Condo of the Week: $1.45 million for a loft on the Annex-Yorkville border

Neighbourhood: The Annex Price: $1,449,000 Size: 1,516 square feet Bedrooms: 2+1 Bathrooms: 3 Parking spot: 1 Maintenance fees: $1,288 Real estate agent: Jamie Knoepfli, Sotheby’s International Realty

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The place

A two-bedroom, three-bathroom ground-floor unit on Davenport, steps from St. George. The building is zoned as commercial-residential, meaning residents are free to open and operate a business from home. It sits right on the Annex-Yorkville border, making it one of Toronto’s most walkable locations. There’s Casa Loma and parks to the north, Yorkville’s shops and restaurants to the east, the ROM and U of T to the south, and Dupont station to the west.

The history

The complex, built in 1999, is on Designers Walk: a long-standing hub for the city’s interior design and architecture communities. This unit, one of the largest in the building, is hitting the market for the first time since 2019. Its current owners spent the second half of 2023 renovating it—installing new hardwood floors, lining the home with custom cabinets and upgrading the kitchen with new stainless steel appliances. Related: $1.5 million for a North York corner suite with a mosaic wall

The tour

The building is a ’90s-era nod to Toronto’s Victorian townhomes. The private parking garage is at the rear.

Residents can access the unit’s foyer and basement directly from the street.

Inside, the living space comes with 10-foot crown-moulded ceilings.

That fireplace is gas, and the hallway leads to the kitchen.

Here’s the kitchen, equipped with new stainless steel appliances, custom cabinets and a salt-and-pepper tiled backsplash.

There’s a powder room on the main floor too.

Beyond the kitchen is the main bedroom, which walks out to the laneway and has a five-piece ensuite bathroom.

The spa-like ensuite features a double vanity and white tile all over.

This hallway storage unit—with its own garbage chute—connects the bedroom to the bathroom.

Now the second bedroom, which also walks out to the back.

Moving downstairs reveals the finished basement, with its own separate entrance, bedroom and bathroom.

Residents could transform this space into a boutique or an office.

It even comes with a workstation.

Finally, a peek at the rear balcony.

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