8 St Thomas St
Toronto, Ontario M5S
A 4-storey, 16-unit private rental building built in 1926.
- Property manager
- Bentallgreenoak
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Issues & maintenance
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City bylaw and health cases
3 bylaw investigations at this address since Dec 2024.
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.
- Not enough heat 2
- Repairs and upkeep 1
- Jun 2026
Not enough heatBylaw· Closed
Case 26 172710 000 00 IR
- Jun 2026
Repairs and upkeepBylaw· Closed
Case 26 172709 000 00 IR
- Dec 2024
Not enough heatBylaw· Closed
Case 24 253806 HEA 00 IR
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Toronto. Bylaw investigation activity (open cases, and those closed in the last two years) and residential health hazards.
City building permits
4 permits the City has issued at this address since 2000 - repairs, alterations and system work that needed one. Official records, not resident reports.
- Alterations 2
- Plumbing and drains 1
- Heating, cooling and ventilation 1
- Sep 2008
Alterations · Underpinning · Closed
Proposal to underpin existing apartment building.
Permit 08 199609 BLD
- Sep 2007
Plumbing and drains · Building Permit Related(PS) · Closed
Plumbing - Interior alterations to existing rental dwelling suites on South portion of building to all four levels. Four (4) dwelling units will be eliminated. Peter Au familiar
Permit 07 262562 PLB
- Sep 2007
Heating, cooling and ventilation · Building Permit Related(MS) · Closed
HVAC - Interior alterations to existing rental dwelling suites on South portion of building to all four levels. Four (4) dwelling units will be eliminated. Peter Au familiar
Permit 07 262562 HVA
- Sep 2007
Alterations · Interior Alterations · Closed
Interior alterations to existing rental dwelling suites on South portion of building to all four levels. Four (4) dwelling units will be eliminated. Peter Au familiar
Permit 07 262562 BLD · est. $650,000
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
55/ 100
Each category is ranked against every other Toronto building on this site: 70 means better than 70% of them.
- Transit87
59.7 departures an hour at the morning peak within 500 m, on 6 routes. Nearest subway or LRT: Bay (2 Bloor-Danforth Line), 220 m.
- Parks & trees29
10.3 ha of parkland within 800 m; nearest park 190 m. 309 street trees within 300 m.
- Cycling99
Within 1 km: 9.65 km of protected lanes, 3.55 km of bike lanes and trails, 1.65 km of shared routes. 16 Bike Share stations within 500 m.
- Schools nearby29
3 public or Catholic schools within 1 km (nearest: St Joseph'S College School, 480 m), plus 8 private. Distance only: being near a school does not mean being in its catchment.
- Daily amenities53
Within 1 km: 2 libraries, 0 community centres, 12 licensed child care centres.
- Road safety5
11 collisions with serious injury or death within 500 m, 2021–2025, 2 fatal. Fewer scores higher.
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Also worth knowing
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Safety
Bay-Cloverhill
- AssaultAbout typical
Lower than 59 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (about the city median).
- Break and enterHigher than most
Higher than 81 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (1.6× the city median).
- RobberyAbout typical
Higher than 53 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (about the city median).
- Auto theftAmong the lowest
Lower than 100 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (16% of the city median).
- Theft from vehiclesAbout typical
Lower than 59 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (about the city median).
- Theft over $5,000Among the highest
Higher than 90 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (1.9× the city median).
- Bicycle theftAmong the highest
Higher than 91 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (6.0× the city median).
- ShootingsAmong the lowest
Lower than 93 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (41% of 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
5.8 tonnes a year from 4 facilities, mostly University Of Toronto Lash Miller Chemical Laboratories
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, 1.0 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
Commercial Residential
- Category
- Mixed use
- Zone label
CR 6.0 (c4.5; r6.0) SS1 (x1726)- Height limit
- 18 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
- 12
- Registered short-term rentals at this address
- 0
1075 Bay St · 280 m away
Rezoning · Council Approved · submitted 2025-08-20
Official Plan & Zoning By-law Amendment to not replace the required office space and instead permit a minimum 1,815 m2 of non-residential space and/or affordable rental housing in a proposed 62-storey predominantly residential development.
City record82 Bloor St W · 160 m away
Site plan · Under Review · submitted 2023-08-11
78-storey mixed-use building with 952 square metres of retail space on the ground floor, 8,767 square metres of office space on second through fifth floors and 1,716 dwelling units above.
City record69 Yorkville Ave · 270 m away
Site plan · OMB Appeal · submitted 2021-12-29
Site plan approval to facilitate the redevelopment of the site for a 29-storey mixed-use building having a non-residential gross floor area of 1441.0 square metres, and a residential gross floor area of 14189.0 square metres. A total of 14
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 | Bay Street Corridor | Toronto (Central) zone | Toronto region |
|---|---|---|---|
| Studio | $2,048 | $1,606 | $1,491 |
| 1 bed | $2,619 | $2,042 | $1,761 |
| 2 beds | $3,811 | $2,776 | $2,045 |
| 3+ beds | - | $3,580* | $2,294 |
| All units | $2,975 | $2,163 | $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.
89 / 100City inspection score, August 2026. How buildings are scored
- Type
- Private rental
- Storeys
- 4
- Units
- 16
- Built
- 1926
- Elevators
- 0
- Managed by
- Bentallgreenoak
- Heating
- Forced air gas
- Air conditioning
- None
- Laundry
- 2nd floor, 8:00AM - 10:30PM
- Pets
- Allowed
- Visitor parking
- Unavailable
- Bike parking
- 6 indoor
- Balconies
- No
- Smoke-free building
- No
- Sprinklers
- No
- Cooling room
- No
- Ward
- 11
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Toronto. Source dataset.
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