398 Avenue Rd
Toronto, Ontario M4V
A 6-storey, 39-unit private rental building built in 1937.
- Property manager
- Cromwell Management 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
6 bylaw investigations at this address since Nov 2024; 1 notice or order 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 5
- Not enough heat 1
- Jun 2026
Not enough heatBylaw· Closed
Case 26 172276 000 00 IR
- Jun 2026
Repairs and upkeepBylaw· Closed
Case 26 172275 000 00 IR
- Mar 2025
Repairs and upkeepBylaw· Closed
Case 25 135680 PRS 00 IR
- Mar 2025
Repairs and upkeepBylaw· Closed
Case 25 130113 PRS 00 IR
- Nov 2024
Repairs and upkeepBylawOrder to comply · Nov 2024· Closed
- Stairway: Handrail where guard is required on landing is higher than the maximum height of 1,070 mmNamely, all landings on both sets of stairs. (open)
- Stairway: Required handrails on stairs or ramps are less than 865mm or more than 965mm high.Namely, all handrails on all stairs. (open)
Case 24 237530 PRS 00 IV
- Nov 2024
Repairs and upkeepBylaw· Closed
Case 24 237524 PRS 00 IR
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City building permits
8 permits the City has issued at this address since 2000 - repairs, alterations and system work that needed one. Official records, not resident reports.
- Alterations 3
- Plumbing and drains 3
- Fire and life safety 2
- Jun 2020
Alterations · Interior Alterations · Closed
Proposed block repairs on east side of the building and repairing of joints and bricks
Permit 20 151094 BLD · est. $10,000
- Oct 2019
Fire and life safety · Sprinklers · Revision Issued
REV01: Revision to permit 19-156174 FSU due to architectural updates.Proposal for alterations to existing parking garage fire sprinkler system, new incoming fire water service.
Permit 19 156174 FSU
- May 2019
Fire and life safety · Sprinklers · Inspection
Proposal for alterations to existing parking garage fire sprinkler system, new incoming fire water service.
Permit 19 156174 FSU
- Mar 2019
Plumbing and drains · Backflow Prevention Devices (Water only) · Closed
INSTALLATION OF A BACKFLOW PREVENTION DEVICE (RP) IN THE CAGED ROOM BY THE WATER METER AREA IN THE BASEMENT PARKING LEVEL.
Permit 19 124497 PSA · est. $2,500
- May 2018
Plumbing and drains · Building Permit Related(PS) · Permit Issued
Plumbing - INTERIOR ALTERATIONS: FOR KITCHEN, REPLACE CABINETS, CERAMIC FLOOR TILES AND BACKSPLASH. FOR W/C, REPLACE CERAMIC FLOOR/WALL TILES, VANITY, PLUMBING FIXTURES, GYPSUM BOARD WITH MOISTURE RESISTANT GYPSUM BOARD, IF REQUIRED. Unit…
Permit 18 158420 PLB
- May 2018
Plumbing and drains · Building Permit Related(PS) · Permit Issued
Plumbing - Proposed interior alterations to existing residential unit, 221 to alter kitchen, replace flooring, add plumbing fixtures and upgrade gypsum board within an existing apartment building.
Permit 18 146058 PLB
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- May 2018
Alterations · Interior Alterations · Permit Issued
INTERIOR ALTERATIONS: FOR KITCHEN, REPLACE CABINETS, CERAMIC FLOOR TILES AND BACKSPLASH. FOR W/C, REPLACE CERAMIC FLOOR/WALL TILES, VANITY, PLUMBING FIXTURES, GYPSUM BOARD WITH MOISTURE RESISTANT GYPSUM BOARD, IF REQUIRED. Unit 622
Permit 18 158420 BLD
- Apr 2018
Alterations · Interior Alterations · Inspection
Proposed interior alterations to existing residential unit, 221 to alter kitchen, replace flooring, add plumbing fixtures and upgrade gypsum board within an existing apartment building.
Permit 18 146058 BLD · est. $12,000
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From City of Toronto open data
Neighbourhood
Living score
53/ 100
Each category is ranked against every other Toronto building on this site: 70 means better than 70% of them.
- Transit61
12 departures an hour at the morning peak within 500 m, on 2 routes. Nearest subway or LRT: Summerhill (1 Yonge-University Line), 720 m.
- Parks & trees55
13.8 ha of parkland within 800 m; nearest park 330 m. 514 street trees within 300 m.
- Cycling82
Within 1 km: 2.75 km of protected lanes, 5.7 km of bike lanes and trails, 2.9 km of shared routes. 1 Bike Share station within 500 m.
- Schools nearby14
2 public or Catholic schools within 1 km (nearest: Brown Jr Public School, 310 m), plus 8 private. Distance only: being near a school does not mean being in its catchment.
- Daily amenities53
Within 1 km: 1 library, 1 community centre, 11 licensed child care centres.
- Road safety51
3 collisions with serious injury or death within 500 m, 2021–2025. Fewer scores higher.
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Also worth knowing
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Safety
Casa Loma
- AssaultAbout typical
Lower than 73 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (73% of the city median).
- Break and enterHigher than most
Higher than 87 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (1.9× the city median).
- RobberyAbout typical
Lower than 54 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (about the city median).
- Auto theftAbout typical
Lower than 75 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (71% of the city median).
- Theft from vehiclesAmong the lowest
Lower than 98 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (51% of the city median).
- Theft over $5,000About typical
Lower than 51 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (about the city median).
- Bicycle theftAbout typical
Higher than 65 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (1.7× the city median).
- ShootingsAbout typical
Higher than 68 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
No expressway within 2 km
212 kg a year from 1 facility, mostly Avenue Collision Inc
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
- Casey House Inpatient Supervised Consumption Services, 2.3 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
- Category
- General residential
- Zone label
R (d2.0) (x814)- Height limit
- 11 m
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
- 4
- Registered short-term rentals at this address
- 0
440 Avenue Rd · 210 m away
Site plan · Under Review · submitted 2022-08-10
Proposed development of the site for a 24-storey residential building
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 | Casa Loma | Toronto (North) zone | Toronto region |
|---|---|---|---|
| Studio | $1,560 | $1,570 | $1,491 |
| 1 bed | $2,001 | $1,892 | $1,761 |
| 2 beds | - | $2,476 | $2,045 |
| 3+ beds | - | $2,985 | $2,294 |
| All units | $2,677* | $2,057 | $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.
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.
97 / 100City inspection score, August 2026. How buildings are scored
- Type
- Private rental
- Storeys
- 6
- Units
- 39
- Built
- 1937
- Elevators
- 1
- Managed by
- Cromwell Management Inc.
- Heating
- Hot water
- Air conditioning
- None
- Laundry
- None on site
- Pets
- Allowed
- Parking
- Underground garage
- Visitor parking
- Unavailable
- Bike parking
- 25 indoor
- Balconies
- No
- Smoke-free building
- Yes
- Sprinklers
- Yes
- Cooling room
- No
- Ward
- 12
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Toronto. Source dataset.
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