Annex, Toronto

The Annex is a dense, central Toronto neighbourhood of tree-lined residential streets, apartment buildings and busy commercial corridors, located north of Bloor Street and west of Yonge Street. Its street grid is mostly regular, with short side streets running off the major roads. Building stock is mixed. Older brick semi-detached and detached houses sit next to mid-rise and high-rise apartment and condominium buildings, and many homes have been built or converted in recent decades. Condo apartments make up 66% of homes sold over the last 24 months, followed by semi-detached houses at 16%, detached houses at 7% and freehold townhouses at 6%. Most homes sold were built between 1985 and 2023, and the typical home sold has 2 bedrooms. There were 669 sales in that period, with a median sale price of $1,205,000. Homes took a median of 28 days to sell. Right now 107 homes are for sale. Six stations lie within the area: Bathurst, Bay, Christie, Dupont, Spadina and St. George. Bloor Street, Spadina Avenue, Bathurst Street and Dupont Street are the major roads. The Bloor-Danforth and Yonge-University-Spadina subway lines meet at St. George and Spadina, and streetcar routes run along Bathurst Street and Spadina Avenue. The Don Valley Parkway and the Gardiner Expressway can be reached by road to the east and south. Shops and services are concentrated along Bloor Street, Bathurst Street and Dupont Street. They include cafes, restaurants, grocery stores, pharmacies, bookshops and everyday service businesses. Parks in the area are mostly small parkettes: Belmont Parkette, Bernard Avenue Road Allowance, Bloor-Bedford Parkette, Boswell Parkette, Ed & Anne Mirvish Parkette, Euclid Avenue Parkette, Four Seasons Parkette and Frank Stollery Parkette. Community centres are 918 Bathurst, St. Alban's Boys and Girls Club and The Native Canadian Centre of Toronto. Libraries are OISE Library, Toronto Public Library - Palmerston, Toronto Public Library - Spadina Road and Toronto Public Library - Yorkville. Schools inside the area are Huron Street Junior Public School and Palmerston Avenue Junior Public School, both Toronto DSB, and Msgr Fraser Orientation Centre, Toronto CDSB.