Davisville Village Neighbourhood Real Estate

Davisville Village is in midtown Toronto, a central neighbourhood between Yonge Street and Bayview Avenue, from Eglinton Avenue south to Merton Street. Both sides of Merton count as Davisville Village. It is the M4S postal code south of Eglinton. Mount Pleasant Cemetery lies just south of Merton with Moore Park beyond it; across Bayview is Leaside, across Yonge is Chaplin Estates, and across Eglinton are North Toronto and Sherwood Park. You have Line 1 at Davisville and Eglinton stations, Line 5 along Eglinton and plenty of bus routes, and three high streets: the best stretch of Bayview, the best stretch of Mount Pleasant and a good run of Yonge Street.

No. Yonge and Eglinton is the nearest main intersection, where Line 1 meets Line 5, and it sits at the neighbourhood's northwest corner rather than its centre. The corner itself is condos, offices and shopping, a busy urban life. Davisville Village is a housing neighbourhood of quiet, tree-lined streets. South of Eglinton, Mount Pleasant Road divides it into two halves: apartment and condo towers to the west, near the stations, and streets of houses to the east. The City uses two names for its statistics (South Eglinton-Davisville and Mount Pleasant East), but it is one neighbourhood.

Davisville grew up around a pottery. John Davis came from Burslem, in Staffordshire, England, in 1840 and started a pottery at Yonge Street and Millwood Road in 1845. The village took his name, he became its first postmaster, and the Davis Pottery became its largest employer. The south part was subdivided in the 1860s, mostly on Davis family land; the northern part, the Davisville Glebe, stayed church land until 1911. Davisville joined the Village of North Toronto in 1889, and the City of Toronto annexed North Toronto in 1912. Most of the brick houses east of Mount Pleasant Road went up in the 1920s and 1930s, on lots mostly 25 feet wide and 125 feet deep, and a century of growth is why the streets have the mature tree canopy you see today. Homes now run from those 1920s houses to new builds. The Davis family's store and post office at 1909 Yonge Street is a designated heritage building, and so is Joseph Stanley Davis's house at 26 Millwood Road, designated by the City on December 18, 2024. Davisville station opened with the first Yonge subway on March 30, 1954.

In my experience, yes. I have lived in Davisville Village for twenty years. Neighbours know each other, keep an eye on each other's cars and homes, and check in when someone hasn't been seen for a few days. It is a big city, so things happen, but it is a very kid- and family-friendly place, and the local police station, 53 Division, is close by at 75 Eglinton Avenue West. Don't take my word for it: the Toronto Police Service's Public Safety Data Portal shows crime counts and rates for every City neighbourhood. Davisville Village falls in two of them, South Eglinton-Davisville west of Mount Pleasant Road and Mount Pleasant East east of it. Compare several years, not one, then walk the streets you are considering after dark and at rush hour.

Yes, if you want to live centrally and still have a backyard. It is family-friendly and walkable, thanks to the three high streets on Bayview, Mount Pleasant and Yonge, and it works with or without a car: Line 1 stops at Davisville and Eglinton stations, Line 5 runs along Eglinton, and most homes have their own parking. The schools are good (more on them below), and June Rowlands Park and the Beltline Trail are close. I live here myself; we chose it for the schools and because our friends were in the neighbourhood. The trade-offs are space and skyline: most detached lots are 25 feet wide (City of Toronto zoning study, 2017), and the towers near Yonge and Eglinton are in view from some streets.

Three things, and I tell every buyer about them. First, noise at the Yonge edge: the subway comes above ground at Yonge Street and Merton Street, so the condos right at that corner, 35 Merton Street and 1815 Yonge Street among them, hear the trains and Yonge Street traffic. Very few houses are near the tracks, and the houses inside the neighbourhood do not hear them. Second, aircraft: since Nav Canada redrew the arrival paths into Pearson in 2012, planes on approach cross Davisville Village, Leaside and Forest Hill. It can be loud, though not all the time. Third, Mount Pleasant Road is busy at rush hour, and cranes near Yonge and Eglinton will be part of the view for years. Add narrow lots and houses nearly a hundred years old, with the upkeep that brings. Walk the street at rush hour and again after dark before you make an offer.

Inside the neighbourhood, roughly half the houses are detached and half semi-detached, with some townhomes. Most are brick, two or three storeys, from the 1920s and 1930s, on 25-foot lots, and since about 2014 new custom homes have been replacing some of them. The City counted about 2,900 house properties east of Mount Pleasant Road and about 850 west of it (Davisville Village Zoning Study, 2017). Low-rise apartments sit mainly on Millwood Road near Yonge and on Balliol Street. The condos are on the edges: at Yonge and Eglinton, on Merton Street near Yonge, and up Yonge Street. West of Mount Pleasant Road, 94.2% of households lived in apartments in the 2021 Census (City of Toronto Neighbourhood Profiles).

In the twelve months to October 15, 2026, detached houses in Davisville Village sold at an average of $2,061,086 (70 sales, up 6.1% on the twelve months before) and semi-detached houses at $1,459,695 (70 sales, up 0.8%); all freehold homes averaged $1,764,124, up 4.2%, at an average 103% of the asking price (TRREB MLS data within The Seymour Team's Davisville Village boundary). In my sales, semis run from about $900,000 to about $2.5 million, and detached houses from about $1.3 million to a little over $4 million. The asking price is a poor guide here, because some sellers list low and hold offers; judge a house by what similar houses on nearby streets sold for. For today's prices, see the homes for sale in Davisville Village, the figures in the Facts section of this page, and our monthly market updates.

Three TDSB elementary schools share the neighbourhood, and the one you get depends on the house number. Maurice Cody Junior Public School (364 Belsize Drive, at Cleveland Street) serves the streets east of Mount Pleasant Road; it is the most sought-after, and families move east of Mount Pleasant to be in its area. Davisville Junior Public School (50 Davisville Avenue, near Yonge) serves most streets west of Mount Pleasant Road. Eglinton Junior Public School (223 Eglinton Avenue East, near Mount Pleasant) takes part of Hillsdale Avenue East (83 to 284) south of Eglinton. All three feed Hodgson Middle School (282 Davisville Avenue, Grades 6 to 8) for the whole neighbourhood (TDSB street guide, checked October 26, 2026). Check the address in the TDSB street guide before you make an offer.

It depends on which side of Mount Pleasant Road you are on. Homes east of Mount Pleasant, the Maurice Cody streets, go to Northern Secondary School (851 Mount Pleasant Road). Most homes west of it, the Davisville Junior streets, go to North Toronto Collegiate Institute (17 Broadway Avenue), with a handful of west-side addresses on Balliol Street, Davisville Avenue and Imperial Street already in Northern's area (TDSB street guide, checked October 26, 2026). Both schools are just north of Eglinton. The TDSB's boundary decision of May 21, 2025 changed some areas from September 1, 2026, so check the house number, not just the street.

Probably Northern Secondary School, or possibly a school outside the area. On May 21, 2025 the TDSB directed new residential buildings of four or more units in North Toronto Collegiate's area to Northern, and some new buildings near Yonge and Eglinton have had students sent further afield because the local schools are full. The TDSB street guide already marks addresses on Balliol Street, Davisville Avenue, Hillsdale Avenue East and Imperial Street this way (checked October 26, 2026). Check the building's own address in the street guide, and if the school matters, ask the TDSB before you firm up an offer.

Yes. For Catholic families, St. Monica Catholic School (14 Broadway Avenue, just north of Eglinton) is the neighbourhood's Catholic elementary school: its catchment runs south from Eglinton through Davisville Village and Moore Park to St Clair (Toronto Student Transportation Group boundary map, July 2016); Marshall McLuhan Catholic Secondary School (1107 Avenue Road) is the secondary school listed with it. Many families like Our Lady of Perpetual Help, but its boundary stops at Moore Avenue, south of the cemetery (Toronto Student Transportation Group map, July 2016), so it does not serve Davisville Village. Catholic boundaries are set by the TCDSB, so confirm the address with the board. Five private schools are inside the neighbourhood: Sunnybrook School on Merton Street (JK to Grade 6), Greenwood College School on Mount Pleasant Road (Grades 7 to 12), Toronto Prep School on Davisville Avenue (Grades 7 to 12, with JK to Grade 6 due September 2027), Manor Montessori School on De Savery Crescent and The Study Academy on Glebe Road East. Nearby, families here also use The York School and Toronto French School (co-ed), St. Clement's, Branksome Hall, Bishop Strachan and Havergal (girls), Crescent School, Upper Canada College and sometimes St. George's (boys), and St. Michael's College School and De La Salle. Each sets its own admissions.

Take Line 1 from Davisville or Eglinton station; it runs south to Bloor-Yonge, King and Union without a transfer. From the east side, the buses on Mount Pleasant Road, Bayview Avenue and Davisville Avenue connect to the subway, or take the bus down to St Clair station. Cyclists ride down Mount Pleasant or Yonge. Driving, the Bayview Extension avoids most of the traffic. There is no streetcar in Davisville Village. Davisville station opened on March 30, 1954 and has had elevators since 2002. For travel times, use the TTC trip planner; we don't quote them.

Yes. Line 5 Eglinton, the Crosstown, opened on February 8, 2026, with three stations along the neighbourhood's north edge: Eglinton at Yonge Street, Mount Pleasant at Mount Pleasant Road, and Leaside at Bayview Avenue. It runs east to Kennedy and west to Mount Dennis, and meets Line 1 at Eglinton station. For homes near Eglinton Avenue, that means rapid transit east and west as well as north and south.

Not usually. Most streets have street parking with a City permit, and in my experience most homes have parking of their own. The streets closest to Mount Pleasant and Bayview are trickier. Many of the older houses have no garage, a mutual driveway too narrow for today's cars, and no rear lane, so the parking is a front-yard pad, and a new pad needs City approval (City of Toronto zoning study, 2017). Homes with their own parking sell more easily, as they do across Toronto, because most buyers want it. Before you make an offer, check that the house has legal parking, that the pad has its permit, and what the street's permit rules are.

The subway work is finished: Eglinton Avenue was a construction zone from 2011 until Line 5 opened on February 8, 2026. The tower building is not. On the southwest corner, Canada Square (2180 and 2200 Yonge Street, where Canadian Tire has its offices), the owners, Oxford Properties and CT REIT, announced in June 2025 a retrofit of the two office towers with a 20-year Canadian Tire lease, and the first phase in 2026 takes down the bank pavilion at 2210 Yonge over the station entrance. The longer-term plan for that block adds residential towers and a larger park and is still working through approvals. New rental buildings keep opening too, among them Balliol Park, Shiplake Properties' two towers at 99 Davisville Avenue and 118 Balliol Street. The house streets are planned to stay houses, though since 2023 the City has allowed up to four units in a house.

June Rowlands Park, at Davisville Avenue and Mount Pleasant Road, is the centre of it: the Davisville Tennis Club, a ball diamond, a splash pad and a renovated playground, and on Tuesday afternoons in the warm months the Davisville farmers' market run by Appletree Markets. Hodgson's two outdoor rinks, one for pleasure skating and one for shinny, are chilled so they run all winter, and become tennis courts in summer. The restaurants, shops and bars run along Bayview, Mount Pleasant and Yonge; people come up from Rosedale for the restaurants on Mount Pleasant. There are two GoodLife gyms, at Mount Pleasant and Davisville and on Eglinton near Dunfield, a library at 599 Mount Pleasant Road, and a cinema in the Yonge Eglinton Centre. For a walk, Mount Pleasant Cemetery is an arboretum with one of the city's most varied tree collections, and the Beltline Trail runs along its north edge. The City's Davisville Community and Aquatic Centre, with a 25-metre pool, is under construction on Davisville Avenue; the City lists completion for February 2027 and says that may change.

Yes. There are lots of kids here, and they play together, use the park and the rinks, and know each other from school. Three public elementary schools and Hodgson Middle School are inside the neighbourhood, and June Rowlands Park has the playground and splash pad. In the 2021 Census, 37.0% of households in the City's area east of Mount Pleasant Road had children, against 17.9% west of it (City of Toronto Neighbourhood Profiles). The trade-off is space: a family house here is usually a semi or a narrow detached house on a 25-foot lot. Check the school for the exact address before you make an offer.

Yes, and they come to us from Leaside, Lawrence Park and Rosedale. Most buy a semi-detached or a smaller detached house here rather than a condo: a house on a quieter street, close to the shops and the subway. Many want a bungalow, but the 1920s bungalows are scarce because builders buy them for new construction. For those who want no stairs and no snow to shovel, a condo near Davisville or Eglinton station keeps the same streets, shops and friends within walking distance; Davisville station has had elevators since 2002. Before you buy a condo, read the status certificate: the reserve fund, any special assessments, the fees and the rules.

Start with the foundation: look for leaks and cracking. Foundations here run from fieldstone in the oldest houses to brick and concrete block, and poured concrete in the new builds. Then the electrical, including any knob-and-tube wiring left, which your insurer will ask about, and the plumbing, including old water lines; the City says a house built before the mid-1950s may still have a lead service pipe. A sewer line scope is a good idea, though it needs the seller's approval and isn't usually done. Ask whether the basement has a backwater valve and sump pump; the City's Basement Flooding Protection Subsidy pays up to $6,650 per property from May 1, 2026. Get the mutual driveway agreement and any parking pad permit in writing, and in a semi, visit at night to hear the shared wall. On a house this age, a full home inspection is worth it.

Parking, and a home that doesn't need much work. On the larger houses, a main-floor family room and a powder room. Air conditioning matters more than it used to; the options are central air, a SpacePak system in the attic, wall-mounted units or a heat pump. A dated house without parking doesn't take much longer to sell, but it has fewer buyers, so it has to be priced for that. Buyers also ask for things a seller can gather before listing: the TDSB school for the address, proof the lead water pipe was replaced, permits for past renovations, the mutual driveway agreement and parking pad permit, and what protects the basement from flooding. Having those papers ready answers the first questions buyers' agents ask.

In the twelve months to October 15, 2026, Davisville Village freehold homes sold in an average of 14 days, down 7.7% on the twelve months before, and 48% sold within a week (TRREB MLS data within The Seymour Team's Davisville Village boundary). Not every listing sells: from 2021 to October 15, 2026, 44% of freehold listings here ended terminated or expired rather than sold. A house that sits for weeks is usually priced too high for what buyers see in it, whatever the comparable sales say. The current days on market are in the Facts section of this page and in our monthly market updates.

Most people who call us already know: they want a house. Many start with a semi-detached, or a small detached if they can stretch to it, and semi owners often move up to a detached house a few years later. Few people weigh a condo against a house here. The condos are west of Mount Pleasant Road, near Davisville and Eglinton stations, and suit a first home or a downsize with the subway at the door; the houses are mostly east of it, on 25-foot lots, and suit a family that needs a yard and room to grow. If you buy in a new building with children in mind, check the high school first: new buildings in North Toronto Collegiate's area are directed to Northern Secondary School.

Mostly budget. Leaside homes cost more because the lots are slightly larger: in the twelve months to October 15, 2026, Leaside freehold homes sold at an average of $2,262,766 (150 sales, down 6.7% on the twelve months before) and Davisville Village freehold homes at $1,764,124 (142 sales, up 4.2%) (TRREB MLS data within The Seymour Team's boundaries). Davisville Village suits people who want the subway: everything is within a 20-minute walk of Davisville or Eglinton station. Leaside has Line 5 at Leaside and Laird stations since February 8, 2026, but the walk to Line 1 is longer, and it suits buyers who want a bigger home or slightly nicer streets. Leaside is a planned town of brick houses built mostly from the 1930s to the 1950s; Davisville Village is older and denser. Our Leaside page has that side of the story.