238 MAIN Street E, Grimsby, ON L3M 1P6
- Property tax
- $3,092 / year
A rare opportunity to build in the heart of Old Town Grimsby! Dorchester Estates originally offered just 14 individual detached custom home lots, and with only 8 now remaining, the opportunity to become part of this exclusive enclave is becoming increasingly limited. Set within an established community of distinctive, upscale residences, these remaining lots are available for permit application and offer an exceptional opportunity for builders, investors and homebuyers looking to create a custom residence in one of Grimsby's most desirable settings. Nestled between the Niagara Escarpment and the shores of Lake Ontario, Dorchester Estates combines the character and charm of Old Town Grimsby with the privacy and tranquility of a quiet court location. Generously sized lots provide the flexibility to design a home that reflects your individual style, whether contemporary, traditional or something entirely your own. Enjoy a peaceful residential setting while remaining just minutes from downtown Grimsby, shopping, restaurants, schools, parks, recreation, West Lincoln Memorial Hospital and convenient QEW access. With only 8 of the original 14 lots remaining, and quality building lots in established Grimsby neighbourhoods becoming increasingly difficult to find, Dorchester Estates represents a unique opportunity to secure your place in a sought-after community and bring your custom home vision to life.
- MLS number
- X13766850
- Type
- Vacant Land
- Status
- Active
- Bedrooms
- 0
- Bathrooms
- 0
- Postal code
- L3M 1P6
- Photos
- 1
- 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.
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
- Vacant Land
- Class
- Residential Freehold
- Fronting on
- South
- Community
- 542 - Grimsby East
- Municipality
- Grimsby
- Cross street
- Dorchester Dr. & Main St. E.
- Zoning
- MS.25
Inside
- Bedrooms
- 0
- Bathrooms
- 0
- Kitchens
- 0
Land
- Lot
- 63 × 150 feet
- Shape
- Reverse Pie
Heating, cooling and services
- Water
- Municipal
- Sewer
- Sewer
- Electricity
- Yes
- Gas
- Yes
- Cable
- Yes
Features
- Property
- Hospital, Level, Library, Park, Place Of Worship, School
- Interior
- None
Listing
- MLS number
- X13766850
- Status
- New
- Previous status
- Draft
- Listed on
- 2026-09-09
- Expires
- 2026-12-31
- Taxes
- $3,092 (2026)
- Board
- Toronto Regional Real Estate Board
Listing history
This address has been listed 2 times.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Park Public School DSB Niagara | Elementary | 301 m | / 10 94% met the standard |
| Ontario International Private School | Secondary | 492 m | Not reported |
| Laureate College | Elementary and secondary | 891 m | Not reported |
| Grand Avenue Public School DSB Niagara | Elementary | 975 m | / 10 88% met the standard |
| Greenbelt Academy and Early Learning Cen | Elementary | 1.4 km | Not reported |
| Nelles Public School DSB Niagara | Elementary | 1.6 km | / 10 97% 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 682 people.
The neighbourhood, by the census
Statistics Canada 2021 Census for dissemination area 35260833 — the few blocks around this address, home to 682 people. It describes the area, not this property.
Percentages are of the 405 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.