61 Essex Street, Guelph, ON N1H 3K9
- Property tax
- $3,915 / year
The downtown stone cottage you've been waiting for! With local cafés, restaurants, and scenic river trails just outside your door, you'll fall in love with the charm of this low maintenance historic home. The beautiful front garden welcomes you to an open-concept main floor designed for both everyday living and effortless entertaining. The updated kitchen flows seamlessly into bright and inviting living spaces while engineered hardwood flooring and large newer windows fill the home with warmth and natural light. Thoughtful renovations throughout honour the home's timeless character while providing modern comforts.Off the kitchen you'll find a private, revitalized backyard that feels like a true extension of the living space. Featuring elegant herringbone tile, a newer fence, gate, privacy wall, and dedicated garbage enclosure, it's the perfect setting for morning coffee, summer dinners, or evenings spent with friends.Upstairs, 2 comfortable bedrooms and 1 full bathroom provide the ideal layout for professionals, downsizers, or first-time buyers. Whether you need a home office, guest room, or nursery the flexible second bedroom offers endless possibilities.Unlike condo living, storage is no concern here with the unfinished basement spanning the entire footprint of the home. Providing space for laundry, seasonal storage, and hobbies-far more practical than a storage locker.Major improvements include new windows (2024), furnace and A/C (2021), and eavestroughs, soffit, and downspouts (2026). With 1 dedicated off street parking space and free overnight street parking permitted year-round, there's flexibility for guests, partners, or households with 2 vehicles-another benefit that's hard to find in condo living.A home that offers all the walkability and convenience of downtown living, with the character, privacy, and freedom that only a historic home can provide.
- MLS number
- X13733870
- Type
- Semi-Detached
- Status
- Active
- Bedrooms
- 2
- Bathrooms
- 1
- Postal code
- N1H 3K9
- Photos
- 32
- 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.
Main
| Room | Size | Features |
|---|---|---|
| Living Room | 3.73 × 3.96 m | — |
| Kitchen | 4.62 × 4.65 m | — |
Second
| Room | Size | Features |
|---|---|---|
| Bathroom | 1.65 × 3.58 m | 4 Pc Bath |
| Bedroom | 2.95 × 3.00 m | — |
| Bedroom | 2.87 × 3.00 m | — |
Basement
| Room | Size | Features |
|---|---|---|
| Laundry | 4.78 × 4.32 m | Laundry Sink |
| Furnace Room | 4.78 × 4.65 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
- Semi-Detached
- Style
- 1 1/2 Storey
- Class
- Residential Freehold
- Age
- 100+
- Fronting on
- North
- Community
- Downtown
- Municipality
- Guelph
- Cross street
- Waterloo Ave & Dublin St S
- Zoning
- R1B
Inside
- Bedrooms
- 2
- Bedrooms above grade
- 2
- Bathrooms
- 1
- Washrooms
- 1 on the second floor
- Kitchens
- 1
- Rooms above grade
- 5
- Basement
- Full, Unfinished
- Laundry
- Lower Level
- Size
- 700-1100
Building
- Construction
- Stone
- Roof
- Asphalt Shingle
- Foundation
- Stone
Parking
- Covered spaces
- 0
- Driveway spaces
- 1
- Total parking
- 1
- Features
- Private
Land
- Lot
- 19.78 × 41.22 feet
- Shape
- Rectangular
- View
- City
- Pool
- None
Heating, cooling and services
- Heating
- Forced Air
- Heat source
- Gas
- Cooling
- Central Air
- Water
- Municipal
- Sewer
- Sewer
Features
- Property
- Fenced Yard, Park, School, School Bus Route, Public Transit
- Interior
- Carpet Free, Countertop Range, Storage, Water Heater, Water Softener
- Exterior
- Landscaped
Listing
- MLS number
- X13733870
- Status
- New
- Previous status
- Draft
- Listed on
- 2026-09-01
- Expires
- 2026-12-01
- Taxes
- $3,915 (2026)
- Board
- One Point Association of REALTORS
Listing history
This address has been listed 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| St John Bosco Catholic School Wellington CDSB | Secondary | 342 m | Not reported |
| Guelph Montessori School | Elementary | 472 m | Not reported |
| Central Public School Upper Grand DSB | Elementary | 540 m | / 10 82% met the standard |
| John McCrae Public School Upper Grand DSB | Elementary | 641 m | / 10 86% met the standard |
| Guelph Collegiate and Vocational Institute Upper Grand DSB | Secondary | 775 m | / 10 81% met the standard · 2 of 6 measures |
| Meezan School | Elementary | 1.2 km | 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
Semi-Detached houses in Guelph — 162 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 semi-detached houses in guelph. 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 472 people.
The neighbourhood, by the census
Statistics Canada 2021 Census for dissemination area 35230146 — the few blocks around this address, home to 472 people. It describes the area, not this property.
Percentages are of the 305 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.