568 Lawrence Ave W
Toronto, Ontario M6A
A 3-storey, 29-unit private rental building built in 1954.
- Property manager
- Esbin Property Management Inc.
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Issues & maintenance
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City building permits
1 permit the City has issued at this address since 2000 - repairs, alterations and system work that needed one. Official records, not resident reports.
- Alterations 1
- Dec 2019
Alterations · Interior Alterations · Closed
Proposed access door within existing ground floor corridor.
Permit 19 262410 BLD · est. $2,000
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From City of Toronto open data
Neighbourhood
Living score
50/ 100
Each category is ranked against every other Toronto building on this site: 70 means better than 70% of them.
- Transit68
23.9 departures an hour at the morning peak within 500 m, on 5 routes. Nearest subway or LRT: Lawrence West (1 Yonge-University Line), 730 m.
- Parks & trees18
4.8 ha of parkland within 800 m; nearest park 190 m. 605 street trees within 300 m.
- Cycling17
Within 1 km: 0 km of protected lanes, 0.3 km of bike lanes and trails, 4 km of shared routes. 1 Bike Share station within 500 m.
- Schools nearby52
4 public or Catholic schools within 1 km (nearest: John Polanyi Collegiate Institute, 350 m), plus 10 private. Distance only: being near a school does not mean being in its catchment.
- Daily amenities74
Within 1 km: 1 library, 2 community centres, 11 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
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Safety
Englemount-Lawrence
- AssaultAbout typical
Lower than 69 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (80% of the city median).
- Break and enterAbout typical
Lower than 70 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (78% of the city median).
- RobberyAbout typical
Lower than 63 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (79% of the city median).
- Auto theftAbout typical
Lower than 71 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (75% of the city median).
- Theft from vehiclesAbout typical
Lower than 63 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (about the city median).
- Theft over $5,000About typical
Lower than 63 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (80% of the city median).
- Bicycle theftAbout typical
Lower than 54 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (about the city median).
- ShootingsHigher than most
Higher than 87 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (2.3× the city median).
- HomicideAbout typical
Lower than 55 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (about 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
Allen Road, 710 m away
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, 7.2 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 Multiple Dwelling
- Category
- Low-rise residential
- Zone label
RM (f21.0; a835; d1.0) (x474)- 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
- 12
- Registered short-term rentals at this address
- 0
607 Lawrence Ave W · 290 m away
Rezoning · Council Approved · submitted 2025-07-07
Official Plan and Zoning By-law amendment proposing a 13-storey mixed-use building with 266 units (including 8 rental replacement units), a total gross floor area (GFA) of 18,524 square metres (including 82 square metres of non-residential
City record70 Fairholme Ave · 100 m away
Rezoning · Under Review · submitted 2024-02-23
Proposal includes three buildings. Building "A": A third floor addition to the existing 2-storey building. Building "B": The existing three-storey building (1,387 m2) to remain with interior modifications and renovations only. The first flo
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 | Englemount-Lawrence | North York (Southwest) zone | Toronto region |
|---|---|---|---|
| Studio | $1,423 | $1,379 | $1,491 |
| 1 bed | $1,444 | $1,567 | $1,761 |
| 2 beds | $1,601 | $1,814 | $2,045 |
| 3+ beds | - | $2,243 | $2,294 |
| All units | $1,545 | $1,728 | $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.
85 / 100City inspection score, September 2025. How buildings are scored
- Type
- Private rental
- Storeys
- 3
- Units
- 29
- Built
- 1954
- Elevators
- 0
- Managed by
- Esbin Property Management Inc.
- Heating
- Hot water
- Air conditioning
- None
- Laundry
- Basement, 9AM - 10PM
- Pets
- Allowed
- Parking
- Ground level garage, surface parking
- Visitor parking
- Unavailable
- Balconies
- No
- Smoke-free building
- Yes
- Sprinklers
- No
- Cooling room
- No
- Ward
- 8
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