When you drive through Woodbine Gardens with its hills and dales and winding and sloping crescents it is easy to envision the fact that this neighbourhood was once an attractive golf course.
With only a few hundred homes, it’s easy to see why this community is so tightly knit. Topham Park real Estate is located East of O’Connor and North of St. Clair.
Parkview Hills is a quiet, secluded neighbourhood consisting of a few hundred homes surrounded by lush ravine and park land.
Leslieville is a neighbourhood which has gentrified. There are now new restaurants, shops and cafés along Queens Street East catering to its new populace. It is a family friendly neighbourhood with a strong community focus.
Woodbine-Lumsden is a neighbourhood in the former East York area of the city of Toronto
The Upper Beaches is a rather recently coined name for the neighbourhood directly north of the Beaches area.
South Riverdale is located in the south-east part of Toronto and is bounded by The Don Valley to the west, and Greenwood to the East, and lies south of Gerrard.
Riverdale is a large area in the east end of Toronto that encompasses many smaller neighbourhoods. In the broadest sense, Riverdale runs from the Don Valley Parkway east to Pape Avenue, and south from Danforth Avenue to Gerrard Avenue.
The Church Wellesley Village community is bounded by Gerrard Street to the south, Yonge Street to the west, Charles Street to the north, and Jarvis Street to the east, with the core commercial strip located along Church Street from Wellesley south to Alexander.
Playter Estates is in the east end of the city bounded by Jackman Avenue to the east, the Don River Valley to the west, Danforth Avenue in the south, and Fulton Avenue in the north.
Not unlike the Bay Street Corridor, the Waterfront Communities are predominantly made up of condos. What houses do exist are scattered and mostly remnants of all old developments, with condo developments like City Place is one of Toronto's largest.
Danforth Village-East York real estate features classic houses with character, townhouses and condos all in a conveniently located neighbourhood that runs along Danforth Avenue from Greenwood east to Dawes Road
The Fashion District is the name given to the area of Downtown Toronto between the intersection of Bathurst Street to the west, Spadina Avenue to the east, Queen Street West to the north and Front Street to the south.
Liberty Village is is bounded to the north by King Street West, to the west by Dufferin Street, to the south by the Gardiner Expressway, to the east by Strachan Avenue, and to the northeast by the CP railway tracks.
In many ways Mimico is considered the gateway to Toronto's because of it's short commute to Downtown Toronto and the Go Transit station located on Royal York Rd. Yet this west-end waterfront neighbourhood is well established community known for it's scenic lakefront parks and excellent recreational facilities.
New Toronto is located along Toronto's western beaches. It is a neighbourhood in transition as the industrial corridor located at the north end of the neighbourhood has recently been converted to residential zoning. Like many others parts of the city, industry is moving out in favour of new developments and plans are underway for new home developments.
Cabbagetown, first established in the mid 1850's gets it's name from the thousands of Irish immigrants who first settled here after fleeing the potato famines of their homeland.
Located in the centre of the city lies the quiet neighbourhood of Leaside. This leafy area, first settled in the mid 1800's, is one of the city's premier areas for upper middle class families who value this established and safe community as the perfect place to raise their families.
Formerly the centre of the Cabbagetown neighbourhood, Regent Park is bounded by Gerrard Street East to the north, River Street to the east, Shuter Street to the south, and Parliament Street to the west.
Summerhill is a convenient and aesthetically pleasing community situated along the popular Yonge Street corridor.
The Toronto Entertainment District is concentrated around King Street West between University Avenue and Spadina Avenue.
Crescent Town is a self contained community of approximately ten thousand people tucked away in a sylvan like setting in the east Don Valley Parklands.
Almost impossible to define, the sprawling neighbourhood of Waterfront communities, located south of Queen Street between Bathurst and York, encompasses the sub-areas of the King West Theatre District, The Club District, The Fashion District, and Harbourfront.
Today, the term "The Junction" is generally applied to the area north of Annette, south of St. Clair, and between Runnymede Road and the Canadian National Railway corridor to the east which intersects with the CP Railway corridor at West Toronto Diamond. While the historical boundary lines cover a much large area, the Junction as it known today covers much less area retaining a small town charm to the area.
The Niagara community of Toronto stretches from Bathurst to Dovercourt along Toronto's waterfront and goes as high north as Queen Street. The main neighbourhoods within this community are Fort York, Liberty Village and the more western parts of the downtown King and Queen Street West strips.
Located between College Street on the north and Queen Street West on the south and between Bathurst and Dovercourt lays the neighbourhood of Trinity Bellwoods, which also forms part of the West-Queen-West district.
Yonge and Eglinton, once a part of the old Town of North Toronto, is also affectionately known as “Yonge and Eligible” thanks to the 20-something crowds that settled into the low and high-rise apartment buildings in the 70’s and 80’s.
Bounded on the west by Lansdowne Avenue, on the north by College Street, on the east by Ossington Avenue and on the south by the Canadian Pacific Railway and Canadian National Railway CNR/CPR mainline railway tracks.
Davisville is a bustling and amazingly diversified neighbourhood with a real sense of community. With shops and services on the three major north-south intersections: Yonge Street, Mount-Pleasant and Bayview.
Davisville is a bustling and amazingly diversified neighbourhood with a real sense of community. With shops and services on the three major north-south intersections: Yonge Street, Mount-Pleasant and Bayview.
Located between University Avenue and Yonge Street and Bloor St and Front Street is one of the city’s busiest North-South arteries. The area attracts many who work in the financial district as well as those who work in the nearby hospitals and schools.
With its many ravines and convoluted street routes, Rosedale-Moore Park is known for its low levels of vehicular traffic. Of course that is not all that makes this one of Toronto's most sought after neighbourhoods.
The Yonge - St. Clair neighbourhood is known affectionately as Deer Park, thanks to the great number of deer that lived in the area at the turn of the century.
The large central neighbourhood of Palmerston–Little Italy, located between Bathurst Street to the east, Bloor Street to the north, Dovercourt Road to the west and College Street to the south, is a primarily mature downtown neighbourhood.
High Park North, or often simply High Park, after the park, sits north of Bloor St. High Park North is mainly residential, containing many semi-detached homes built in the early 20th century. North of High Park, the neighbourhood has several high-rise apartment buildings, built after the construction of the Bloor-Danforth subway.
The area known as High Park - Swansea is made up of two distinct neighbourhoods of High Park and Swansea and most resident would claim to live in one or the other. Yet, both neighbourhoods are similar in population mix and housing mix.
The districting of Runnymede Bloor West Village is purely for municipal reasons, as the neighbourhood share a similar hilly terrain, winding roads and many mature trees among many residential streets. Similar to High Park in that it has many natural elements, easy access to public transit, walking distance to many shops and easy access to park and other recreational activities.
The city of Toronto divides Lawrence Park into two geographies, North and South. The Lawrence Park North encompasses the neighbourhoods better known as Bedford Park, Wanless Park and Teddington Park.
Bordered by Yonge Street to the west and Bayview Avenue to the east and from Blythwood Ravine on the south to Lawrence Avenue on the north, Lawrence Park South also includes the area west of Avenue south to Eglinton Avenue.
Roncesvalles has become a very popular and highly sought after neighbourhood for young families. It is geographically well place neighbourhood, located just west of downtonw, walking distance to High Park, the Toronto waterfront, easy access to transit and the many shops that line Roncesvalles Avenue, it has a definite European feel.
Designated as a National Historic Site of Canada in 2006, Kensington Market is one of Toronto's most distinctive multicultural neighbourhoods.
