Junction-Wallace Emerson, Toronto

Junction-Wallace Emerson is a densely built west-central Toronto neighbourhood of compact residential streets, mixed housing and rail-adjacent corridors, with two stations inside its boundaries. The street pattern is largely a grid of short blocks broken up by rail lines and larger arterial roads. Buildings range from early 20th century houses in rows and pairs to newer condo buildings, and most homes sold were built between 1926 and 2018. Housing is close together, with narrow frontages on many streets and taller apartment buildings along the busier routes. Over the last 24 months, 356 homes sold here, and 33 are for sale now. The mix is varied: condo apartments made up 25% of sales, condo townhouses 24%, semi-detached houses 22%, detached houses 16% and freehold townhouses 10%. The typical home sold has 3 bedrooms. The median sale price was $969,000, and the median home spent 14 days on the market. For getting around, Bloor and Lansdowne stations are both inside the area. Nearby major roads include Bloor Street, Dundas Street, Lansdowne Avenue and Dufferin Street, with bus and streetcar routes running along several of them. Rail lines cross the neighbourhood, and the Gardiner Expressway is reachable to the south. Shops and services are spread along the main streets and around the stations. They include cafes, grocery stores, restaurants and pharmacies, along with other everyday services within short distances of most streets. Green space includes Bartlett Parkette, Beaver Lightbourn Parkette, Brandon Avenue Parkette, Bristol Avenue Parkette East, Bristol Avenue Parkette West, Campbell Avenue Park, Carlton Park and Chandos Park North. Community facilities include Casa Da Madeira Community Centre, George Chuvalo Neighbourhood Centre, Rehearsal Factory and Wallace Emerson Community Centre. The Junction Triangle library is also inside the area. Schools inside the area are Pauline Junior Public School and Perth Avenue Junior Public School (Toronto DSB), and St Luigi Catholic School, St Mary of the Angels Catholic School, St Rita Catholic School and St Sebastian Catholic School (Toronto CDSB).