511 Donlands Avenue, Toronto, ON M4J 3S4
- Property tax
- $5,083 / year
**Say Hello to a rare opportunity in East York's coveted Golden Triangle. This spacious 3-bedroom, 2-bath detached home sits on an extraordinary 150-foot ravine lot, offering the feeling of country living right in the heart of the city. Rich in character and timeless craftsmanship, the home showcases an abundance of original leaded and stained glass windows and doors, beautiful gumwood trim, wainscoting, hardwood floors, and generously proportioned principal rooms. The inviting living room features a handsome brick fireplace, charming stained glass accents, wall sconces, and a classic bay window that fills the space with natural light. The kitchen has been updated over the years and offers excellent functionality. Upstairs, you'll find three generously sized bedrooms, each with closet space, along with plenty of room for a growing family. The finished lower level with its separate entrance, 3-piece bath, gas fireplace, built-in shelving, pot lights, and impressive ceiling height-presents exciting potential for an in-law suite or extended family living. The true showstopper, however, lies beyond the garage: a wonderful deck overlooking the ravine. With no neighbours behind, this remarkable setting provides privacy, tranquility, and stunning natural views rarely found in the city. Ideally located just steps to the Don Valley's extensive walking and cycling trails, close to shopping, big-box stores, community amenities, and convenient access to downtown and major highways. The future Ontario Line subway station at Cosburn will also be just a short walk away, adding even greater long-term value and convenience. Filled with character and built to last, this cherished home offers endless potential for its next chapter. Add your own style and personal touches while enjoying the space, setting, and timeless craftsmanship that make this property so special.
- MLS number
- E13658944
- Type
- Detached
- Status
- Active
- Bedrooms
- 3
- Bathrooms
- 2
- Postal code
- M4J 3S4
- Photos
- 40
- Laundry
- Lower Level level
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
7 rooms as the listing brokerage filed them, with measurements.
Ground
| Room | Size | Features |
|---|---|---|
| Living Room | 5.03 × 3.38 m | Fireplace · Stained Glass · Wall Sconce Lighting |
| Dining Room | 3.91 × 3.00 m | Wainscoting · Stained Glass · Crown Moulding |
| Kitchen | 4.85 × 2.71 m | Updated · Pot Lights · Laminate |
Second
| Room | Size | Features |
|---|---|---|
| Primary Bedroom | 3.91 × 3.06 m | Wood Trim · Overlooks Backyard · Hardwood Floor |
| Bedroom 2 | 3.52 × 2.99 m | Wood Trim · Closet · Hardwood Floor |
| Bedroom 3 | 3.28 × 2.37 m | Overlooks Backyard · Closet · Hardwood Floor |
Basement
| Room | Size | Features |
|---|---|---|
| Recreation | 8.41 × 5.81 m | Gas Fireplace · Pot Lights · B/I Shelves |
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
- 2-Storey
- Class
- Residential Freehold
- Age
- 51-99
- Fronting on
- East
- Community
- East York
- Municipality
- Toronto E03
- Cross street
- Donlands Ave. North of O'Connor Dr.
Inside
- Bedrooms
- 3
- Bedrooms above grade
- 3
- Bathrooms
- 2
- Washrooms
- 1 on the second floor · 1 on the basement floor
- Kitchens
- 1
- Rooms above grade
- 6
- Fireplace
- Yes
- Fireplaces
- 2
- Basement
- Finished, Separate Entrance
- Laundry
- Lower Level
- Size
- 1100-1500
Building
- Construction
- Brick
- Roof
- Asphalt Shingle
- Foundation
- Block
Parking
- Garage
- Detached
- Covered spaces
- 1
- Driveway spaces
- 0
- Total parking
- 1
Land
- Lot
- 25 × 150 feet
- Pool
- None
Heating, cooling and services
- Heating
- Water
- Heat source
- Gas
- Cooling
- Wall Unit(s)
- Water
- Municipal
- Sewer
- Sewer
Features
- Property
- Library, Place Of Worship, Public Transit, Ravine, Rec./Commun.Centre, School
- Interior
- Water Heater
- Exterior
- Backs On Green Belt, Deck
Listing
- MLS number
- E13658944
- Status
- Price Change
- Previous status
- New
- Listed on
- 2026-08-10
- Expires
- 2026-12-01
- Taxes
- $5,083 (2025)
- Board
- Toronto Regional Real Estate Board
Listing history
This address has been listed 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Socrates | Secondary | 715 m | Not reported |
| Holy Cross Catholic School Toronto CDSB | Elementary | 871 m | / 10 73% met the standard |
| Thorncliffe Park Public School Toronto DSB | Elementary | 975 m | / 10 33% met the standard · 3 of 6 measures |
| Fraser Mustard Early Learning Academy Toronto DSB | Elementary | 1.1 km | Not reported |
| Chester Elementary School Toronto DSB | Elementary | 1.1 km | / 10 70% 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 East York — 137 sales over the last five years.
How these are built, and what they cannot tell you
Each point is the median of the sales that closed in that quarter among detached houses in east york. 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 514 people.
The neighbourhood, by the census
Statistics Canada 2021 Census for dissemination area 35203869 — the few blocks around this address, home to 514 people. It describes the area, not this property.
Percentages are of the 315 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.
Work out the numbers
Everything below is calculated in your browser from figures you can change. Nothing is sent anywhere.
If you rented it out
How this is calculated, and what it leaves out
Canadian fixed-rate mortgages compound semi-annually, not monthly, so the monthly rate here is (1 + rate/2)1/6 − 1. Most calculators use rate ÷ 12, which is the American convention and overstates the payment by tens of dollars a month.
Below 20% down, default insurance is mandatory and is added to the loan rather than paid at closing: 2.80% at 85% loan-to-value, 3.10% at 90%, 4.00% at 95%. It is unavailable at or above $1.5M, which is why 20% is a hard floor there.
Not included: vacancy, property management, capital repairs, income tax, and the fact that a lender qualifies you at a stress-test rate rather than the one you are quoted. This is arithmetic on the numbers above, not a mortgage approval or an opinion of what you can afford.
What’s being built nearby
Planning applications within 500 m — 1 still in progress.
Zoning By-law Amendment for three residential buildings containing 1,300 new and rental replacement dwelling units.
City planning file →Proposal to construct a second storey addition, a two storey addition behind the existing garage, a rear deck, a conventional sloped roof, as well as alterations on the ground floor of the existing single-family dwelling located in a Conservation and Ravine Pr…
Site plan approval to alter the existing one-storey detached dwelling by constructing: a full second storey; a rear basement walkout; and a new rear deck. The existing rear one-addition would be reconstructed.…
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.