You walk the streets of Central Vancouver with the ocean breeze from English Bay keeping you cool, and you see in the grey blue waters of Vancouver Harbour the huge freighters like strange statues made miniature below the mountains that rise in the distance under layers of mist. You turn down Cordova Street and head into Gastown, hands holding fresh market groceries from Granville Island, and you just can’t believe this is the place that you call home.

Wedged between English Bay and Vancouver Harbour, Central Vancouver is home to the city’s Downtown area split between the West End and the Downtown East Side. It’s arguably the most popular part of the city with Vancouver’s Business District keeping the pace fast and exciting. Hand in hand with booming business, the scene of Vancouver condos is also rapidly growing with developers revamping older buildings and constructing new ones.

As a peninsula, Central Vancouver enjoys a vibrant waterfront community, whether you are biking the seawall around Stanley Park to the north, hanging out by the beach, or taking a quaint water-taxi across to Granville Island in the south. For anyone seeking Vancouver condos for sale, Central Vancouver is a prime spot because of the number of new projects and the investment value of the neighbourhood. The Downtown East Side is enjoying a steady, community-driven revitalization, and the West End is a major destination for young professionals.

With a condo in Central Vancouver, you’re easily connected to the whole of the city with Vancouver’s unique SkyTrain public transit service, plus a range of local bus routes. Car owners will soon discover that Vancouver is pretty small and the main 99 Highway gets you just about anywhere you want to go.

There are a lot of great restaurants nearby , like Autostrada Osteria, Ca Phe Vietnamese Coffee House and Holy Chow, just to name a few. Grab your morning coffee at Republica Coffee Roasters Vancouver located at 321 W Pender Street. Groceries can be found at Al Madina General Store which is not far and you'll find Pure Integrative Pharmacy only a 6 minute walk as well. Entertainment is close by, with Vancouver Latin American Film Festival, Cineplex Odeon International Village and ContainR only a 3 minute walk. With Rennie Museum, Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Vancouver and Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art a 6-minute walk from your door, you'll always have something to do on a day off or weekend. Love being outside? Look no further than Victory Square, Rotery Beach Park or Crab Park, which are only steps away away.

Without a car, you can get around rather easily. The closest transit stop is a BusStop (Eastbound W Hastings St @ Homer St) and is only steps away, but there is also a Subway stop, Waterfront Station Platform 2, only a 3 minute walk connecting you to the TransLink. It also has (Bus) route 014 Hastings/ubc, (Bus) route 016 29th Avenue Station/arbutus, and more nearby.