2495 Lake Shore Blvd W
Toronto, Ontario M8V
A 3-storey, 45-unit private rental building built in 1958.
- Property manager
- Metcap Living Inc
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Issues & maintenance
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City bylaw and health cases
4 bylaw investigations at this address since Dec 2025; 2 notices or orders to comply.
A case starts with a complaint or an officer’s visit, so it is not a finding against the building. In a condo, a complaint about one unit is filed under the building’s address.
- Repairs and upkeep 4
- Apr 2026
Repairs and upkeepBylawOrder to comply · Apr 2026· Closed
- Rear Yard: The tree, plant, limb or branch, which is located on the property is dead and has not been removed or otherwise pruned to remove the dead portion. Namely, the 3 trees marked with flagging tape. (closed)
Case 26 147160 PRS 00 IV
- Apr 2026
Repairs and upkeepBylaw· Closed
Case 26 145964 PRS 00 IR
- Dec 2025
Repairs and upkeepBylawOrder to comply · Jan 2026· Closed
- Throughout Building: The guard is designed that a member, attachment or opening located between 140 millimetres and 900 millimetres above the level being protected facilitates climbing. (open)
- Throughout Building: Height of the guard for the exit stairs are less than 1,070 millimetres around landings. (open)
- Throughout Building: Height of the guard for the exit stairs are less than 920 millimetres measured vertically to the top of the guard from a line drawn through the outside edges of the stair nosings. (open)
- Throughout Building: Required guard does not prevent the passage of a sphere having a diameter more than 100 millimetres. (open)
Case 26 102458 PRS 00 IV
- Dec 2025
Repairs and upkeepBylaw· Closed
Case 25 265184 PRS 00 IR
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City building permits
2 permits the City has issued at this address since 2000 - repairs, alterations and system work that needed one. Official records, not resident reports.
- Alterations 1
- Plumbing and drains 1
- Feb 2026
Alterations · Other(BA) · Closed
Replacement of railing in response to municipal order # 26 102458 PRS 00 IV
Permit 26 120989 BLD · est. $10,000
- Jun 2018
Plumbing and drains · Backflow Prevention Devices (Water only) · Closed
Installation of backflow preventer
Permit 18 184610 PSA · est. $5,000
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From City of Toronto open data
Neighbourhood
Living score
54/ 100
Each category is ranked against every other Toronto building on this site: 70 means better than 70% of them.
- Transit30
23 departures an hour at the morning peak within 500 m, on 3 routes.
- Parks & trees54
15 ha of parkland within 800 m; nearest park 80 m. 376 street trees within 300 m.
- Cycling61
Within 1 km: 0.9 km of protected lanes, 4.8 km of bike lanes and trails, 0.6 km of shared routes. 2 Bike Share stations within 500 m.
- Schools nearby68
6 public or Catholic schools within 1 km (nearest: John English Jr Mdl School , 430 m), plus 1 private. Distance only: being near a school does not mean being in its catchment.
- Daily amenities85
Within 1 km: 1 library, 3 community centres, 9 licensed child care centres.
- Road safety51
2 collisions with serious injury or death within 500 m, 2021–2025, 1 fatal. Fewer scores higher.
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Also worth knowing
Shown for context. None of this is part of the living score.
Safety
Humber Bay Shores
- AssaultAbout typical
Lower than 68 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (81% of the city median).
- Break and enterLower than most
Lower than 84 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (65% of the city median).
- RobberyAmong the lowest
Lower than 95 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (34% of the city median).
- Auto theftAbout typical
Lower than 67 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (82% of the city median).
- Theft from vehiclesAmong the lowest
Lower than 93 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (59% of the city median).
- Theft over $5,000About typical
Lower than 53 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (about the city median).
- Bicycle theftAbout typical
Higher than 72 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (1.9× the city median).
- ShootingsAmong the lowest
Lower than 98 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (35% of the city median).
How often police recorded each crime for every resident of the whole neighbourhood, averaged over 2023–2025. Places many people visit but few live in, like downtown, rank high for that reason alone, so this is not part of the living score.
Air
Gardiner Expressway, 1.4 km away
660 kg a year from 1 facility, mostly Alps Auto Repair
Bands: traffic is high within 150 m of an expressway and moderate within 500 m; industrial is moderate under a tonne a year and high above. The industrial bands are ours, for orientation only: ChemTRAC totals mix substances of very different toxicity. Releases are self-reported to the City’s ChemTRAC program. For today’s readings see Air Quality Ontario.
Supervised consumption services
- Nearest site
- Kensington Market Overdose Prevention Service, 8.5 km
- Sites within 1 km
- 0
Sites currently offering services, from Health Canada, updated 2026-09-15. Sites open and close; check the list for current status.
Zoning
Residential Apartment
- Category
- Apartment
- Zone label
RA (d1.5) (x778)- Height limit
- Set by the zone
Zoning By-law 569-2013, from City of Toronto open data. Exceptions (“x” numbers) and site-specific amendments can change what is allowed; check the City’s zoning map before relying on it.
Nearby change
- Open planning applications within 300 m
- 7
- Registered short-term rentals at this address
- 0
2491 Lake Shore Blvd W · 60 m away
Site plan · Under Review · submitted 2022-06-27
Proposal to demolish the existing commercial/residential building on the subject lands and redevelop the site with a stepped 9-storey mixed-use building, inclusive of a rooftop mechanical floor, containing retail uses at-grade and residenti
City record2409-2411 Lake Shore Blvd W · 200 m away
Rezoning · OMB Appeal · submitted 2021-11-09
The proposed amendments to the City¿s Official Plan and Zoning By-laws would permit a development comprising approximately 35,200 square metres of residential gross floor area (about 557 units) and 368 square metres of retail space. The pro
City record2417 Lake Shore Blvd W · 190 m away
Subdivision · Appeal Received · submitted 2021-11-09
Draft Plan of Subdivision in order to establish one mixed use development block (Block 1), one park block (Block 5) and new public road blocks (Blocks 2 and 3) in order to facilitate the proposed development.
City record
Rezonings, site plans and subdivisions submitted in the last five years and still open.
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Toronto. Data as of 2026-10-03. Transit from TTC weekday schedules; parks, trees, cycling, schools, libraries, community centres, child care, collisions, crime, expressways, ChemTRAC releases, planning applications and short-term rental registrations from open.toronto.ca; Bike Share stations from Bike Share Toronto; supervised consumption sites from Health Canada.
From CMHC and the City of Toronto
Rent
Average rents nearby
Monthly rent in purpose-built rental apartments, October 2025.
| Bedrooms | Mimico | Etobicoke (South) zone | Toronto region |
|---|---|---|---|
| Studio | $1,237 | $1,502 | $1,491 |
| 1 bed | $1,399 | $1,493 | $1,761 |
| 2 beds | $1,537 | $1,762 | $2,045 |
| 3+ beds | $2,306 | - | $2,294 |
| All units | $1,447 | $1,630 | $1,917 |
Averages over every unit, including long tenancies under rent control, so they run below what a new lease costs today. Condominium units rented out by their owners are not included. “-” means too few units were surveyed to publish. Source: CMHC Rental Market Survey, under the Open Government Licence – Canada.
Rent reductions after property-tax cuts
When a rental property’s tax falls by more than 2.49%, Ontario law cuts its rents by a matching share, and the City writes to the tenants.
The City’s lists for 2014–2025 have no rent-reduction notices for this address.
Source: City of Toronto, Tenant Notification for Rent Reduction, 2014–2025.
Building facts
From the City of Toronto’s RentSafeTO registry, as reported by the landlord (registered 2017). Not resident reviews.
96 / 100City inspection score, November 2025. How buildings are scored
- Type
- Private rental
- Storeys
- 3
- Units
- 45
- Built
- 1958
- Elevators
- 0
- Managed by
- Metcap Living Inc
- Heating
- Hot water
- Air conditioning
- None
- Laundry
- Basement, 24 HOURS
- Pets
- Allowed
- Parking
- Surface parking
- Visitor parking
- Unavailable
- Balconies
- No
- Smoke-free building
- No
- Sprinklers
- Yes
- Cooling room
- No
- Ward
- 3
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Toronto. Source dataset.
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