823 Essa Road, Barrie, ON L4N 9G5
- Property tax
- $5,463 / year
Presenting 823 Essa Road, set on an expansive 75' x 200' mature lot in one of Barrie's most rapidly evolving corridors. Surrounded by ongoing and recent development, this property offers a rare opportunity for both immediate income potential and long-term redevelopment upside. Ideal for today's savvy buyer, the home features a fully self-contained in-law suite with separate access, perfect for multigenerational living or conversion into a legal duplex. Beyond its current use, the true value lies in the future potential, with the possibility of additional dwelling units or redevelopment as this stretch of Essa Road continues to transform. Notably, this represents one of the last remaining pockets of large, mature lots in the area, with many neighbouring properties already transitioned into townhome and low- to mid-rise developments. The main level offers 3 spacious bedrooms and 2 bathrooms, highlighted by a beautifully updated open-concept kitchen featuring stainless steel appliances, white shaker cabinetry, and a modern tiled backsplash. The bright and inviting living room is anchored by a charming bay window and a cozy gas fireplace with custom built-ins. The lower level, with private access through the garage, includes a newly completed (2026) 1-bedroom suite with a full kitchen and bathroom, ideal for rental income or extended family. Additional updates include: roof (2019), furnace (2019), and air conditioning (2019). 823 Essa Road delivers the perfect blend of immediate functionality and future opportunity in a high-growth location.
- MLS number
- S13450640
- Type
- Detached
- Status
- Active
- Bedrooms
- 4
- Bathrooms
- 3
- Postal code
- L4N 9G5
- Photos
- 36
- Laundry
- Not in the unit
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
12 rooms as the listing brokerage filed them, with measurements.
Main
| Room | Size | Features |
|---|---|---|
| Living Room | 6.43 × 3.93 m | — |
| Dining Room | 3.41 × 1.95 m | — |
| Kitchen | 3.41 × 3.69 m | — |
| Primary Bedroom | 4.11 × 3.20 m | — |
| Bedroom | 3.08 × 4.17 m | — |
| Bedroom | 3.08 × 3.04 m | — |
| Bathroom | 2.77 × 2.28 m | — |
| Bathroom | 1.37 × 0.94 m | — |
Basement
| Room | Size | Features |
|---|---|---|
| Recreation | 3.96 × 7.98 m | — |
| Kitchen | 3.56 × 4.90 m | — |
| Bedroom | 3.47 × 5.88 m | — |
| Bathroom | 2.82 × 1.70 m | — |
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
- Bungalow
- Class
- Residential Freehold
- Age
- 51-99
- Fronting on
- West
- Community
- Holly
- Municipality
- Barrie
- Cross street
- ESSA ROAD
Inside
- Bedrooms
- 4
- Bedrooms above grade
- 3
- Bathrooms
- 3
- Washrooms
- 1 · 2
- Kitchens
- 2
- Rooms above grade
- 10
- Fireplace
- Yes
- Fireplaces
- 1
- Basement
- Full, Finished, Separate Entrance
- Size
- 1100-1500
Building
- Construction
- Brick
- Roof
- Asphalt Shingle
- Foundation
- Other
- Other structures
- Garden Shed
Parking
- Garage
- Attached
- Covered spaces
- 1
- Driveway spaces
- 6
- Total parking
- 7
- Features
- Private, Private Double
Land
- Lot
- 75 × 200 feet
- Pool
- None
Heating, cooling and services
- Heating
- Forced Air
- Heat source
- Gas
- Cooling
- Central Air
- Water
- Municipal
- Sewer
- Sewer
Features
- Property
- School Bus Route, Public Transit, Place Of Worship, Park
- Interior
- In-Law Suite, Primary Bedroom - Main Floor
Listing
- MLS number
- S13450640
- Status
- New
- Previous status
- Draft
- Listed on
- 2026-06-16
- Expires
- 2026-09-16
- Taxes
- $5,463 (2026)
- Board
- Toronto Regional Real Estate Board
Listing history
This address has been listed 4 times.
Where this property is
Where this address sits, matched against open government data.
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Timothy Christian School | Elementary | 225 m | Not reported |
| École secondaire Roméo Dallaire CS Viamonde | Secondary | 479 m | / 10 79% met the standard · 2 of 6 measures |
| École élémentaire Roméo Dallaire CS Viamonde | Elementary | 632 m | Not reported |
| St Nicholas School Simcoe Muskoka CDSB | Elementary | 790 m | / 10 44% met the standard |
| St Bernadette Elementary School Simcoe Muskoka CDSB | Elementary | 1.2 km | / 10 59% met the standard |
| W. C. Little Elementary School Simcoe County DSB | Elementary | 1.1 km | / 10 66% met the standard |
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 Holly — 241 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 holly. 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 702 people.
The neighbourhood, by the census
Statistics Canada 2021 Census for dissemination area 35430707 — the few blocks around this address, home to 702 people. It describes the area, not this property.
Percentages are of the 390 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
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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.