Burnaby, British Columbia
Three companies are rebuilding Burnaby into four downtowns on 112 acres of former shopping-mall parking — a Quebec pension arm at Metrotown, a private Vancouver developer at Brentwood and Lougheed, and a Texas fuel partnership that acquired the refinery on Burrard Inlet on 31 October 2025 — and the City's open data names the owner of exactly sixteen sites in the whole municipality, all of them its own.
7 buildings · 6 with an owner established · 15 sources · 2 tier B · 5 tier A · prepared 2026-10-03
Can you find out who owns it?
Land titles in British Columbia belong to a public register run by the Land Title and Survey Authority, and anybody may search it — but a search is priced at $11.06 on the LTSA Customer Fee Listing as at April 1, 2026, there is no bulk owner product at any price, and the province publishes no price-paid file. Since 30 November 2020 corporations, trusts and partnerships that own BC land have had to file transparency reports with the Land Owner Transparency Registry, live to public search since 30 April 2021 and priced at NIL on the same schedule — it is the one register in Canada built to name the people behind the companies. Burnaby's own open data is parcel geometry and legal identity: a Legal Parcels layer of 36,906 parcels with PID, roll number, plan, lot area and heritage status, of which 2,459 are strata and 15 are air space parcels, and no assessed values and no owner names anywhere in it. The single exception is a dataset the City publishes about itself — sixteen non-market housing developments on City-owned land, each with the non-profit society that runs it named.
Is ownership public?Public, but one paid search at a time
Cost of one title search$11.06 per title search (LTSA Customer Fee Listing, fees as at April 1, 2026). A search of publicly accessible information under section 35 of the Land Owner Transparency Act is priced NIL on the same schedule.
Bulk ownership dataNone published
Sale pricesAggregates only — no individual sales
Sites that forbid taking their data
- bcassessment.ca — “Any commercial use of these data in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, including the use of such data for business, residential address or telephone directory services or any solicitation service is specifically prohibited except with the prior written authority of the owner of the copyright.”
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The marquee buildings
The towers that set the tone of the core, and who holds them. A price is the price a document states, on the date it states — not an estimate of what the building is worth now.
| Building | Use | Owner | Owner type | Last price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Metropolis at Metrotown 4700 Kingsway — a 47-acre property |
Retail | La Caisse (Ivanhoé Cambridge) Daily Hive, 7 September 2021: "While Montreal-based Ivanhoe Cambridge continues to own Metropolis at Metrotown in Burnaby and dozens of other mall properties, its operations have been handed over to the Canadian division of British commercial real estate company JLL." The same outlet's 2019 report calls it a "sprawling 47-acre shopping mall property" whose redevelopment envisages 15,000 new homes. Ivanhoe Cambridge is the real estate arm of the Caisse de depot et placement du Quebec, and since June 2025 its site serves only a notice that the portfolio now operates as La Caisse. Tier B: the ownership statement is five years old. |
Pension fund | —B |
| The Amazing Brentwood 4567 Lougheed Highway — a 28-acre site 8.5M sq ft of residential and commercial density |
Mixed use | SHAPE Properties SHAPE's own portfolio page: "At a rare 28-acre site, The Amazing Brentwood is Metro Vancouver's most celebrated destination... SkyTrain connected and 6,000+ homes at completion". The site overview states 28 acres, 8.5M SF of residential and commercial density, 6,000+ homes over 11 residential towers, 300 professionally managed rental homes in Tower One and 250+ retailers. SHAPE describes itself as "the real estate investment, development and management company behind Canada's most significant centres of gravity". No price and no ownership percentage is published. |
Developer | —A |
| The City of Lougheed 9855 Austin Avenue — a 37-acre site 1.3M sq ft of new commercial |
Mixed use | SHAPE Properties SHAPE's own portfolio page: "At a rare 37-acre site where three SkyTrain Lines meet, a new city is rising. With +20 towers, new shops and restaurants and over five acres of parks at completion". Neighbourhood One is complete with 1,500 homes, a 22,000+ SF amenity facility and retail anchored by PriceSmart Foods; Tower Four is a completed 237-suite rental building managed by SHAPE; the plan is for over 10,000 homes and 10,000+ residents on site. Three SkyTrain lines — Expo, Millennium and Evergreen — meet on the property. |
Developer | —A |
| Burnaby Refinery Burnaby, British Columbia (no street address stated on an opened page) |
Industrial | Sunoco LP owned and operated by the Partnership Sunoco LP's 2025 Form 10-K defines the asset in its own glossary: "Burnaby Refinery: refinery located in Burnaby, British Columbia owned and operated by the Partnership, which was acquired in the Parkland Acquisition." The Refinery segment is composed of this one asset, "with an operational capacity of approximately 55,000 barrels per day", consuming sweet conventional and sweet synthetic crude to make gasoline, diesel and jet fuel, and "The majority of the Burnaby Refinery's production remains in British Columbia". Energy Transfer LP owns and controls Sunoco's general partner. The refinery's own community site, burnabyrefinery.ca, still carries a Parkland Corporation footer. |
Public company | approximately US$2.60 billion in cash plus 51,517,198 SunocoCorp common units 2025-10-31 Sunoco LP Form 10-K for the year ended 31 December 2025: "On October 31, 2025, we completed the previously announced acquisition of Parkland... Parkland shareholders received 0.295 SunocoCorp units and C$19.80 for each Parkland share"; "In connection with the closing of the Parkland Acquisition, we paid approximately $2.60 billion to Parkland's shareholders and transferred 51,517,198 SunocoCorp common units." The consideration bought all of Parkland, of which the refinery is one asset — it is not a price for the refinery. A |
| Station Square Metrotown, Burnaby over 450,000 sq ft of new retail and office at completion |
Mixed use | Anthem Properties The project's own site states: "Once completed, Station Square will encompass 5 residential towers with 1,800 homes and over 450,000 sf of new retail and office space", with PriceSmart Foods, Best Buy, Earls, Cactus Club, Rexall, TD Canada Trust, WeWork and Starbucks among the tenants, and "direct access to the Skytrain, bus transit and Metropolis, Canada's second largest shopping mall". Tier B because the attribution to Anthem rests on the site's own masthead logo and its link to anthemproperties.com rather than on a sentence naming an owner. |
Private company | —B |
| Non-market housing on City-owned land (16 sites) Sixteen sites across Burnaby, from 3755 Banff Avenue to 8305 11th Avenue |
Residential | City of Burnaby The City's open dataset "Non-Market Housing Developments on City-Owned Land" lists sixteen developments totalling about 1,964 units, 701 of them occupied across nine buildings. The land is the City's; the buildings are run by named societies — More than a Roof Housing Society (about 445 units at 7409 Halifax Street), BC Indigenous Land Development Society (244 at Kincaid/Sunset), Catalyst Community Development Society (203 and 134), S.U.C.C.E.S.S. (161), New Vista Society (125 and 25), M'akola Housing Society (130), Metro Vancouver Housing (122), Community Land Trust (118 co-op units) and six more. Each row gives rezoning file, storeys, unit mix and affordability split. |
Government | —A |
| 4567 Lougheed Highway / 9855 Austin Avenue / 4700 Kingsway together The three mall sites: 28 + 37 + 47 acres |
Land | Not established a paid title search would answer it Burnaby's four town centres are being rebuilt on 112 acres of what was shopping-centre land, held between two owners. The registered titles behind each — and the interest holders behind whatever companies hold them — are available only through an $11.06 title search per title followed by a free LOTR search. No open dataset in Burnaby carries either. |
Not established | —A |
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The core land
The most valuable ground in the city, and what the public record says about it.
Burnaby publishes parcels, not values: the Legal Parcels layer is the legal fabric of the city with PID, roll number, plan, district lot, lot area and heritage status on every parcel, and no money and no names. The City's own site 404s on its budget and finance path, so no municipal assessed-value total could be read first-hand, and BC Assessment forbids commercial use of the values it does publish. What can be measured here is land area and the City's own holdings.
Parcels in the City's open legal fabric36,906
City of Burnaby Legal Parcels (OpenData4 layer 7), counted server-side 3 October 2026. Of these, 2,459 are strata parcels and 15 are air space parcels. No field in the layer carries an owner name or an assessed value.
Town-centre land held by two owners112 acres
Metropolis at Metrotown, 47 acres (Daily Hive, 2019); The Amazing Brentwood, 28 acres, and The City of Lougheed, 37 acres (SHAPE's own portfolio pages). Three sites, two owners, four of Burnaby's town centres.
Non-market homes on City-owned land~1,964 units at 16 sites
Summed from the City of Burnaby's own "Non-Market Housing Developments on City-Owned Land" dataset, 16 records; 701 units across nine buildings are recorded as Occupied, the rest adopted, under review or under construction with anticipated completions from 2026 to 2028.
Refinery capacity on Burrard Inlet~55,000 barrels per day
Sunoco LP Form 10-K for the year ended 31 December 2025: "Our Refinery segment is composed of the Burnaby Refinery, which was acquired in the Parkland Acquisition, with an operational capacity of approximately 55,000 barrels per day."
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Who builds the houses
New-home building in this market: the volume, and the firms behind it. Ownership of a builder matters as much as its volume — a private-equity platform and a family firm behave differently.
Burnaby is the clearest case in Metro Vancouver of homes being built by the company that will keep them: SHAPE is building 6,000 homes at Brentwood and over 10,000 at Lougheed on land it holds, and it manages the rental towers itself rather than selling them. CMHC's monthly series does not split the Vancouver census metropolitan area by municipality — the CMA started 27,185 homes in 2025 and 17,298 in the eight months to August 2026, with 61,331 units under construction at August 2026 — and Canada publishes no builder league table, so the figures below are project counts from the builders' own pages.
| Name | Type | Homes, as the builder states them |
|---|---|---|
| SHAPE Properties Its own portfolio pages state "6,000+ Homes OVER 11 RESIDENTIAL TOWERS" at The Amazing Brentwood with "300 PROFESSIONALLY MANAGED RENTAL HOMES" in Tower One, and at The City of Lougheed "over 10,000 new homes" with Neighbourhood One already complete at 1,500 homes and a completed 237-suite rental Tower Four "professionally managed by SHAPE". The company builds and holds; the rental towers do not change hands. |
Developer | 6,000+ at Brentwood and 10,000+ at LougheedA |
| Anthem Properties The Station Square project site states five residential towers and 1,800 homes at completion. Anthem's own About Us page states it "has been creating Great Space since 1991" with "a team of 850+" across British Columbia, Alberta, California and Ontario; its portfolio statistics render client-side and produced no figures to a text fetch. |
Private company | 1,800 homes at Station SquareB |
| Catalyst Community Development Society 134 units at 6889 Royal Oak Avenue (occupied 2025) and 203 units at 7392 16th Avenue (occupied 2025), both on City-owned land, per the City's own non-market housing dataset. Affordability on both is recorded as 30% of units at 20% below CMHC market median and 70% at 30% above. |
Institution | 337 non-market units at two Burnaby sitesA |
| More than a Roof Housing Society The largest single non-market project in the City's dataset, "Approximately 445 units of non-market housing and a child care facility" in a mid-rise on City-owned land, rezoning REZ24-00019, status "Rezoning under review", anticipated 2028, at 20% shelter rate / 50% rent geared to income / 30% low end of market. |
Institution | approximately 445 units at 7409 Halifax StreetA |
| New Vista Society 125 units for families and seniors in a 14-storey building at 6551 Sussex Avenue (completed 2022) and 25 seniors' units at 7898 18th Avenue (completed 2024), both on City-owned land. City of Burnaby non-market housing dataset. |
Institution | 150 non-market units at two sitesA |
| Beedie Burnaby-headquartered, with Industrial, Living and Capital divisions on its own site; /about/ 404s and the home page renders no figures to a text fetch. Its weight in Burnaby is industrial: La Caisse announced a 50/50 industrial joint venture with Beedie on 10 September 2026 seeded with $1 billion of assets in Metro Vancouver, Calgary and Toronto. |
Family / private | no unit count publishedA |
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Commercial landlords
The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.
Burnaby's commercial ground is unusually concentrated: two owners hold the three town-centre mall sites, one US partnership holds the refinery, and the City holds the land under every non-market housing project in the municipality. Figures are each owner's own disclosure or a filing.
| Name | Type | Burnaby asset, or portfolio size as stated |
|---|---|---|
| SHAPE Properties Its own portfolio page lists The Amazing Brentwood and The City of Lougheed as master-planned communities alongside RC at CF Richmond Centre, plus retail destinations including Uptown in Victoria, Deerfoot City in Calgary and Nanaimo North Town Centre. SHAPE states it is "+250 strong" and runs sales and marketing, asset management, construction, finance, entitlement, acquisition, disposition, development, planning and design, property management and leasing in house. |
Developer | 65 acres across two town centres; 8.5M sq ft of density at Brentwood and 1.3M sq ft of new commercial at LougheedA |
| La Caisse (Ivanhoé Cambridge) La Caisse's own real estate page states a real estate portfolio of "$42.9 B" of net assets as at 31 December 2025, gross assets valued at $74 billion, 8% of its total portfolio and "70+ Global strategic partners". Metropolis is British Columbia's largest shopping mall; its operations were handed to JLL Canada in September 2021 while Ivanhoé Cambridge retained ownership. |
Pension fund | 47 acres at Metropolis at Metrotown; $42.9B of net real estate assets company-wideA |
| Sunoco LP Form 10-K for the year ended 31 December 2025: the Burnaby Refinery is "owned and operated by the Partnership, which was acquired in the Parkland Acquisition" and constitutes Sunoco's entire Refinery segment. Sunoco had $13.39 billion of debt at 31 December 2025, including about $3.65 billion assumed and issued for Parkland. Energy Transfer LP owns and controls the general partner. |
Public company | one refinery, ~55,000 bbl/dA |
| Anthem Properties Project-site figure. Anthem's latest news item on its own About page is "Crestpoint Real Estate Investments, Vestcor & Anthem Properties Break Ground on King + Park, the New Masterplan Development at the Gateway to Burnaby" — a second Burnaby master plan, this one with institutional partners. |
Private company | 450,000+ sq ft of retail and office at Station SquareB |
| City of Burnaby The only landowner in Burnaby whose holdings are published parcel by parcel with a name attached — its own. The dataset gives each site's rezoning file, operator society, storey count, unit count, unit mix, affordability split and status. |
Government | 16 sites of non-market housing land, ~1,964 unitsA |
| Beedie with La Caisse La Caisse's release of 10 September 2026: a 50/50 joint venture with Beedie, "$1 billion seed portfolio of premier industrial assets located in Metro Vancouver, Calgary and Toronto", five income-producing properties of more than 2.5 million sq ft plus one 200,000 sq ft development, with a deployment target of up to $2 billion of gross asset value and Beedie managing the enterprise. The release names no individual properties, so no Burnaby asset is attributed here. |
Family / private | $1B seed portfolio, 2.5M+ sq ft of industrial leasable areaA |
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Looked for and not found
Claims this page would have made if a source could be opened. They are left out rather than guessed.
- Burnaby's total assessed value. burnaby.ca 404s on its budget and finance path, the City's open data carries no values, and BC Assessment forbids commercial use of its own.
- The registered owner of any private parcel in Burnaby. The Legal Parcels layer gives 36,906 parcels with PID and roll number and no names.
- Whether Ivanhoé Cambridge still holds Metropolis at Metrotown in 2026. The last primary statement found is from September 2021, the mall's own site is a JavaScript shell, and Ivanhoé Cambridge's website has been reduced to a brand notice.
- Anthem Properties' interest in Station Square stated in words. The attribution here rests on the project site's logo and outbound link.
- The Burnaby Refinery's street address and site area: the Form 10-K names the city and not the parcel, and burnabyrefinery.ca renders client-side.
- Who owns Simon Fraser University's Burnaby Mountain campus and the UniverCity lands as a matter of record — no page naming the holder was opened for this record.
- Which of the five La Caisse–Beedie industrial seed properties are in Burnaby. The release says Metro Vancouver, Calgary and Toronto and names none.
- Whether a LOTR transparency report has been filed against any Burnaby parcel named here; the section 35 search is free but needs an LTSA account, which was not opened.
- BC publishes no price-paid dataset; Property Transfer Tax open data is counts and values by municipality.
- Local-government officials' real-property disclosures under BC's Financial Disclosure Act are not published: section 6(1) requires the disclosure clerk only to "produce for inspection, on request during normal business hours" the written disclosure filed by a nominee or municipal official.
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Sources
- Fees — LTSA Customer Fee Listing as at April 1, 2026 — Land Title and Survey Authority of British Columbia · openA
- About the Land Owner Transparency Registry — Land Title and Survey Authority of British Columbia · openA
- BC Assessment home page and copyright notice — BC Assessment · openA
- Open Government Licence - Burnaby (portal statement) — City of Burnaby Open Data · openA
- Financial Disclosure Act, RSBC 1996 c. 139, s. 6(1) — Queen's Printer, BC Laws · openA
- Metropolis at Metrotown mall now under new management; and Metropolis at Metrotown mall redevelopment envisions 15,000 new homes — Daily Hive · openA
- The Amazing Brentwood — The SHAPE Portfolio — SHAPE Properties · openA
- The City of Lougheed — The SHAPE Portfolio — SHAPE Properties · openA
- Sunoco LP Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2025 — US Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR) · openA
- Station Square project site; and About Us — Station Square; Anthem Properties · openB
- Non-Market Housing Developments on City-Owned Land — City of Burnaby Open Data · openA
- Legal Parcels (OpenData4 layer 7) — City of Burnaby Open Data · openA
- La Caisse and Beedie Launch Partnership Focused on Canadian Industrial Properties; and Beedie home page — La Caisse; Beedie · openA
- Real Estate — portfolio figures as at 31 December 2025; and the Ivanhoé Cambridge brand notice — La Caisse; Ivanhoé Cambridge · openA
- Table 34-10-0154-01 — CMHC housing starts, under construction and completions in selected census metropolitan areas, monthly (Vancouver CMA, vectors 42127505, 42127510) — Statistics Canada / Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation · openA