253 Sydney Street S, Kitchener, ON N2G 3V8
- Property tax
- $1,635 / year
THE UNICORN! Purpose Built Duplex! 100% VACANT POSSESSION! Stop fighting old leases and inherited tenants. 253 Sydney St S is a solid brick, purpose-built Legal Duplex offering the ultimate "Blank Slate" in Kitchener's desirable Rockway neighborhood. Set your own market rents from Day 1. Perfect for Investors, House-Hackers, or Multi-Generational families. UNIT BREAKDOWN: * MAIN UNIT: Vacant. 2 + 1 Bed, 2 Bath with Rec Room. Convenient backyard, in-suite laundry, and a 1-car garage. UPPER UNIT: Vacant. 2-Bed, 1-Bath. Features in-suite laundry and dedicated carport parking. INVESTORS: Run your own tenant selection and maximize your Cap Rate immediately. HOUSE-HACKERS: Live in one unit and let the other unit pay your mortgage! MULTI-GENERATIONAL: Separate kitchens, separate laundry, and separate entrances-keep the family close with total privacy across two spacious units. THE LOCATION: Commuter's dream. Minutes to Hwy 7/8 Expressway, the LRT, Rockway Golf Course, and Downtown Kitchener's Tech Hub. Separately metered Hydro between the Upper and Main units. Gas/Water shared on a single meter. Purpose-built multi-unit properties with FULL VACANT POSSESSION are incredibly rare. Why wait for the next opportunity while the unicorn is right here!
- MLS number
- X12846268
- Type
- Duplex
- Status
- Active
- Bedrooms
- 5
- Bathrooms
- 3
- Postal code
- N2G 3V8
- 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
15 rooms as the listing brokerage filed them, with measurements.
Main
| Room | Size | Features |
|---|---|---|
| Kitchen | 2.52 × 3.46 m | — |
| Bedroom 2 | 3.07 × 2.27 m | — |
| Living Room | 4.13 × 3.30 m | — |
| Bedroom | 3.61 × 3.16 m | — |
| Bathroom | 2.56 × 1.51 m | 4 Pc Bath |
Second
| Room | Size | Features |
|---|---|---|
| Bedroom | 2.30 × 3.07 m | — |
| Living Room | 3.32 × 4.15 m | — |
| Bathroom | 1.50 × 2.52 m | 3 Pc Bath |
| Kitchen | 2.68 × 2.53 m | — |
| Bedroom 2 | 2.36 × 2.54 m | — |
Basement
| Room | Size | Features |
|---|---|---|
| Bedroom | 2.59 × 3.35 m | — |
| Kitchen | 2.32 × 3.16 m | — |
| Bathroom | 0.83 × 2.03 m | 3 Pc Bath |
| Bedroom | 2.59 × 3.35 m | — |
| Living Room | 3.30 × 4.12 m | Combined w/Dining |
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
- Duplex
- Style
- 2-Storey
- Class
- Residential Freehold
- Age
- 51-99
- Fronting on
- East
- Municipality
- Kitchener
- Cross street
- Courtland Ave to Sydney St
- Zoning
- R2B
Inside
- Bedrooms
- 5
- Bedrooms above grade
- 4
- Bathrooms
- 3
- Washrooms
- 1 on the main floor · 1 on the second floor · 1 on the basement floor
- Kitchens
- 3
- Rooms above grade
- 14
- Fireplace
- Yes
- Basement
- Full, Finished, Separate Entrance
- Size
- 1100-1500
Building
- Construction
- Brick
- Roof
- Asphalt Shingle
- Foundation
- Concrete Block
- Other structures
- Fence - Partial, Shed
Parking
- Garage
- Attached
- Covered spaces
- 1
- Driveway spaces
- 1
- Total parking
- 2
- Features
- Available, Private
Land
- Lot
- 47.79 × 99.53 feet
- Shape
- Pie
- Pool
- None
Heating, cooling and services
- Heating
- Forced Air
- Heat source
- Gas
- Cooling
- None
- Water
- Municipal
- Sewer
- Sewer
Features
- Property
- Golf, Park, Place Of Worship, Public Transit, Rec./Commun.Centre, School
- Interior
- Auto Garage Door Remote, Separate Hydro Meter, Water Softener
- Exterior
- Deck, Porch
Listing
- MLS number
- X12846268
- Status
- Price Change
- Previous status
- New
- Listed on
- 2026-03-04
- Expires
- 2026-12-31
- Taxes
- $1,635 (2026)
- Board
- Toronto Regional Real Estate Board
Listing history
No previous listings found for this address.
Where this property is
Where this address sits, matched against open government data.
Matched to this street. The listing did not say which direction, and every candidate was in the same place.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameron Heights Collegiate Institute Waterloo Region DSB | Secondary | 1.2 km | / 10 82% met the standard · 2 of 6 measures |
| Sunshine Montessori School | Elementary | 1.0 km | Not reported |
| Sheppard Public School Waterloo Region DSB | Elementary | 1.3 km | / 10 70% met the standard |
| Pathways Educational Services Inc. | Secondary | 1.0 km | Not reported |
| Queen Elizabeth Public School Waterloo Region DSB | Elementary | 1.1 km | / 10 68% met the standard |
| Rockway Public School Waterloo Region DSB | Elementary | 1.1 km | / 10 33% 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.
This neighbourhood
Statistics Canada 2021 Census, for the surrounding few blocks — about 610 people.
The neighbourhood, by the census
Statistics Canada 2021 Census for dissemination area 35300378 — the few blocks around this address, home to 610 people. It describes the area, not this property.
Percentages are of the 375 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.