Houses for Sale in Surrey, BC

There is no single number, and any source offering one for the whole city is flattening four different markets into a figure that describes none of them. The Fraser Valley Real Estate Board publishes a detached MLS® HPI benchmark for each of its four Surrey reporting areas every month, and those verified figures sit in the table on this page with their reporting month and source attached. A benchmark stands for a typical detached home in that area, so treat it as the opening of a conversation about a specific property rather than its answer.

It depends on the zone and on the lot itself. Surrey permits secondary suites and coach houses on many single-family lots, but the parcel still has to satisfy setback, lot-coverage, and parking requirements, and parking is the condition that most often stops an otherwise workable plan. ALR parcels carry further restrictions on top of the zoning. Confirm it with the City of Surrey planning department, or have your REALTOR® confirm it, before you buy on the strength of the idea.

Search the civic address or the nine-digit PID in the Agricultural Land Commission's ALR Property and Map Finder, which shows the parcel's ALR status against the current boundary. The commission also publishes downloadable boundary data and directs anyone needing official written confirmation to its mapping team (Source: Agricultural Land Commission, ALR Maps; accessed 2026-07-26). Parts of Cloverdale, South Surrey, and Newton sit near the boundary, so a neighbouring property's status tells you nothing reliable about the one you are buying.

The reserve exists to keep farmland in production, so subdivision and non-farm uses need approval from the Agricultural Land Commission rather than from the city alone. Residential construction is limited to what the regulations permit for a farm parcel, and the additional structures many buyers picture, such as a second dwelling or a shop run as a business, are the ones most likely to require an application. Applications are decided case by case, so nobody can promise you an outcome in advance.

Usually because the land underneath them is not the same product. Zoning, frontage, lot coverage, whether municipal sewer runs to the property line, whether a watercourse triggers a riparian setback, and whether the parcel touches the ALR all change what a buyer can eventually do with it. Condition explains the rest: a roof, a service panel, and a perimeter drain each have a replacement cost, and a house that has deferred all three is priced as though it has not.

Read the benchmark month over month rather than a headline. Each of the four Surrey reporting areas has its own current figure in the table on this page, dated to its reporting month, and the month-by-month path is on market trends. The four areas do not always move in the same direction in the same month, which is why a single claim about the whole city tends to be wrong for at least one of them.