House of the Week: $1.3 million for a renovated semi at Bloor and Spadina
House of the Week: $1.3 million for a renovated semi at Bloor and Spadina
Address: 314 Robert Street
Neighbourhood: University
Agent: Heng Chan Lin, Estar Real Estate Corp., Brokerage
Price: $1,298,000
The Place: An Annex Victorian with a sunroom and plenty of high-end design elements (think wainscoting, coffered ceilings and an oversize fireplace).
Bragging Rights: Toronto is swimming in renovated Victorians, but this gut job strikes us as particularly attractive, especially when you compare the finished result to the before pics.
Big Selling Point: Located just off Bloor, the home nets a 98 on the Walk Score scale, meaning you don’t have to go far for anything. Groceries are 50 metres away at Metro, Shoppers Drug Mart is almost as close, and there’s also a bank, a subway station and a dozen restaurants within three blocks.
Possible Deal Breaker: The bustling streets that are so appealing to cyclists and walkers may be pain for drivers (is Bloor ever not under construction?). Then again, if you can’t deal with traffic, it’s probably best to not live anywhere in Southern Ontario.
By the Numbers:
• $1,298,000
• $4,180 in taxes (2012)
• 98 Walk Score
• 18-foot-by-92-foot lot
• 4 bedrooms
• 3 bathrooms
• 1 enormous fireplace
• 1 sunroom
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- The house has a brick front and aluminum siding
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- House of the Week: 314 Robert Street
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- The open-plan ground floor contains the living room, dining room and kitchen, as well as a powder room
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- The living room has coffered ceilings and an oversize fireplace
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- House of the Week: 314 Robert Street
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- The bay window in the living room, ground floor
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- Living room, ground floor
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- Dining room, ground floor
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- The kitchen has multiple skylights and a walk-out to the sunroom
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- The second floor contains three bedrooms, including the master suite
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- The third-floor loft can be used as an extra bedroom, a playroom or an office
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- The finished basement contains a rec room, a bedroom, laundry and a bathroom
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Bragging Rights: Toronto is swimming in renovated Victorians, but this gut job strikes us as particularly attractive, especially when you compare the finished result to the before pics.
Big Selling Point: Located just off Bloor, the home nets a 98 on the Walk Score scale, meaning you don’t have to go far for anything. Groceries are 50 metres away at Metro, Shoppers Drug Mart is almost as close, and there’s also a bank, a subway station and a dozen restaurants within three blocks.
Possible Deal Breaker: The bustling streets that are so appealing to cyclists and walkers may be pain for drivers (is Bloor ever not under construction?). Then again, if you can’t deal with traffic, it’s probably best to not live anywhere in Southern Ontario.
By the Numbers:
• $1,298,000
• $4,180 in taxes (2012)
• 98 Walk Score
• 18-foot-by-92-foot lot
• 4 bedrooms
• 3 bathrooms
• 1 enormous fireplace
• 1 sunroom
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Great ‘Walk Score’ – I also wonder about its ‘Drunk Students Pissing in Your Yard Score’
You clearly have not walked through the property – pictures look great but the workmanship is atrocious!!!! The floors are not level, the tiling job is bad. Sad they spent so much on cosmetics and did not get the basics right
oh I guess they don’t watch TV in this house because it is so beautiful.