It would take less than an hour to walk past the five most expensive homes in Vancouver, and B.C, for that matter.
Three are neighbours, while the most expensive (Chip Wilson's waterfront mansion) is only about a 300-metre walk down the beach from the fifth of the top five.
The five properties have a total value of over a quarter-billion Canadian dollars, according to data released Tuesday (Jan 4) by BC Assessment.
Wilson's Point Grey Road home continues its streak as the most expensive piece of residential property in the province, topping the list with an assessed valued for 2023 of more than $74 million.
The Wilson property in Vancouver is followed by the first three homes on what's been nicknamed 'billionaires row' on Belmont Avenue just above Spanish Banks. Homes on that street take up 18 spots on the province's top 500 residential properties (Vancouver, unsurprisingly, dominates the list with more than half of the top 500 inside the city's borders).
However, one (4707 Belmont Ave.), is significantly higher than the other two, assessed at $66,964,000, just over $7 million below the top spot.
4707 Belmont Ave. is the second most expensive property in Vancouver (and B.C., for that matter) at $66,964,000| Image: Google Street View
Just behind third, 4719 Belmont Ave. has been assessed at $40,716,000, making it the cheapest of three neighbouring properties | Image: Google Street View
Supporting the assessed value of the trio is the recent sale of one of the homes (4743 Belmont Ave) which was bought for $42 million in 2021; it was assessed at $42,257,000. The palatial home was the former and longtime residence of Vancouver philanthropists Joe and Rosalie Segal; Joe Segal died in May 2022.
Assessed at $42,257,000, the Point Grey property at 4743 Belmont Ave. (a neighbour of the second place home) is the third most expensive home in the city | Photo: REW/Sotheby's International Realty Canada
The least expensive of the five homes with the highest assessed values is on the beach just east of Wilson, at 2815 Point Grey Rd. It's also the only one that doesn't have a tennis court outside (at least not one that's visible on Google Earth).
Not far from Chip Wilson's property is 2815 Point Grey Rd. Assessed at $39,423,000, it's the fifth most expensive home in Vancouver and B.C. | Photo: Google Earth
