262 Jarvis St
Toronto, Ontario M5B
A 6-storey, 72-unit private rental building built in 1929.
- Property manager
- Signet Group Inc.
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Issues & maintenance
Leaks, outages, repairs: dated reports from residents. None filed yet.
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City bylaw and health cases
4 bylaw investigations at this address since Jun 2025.
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
- Sep 2026
Repairs and upkeepBylaw· Closed
Case 26 241633 PRS 00 IR
- Aug 2026
Repairs and upkeepBylaw· Closed
Case 26 225749 PRS 00 IR
- Aug 2026
Repairs and upkeepBylaw· Closed
Case 26 219981 PRS 00 IR
- Jun 2025
Repairs and upkeepBylaw· Closed
Case 25 181488 PRS 00 IR
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Toronto. Bylaw investigation activity (open cases, and those closed in the last two years) and residential health hazards.
City building permits
5 permits the City has issued at this address since 2000 - repairs, alterations and system work that needed one. Official records, not resident reports.
- Alterations 2
- Heating, cooling and ventilation 1
- Plumbing and drains 1
- Fire and life safety 1
- Feb 2025
Heating, cooling and ventilation · Other(MS) · Closed
Proposal for installation of heat pump.
Permit 25 122859 MSA · est. $930,000
- Jun 2013
Plumbing and drains · Backflow Prevention Devices (Water only) · Closed
Proposal to install 2 backflow prevention devices in existing apartment building.
Permit 13 187576 PSA · est. $7,000
- Jun 2002
Alterations · Other(BA) · Closed
alter plan as approved by installing emergency light, pull stations, poc & exit sign and delete proposed construction of secondary basement exit
Permit 01 189640 BLD
- Oct 2001
Alterations · Other(BA) · Closed
CONSTRUCT NEW BASEMENT EXIT ON NORTH ELEVATION.
Permit 01 189640 BLD · est. $8,000
- Aug 2001
Fire and life safety · Sprinklers · Closed
Install 14 Sprinkler heads in the basement.
Permit 01 172536 FSU · est. $6,000
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Toronto. Cleared permits and active permits. Contractors are named only on permits filed since 2017.
From City of Toronto open data
Neighbourhood
Living score
74/ 100
Each category is ranked against every other Toronto building on this site: 70 means better than 70% of them.
- Transit86
58.9 departures an hour at the morning peak within 500 m, on 6 routes. Nearest subway or LRT: TMU (1 Yonge-University Line), 540 m.
- Parks & trees50
12.8 ha of parkland within 800 m; nearest park 180 m. 475 street trees within 300 m.
- Cycling92
Within 1 km: 8.35 km of protected lanes, 1.75 km of bike lanes and trails, 1.05 km of shared routes. 12 Bike Share stations within 500 m.
- Schools nearby93
11 public or Catholic schools within 1 km (nearest: Ecole Elementaire Gabrielle Roy, 460 m), plus 9 private. Distance only: being near a school does not mean being in its catchment.
- Daily amenities98
Within 1 km: 3 libraries, 4 community centres, 19 licensed child care centres.
- Road safety0
17 collisions with serious injury or death within 500 m, 2021–2025, 3 fatal. Fewer scores higher.
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Also worth knowing
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Safety
Downtown Yonge East
- AssaultAmong the highest
Higher than 98 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (4.0× the city median).
- Break and enterAmong the highest
Higher than 91 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (2.0× the city median).
- RobberyAmong the highest
Higher than 99 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (4.1× the city median).
- Auto theftLower than most
Lower than 82 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (59% of the city median).
- Theft from vehiclesAmong the highest
Higher than 98 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (2.5× the city median).
- Theft over $5,000Among the highest
Higher than 94 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (2.8× the city median).
- Bicycle theftAmong the highest
Higher than 98 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (17× the city median).
- ShootingsAbout typical
Higher than 64 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (1.3× the city median).
- HomicideAbout typical
Higher than 70 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (1.3× 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, 1.6 km away
145.1 tonnes a year from 3 facilities, mostly Walton Street Steam Plant
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
- Street Health, 500 m
- Sites within 1 km
- 1
Sites currently offering services, from Health Canada, updated 2026-09-15. Sites open and close; check the list for current status.
Zoning
Commercial Residential
- Category
- Mixed use
- Zone label
CR 4.0 (c2.0; r4.0) SS1 (x2091)- 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
- 24
- Registered short-term rentals at this address
- 0
339 George St · 150 m away
Rezoning · Under Review · submitted 2025-10-15
Lift the Hold application related to a new 10-storey building, containing 80 emergency shelter beds, 100 transitional shelter beds, 124 long-term care beds, 70 supportive housing units, and a 2,269 square metre community hub. The proposal w
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 | Church-Yonge Corridor | Toronto (Central) zone | Toronto region |
|---|---|---|---|
| Studio | $1,698 | $1,606 | $1,491 |
| 1 bed | $1,922 | $2,042 | $1,761 |
| 2 beds | $2,536 | $2,776 | $2,045 |
| 3+ beds | - | $3,580* | $2,294 |
| All units | $2,008 | $2,163 | $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; * marks an estimate CMHC rates poor. 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.
- 2014
- 0.61% lower rent · tenants notified
- 2016
- 0.62% lower rent · tenants notified
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.
100 / 100City inspection score, June 2025. How buildings are scored
- Type
- Private rental
- Storeys
- 6
- Units
- 72
- Built
- 1929
- Elevators
- 1
- Managed by
- Signet Group Inc
- Heating
- Hot water
- Air conditioning
- None
- Laundry
- Basement, 9 AM TO 10 PM DAILY
- Pets
- Allowed
- Visitor parking
- Unavailable
- Balconies
- No
- Smoke-free building
- No
- Sprinklers
- Yes
- Cooling room
- No
- Ward
- 13
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Toronto. Source dataset.
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