Where Smaller Homes Sell in Toronto: Twelve Neighbourhoods Compared

The short answer

The Toronto neighbourhoods for downsizing that offer the most choice are the ones with the most apartment stock. From April to June 2026, TRREB recorded the largest numbers of condo apartment sales among our twelve guides in the downtown waterfront, Willowdale East, Mount Pleasant West (part of Yonge and Eglinton), Islington-City Centre West, Bayview Village and the Annex. Every one of them has a subway or Line 5 Eglinton station.

The areas known for houses, such as Leaside and Lawrence Park, had very few condo sales in the same quarter. Riverdale and the Beaches offer a different kind of smaller home, with more semi-detached sales than condo apartment sales.

This post sits under our Toronto downsizing guide, which covers the whole move. Here we look at one question only: where smaller homes actually trade and what they cost, with the transit nearby.

Smaller-home prices by neighbourhood, April to June 2026

The table uses TRREB’s Community Housing Market Reports for Q2 2026. Prices are medians for each property type and are rounded in TRREB’s charts, which is why they read as “about”. Several of our neighbourhoods span two TRREB communities, so each community has its own row.

“Not reported” means TRREB gave no price. TRREB notes that some statistics are not reported when there are two or fewer transactions. In several cells there were no sales of that type at all.

TRREB community (our guide)	Condo apartment	Condo townhouse	Semi-detached
Leaside	About $560,000 (11 sales)	No sales	About $1,455,000 (10)
Lawrence Park North	2 sales, not reported	No sales	About $1,700,000 (10)
Lawrence Park South	About $1,100,000 (9)	1 sale, not reported	2 sales, not reported
Annex	About $858,000 (82)	About $1,260,000 (7)	About $1,725,000 (27)
Bayview Village	About $535,000 (83)	About $775,000 (15)	Not reported
High Park-Swansea	About $614,000 (32)	Not reported	About $1,499,000 (3)
High Park North	About $810,000 (21)	Not reported	About $1,615,000 (11)
The Beaches	About $900,000 (7)	Not reported	About $1,350,000 (23)
North Riverdale	Not reported	Not reported	About $1,780,000 (26)
South Riverdale	About $605,000 (31)	About $705,000 (11)	About $1,464,000 (40)
Willowdale East	About $570,000 (153)	About $1,025,000 (22)	Not reported
Willowdale West	About $628,000 (35)	Not reported	Not reported
Banbury-Don Mills	About $638,000 (50)	About $739,000 (4)	About $1,225,000 (7)
Yonge-Eglinton	About $533,000 (14)	Not reported	About $1,655,000 (3)
Mount Pleasant West	About $603,000 (114)	About $718,000 (3)	About $2,255,000 (5)
Islington-City Centre West	About $518,000 (109)	About $813,000 (6)	Not reported
Waterfront Communities C1	About $607,000 (396)	About $890,000 (3)	Not reported
Waterfront Communities C8	About $595,000 (113)	Not reported	Not reported

Source: TRREB Community Housing Market Report, Toronto Central, East and West, Q2 2026. Sale counts are in brackets.

Apartment stock and subway access

Sales in one quarter show what traded. The 2021 Census shows what is standing. The City of Toronto’s Neighbourhood Profiles use their own boundaries, which do not match TRREB’s exactly, so read the two side by side rather than as one measure.

Our guide	Share of dwellings in apartment buildings of five or more storeys (2021 Census)	Rapid transit named in our guide
Downtown waterfront	99.5% Harbourfront-CityPlace, 94.4% St Lawrence-East Bayfront-The Islands	Union and St Andrew (Line 1)
Yonge and Eglinton	89.9% North Toronto, 85.7% South Eglinton-Davisville, 39.7% Yonge-Eglinton	Eglinton and Davisville (Line 1), Line 5 stations
Willowdale	92.3% Yonge-Doris, 63.0% Willowdale West	Finch, North York Centre, Sheppard-Yonge (Line 1 and Line 4)
Bayview Village	66.7%	Bayview, Bessarion, Leslie (Line 4)
High Park	59.6% High Park North, 32.7% High Park-Swansea	Four Line 2 stations
The Annex	54.5%	Spadina, St George, Bathurst, Bay, Dupont (Lines 1 and 2)
Don Mills	52.6%	Don Valley, Aga Khan Park & Museum, Wynford (Line 5)
Islington Village	42.8%	Islington, Kipling (Line 2)
Riverdale	22.5% South Riverdale	Broadview, Chester, Pape, Donlands (Line 2)
Lawrence Park	18.3% Lawrence Park South, 3.4% Lawrence Park North	Lawrence (Line 1)
Leaside	8.0%	Leaside, Laird, Sunnybrook Park (Line 5)
The Beaches	7.6%	Main Street and Woodbine (Line 2) to the north

The Beaches and Riverdale have a lot of apartments in smaller buildings instead. In the 2021 Census 41.3% of dwellings in the Beaches were in apartment buildings under five storeys, as were 32.0% in South Riverdale and 28.3% in North Riverdale.

Where condo apartments concentrate

The biggest condo apartment markets in our twelve guides are along the subway lines. Waterfront Communities C1 alone had 396 condo apartment sales in the quarter at a median of about $607,000, with Union station inside the area.

Willowdale East had 153 condo apartment sales at about $570,000, along Line 1 between Sheppard-Yonge and Finch. Mount Pleasant West, the condo side of Yonge and Eglinton, had 114 at about $603,000, close to Eglinton station where Line 1 meets Line 5.

Islington-City Centre West had 109 condo apartment sales at about $518,000, the lowest median in the table. TRREB’s community includes the Etobicoke City Centre condo area near Islington and Kipling stations on Line 2. Bayview Village had 83 at about $535,000 along Line 4 Sheppard. Don Mills had 50 at about $638,000 near its three Line 5 stations.

The Annex is the exception on price. Its 82 condo apartment sales had a median of about $858,000, well above the other large condo markets here, in an area served by both Line 1 and Line 2.

Where condo townhouses and semi-detached houses sell

Condo townhouses are scarce in all twelve areas. Willowdale East had the most with 22 sales at about $1,025,000, then Bayview Village with 15 at about $775,000 and South Riverdale with 11 at about $705,000. Most other areas had three or fewer.

Semi-detached houses are the main smaller-house option in the east end and the older core. South Riverdale had 40 semi-detached sales at about $1,464,000, North Riverdale 26 at about $1,780,000 and the Beaches 23 at about $1,350,000. The Annex had 27 at about $1,725,000.

A semi-detached house still has stairs and a yard to look after, so it suits a different goal from a condo apartment. Our comparison of bungalows, condos and townhouses for downsizing goes through what each home type involves day to day.

Staying in a house neighbourhood: Leaside and Lawrence Park

Owners selling a detached house in Leaside or Lawrence Park often want to stay close by. The figures show why that is hard. Leaside had 11 condo apartment sales in the quarter and no condo townhouse sales. Lawrence Park North had 2 condo apartment sales and Lawrence Park South had 9, at a median of about $1,100,000.

Semi-detached houses give a little more choice: 10 sales in Leaside at about $1,455,000 and 10 in Lawrence Park North at about $1,700,000.

Transit is the bridge. Leaside station is 2 stops from Eglinton station on Line 5. Don Mills and the Yonge and Eglinton condo areas sit on the same line. Lawrence station is on Line 1, with Eglinton station at the south edge of Lawrence Park. Widening a search along those lines adds far more units than staying within one area. We compare the two in more detail in Leaside vs Lawrence Park.

Reading these figures with care

• One quarter is a small sample. The Beaches’ condo median rests on 7 sales and Yonge-Eglinton’s semi-detached median on 3.
• A median describes the middle sale, not the unit you would buy. Size, floor, age of building and condo fees vary a great deal.
• TRREB’s community boundaries and the City’s Census boundaries differ, which is why some rows above name more than one area.
• Census figures are from 2021. Buildings finished since then are not in them.

What to do next

1. Decide which home type you want first: condo apartment, condo townhouse or a smaller house.
2. Shortlist the areas in the table where that type actually sells in numbers.
3. Check the station you would use and the walk to it from each building.
4. Budget for the move, including land transfer tax on the smaller home. Our list of Toronto downsizing costs sets out each bill.
5. Read our overview of the best Toronto neighbourhoods for downsizing and the full guide for each area on your list.

When you want figures for a specific building or street, contact us.