The Summit at Uplands: 11 Estate Home Sites in West Vancouver
“• British Pacific Properties is selling The Summit, 11 estate home sites in Uplands, West Vancouver, with lots from roughly 14,000 square feet to just over an acre.
• This is land, not a presale home. You buy the lot, then design, permit and build your own house under the development’s building scheme.
• Uplands is the first neighbourhood of the future Cypress Village, a long-term, phased mountain village with shops, a school and a community centre planned nearby.
• Two sites have sold. At the time of writing, public listings for the remaining sites ranged from about $2.99 million to $4.5 million, before the cost of building.”
What The Summit Is
The Summit is a collection of 11 home sites in Uplands, a 55-acre hillside community in West Vancouver's British Properties. The developer is British Pacific Properties, the same group that has shaped the British Properties for generations and is now leading Cypress Village, the mountain village planned just to the west along Cypress Bowl Road.
It's worth being clear on what you're buying. Most new developments I write about are presales, where you buy a finished home before it's built. The Summit is different: you're buying a serviced lot, and the house is yours to design and build. That's a big part of the appeal, and also most of the homework.
THE HOME SITES
Lots range up to just over one acre, and select sites look out over Burrard Inlet and Downtown Vancouver. Home Sites 5 and 6 have sold. When the remaining sites hit the MLS® in late September 2026, the listings I reviewed ran from $2,990,000 for Home Site 11 (about 14,000 square feet) to $4,500,000 for Home Site 7 (over an acre). In plain terms, the land alone lands in the $3 to $4.5 million range, and your build budget sits on top of that.
Each site comes with its own building envelope, which is the area of the lot where the house is allowed to go, along with limits on home size and design. The listings themselves ask buyers to confirm view, building envelope, home size and allowances for each lot, and I'd take that seriously. Two lots with similar prices can support very different homes.
THE LOCATION
Uplands is wrapped in coastal rainforest, and more than half of it is preserved as green space. The Mountain Path, a 5+ kilometre paved trail network with a 200-metre trestle bridge, connects the neighbourhood to the rest of the British Properties. Park Royal is a short drive down the hill, and the developer puts Downtown Vancouver about 18 minutes away.
Schools in the wider area include Rockridge Secondary, Sentinel Secondary, West Vancouver Secondary, Collingwood and Mulgrave. As always, being near a school isn't the same as being in its catchment, the boundary that decides which public school your address is assigned to. My North Shore High School Finder is a good first check.
CYPRESS VILLAGE NEXT DOOR
Uplands is the first neighbourhood of Cypress Village, which West Vancouver council approved as a phased, 20-year build-out. The plan calls for a walkable village with shops, cafés, a community centre, an elementary school and a sports field, alongside a large transfer of mountain land to the public. For buyers at The Summit, that means two things: amenities that don't exist yet will arrive over time, and so will construction activity nearby. My team wrote up the bigger picture in Preservation Meets Progress: The Cypress Village Opportunity.
WHAT THIS MEANS FOR YOU
My read: The Summit is a strong fit if you want a custom home on the West Vancouver mountainside and you have the time, budget and patience to build one. It's a different decision from buying a finished house, and the trade-off is real. You get to design exactly what you want on a new, well-planned site, in exchange for a longer runway and more moving parts before you move in.
A few things I'd sort out before committing to a lot:
Budget the whole project, not the lot. Land price plus design fees, permits, servicing connections and construction. On a custom West Vancouver build, the house can cost as much as the land, or more.
Plan the financing early. Lenders treat vacant land and construction differently from a finished home, usually with a larger down payment and draws released as the build progresses. Talk to your lender before you write an offer.
Know the taxes. Property transfer tax applies to the lot price, and my BC Property Transfer Tax Calculator gives you the number. Ask your accountant whether GST applies to the land purchase, and check how the BC Speculation and Vacancy Tax treats a residential lot while it sits vacant or under construction.
Read the fine print. Review the building scheme, design guidelines and the lot-specific envelope with your architect before subject removal. My presale buying guide covers how to read developer documents, and much of it applies here.
If you're weighing a Summit site against an existing West Vancouver home, the useful question is which fits your timeline and your cash. A resale home is a known quantity with a known closing date. A home site trades that certainty for a house built entirely around you, and neither answer is wrong.
If The Summit is on your radar, send me a message and we can walk through the numbers at your pace.
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About Matt Council
Matt Council is a North Vancouver Realtor and West Van specialist with a background in finance, focused on a data-driven, pressure-free approach to buying and selling on the North Shore.