Bay Vista West Kelowna - Community Tour

by Brandon Grass

Bay Vista West Kelowna - Community Tour

bay vista west kelowna entrance

West Kelowna's Bay Vista Gated Community is the perfect place to downsize and purchase your retirement home. This lovely community offers a wide range of homes to choose from, each with its unique features and steps from Okanagan Lake. If you're looking for a comfortable place to spend your golden years, look no further than Bay Vista!

Today, we are in West Kelowna's Westbank Centre neighbourhood. The location here is genuinely terrific. In one direction, you have Okanagan Lakeshore, which hosts various things to do in the summer. Gellatly Bay Waterfront Park is a popular local swimming spot, or you can take a wonderful stroll along Gellatly Bay.

There is also a wonderful off-leash dog park for your four-legged friends to take a quick dip and cool off.

gellatly bay west kelowna

West Kelowna's city center is up the hill, which includes all the essentials you'll need to live daily. In under five minutes, picture yourself driving to any essential shops from the gates of Bay Vista to get groceries, medical clinics, banks, coffee, Walmart, Royal Canadian Superstore, Canadian Tire, Home Depot, and so much more.

You can golf a round or two before noon at Two Eagles Golf Course or spend a full day on the popular Shannon Lake Golf Course, just minutes away.

If you love wine, look no further. Bay Vista is located on the Westside Wine Trail, and award-winning wineries like Quails Gate, Mission Hill, The Hatch, and Frind Winery await you. Your wine glasses will never run dry!

The amenities at Bay Vista

Are you looking for an amenity-rich community with a pool? Look no further than Bay Vista. The community features a pool, hot tub, clubhouse with a fully stocked kitchen for cooking, billiards table, library reading nook, and fitness center with elliptical, treadmill, and free weights. Plenty of other amenities are perfect for downsizers and home buyers.

The Homes at Bay Vista

Bay Vista is divided into 73 total units, 43 condos, and 30 townhomes. This gated community is always gated so residents can feel extra safe and secure.

The units inside of Bay Vista were constructed between 2003-2005

bay vista home showing kitchen

Now, let's talk about real estate at Bay Vista. Over the last year, there has been very little market activity, so we pulled up some market data from the past to give you a sense of the prices and what you can expect when house hunting here.

There have been no recently sold townhomes in the last year. The most recent unit to sell was in September of 2021 and was a three bedroom, three bathroom 2400 sq ft unit which sold for $790,000.

The apartment complex offers a range of units, from the smallest one-bedroom, one-bathroom, 934 sq ft units to three-bedroom, three-bathroom, 1761 square feet units. The most common units are two-bed and bath condos with 1300 SqFt of living space.

There are two different floor plan options when looking at the townhomes in Bay Vista. You can get a 1775 SqFt two-bedroom, three-bathroom unit or a 2,779 sq ft three-bedroom, three-bathroom unit. The most common townhome units are three bedrooms and three bathrooms with 2200 sq ft of living space.

Over the past three years, from 2022 - 2020, the average sale price for a three-bedroom three bathroom townhome has been $701,133

bay vista west kelowna back yard

Most of the townhomes here are walkout ranchers with fully finished basements.

All have main-floor primary bedrooms, but the only drawback is that laundry is downstairs in the basement, so if you are not 100% okay with stairs, this might not be the community for you.

All townhomes have standard size double car garages and excellent length driveways, no small sliver driveways, so if you've got a truck or a longer car, you're in luck!

Inside the homes at Bay Vista, you'll find gorgeous updates to most homes that include engineered hardwood flooring, stainless steel appliances, quartz or granite countertops, vaulted ceilings, and big open windows to show off the beautiful lake, valley, and mountain views.

bay vista living room

Strata fees at the time of this blog post are currently $315

What does the monthly strata fee include at Bay Vista?

It includes professional landscaping, clearing the roads of snow and ice, management, recreational facilities to access the pool, hot tub, gym, insurance, sewer, water, trash removal, and your contingency reserve. The savings account for the strata complex is for future repairs and maintenance.

This community is age-restricted, and all residents at Bay Vista must be 55 years of age or older.

Pets are allowed with restrictions as rules change so often. Please get in touch with me for updated information on strata rules and fees since the writing of this blog post.