view has to come from asset-level comparables rather than from a published district statistic.