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Building Review

50 Pearldale Ave

Toronto, Ontario M9L

A 7-storey, 96-unit private rental building built in 1965.

Living score
55/100
Built
1965
Units
96
Storeys
7
City inspection
88/100
Contractor
Sean Caffrey Contracting · 2009

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Issues & maintenance

Leaks, outages, repairs: dated reports from residents. None filed yet.

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City building permits

3 permits the City has issued at this address since 2000 - repairs, alterations and system work that needed one. Official records, not resident reports.

  • Plumbing and drains 1
  • Balcony repair 1
  • Alterations 1
  • Jun 2009

    Plumbing and drains · Backflow Prevention Devices (Water only) · Closed - Dormant

    Install back flow prevention device in boiler room of existing residential apartment building.

    Permit 09 144420 PSA · est. $3,000 · by Sean Caffrey Contracting

  • May 2009

    Balcony repair · Balcony/Guard Repairs · Closed

    To repair exterior walls and 84 balconies of an existing 7 storey apartment building.

    Permit 09 134009 BLD · est. $620,000

  • Nov 1997

    Alterations · Interior Alterations · Closed - Dormant

    RETROFIT

    Permit 97 251320 BLD

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

55/ 100

Each category is ranked against every other Toronto building on this site: 70 means better than 70% of them.

  • Transit66

    18.3 departures an hour at the morning peak within 500 m, on 3 routes. Nearest subway or LRT: Pearldale (6 Finch West Line), 190 m.

  • Parks & trees95

    54.5 ha of parkland within 800 m; nearest park 230 m. 342 street trees within 300 m.

  • Cycling40

    Within 1 km: 0 km of protected lanes, 3.95 km of bike lanes and trails, 0 km of shared routes. 0 Bike Share stations within 500 m.

  • Schools nearby20

    3 public or Catholic schools within 1 km (nearest: Humber Summit Mdl School, 160 m), plus 2 private. Distance only: being near a school does not mean being in its catchment.

  • Daily amenities7

    Within 1 km: 0 libraries, 1 community centre, 3 licensed child care centres.

  • Road safety80

    1 collision with serious injury or death within 500 m, 2021–2025. Fewer scores higher.

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Safety

Humber Summit

  • AssaultHigher than most

    Higher than 84 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (1.7× the city median).

  • Break and enterAmong the highest

    Higher than 96 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (2.5× the city median).

  • RobberyAmong the highest

    Higher than 95 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (2.4× the city median).

  • Auto theftAmong the highest

    Higher than 99 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (3.3× the city median).

  • Theft from vehiclesAmong the highest

    Higher than 96 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (2.2× the city median).

  • Theft over $5,000Among the highest

    Higher than 97 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (4.9× the city median).

  • Bicycle theftLower than most

    Lower than 82 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (50% of the city median).

  • ShootingsAmong the highest

    Higher than 95 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (3.4× the city median).

  • HomicideAmong the highest

    Higher than 96 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (2.3× 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

Traffic pollutionLow

No expressway within 2 km

Industrial releases within 1 kmHigh

3.4 tonnes a year from 2 facilities, mostly Vision Coaters Canada Ltd

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, 16.5 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 (f30.0; a1375; d1.5)
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
1
Registered short-term rentals at this address
0
  • 3001 Finch Ave W · 260 m away

    Site plan · Under Review · submitted 2025-04-14

    Site Plan Control application to construct a five-storey, 4,032 square-metre mixed use addition to the existing building. The addition will contain 18 studio and one-bedroom seniors units, contained within levels four and five in Building B

    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.

Average monthly rent by bedroom type
BedroomsBlack CreekNorth York (Northwest) zoneToronto region
Studio-$1,167$1,491
1 bed$1,501$1,517$1,761
2 beds$1,781$1,751$2,045
3+ beds$2,034$1,966$2,294
All units$1,772$1,700$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.

88 / 100City inspection score, August 2024. How buildings are scored

Type
Private rental
Storeys
7
Units
96
Built
1965
Elevators
2
Heating
Hot water
Air conditioning
None
Laundry
Basement, 24 HOURS
Pets
Allowed
Parking
Ground level garage, surface parking
Visitor parking
Free
Balconies
Yes
Smoke-free building
Yes
Sprinklers
Yes
Cooling room
No
Ward
7

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Toronto. Source dataset.

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