House of the Week: $3 million for a heritage home in Rosedale
House of the Week: $3 million for a heritage home in Rosedale
Address: 19 Maple Avenue
Neighbourhood: Rosedale-Moore Park
Agent: Susan Froese-McHardy and Don McHardy, Royal LePage Real Estate Services Ltd., Brokerage
Price: $2,995,000
The Place: A large family home with tons of curb appeal in Rosedale.
Bragging Rights: Despite being a semi, this house feels incredibly spacious. It has six good-sized bedrooms and a finished basement plush enough to be used as a family room.
Big Selling Point: Though most of the home has an antique feel, the previous owners updated the kitchen and bathrooms to make them more functional for a modern family. No awkward claw-foot tubs in this house.
Possible Deal Breaker: The house is a heritage property, which means changing up the outside requires complicated political negotiations. It may sound harsh, but that’s how the neighbourhood maintains its sought-after character.
By The Numbers:
• $2,995,000
• $14,814.44 in property taxes (2014)
• 4,680 square feet
• 6 bedrooms
• 5 washrooms
• 3 storeys
• 3 fireplaces
• 3-car parking
• 1 skylight
• 1 heritage designation
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- The house is heritage designated, so it's required to look this way, by law.
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- The inside feels a little more modern than the outside. Here's the view from the foyer.
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- The living room has one of several fireplaces.
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- The view into the dining area.
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- The dining area, and another fireplace.
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- Tables upon tables!
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- The kitchen isn't the biggest or the fanciest, but it's very shiny.
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- Another view of the kitchen.
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- There are three bedrooms on the second floor of the house.
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- Here's one bedroom.
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- This bedroom is being used as a study, or possibly a psychoanalyst's office?
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- The master bedroom, with Juliet balcony.
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- The master bedroom's en suite washroom.
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- There's a small study on the third-floor landing. The surrounding doors lead to three more bedrooms.
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- Here's one of the third-storey bedrooms.
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- Another third-storey bedroom.
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- And the last third-storey bedroom.
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- The third-floor washroom.
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- The basement family room has some impressively red couches.
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- And the backyard.
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23 days on the market so far…
That’s nothing in the $3mm market. Supply outstrips demand once you get away from the 80-95% mortgages
love it…amazing and so nicely priced…..
There are many non-semis with backyards on the market for 3 big ones or less.
Very familiar with this area. Not a fan. You can’t walk much of anywhere (in comparison to other areas where you’d have $3 MM to spend) with the exception of the Bloor-Danforth subway. The roads are also terribly confusing. But this isn’t as much about the neighbourhood, as it is about the house.
The house itself is nice. I’m not exactly jumping at it, because being a heritage property, it’s pretty well “take it or leave it”. The issue is, it doesn’t embody any particularly “heritage” type elements. If someone famous lived there, if it was right out of the Victorian era, or if it had some unique attribute about it, such as having an exterior of a type of stone that was once in style, then I could see the prestige and corresponding “cool factor” that offsets the limitation to make it yours.
So, if you ask me, three million dollars could be a lot better spent elsewhere. It naturally all depends on what your lifestyle is like, but you’d either have to have a real connection to the Rosedale neighbourhood, a really big family, or daughters that go to Branksome Hall in order to truly make this worthwhile.
Also, just a commentary on the caption of photo number seven… “The kitchen isn’t the biggest or the fanciest, but it’s very shiny.”.
Shiny? How? What is shiny? Wood cupboards, wood floors, white walls. I see a little mirror on the backsplash of the liquor cabinet, but that’s the only shiny thing I see about that kitchen.