See All the Neighbourhoods

If you are not entirely familiar with the Toronto neighbourhoods where I conduct the bulk of my business, you may want to see the neighbourhood guide I have created below. In it, I will share my insights and opinion of the neighbourhoods offering you a glimpse of what I find distinctive about them, and what makes it tick.

Toronto’s neighbourhoods vary widely from having everything you could imagine in walking distance with great community events, a thriving commercial strip and a central location to a neighbourhood that has been down on its luck, but ready for hipsters, restaurants and new homebuyers to spill in.

To help you navigate these neighbourhoods, I have created a gentrification scale from 1 to 5.

SCALE OF GENTRIFICATION:

1

NO IMPROVEMENT
YET
2

EARLY SIGNS OF
IMPROVEMENT
3

ON ITS WAY
4

DESIRED
DESTINATION
5

ESTABLISHED

It’s up to you to determine where on this scale you would like to jump in, if you are interested in living in an emerging neighbourhood, you might start at a lower number. If you like your neighbourhoods ready to go and at or near its best, you may want to consider the higher numbers.

CHOOSE A NEIGBOURHOOD

The Beach

Compared to other Toronto neighbourhoods, the Beach is a real standout. It has that one thing that no other neighbourhood has- a huge and widely used beach. It feels more like a seaside town where […]

Silverthorn

Here’s a question I often receive: What is Toronto’s next emerging neighbourhood? Not what is emerging now. Not what has successfully emerged. We’re looking at what is the NEXT emerging neighbourhood. In other words, what […]

WESTON

Weston Village runs up Weston Road and its main street intersects Lawrence Ave. Many have compared this neighbourhood to an early Junction because, like the Junction, it used to be a small town that was […]

Church Wellesley Village

The Church Wellesley Village is about as gay as it gets in Toronto. Even back in the late 70s, this neighbourhoods packed enough LGBT power to impact the voting patterns in this riding. If you […]

Mount Dennis

Weston Village and Mount Dennis are in the very early stages of emerging. So, you don’t know how long it will take for these neighbourhood to take off, if they fully do.

Corso Italia and Caldenonia

It’s not a neighbourhood where condos are going up in all directions and the yoga and coffee shops are popping up like dandelions in Spring.

West Bend

Location-wise, it’s pretty good. Depending on where you are, you’re not too far from the practical Bloor subway line or the bohemian chic of the Junction.

Trinity Bellwoods

Along Dundas Street, a renaissance of hipster bars and restaurants has exploded. So, many consider this neighbourhood to be the centre of the centre of the universe.

The Junction Triangle

The access to downtown couldn’t be better. The Bloor line is right there. There are not too many places left that are affordable with easy transit access.

The Junction

The Junction transformed from remote outpost to cool spot around the same time as Leslieville.

St. Lawrence Market

Generally, I think St Lawrence Market is more peaceful than the King West condo strip on the other side of Yonge despite the number of people on both sides seeking a night out on the town.

Riverdale

It began at its northern region near the Danforth, just east of Broadview. In the 2000s, South Riverdale underwent rapid gentrification expansion.

Parkdale

The powerful push of Queen St has moved west into Parkdale bringing this legendary street’s trendiness and hip bravado with it.

Oakwood – Vaughan

Statistics Canada data indicates that 8% of the area’s residents are employed in art or recreation compared with the 5% average for the City of Toronto.

Mimico

There’s a funny array of houses in this neighbourhood for sure. Some are post war bungalows. Others are red brick beauties.

Long Branch and New Toronto

It used to have a lot of industrial buildings and zoning. Most of that is gone now, but there is a lot to be built.

Little Italy

The wider boulevard really creates an open feel to the street perfect for a breezy walk on a summer’s night.

Liberty Village

For a good portion of the past fifty years, Liberty Village was a collection of old warehouses south of King Street that few people saw.

Leslieville

Leslieville has become the underdog neighbourhood that transformed seemingly over night.

High Park and Roncesvalles

igh Park and Roncesvalles seems to have it all. You have good schools, highly rentable apartments for top dollar, and it’s relatively safe.

Hamilton

Hamilton does come at a price. If you do work in the city, it’s a long commute. It will take up a chunk of your day.

Distillery District

Strangely, the Distillery District is fairly close to downtown, but 10 years ago, there was really nothing around it.

Danforth Village

In a nutshell, the further east and north you go, the more affordable the housing stock for the Danforth Village.

Corktown

In Corktown, you are investing in a vision, but this one has been well planned.

Cabbagetown

Cabbagetown has the largest continuous area of preserved Victorian housing in North America. MY INSIGHTS I think Cabbagetown is an exceptionally pretty place in a great location close to downtown. It was one of Toronto’s […]

Alderwood

Because Alderwood was once farm land, the streets were named after local farmer’s of the day. Farmer Brown’s farm became Brown’s Line and Farmer Horner’s farm became Horner Ave. MY INSIGHTS Alderwood’s not like the […]

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