20 Fairview Avenue, Kitchener, ON N2H 3E8
- Property tax
- $4,531 / year
Opportunity, character, and endless potential await! This classic 4-bedroom, 2-bath home is ready for its next chapter and offers the perfect canvas for someone with vision. Situated on a large, beautifully treed lot on a mature street just steps from downtown, this property combines an exceptional location with unlimited possibilities. The welcoming full-width covered front porch sets the tone, while inside you'll find spacious principal rooms including an eat-in kitchen, formal dining room, and a comfortable living room with a cozy wood stove. Original woodwork throughout adds warmth, charm, and timeless character that simply can't be duplicated. This home requires extensive updating but offers incredible potential to become a stunning family residence or, a potential duplex investment. The unfinished walk-up attic offers excellent potential for future living space, while an upper walk-out porch off one of the bedrooms adds even more character and charm. The true showstopper is the spectacular backyard. The oversized, beautifully treed lot provides exceptional privacy and plenty of room for gardens, entertaining, family gatherings, or simply enjoying your own peaceful outdoor retreat. Recent improvements include a new roof and eavestroughs (2022), two attic windows replaced (2022), and a new furnace (2017), providing a solid starting point for your renovation plans. Additional features include a detached garage, a long private driveway with parking for 4-5 vehicles, a covered rear entry porch, and a flexible closing date. Bring your imagination and restore this character-filled home to its full potential. Great chance for a property with this much charm, such an incredible lot, and so much opportunity come to market!
- MLS number
- X13534428
- Type
- Detached
- Status
- Active
- Bedrooms
- 4
- Bathrooms
- 2
- Postal code
- N2H 3E8
- Photos
- 31
- 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
9 rooms as the listing brokerage filed them, with measurements.
Main
| Room | Size | Features |
|---|---|---|
| Living Room | 4.67 × 3.76 m | — |
| Dining Room | 4.22 × 3.73 m | — |
| Kitchen | 4.29 × 3.05 m | — |
Second
| Room | Size | Features |
|---|---|---|
| Primary Bedroom | 4.55 × 3.58 m | — |
| Bedroom 2 | 3.25 × 3.20 m | — |
| Bedroom 3 | 5.26 × 2.51 m | — |
| Bedroom 4 | 3.23 × 3.17 m | — |
Third
| Room | Size | Features |
|---|---|---|
| Other | 7.49 × 3.33 m | — |
Basement
| Room | Size | Features |
|---|---|---|
| Laundry | 2.92 × 2.03 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
- 2-Storey
- Class
- Residential Freehold
- Fronting on
- North
- Municipality
- Kitchener
- Cross street
- Between Weber st and king st
- Zoning
- R2B
Inside
- Bedrooms
- 4
- Bedrooms above grade
- 4
- Bathrooms
- 2
- Washrooms
- 1 on the second floor · 1 on the main floor
- Kitchens
- 1
- Rooms above grade
- 4
- Fireplace
- Yes
- Basement
- Full, Unfinished
- Size
- 1500-2000
Building
- Construction
- Brick
- Roof
- Asphalt Shingle
- Foundation
- Unknown
Parking
- Garage
- Detached
- Covered spaces
- 1
- Driveway spaces
- 5
- Total parking
- 6
- Features
- Private
Land
- Lot
- 50 × 130 feet
- Pool
- None
Heating, cooling and services
- Heating
- Forced Air
- Heat source
- Gas
- Cooling
- None
- Water
- Municipal
- Sewer
- Sewer
Features
- Interior
- None
Listing
- MLS number
- X13534428
- Status
- New
- Previous status
- Draft
- Listed on
- 2026-07-07
- Expires
- 2026-12-31
- Taxes
- $4,531 (2025)
- 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameron Heights Collegiate Institute Waterloo Region DSB | Secondary | 340 m | / 10 82% met the standard · 2 of 6 measures |
| Sheppard Public School Waterloo Region DSB | Elementary | 488 m | / 10 70% met the standard |
| CIC Ontario Secondary School | Secondary | 595 m | Not reported |
| Suddaby Public School Waterloo Region DSB | Elementary | 887 m | / 10 70% met the standard |
| St Anne Catholic Elementary School Waterloo CDSB | Elementary | 831 m | / 10 66% met the standard |
| MAC Maple Grove School | Elementary | 794 m | Not reported |
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 Kitchener — 1,949 sales 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 sales that closed in that quarter among detached houses in kitchener. 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 559 people.
The neighbourhood, by the census
Statistics Canada 2021 Census for dissemination area 35300363 — the few blocks around this address, home to 559 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
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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.