500 Avenue Rd
Toronto, Ontario
A 87-unit condominium registered in 2008 (TSCC 1986).
- Living score
- 32/100
- Units
- 87
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Issues & maintenance
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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.
- Parking garage repair 4
- Fire and life safety 1
- Roof and cladding 1
- Alterations 1
- Balcony repair 1
- Jun 2026
Parking garage repair · Garage Repair/Reconstruction · Permit Issued
Proposal for garage roof slab strengthening and waterproofing replacement along top surface of parking garage
Permit 26 183595 BLD · est. $950,000
- Oct 2024
Fire and life safety · Sprinklers · Closed
Installation of a wet sprinkler system on the ground floor storage area of an existing 13 storey building.
Permit 24 225279 FSU
- Jan 2024
Parking garage repair · Garage Repair/Reconstruction · Permit Issued
Localized underground parking garage repairs
Permit 24 107501 BLD · est. $800,000
- Jun 2022
Parking garage repair · Garage Repair/Reconstruction · Closed
Parking garage repairs - roof slab and foundation wall waterproofing replacement, roof slab reinforcement, overburden reinstatement, localized concrete repairs and exterior stairwell repairs.
Permit 22 136726 BLD
- Apr 2022
Parking garage repair · Garage Repair/Reconstruction · Closed
Parking garage repairs - roof slab and foundation wall waterproofing replacement, roof slab reinforcement, overburden reinstatement, localized concrete repairs and exterior stairwell repairs.
Permit 22 136726 BLD
- Nov 2015
Roof and cladding · Re-Roofing/Re-Cladding · Closed
Proposal to repair masonry cladding section on the east elevation (suite 1204), and reinforce masonry on building corner
Permit 15 257589 BLD
Show 2 older permits
- Dec 2008
Alterations · Other(BA) · Cancelled
Proposal to add a new underground hydro vault.
Permit 08 230029 BLD
- Sep 2008
Balcony repair · Balcony/Guard Repairs · Closed
Balcony railing upgrades to every balcony of existing Apartment Building
Permit 08 202385 BLD · est. $50,000
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
32/ 100
Each category is ranked against every other Toronto building on this site: 70 means better than 70% of them.
- Transit13
12.4 departures an hour at the morning peak within 500 m, on 2 routes. Nearest subway or LRT: St Clair (1 Yonge-University Line), 820 m.
- Parks & trees29
6.5 ha of parkland within 800 m; nearest park 160 m. 686 street trees within 300 m.
- Cycling76
Within 1 km: 1.55 km of protected lanes, 4.05 km of bike lanes and trails, 5.65 km of shared routes. 4 Bike Share stations within 500 m.
- Schools nearby29
3 public or Catholic schools within 1 km (nearest: Brown Jr Public School, 390 m), plus 11 private. Distance only: being near a school does not mean being in its catchment.
- Daily amenities40
Within 1 km: 1 library, 1 community centre, 8 licensed child care centres.
- Road safety40
4 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
None reported
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, 2.9 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) (x833)- Height limit
- 12 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
- 1
- Registered short-term rentals at this address
- 0
135 St Clair Ave W · 270 m away
Site plan · Under Review · submitted 2025-12-24
Proposed 49 storey mixed-use, 544-unit residential tower containing 46,009sqm residential GFA and 920sqm non-residential GFA, with a total height of 164.3 metres.
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.
- 2014
- 0.42% lower rent · 1 of 47 units notified
- 2017
- 0.40% lower rent · 5 of 34 units notified
- 2018
- 0.42% lower rent · 6 of 34 units notified
- 2019
- 0.38% lower rent · 1 of 29 units notified
Where several units are listed, the cut shown is the median. Source: City of Toronto, Tenant Notification for Rent Reduction, 2014–2025.
Building facts
From the City of Toronto’s inventory of condominiums registered 2002–2018. Not resident reviews.
- Type
- Condominium
- Units
- 87
- Unit mix
- 2 studio · 12 one-bed · 39 two-bed · 34 three-bed+
- Condo plan
- TSCC 1986
- Registered
- December 2008
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Toronto. Source dataset.
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