Mark LianiCentury21 Atria Realty
West End Toronto & Lakeshore

West end Toronto real estate: neighbourhood guides

The west-end corridor runs along Lake Ontario from Parkdale through High Park, the Junction and Etobicoke’s Lakeshore to Port Credit in Mississauga. Each guide below is written for people actually choosing where to live: the housing mix, which transit really serves the area, parks and waterfront, shops and food, schools in general terms, and what’s changing nearby.

I don’t post prices or sales figures here, because they go stale quickly. Every guide has a button to request a current market snapshot straight from me.

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Queen Street West at Noble Street in Parkdale, Toronto, with shops, trees and streetcar tracks

Parkdale

Victorian streets, Queen West and the Sunnyside waterfront

Roncesvalles Avenue during the Roncesvalles Polish Festival, with crowds walking along the streetcar tracks between shops

Roncesvalles

Polish heritage, the Roncy shopping strip and High Park next door

Grenadier Pond in High Park, Toronto, with reeds in the foreground and trees on the far shore

High Park & Swansea

Toronto's biggest park, Grenadier Pond and Bloor West access

Shops and cafes at a Bloor Street West intersection in Bloor West Village, Toronto

Bloor West Village

Walkable Bloor Street shops on subway Line 2

Looking east along Dundas Street West at Keele Street in the Junction, Toronto, with older commercial buildings and traffic

The Junction

Dundas West main street, craft food and a rail trail

The Queensway at South Kingsway in Toronto, with the streetcar right-of-way, traffic lights and condo towers in the distance

The Queensway

Streetcar, big-box retail and Sherway Gardens nearby

The Humber Bay Arch Bridge over the Humber River in Toronto with a paved waterfront path and condo towers beyond

Humber Bay Shores

Lakefront condo living with waterfront trails

Mimico Waterfront Park shoreline with rocks, bare trees and the Humber Bay Shores towers across the water

Mimico

GO station, lakeside parks and village shopping

Lake Shore Boulevard West near 8th Street in New Toronto, Etobicoke, with low-rise shops, street lamps and trees

New Toronto

Lake Shore main street and Colonel Samuel Smith Park

The beach at Marie Curtis Park in Long Branch, Toronto, with people along the shore and willow trees behind

Long Branch

Marie Curtis Park, GO station and leafy lakeside streets

The Kingsway Theatre marquee on Bloor Street West in Etobicoke, with a brick facade and a van parked at the curb

The Kingsway

Tudor-style streets close to Old Mill station

The Port Credit Lighthouse beside the harbour in Mississauga, Ontario, with a blue sky and a painted fish mural

Port Credit

Harbour village, GO and waterfront (Mississauga)

Photos: Wikimedia Commons contributors under free licences – see photo credits. Port Credit is in Mississauga, not the City of Toronto.

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