Half of the 65 office units listed in Burnaby are quoted at or below $345 per m² a year, and the entry level is $318 — the two figures sit within 9% of each other. Asking rates in Burnaby reach $620 per m² for the top tenth, so the premium end is a thin tail rather than the working market, and a tenant who takes mid-range product pays close to the floor price.
Across the 65 units the realistic budget in Burnaby is therefore the median: $345 per m² a year, about $19,300 annually for a 56 m² suite. Any quote approaching the $620 upper decile should be measured against that benchmark before a Burnaby tenant treats it as the going rate.
Burnaby's 7 buildings sit on the city's established business spines: Willingdon Avenue and Brentwood Drive to the north, Kingsway through the Metrotown core, and Still Creek Drive at 4170 in the light-industrial belt, with MetroTower, Solo District and Burnaby Centre among the named assets. A search in Burnaby is consequently a choice between three or four districts, not between dozens of interchangeable towers.
Unit size in Burnaby starts at 5 m² and reaches 520 m², with the median at 56 m² — the largest lot is roughly nine times the typical one. That range lets a Burnaby team lease 50–60 m² now and stay inside the same 7 buildings as it grows toward the 520 m² ceiling, which removes one relocation from the first growth cycle.