Burnaby Property Management | Alex Lam PREC · Coldwell Banker Prestige Realty

This page is for people who already own, or are about to own, a rental in Burnaby and want local licensed help. That includes owners who live in the city, owners who live elsewhere and cannot show the suite, condo investors near a town centre, and accidental landlords who bought a home that still has a tenant.

The housing forms this service path speaks to are the ones Burnaby landlords actually rent: a strata condo, a townhouse, a detached house, and a secondary suite, at a high level. Each form changes the practical work. A strata lot adds corporation bylaws and often a Form K notice to the strata. A house or suite puts more of the building systems on the owner. The tenancy itself still follows the Residential Tenancy Act.

Service paths

Three related paths show up in a first conversation. Rental marketing is help presenting the home. Tenant placement covers inquiries, showings, applications, and getting a tenancy started. Full management continues after move-in: rent collection and reporting, maintenance coordination, and day-to-day tenant communication, inside the written scope. The property management hub is the education parent. The placement versus full management page is the decision fork. This URL does not replace either one.

The property management hub is the deep landlord education page: tenancy rules, service definitions, and links into fee structures, licensing, rent increases, and vacancy taxes. This URL is the Burnaby commercial and service page. People searching for a Burnaby property manager are looking for who helps in this city, not only a provincial explainer.

Use both. Start here for the Burnaby service path and the next step on a specific address. Use the hub when you want the longer Residential Tenancy Act context. The pages link to each other so a fee question does not stay trapped on a city page, and a city question does not stay trapped on the hub.

In British Columbia, providing rental property management services to the public is a licensed activity overseen by the BC Financial Services Authority. Alex Lam PREC provides these services through the licensed brokerage Coldwell Banker Prestige Realty. A trading-services licence and a rental property management licence are not the same permission. The licensed property manager in BC page explains that split in plain language.

Trust-account handling and consumer expectations belong on BCFSA’s pages, not in a private legal opinion on this site. Read the BCFSA rental property management licensing page and the consumer guide to tenancies before you treat any brochure as the rule. This page does not interpret your contract for you.

Burnaby is not one rental market. Metrotown, Brentwood, and Lougheed concentrate concrete towers and SkyTrain access. Edmonds, Burnaby Heights, Capitol Hill, and North Burnaby mix houses, suites, and older walk-up or low-rise buildings. SFU and UniverCity add a campus rental pattern. South Slope and Deer Lake are quieter residential contexts. Those names are market context so a conversation can start in the right place. They are not a ranking of buildings, and this page does not publish a rent index or a vacancy forecast.

• Metrotown
• Brentwood
• Lougheed
• Edmonds
• Burnaby Heights and Capitol Hill
• North Burnaby
• SFU and UniverCity
• South Slope and Deer Lake

When the rental is a strata lot, the corporation’s bylaws still matter even though long-term rental bans are not the current provincial rule. Short-term rental rules, pets, and use restrictions can remain. Document literacy for a purchase is on reviewing strata documents and how to read a BC strata plan. Those guides are for buyers and owners reading the file. They are not a second copy of this service page.

People looking for a place to rent, rather than an owner looking for a manager, should use Burnaby homes for rent. That board feed is tenant-side inventory. It is not a list of homes Alex or Prestige manages. Owners who are also buying or selling can start from the Burnaby real estate guide or the Burnaby realtor service page.

Choose placement when the job is to fill a vacancy and you will run the tenancy afterward. Choose full management when you want the ongoing work in a written scope after move-in. Many Burnaby owners want placement only for one turnover. Others, especially out-of-town owners and people with several strata lots, want the longer relationship. The hire versus self-manage guide is the wider fork if you are not sure you want a manager at all.

This page does not promise a number of days to rent a suite, a vacancy rate, or a filled-building outcome. Timelines depend on the unit, the rent, the building rules, and the applicants. A quote conversation can talk about a realistic marketing plan. It is not a guarantee.

Residential management pricing in British Columbia is usually an ongoing monthly fee, often a percentage of rent or a flat amount, plus a possible one-time placement fee when a new tenancy is filled. What is included depends on the written agreement. Read how much property managers charge in BC for that structure. The figures discussed there are market education. They are not Prestige rates.

Coldwell Banker Prestige Realty discusses fees per property. There is no public rate card on this site. Before you compare firms, use the how to choose a property manager in BC checklist: licence, scope, communication, and what the contract actually includes. A lower percentage that leaves notices and repairs with you is a different product.

Tell us about the Burnaby address. We will discuss service fit and fees for that property. Request Property Management when you want ongoing management reviewed. Submit Your Rental when the immediate need is filling a vacancy. Talk to Alex if you are not sure which path fits.

Related education, if the file is wider than a simple placement: the BC rent increase guide for lawful annual increases, the speculation and vacancy tax landlord guide when a home may sit empty, and selling a tenanted home in BC if the next step is a sale rather than another management year. None of those pages is a rate card, and none of them replaces the Residential Tenancy Branch.

Burnaby and Greater Vancouver. Alex Lam PREC. Coldwell Banker Prestige Realty.