Yonge-St.Clair, Toronto

Yonge-St.Clair is a compact, densely built part of midtown Toronto where mid-rise and high-rise apartment buildings sit alongside older house-lined side streets. The main streets run in a grid, with busy commercial frontage along the principal roads and quieter residential streets branching off them. Buildings vary widely in age and style, from older detached and semi-detached houses to apartment towers and newer condo buildings. Most homes sold in the area were built between 1985 and 2023. Condo apartments make up 59% of the homes sold over the last 24 months, and 256 homes changed hands in that time. Detached houses account for 14% of sales, semi-detached houses another 14%, and freehold townhouses 5%. The typical home sold has 2 bedrooms. The median sale price over that period was $1,608,000, and the median time on the market was 25 days. There are 8 homes for sale at the moment. For getting around, Yonge Street and St. Clair Avenue are the main roads, and the Toronto Transit Commission operates the Line 1 subway along Yonge and the St. Clair streetcar route along St. Clair. No stations are on record inside the area itself, so rail access is at the edges or nearby. Highway 401 and the Don Valley Parkway can be reached by road to the north and east. Shops and services are concentrated along the main streets. They include cafes, grocery stores, restaurants and pharmacies, along with other everyday services, mostly at street level beneath apartments or in low-rise commercial buildings. Four parks are inside the area: Amsterdam Square, Lawton Parkette, Lionel Conacher Park and Robertson Davies Park. No community centres or libraries are on record inside the area. Cottingham Junior Public School, part of the Toronto District School Board, is the school located inside the area.