Toronto homes for sale

One city, several very different markets

Toronto isn't one housing market so much as several stitched together by the old amalgamation lines. Downtown and midtown run heavy on condo towers and narrow semis on streetcar streets, walkable and dense. The former inner suburbs, Etobicoke, Scarborough, North York, and York, are where most of the city's detached homes and bungalows actually are, built out mostly from the 1950s through the 1970s on wider lots than anything downtown offers. TRREB tracks all of it under district codes rather than one flat "Toronto" value (C01 through C15 downtown and midtown, E01 through E11 in the east end, W01 through W10 in the west), and this page rolls every one of them up into a single search.

What that means for a search

The same budget buys a fundamentally different home depending on which part of the city you're looking at, a one-bedroom condo near King West versus a three-bedroom bungalow in Scarborough's Agincourt or Etobicoke's Alderwood, which is exactly the kind of decision that gets harder, not easier, once a second person's preferences are in the mix.

Who's searching here

Toronto draws the widest range of buyers of any city on this list: first-time buyers priced toward condos and starter semis, upsizing families looking at the inner suburbs for a yard without a highway commute, and investors watching the same listings for entirely different reasons.

Getting around

The TTC subway (Line 1 and Line 2) covers downtown, midtown, and North York directly, streetcars fill in the downtown core, and GO Transit's full network converges on Union Station, making Toronto the easiest city on this list to search car-free.