796 Carlaw Ave
Toronto, Ontario M4K
A 4-storey, 31-unit private rental building built in 1922.
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Issues & maintenance
Leaks, outages, repairs: dated reports from residents. None filed yet.
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City building permits
2 permits the City has issued at this address since 2000 - repairs, alterations and system work that needed one. Official records, not resident reports.
- Fire and life safety 2
- Aug 2012
Fire and life safety · Fire Alarm · Permit Issued
Proposal to replace fire alarms on all floors of existing apartment building.
Permit 12 231126 FSU
- Feb 2012
Fire and life safety · Sprinklers · Closed
Proposal to construct sprinkler system to basement, ground, second, third and fourth floor. Existing building is an apartment building.
Permit 12 121452 FSU · est. $75,000
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
58/ 100
Each category is ranked against every other Toronto building on this site: 70 means better than 70% of them.
- Transit85
55.3 departures an hour at the morning peak within 500 m, on 3 routes. Nearest subway or LRT: Pape (2 Bloor-Danforth Line), 280 m.
- Parks & trees29
8.8 ha of parkland within 800 m; nearest park 310 m. 465 street trees within 300 m.
- Cycling70
Within 1 km: 2.2 km of protected lanes, 2.6 km of bike lanes and trails, 4.55 km of shared routes. 4 Bike Share stations within 500 m.
- Schools nearby52
9 public or Catholic schools within 1 km (nearest: Holy Name Catholic Elementary School, 170 m). Distance only: being near a school does not mean being in its catchment.
- Daily amenities53
Within 1 km: 1 library, 1 community centre, 15 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
Playter Estates-Danforth
- AssaultAmong the highest
Higher than 92 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (2.1× the city median).
- Break and enterHigher than most
Higher than 85 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (1.8× the city median).
- RobberyHigher than most
Higher than 88 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (1.9× the city median).
- Auto theftAbout typical
Higher than 57 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (about the city median).
- Theft from vehiclesAmong the highest
Higher than 97 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (2.3× the city median).
- Theft over $5,000Lower than most
Lower than 78 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (68% of the city median).
- Bicycle theftHigher than most
Higher than 85 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (3.7× the city median).
- ShootingsAbout typical
Higher than 74 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (1.6× 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
Don Valley Parkway, 1.1 km 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, 2.7 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 (d0.6) (x312)- 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
- 8
- Registered short-term rentals at this address
- 0
680 Danforth Ave · 300 m away
Site plan · Under Review · submitted 2024-10-25
Site Plan Approval for the Pape Station as part of the Ontario Line Subway
City record656 Danforth Ave · 250 m away
Rezoning · Appeal Received · submitted 2022-08-03
The proposal is to construct a new 49-storey mixed-use building with three levels of underground parking. The ground level includes a shared residential and office lobby as well as retail and commercial uses fronting onto Danforth Avenue an
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 | Playter Estates-Danforth | Toronto (East) zone | Toronto region |
|---|---|---|---|
| Studio | $1,267 | $1,213 | $1,491 |
| 1 bed | $1,599 | $1,692 | $1,761 |
| 2 beds | $1,926 | $1,869 | $2,045 |
| 3+ beds | - | $1,876* | $2,294 |
| All units | $1,633 | $1,685 | $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.
- 2017
- 0.95% lower rent · tenants notified
- 2018
- 0.64% lower rent · tenants notified
- 2019
- 0.61% lower rent · tenants notified
- 2020
- 0.60% 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 2018). Not resident reviews.
90 / 100City inspection score, September 2024. How buildings are scored
- Type
- Private rental
- Storeys
- 4
- Units
- 31
- Built
- 1922
- Elevators
- 0
- Air conditioning
- None
- Laundry
- None on site
- Visitor parking
- Unavailable
- Balconies
- No
- Smoke-free building
- No
- Sprinklers
- Yes
- Cooling room
- No
- Ward
- 14
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Toronto. Source dataset.
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