Welcome to Torontolife.com’s new Real Estate section! Whether you’re shopping for a new neighbourhood—or checking out the one you live in now—we’ve got you covered.

Here’s what you’ll find inside:
Neighbourhood profiles of 76 city of Toronto-defined neighbourhoods, covering 150+ traditional Toronto neighbourhoods. We’ll tell you each district’s selling features, crime rates, commuting info, nearby restaurants and shops and more. And over the next few months, we’ll be adding profiles of more city neighbourhoods, so if you don’t see yours listed yet, check back. Or send us your thoughts on what’s great about your neighbhourhood (more on that below).
Web-exclusive real estate features. Want to know which condo developments are the hippest? Which neighbourhood your dog would like to live in? Which real estate truisms really are true? Check out our web-exclusive real estate features, with more to be added regularly.
An inside look at the city’s hottest properties.
Plus other real estate features from the pages of Toronto Life magazine.

Here’s what’s still to come:
More neighbourhood profiles and updated existing profiles based on your feedback. Comments functionality will be added to each neighbourhood listing soon, but in the meantime, please send us your comments directly to online@torontolife.com. And if your neighbourhood hasn’t been profiled, give us your thoughts on the good—and the bad—in your ‘hood. Don’t forget to tell us which neighbourhood you’re in!
What they got for that property down the street. Over the next few months, we’ll be adding property profiles of typical homes in each neighbourhood so you can get the inside scoop on what they asked, what they got and how many days the property was on the market.
More real estate features from the pages of the Toronto Life magazine, and more web-exclusive features created just for Torontolife.com. Have a real estate story idea you think we should cover? Let us know at online@torontolife.com.
More neighbourhood services and resources. We want our neighbourhood listings to provide all you need to make your buying decision easier and your post-purchase living simpler. So we’ll be adding more information about local services, shopping and more, all designed to make your neighbourhood listings page a one-stop resource.

Here’s why we’ve done what we’ve done:
Why we chose the neighbourhoods we did: We haven’t covered the whole city—yet. We’ve created profiles of 76 of the city’s 140 neighbourhoods, covering a range of districts from Mimico Creek to the Rouge Valley, from Lake Ontario to Steeles Avenue. But we aren’t stopping: we’ll be adding new neighbourhood profiles over the coming months, and we’ll be integrating your feedback into the neighbourhoods we’ve already covered.
Why we have two ways to search for your neighbourhood: After amalgamation, the city of Toronto literally redrew the map, consolidating many traditional Toronto neighbourhoods into larger, newly defined districts. For instance, the bigger and better Annex ate up Yorkville, so you won’t find Yorkville on the city’s map of neighbourhoods. But we know that people still think of Yorkville as, well, Yorkville, and we wanted you to be able to find the description that covered it. So for each newly-defined city neighbourhood, we’ve listed which traditional neighbourhoods it includes. The drop-down menu search covers the official neighbourhood names; the key-word search allows you to search by the names we all still use.

Here's where our stats come from:
Each neighbourhood profile includes commuting information and neighbourhood crime and demographic data.
Commuting information is derived from a custom-built Google map application, measuring the distance from the geographical centre of each neighbourhood to a number of key commuter destinations. So, while the distance isn’t measured from your doorstep, it should give you a general idea of how long it will take you to get where you’re going.
Subway stops are listed based first on which stops are within each neighbourhood. If a neighbourhood doesn’t contain a subway stop, we’ve listed the closest stop outside the neighbourhood’s boundaries.
Crime stats are based on the Toronto Police Service’s 2005 Statistical Report. We didn’t include the raw numbers because, out of context, they’re not very useful. What’s important is how safe your police division is compared to other city police divisions. So we took the statistical mean of the division statistics for property crimes and crimes against people. Any division that sat +/-10% of that mean was graded as “Average”; between 10-25% higher than mean was graded as “High”; between 10-25% lower than mean was graded as “Low”; more than 25% higher than mean was graded as “Very High”; and more than 25% lower than mean was graded as “Very Low.”
Demographic data (income, ownership and family composition) came from the City of Toronto’s Neighbourhood Profiles, which are based on Statistics Canada 2001 Census data.