Address: 386 Yonge Street, Unit 5716 Neighbourhood: Downtown Core Agent: Larissa Doherty, Real Estate Homeward, Brokerage Price: $9,500 per month
A furnished three-bedroom condo in the tallest residential building in Canada.
The owners, a family, started living in this corner unit as soon as the 79-storey Aura building was completed in 2014. Most two-level units at Aura have open bedrooms overlooking the main floor, but the owners made sure all the bedrooms in this suite were enclosed for privacy.
Here’s the entry:
The kitchen:
The dining area is just beyond that Salvador Dali-esque bookshelf:
There’s a Murphy bed in the library:
A little office nook perched above the ground floor:
And there are two proper bedrooms. Here’s one of them:
And the master bedroom:
The master ensuite:
The dining room’s “living wall” comes with a built-in pump system that waters more than 100 individually potted plants:
And the owners installed soundproofing under the main floor for the grand piano, so disturbing downstairs neighbours won’t be an issue:
The 21-foot ceilings allow for lots of open space and natural light, but this suite, like all upper-level units at Aura, has no balcony.
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• $9,500 per month • 1,490 square feet • 9-foot ceilings • 3 bedrooms • 3 bathrooms • 1 parking space
Ali Amad is a Palestinian-Canadian journalist based in Toronto. His work has appeared in publications including Toronto Life, Maclean’s, Vice, Reader’s Digest and the Walrus, often exploring themes of identity, social justice and the immigrant experience.