Townhouses For Sale in York

Five Line 5 stops where there used to be none

Before Line 5, York had no subway or LRT stations of its own. A subway under Eglinton West actually started construction in 1994, but it was cancelled a year later. Three decades on, the Crosstown finally put five stations in the old city: Mount Dennis, Keelesdale, Caledonia, Fairbank and Oakwood, from west to east.

Two GO connections tie in. Mount Dennis GO, on the Kitchener line, opened in November 2025 beside the Line 5 terminal. Caledonia GO, on the Barrie line, is under construction where that rail corridor crosses Eglinton. Weston GO, with UP Express service to Union and Pearson, already serves the northwest.

For townhouse buyers, the stations matter most within a ten-minute walk. Small stacked and back-to-back projects are going up near several of them, and older complexes within reach of a stop now have a commute they didn't have before. Expect that to keep shaping which units sell quickly and which sit.

York Township, the borough, the city, and what this page counts

York Township was organized in 1793 and originally stretched west to the Humber. Over the following century it lost pieces to the City of Toronto as villages like Parkdale and Brockton were annexed. In 1922 the rural north voted to leave and became North York; East York left in 1924.

What remained joined Metropolitan Toronto in 1954. In 1967 it absorbed the Town of Weston and became a borough, then the City of York, before being merged into Toronto on January 1, 1998.

That history explains the patchwork. Weston has its own nineteenth-century village core, Humewood-Cedarvale and Oakwood Village date from the 1910s, and much of the rest filled in with modest houses through the interwar and postwar years.

The listings grouped here follow the real estate board's west-end districts covering the old City of York, which don't track the 1998 boundary exactly. The biggest difference is in the north, where the district includes Yorkdale-Glen Park, an area that was part of North York before amalgamation.

Across the whole grouping, townhouses come in three main forms:

• Older condo-town complexes, often from the 1970s and 1980s, on sites near Weston Road, Lawrence and the rail corridors.
• Small infill rows, freehold or condo, where a builder replaced a few houses or a commercial lot.
• New stacked and back-to-back units, mostly near Eglinton and the new stations.

Victorian-style freehold rows like those in the old city are rare, which makes York one of the places in Toronto where a townhouse is more likely to come with a monthly fee than not.

Steep streets, the Humber and the reverse-slope driveway

York is hillier than people expect. Fairbank and Silverthorn have steep streets and winding one-way roads, the Humber River valley forms the western edge, and the Black Creek corridor cuts through the middle.

That terrain shows up in townhouse due diligence:

• Reverse-slope driveways, where the garage sits below street level, are common in some older complexes and infill towns. Ask what drains the bottom of the driveway and whether it has ever backed up in heavy rain.
• Retaining walls between units or along a complex's edge are expensive to rebuild. Check the reserve fund study for them.
• Valley lots near the Humber or Black Creek may be in regulated areas, which limits additions and grading changes.

None of these is a reason to avoid York, but each is worth asking about specifically, since they're less common in flatter parts of the city.

Reading the books on a 1970s or 1980s complex

Many of York's condo townhouses belong to corporations that are now forty or fifty years old. By that age, most have replaced roofs at least once, and many are working through windows, doors, siding and underground services.

• Ask for the latest reserve fund study and compare its schedule with what's actually been done.
• Look for recent or planned special assessments in the status certificate and board minutes.
• Check who owns and maintains the internal roads, lighting and sewers.
• Find out whether the complex has original aluminum wiring or older plumbing that's been partly replaced.

A complex that has kept up with repairs can be a sound buy even with a higher fee. One that has deferred work may look cheaper monthly but carry a large bill in the next few years.

Kodak's campus and the Mount Dennis hub

For nearly a century, Kodak's Canadian operations occupied a large campus in Mount Dennis, from 1912 until 2006. Most of the buildings were demolished. One became the Line 5 maintenance and storage facility, and Kodak Building 9 was restored as part of Mount Dennis station.

With Line 5 and the Kitchener line meeting there, Mount Dennis is becoming a transit hub, and the land around it is starting to attract new housing proposals. Townhouse buyers in the area should keep an eye on development applications, which can bring both new services and years of construction to a street.

Weston: a village core with trains to Union and Pearson

Weston was incorporated as a village in 1882 and kept its own identity until it joined York in 1967. Its main street along Weston Road and the older houses around it still feel like a separate small town, set above the Humber valley.

Weston GO station brings Kitchener line trains and the UP Express, which makes it one of the few places in the city where you can ride to both downtown and the airport without changing. That's a real draw for townhouse buyers who travel for work.

Townhouse stock here leans toward older condo complexes near the river and the rail line, alongside apartment towers from the 1960s and 1970s. Some streets have seen new infill projects in recent years. Units close to the station sell on the strength of the commute; those further out compete more on size and condition.

Six York pockets and their townhouse stock

The first three have their own pages with more detail.

Where York fits against the old city and Etobicoke

Buyers usually come to York from one of two directions. Some are priced out of the west end of the old city and want more space for the money, accepting a longer ride downtown that Line 5 has now shortened. Others are comparing York with Etobicoke across the Humber, where there are many more townhouse complexes but fewer rapid transit stops close to them.

York's advantage is location: it sits between Line 1 and the Humber, with Line 5 across the middle and GO service on three corridors. Its drawback is limited stock, and the age of many existing complexes. The best units, near a station and in a well-run corporation, don't come up often.