53 Palmerston Avenue, Toronto, ON M6J 2J2
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Offered with thoughtfully curated furnishings that complement the home's architecture and design, this extraordinary architectural residence is located on Palmerston Avenue, one of Trinity Bellwoods' most sought-after streets. With history dating back to the 1860s, the home has gone through an extensive transformation, including a remarkable custom addition elevating it into a true design landmark. Featured in the Toronto Star in an article titled "Is this the coolest living room in Toronto?" the answer is, yes. The main living space showcases striking 20-foot ceilings anchored by a sprawling sunken lounge, designed with a clean aesthetic that blends warmth with modern design. With east and west exposure, the combination of floor-to-ceiling glass and two large skylights allows natural light to pour through the entire home. The property features meticulous millwork in natural oak, micro-cement walls, heated concrete floors, and recessed lighting that together create a sense of calm sophistication. A beautifully designed mezzanine level, part of the custom addition overlooks the main living space and features a serene library with arched custom shelving, creating an inspiring, light-filled vantage point with views of the city skyline. This thoughtfully planned 3-bedroom residence includes an entire third level dedicated to the primary retreat, featuring a spa-like ensuite that extends to an expansive private rooftop terrace, partially covered and perfectly positioned for Toronto skyline and CN Tower views. An oversized double-sided 1.5 car garage provides exceptional functionality, accommodating two smaller vehicles or offering ample additional space. The lower level includes a washroom and a dedicated area ideal for storage. Celebrating craftsmanship and innovation at every turn, every element has been curated with exceptional intention, resulting in a home that is both artful and livable, an inspired piece of architecture rarely found in the city.
- MLS number
- C13561362
- Type
- Detached
- Status
- Active
- Bedrooms
- 3
- Bathrooms
- 4
- Postal code
- M6J 2J2
- Photos
- 43
- Laundry
- In-Suite Laundry
This listing’s own days on market are shown above. How long the property has been for sale across every earlier listing is drawn from records the board releases only to registered users — a free account opens it, along with the sale history below.
Rooms
10 rooms as the listing brokerage filed them, 9 of them with measurements.
Main
| Room | Size | Features |
|---|---|---|
| Living Room | 8.94 × 4.78 m | Open Concept · Heated Floor · Recessed Lighting |
| Dining Room | 3.35 × 3.05 m | Hardwood Floor · Open Concept |
| Kitchen | 5.00 × 3.05 m | Modern Kitchen · B/I Appliances · Central Vacuum |
| Study | 2.74 × 1.83 m | Hardwood Floor · Open Concept |
Second
| Room | Size | Features |
|---|---|---|
| Bedroom 2 | 3.40 × 3.15 m | Hardwood Floor · Closet · Bay Window |
| Bedroom 3 | 4.22 × 2.57 m | Hardwood Floor · Closet |
| Loft | 2.44 × 3.35 m | Hardwood Floor · Overlooks Living · Open Concept |
| Library | 8.94 × 1.42 m | Hardwood Floor · Overlooks Living · Overlooks Backyard |
Third
| Room | Size | Features |
|---|---|---|
| Primary Bedroom | 5.03 × 4.39 m | 5 Pc Ensuite · Closet Organizers · W/O To Terrace |
Basement
| Room | Size | Features |
|---|---|---|
| Other | not measured | 2 Pc Bath |
Property details
As filed by the listing brokerage. Anything the board left blank is left out rather than shown as unknown — and none of it is guaranteed accurate by PropTx, so verify what you rely on.
Property
- Type
- Detached
- Style
- 3-Storey
- Class
- Residential Freehold
- Fronting on
- East
- Community
- Trinity-Bellwoods
- Municipality
- Toronto C01
- Cross street
- QUEEN ST W & BATHURST
Inside
- Bedrooms
- 3
- Bedrooms above grade
- 3
- Bathrooms
- 4
- Washrooms
- 1 on the main floor · 1 on the second floor · 1 on the third floor
- Kitchens
- 1
- Rooms above grade
- 8
- Family room
- Yes
- Fireplace
- Yes
- Basement
- Partial Basement
- Laundry
- Upper Level
- Size
- 2500-3000
Building
- Construction
- Brick
- Roof
- Flat
- Foundation
- Concrete
Parking
- Garage
- Detached
- Covered spaces
- 1.5
- Driveway spaces
- 0
- Total parking
- 2
Land
- Lot
- 18.17 × 135 feet
- View
- City
- Pool
- None
Heating, cooling and services
- Heating
- Radiant
- Heat source
- Gas
- Cooling
- Central Air
- Water
- Municipal
- Sewer
- Sewer
Features
- Property
- Hospital, Park, Public Transit
- Interior
- Carpet Free
Listing
- MLS number
- C13561362
- Status
- New
- Previous status
- Draft
- Listed on
- 2026-07-14
- Expires
- 2026-11-01
- Board
- Toronto Regional Real Estate Board
Listing history
This address has been listed 3 times.
Where this property is
Pick a school to see the boundary it is inside. Boards redraw these — confirm with the board.
Matched to a published address point for this address.
Schools
The school boundaries this address is inside, and the schools nearest it. Boards redraw boundaries and cap programs — confirm with the board before this affects a decision.
School boundaries this address is inside
Where these boundaries come from, and what they are worth
A school boundary is the area a board draws around a school. An address inside several of them is normal — boards publish a separate boundary per program, so regular track, French immersion and specialist programs each have their own.
Toronto. Read from the TDSB’s own School Search Map, one school at a time. The board states that the lines on that map are approximate and that the schools serving an individual address must be confirmed against its own address lookup — so the outline here shows you roughly where a boundary runs, and the board answers whether a particular house is in it. The map covers home schools only: French Immersion, gifted and the other optional programs have their own boundaries and their own admission rules, and are not shown.
Homula cannot tell you which school a child will attend. Boards move boundaries, hold students at capacity, cap programs and grant exceptions, and none of that is in any published file. The board is the only authority: TDSB Find Your School.
Sources: TDSB School Search Map — the board states these lines are approximate and that individual addresses must be confirmed against its own lookup.
Other schools nearby
By distance from this address, not school boundary — a school 400 m away can be in another school’s attendance area.
| School | Level | Distance | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Mary Catholic School Toronto CDSB | Elementary | 403 m | / 10 65% met the standard |
| Ryerson Community School Junior Senior Toronto DSB | Elementary | 443 m | / 10 52% met the standard |
| Niagara Street Junior Public School Toronto DSB | Elementary | 558 m | / 10 82% met the standard |
| Discovering Minds Montessori Preschool I | Elementary | 569 m | Not reported |
| Kensington Community School School Junior Toronto DSB | Elementary | 841 m | / 10 97% met the standard · 3 of 6 measures |
How the rating is calculated
EQAO — Ontario’s testing agency — publishes, for each school, the percentage of students meeting the provincial standard in Grade 3 and Grade 6 reading, writing and mathematics. The rating is the average of those percentages divided by ten. A school where 72% of students met the standard rates 7.2 out of 10.
Nothing is weighted or adjusted, and schools are not ranked against each other. Where EQAO withholds a result to protect the privacy of a small group of students, that measure is left out rather than counted as zero — so a rating built on fewer than six measures says so.
What it does not measure. It is one year of standardised testing in three subjects. It says nothing about teaching, programs, or whether a school suits a particular child, and it tracks neighbourhood household income closely enough that it partly measures the neighbourhood rather than the school. Treat it as one figure among many.
Source: Ontario Ministry of Education, School Information and Student Demographics (2024–25), Open Government Licence – Ontario.
H-Value
What an H-Value is and how it is calculated — the method and our measured error, no account needed.
The market around this home
Detached houses in Toronto C01 — 334 leases over the last five years. Too few sold in this community to chart it on its own, so this is the whole city.
How these are built, and what they cannot tell you
Each point is the median of the leases that closed in that quarter among detached houses in toronto c01. A quarter with fewer than eight is left out rather than drawn, and the line breaks where that happens — a median over three sales is really one home’s price, and joining across a gap would draw a number nobody measured.
This is not an estimate of what this home is worth. The segment is a property type in an area; it takes no account of this home’s size, condition, renovations, lot, exposure or how it compares to its neighbours, and half the homes in any quarter sold for more than the median and half for less. It is context for a conversation with an agent, not a valuation.
Toronto Regional Real Estate Board closed transactions. Deemed reliable but not guaranteed accurate by PropTx.
This neighbourhood
Statistics Canada 2021 Census, for the surrounding few blocks — about 510 people.
The neighbourhood, by the census
Statistics Canada 2021 Census for dissemination area 35200885 — the few blocks around this address, home to 510 people. It describes the area, not this property.
Percentages are of the 270 responses in this category. Statistics Canada rounds counts and withholds small ones to keep individuals unidentifiable, so categories with too few people to publish are absent rather than shown as zero.
Source: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census of Population. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.
What’s being built nearby
Planning applications within 500 m — 1 still in progress.
To demolish the existing two-storey, 60-bed crisis shelter building and construct a new four-storey shelter building with 63 beds and a total gross floor area of 1,319 square metres.
City planning file →Site Plan Approval for a 4-storey residential building with 78 dwelling units. This is a City-led Priority Housing Projects development.
City planning file →City Initiated Zoning By-law to construct a 4-storey residential building containing 78 new affordable dwelling units. For further project updates, see: https://www.toronto.ca/community-people/housing-shelter/affordable-housing-developments/map-of-affordable-h…
City planning file →The proposed patient tower has a total height of 15-storeys (13 occupied storeys) and 81.75m including the mechanical penthouse and interstitial mechanical floor on level 8.The proposed building height is 70.98m exclusive of the rooftop mechanical penthouse.Th…
City planning file →Zoning By-law Amendment to facilitate redevelopment of the site with a new 9-storey, mixed-use building (29.5 metres excluding the mechanical penthouse): 898 square metres of retail space and 4,917 square metres of residential space containing 76 dwelling unit…
City planning file →Site Plan Control application for a proposed 3 storey-12 unit apartment building. Site includes 43 and 45 Bellevue Avenue.
City planning file →Propsal for a new 7 storey mixed use building containing 23 residential units above commercial/retail at grade.
City planning file →What these are
These are applications made to the City — a proposal to build something, not a decision that it will be built. Many are refused, withdrawn, reduced, or approved and then left for years. The status shown is the one the City last recorded, and each entry links to the City’s own file, which is the authoritative record.
Whether a nearby development is welcome depends on what you want from a street, so this panel reports what has been applied for and leaves the judgement to you.
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Toronto. Toronto only for now; other municipalities publish this differently or not at all.