Wychwood, Toronto

Wychwood is a compact, mostly low-rise neighbourhood in Toronto's midtown west, made up of residential streets, a few park spaces and a mix of older houses and newer condo buildings. The street pattern is largely a grid of short residential blocks, with ravine and park land threaded through it. Density is moderate. Detached and semi-detached houses make up much of the built form, and condo apartments add height in places. Most homes sold were built between 1926 and 2015, so the housing stock spans early twentieth-century houses through to recent construction. Over the last 24 months, 201 homes sold in Wychwood, and 23 are for sale now. The median sale price was $1,140,000, and the median time on the market was 14 days. Semi-detached houses were 31% of sales, detached houses 29% and condo apartments 27%. The typical home sold had 3 bedrooms. For getting around, Wychwood has no train or subway stations on record inside its boundaries. Residents of the area reach the wider city by surface transit lines on nearby major roads, and the area sits close to the main east-west and north-south routes of midtown and the downtown core. Highway access requires travelling out of the neighbourhood by road. Shops and services are of the everyday kind: cafes, restaurants, grocery stores and pharmacies, generally located along the commercial streets at the edges of the residential blocks. Wychwood has eight parks: Burnside Dr Boulevard, Frankel Lambert Park, Garrison Creek Park, Geary Avenue Parkette, Hillcrest Park, Marian Engel Park, Mount Royal Parkette and The Tollkeeper's Park. Chabad of Midtown Community Centre is the community centre in the area, and the Toronto Public Library - Davenport branch is the library. Two schools are located inside the area: McMurrich Junior Public School, run by the Toronto DSB, and St Bruno/St. Raymond Catholic School, run by the Toronto CDSB.