Selling in North Toronto: Your Questions Answered

For houses, yes. For condos, no, it's balanced, and a one-bedroom seller is working harder than anyone. In the twelve months to October 27, 2026, 55 freehold houses sold inside our North Toronto boundary; detached houses went for an average 101.6% of asking in 13.6 days, semis for 101.7% in 27 days, and there were 13 houses for sale at the end of it, under three months' supply. Condos: 220 sold, at 96% to 98% of asking, in 37 to 39 days, with 107 for sale, close to six months' supply (TRREB MLS® data via PropTx, within The Seymour Team's North Toronto boundary, twelve months to October 27, 2026). Those are different worlds, and I don't price or market them the same way.

Detached houses in North Toronto sold for an average of $2,154,119 in the twelve months to October 27, 2026, down 2.4% on the year before, at about $1,036 a square foot on 33 sales. Semis averaged $1,588,501, up 7.4%, about $1,089 a square foot on 17 sales (TRREB MLS® data via PropTx, within The Seymour Team's North Toronto boundary). Most of those houses are west of Yonge, on St Clements, Roselawn, Castlefield and the streets around Eglinton Park, built between the wars. Your number depends on the lot, the storeys, whether the basement is finished and how far you are from Yonge. I'd pull the sales on your street before I gave you one.

A two-bedroom averaged $614,571 in the twelve months to October 27, 2026, down 3.1% on the year before, on 139 sales. A one-bedroom averaged $425,583, down 11.3%, on 43 sales. Both ran about $840 to $870 a square foot, and both took about five weeks to sell (TRREB MLS® data via PropTx, within The Seymour Team's North Toronto boundary). The spread inside those averages is wide: a 1970s suite on Roehampton and a 2021 suite over Eglinton station are different products. Floor, exposure, parking and the building's fees move the price as much as the square footage does.

I can tell you what the numbers show, and I'll give you my view, but I can't promise you the cause. What they show: 107 condos for sale against 13 houses at the end of October 2026, and condo sales taking 37 to 39 days against 14 for a detached house (TRREB MLS® data via PropTx, within The Seymour Team's North Toronto boundary, twelve months to October 27, 2026). My view is that it is supply. Yonge and Eglinton has had towers going up for a decade and more are approved; nobody is building a detached house on Castlefield. When the buyers for a one-bedroom have a hundred to choose from, the seller who is priced a little high is the one who waits, through no fault of the suite.

You stop competing on price alone, because the buyer already has the price list. Four things work. One, have the status certificate ordered and in hand before the first showing, with the reserve fund study and the last year of minutes, so a buyer's lawyer has nothing to wait for. Two, price against the stack: the same floor plan, lower and higher floors, what each sold for and when. Three, show the difference: the view, the renovated kitchen, the parking spot and locker, the fees and what they include. Four, photographs taken at the suite's best hour, with the light on your side. In a building with five units up, the one that is ready, honest and well shown is usually the one that sells first.

About five weeks, if it's priced right. One-bedrooms averaged 38.5 days and two-bedrooms 36.8 in the twelve months to October 27, 2026, selling at 96.3% and 97.9% of asking (TRREB MLS® data via PropTx, within The Seymour Team's North Toronto boundary). If you're past six weeks with showings and no offer, the market is telling you something, and the fix is usually the price or the presentation. I'll help you work out which, and we'll adjust together.

Buyers will ask what's approved beside you, and they're right to. The City's Yonge-Eglinton Secondary Plan puts the tallest buildings closest to Eglinton station and steps them down in every direction, and the TDSB already lists new and proposed buildings on Broadway, Roehampton, Redpath, Erskine and Keewatin. Line 5 opened on February 8, 2026, so the Crosstown construction is finished; the tower construction isn't. Find out what is approved on the lots around your building before you list, and let your agent say it before the buyer discovers it. A seller who answers the question up front nearly always has the smoother sale.

There's a good chance. Detached houses sold at an average 101.6% of asking in 13.6 days and semis at 101.7% in the twelve months to October 27, 2026 (TRREB MLS® data via PropTx, within The Seymour Team's North Toronto boundary). Those are the figures of a market where well-priced houses draw more than one buyer. Whether to hold offers to a set date or take them as they come depends on the house, the week and what else is listed; I decide that with you once I've seen what you're up against. What I'd gently steer you away from is pricing high because the market is strong. The strong market is the reason pricing at the comparables works so well.

The things an inspector will find, not the things a decorator would. Nearly half the homes in the City's area west of Yonge were built in 1960 or earlier (2021 Census, City of Toronto Neighbourhood Profiles), so expect the buyer's inspector to look at the wiring, the water service pipe, the roof and the foundation. The City says a house built before the mid-1950s may have a lead water service pipe, and knob-and-tube wiring affects a buyer's insurance. A pre-listing inspection tells you first. After that: paint, lighting, the front garden, and in a semi, anything that quiets the shared wall. The kitchen can usually stay as it is, and I'll tell you if I think otherwise.

In North Toronto right now, if you're moving from a condo to a house, sell the condo first, because it will take five weeks and the house you want will take two. If you're moving from a house to a house, you have more room: 14 days to sell means you can buy with a reasonable closing and list the week after. If you're moving from a house to a condo, you have the easiest version, because there are 107 condos to choose from (TRREB MLS® data via PropTx, within The Seymour Team's North Toronto boundary, twelve months to October 27, 2026). The arithmetic of your own case is what we'd work out at the kitchen table.

Which school the address goes to, and in a new building, whether it's the local one. Most streets go to North Toronto Collegiate for high school, and west of Yonge the elementary school is usually Allenby, then Glenview; east of Yonge near Eglinton it's Eglinton Junior or John Fisher, then Hodgson. But the TDSB sends children from many new condo buildings to schools outside the neighbourhood, and since a board decision of May 21, 2025, students from new buildings in North Toronto Collegiate's area go to Northern Secondary instead (TDSB street guide and board decision, checked October 15, 2026). Know your address's answer before a buyer asks. The ranges change by house number, and the date matters.

Someone who knows that North Toronto is two markets and prices yours in the right one. Ask any agent you interview for the twelve-month figures for houses and for condos separately, inside North Toronto rather than for midtown or for Toronto. Ask what share of asking their last three listings sold for, and in how many days. Ask for reviews from clients you could call. Mine: top 1% of Toronto Realtors (realty sales statistics, 2026), top 1% nationally of Royal LePage REALTORS® with the Chairman's Club Award in 2023, and 4.9 stars from 58 Google reviews as of October 27, 2026, the written ones at SeymourReviews.com. I'd rather you checked than took my word for it.

The commission plus HST, your lawyer, any mortgage penalty, the preparation and the move, and for a condo, the status certificate. The commission is a percentage of the sale price, agreed in the listing agreement, and part of it goes to the buyer's brokerage; I go through our fee and what it covers when we meet. Sellers pay no land transfer tax. If the home has been your principal residence for every year you owned it, the gain is exempt from capital gains tax, though you report the sale on Schedule 3 and designate it on Form T1255 (Canada Revenue Agency, "Principal residence and other real estate", modified February 5, 2026).

For a house: a valuation from the sales on your street, a pre-listing inspection if the house is older, the preparation agreed and done, photographs, video and floor plans, the MLS® System and realtor.ca, our site and its North Toronto statistics, advertising on YouTube, Google and Facebook aimed at midtown buyers, showings run by us, and a decision with you on how to take offers. For a condo: the same, plus the status certificate ordered before day one, the stack of comparable sales in your building, and a plan for standing out among the other units for sale. Either way, a written report every week and me on the other end of the phone. My office is at 293 Eglinton Avenue East.

Book a consultation and I'll come to the house or the suite. For a house, bring the survey and tax bill if you have them and the dates of the roof, furnace and windows. For a condo, the last status certificate if you have one, your fee statement and the parking and locker details. You get a written valuation with the comparables it rests on, what's worth doing before you list, and a plain account of our fee. No obligation and no newsletter.