Departure Bay Real Estate

Departure Bay is a beautiful oceanside neighbourhood, a bowl-shaped valley rising from a large beach.

It is a highly desirable area owing to its spectacular ocean views, large swimming beach and park, well-kept homes, and central location. Almost anyone who's been to Nanaimo will be familiar with Departure Bay as the large bay where the ferry arrives from Vancouver. (But the ferry terminal is not in the residential area referred to as Departure Bay - it's in the Brechin Hill neighbourhood.)

There are luxury waterfront houses down by the beach of course, but as you go uphill you'll find different types of neighbourhoods. At the southern end are Cilaire and Beach Estates - then further north is the Lynburn neighbourhood, also notable for its mid-century and higher-end postwar homes. There are some strata buildings close to the beach, and then to the north, the land rises as dark basalt bluffs covered in houses of wood and glass. Sherwood Forest is tucked into here (with streets named Prince John Way, Marion Way, Bowstring Close, Nottingham, etc.).

North of Sherwood Forest there is still a lot of undeveloped land (beautiful undulating lands with arbutus and moss and towering firs and hemlock), with multiple ridges rolling back toward the Hammond Bay area. These ridges are still being developed with beautiful newer custom homes, but a large area has also been preserved as hiking trails and protected lakes.

Amenities are very near with several big malls within a 10 min drive. But even closer are the many beaches and rocky shores, most notably Pipers Lagoon and Neck Point, and of course the long sandy Departure Bay Beach, a popular (but seldom crowded) swimming beach with a playground, grassy lawn, driftwood hide-outs and a coffee shop.

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Condos & Townhomes in Departure Bay

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$664,000

2841 Rock City Rd, Nanaimo

3 Beds 3 Baths 1,391 SqFt 3,921 SqFt Lot Half Duplex MLS® # 948612

Royal LePage Coast Capital - Chatterton

$639,000

2714 Keighley Rd, Nanaimo

2 Beds 2 Baths 1,535 SqFt 1,743 SqFt Lot Row/Townhouse MLS® # 948675

RE/MAX of Nanaimo

$899,900

1324 Sherwood Dr, Nanaimo

3 Beds 3 Baths 2,099 SqFt 7,841 SqFt Lot Single Family Detached MLS® # 948616

RE/MAX of Nanaimo

$2,099,900

2525 Departure Bay Rd, Nanaimo

5 Beds 2 Baths 3,192 SqFt 35,284 SqFt Lot Single Family Detached MLS® # 948402

RE/MAX of Nanaimo

$569,000

3310 Edgewood Dr, Nanaimo

2 Beds 3 Baths 1,321 SqFt 0 SqFt Lot Row/Townhouse MLS® # 947857

eXp Realty

$524,900

1630 Loat St, Nanaimo

0 Beds 0 Baths 0 SqFt 6,970 SqFt Lot Land MLS® # 947219

460 Realty Inc. (NA)

$824,900

3538 Departure Bay Rd, Nanaimo

5 Beds 3 Baths 2,839 SqFt 11,762 SqFt Lot Single Family Detached MLS® # 946984

eXp Realty

$699,900

↓ $35,000

2852 Keighley Rd, Nanaimo

3 Beds 2 Baths 1,750 SqFt 8,277 SqFt Lot Single Family Detached MLS® # 947363

Royal LePage-Comox Valley (CV)

$985,000

163 Pacific Terr, Nanaimo

5 Beds 3 Baths 1,938 SqFt 10,019 SqFt Lot Single Family Detached MLS® # 947264

RE/MAX of Nanaimo

$1,225,000

2830 Haliday Cres, Nanaimo

4 Beds 3 Baths 2,299 SqFt 8,277 SqFt Lot Single Family Detached MLS® # 947055

RE/MAX of Nanaimo

$719,000

3059 Shamrock Pl, Nanaimo

4 Beds 2 Baths 1,926 SqFt 7,841 SqFt Lot Single Family Detached MLS® # 947048

eXp Realty

$599,900

↓ $30,000

2008 Mulligan Way, Nanaimo

2 Beds 2 Baths 1,570 SqFt 0 SqFt Lot Row/Townhouse MLS® # 946504

RE/MAX of Nanaimo

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Did You Know?

The first telephone line in British Columbia was installed here in the 1880s - it ran from the wharves at Departure Bay up to the coal town of Wellington (now part of Nanaimo, between Diver Lake and Long Lake). One of the mining engineers assembled the telephone system based on instructions he saw in a science magazine.

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