5 Undercliffe Avenue, Hamilton, ON L8P 3G9
- Property tax
- $22,951 / year
Nestled beneath the escarpment in Hamilton's prestigious Durand neighbourhood, this stately Georgian Revival residence offers a rare opportunity to own a piece of architectural and cultural history. Built in 1924 by the Levy family, this distinguished home was once owned by philanthropist and art collector Herman H. Levy, whose notable collections were later donated to McMaster University and the Royal Ontario Museum. Offering over 5,000 sq. ft. of living space with ample room for both comfortable family-living and elegant entertaining, the home blends timeless character with thoughtful updates. A classic centre hall layout and 9-foot ceilings create an elegant flow throughout the main level, complemented by original millwork, detailed mouldings, and three fireplaces. The walnut library provides a warm and refined retreat, while the updated kitchen features granite counters, a large island, quality appliances, and a secondary staircase that reflects the original design. The second level offers four spacious bedrooms, each with ensuite access. The primary dressing area includes original built-ins, a vintage ironing board, and a discreetly integrated safe installed by the Levy family. The third floor adds flexibility with two additional bedrooms, a full bathroom, and a separate living area ideal for a nanny suite, multigenerational living or a private workspace. The lower level includes a laundry area with original cedar chute servicing all levels, a workshop, bathroom, walk-in safe or wine cellar, and interior access to the heated garage. Additional features include a slate roof, copper downspouts, central vacuum, EV charging station, and zoned heating and cooling. Set on a private, tree-lined lot, the backyard features a heated saltwater pool, year-round hot tub, and covered porch, offering a quiet setting for relaxation and entertaining. Located close to parks, schools, hospitals, the Bruce Trail, downtown amenities, and Highway 403, this is a truly rare offering.
- MLS number
- X13768876
- Type
- Detached
- Status
- Active
- Bedrooms
- 6
- Bathrooms
- 6
- Postal code
- L8P 3G9
- Photos
- 50
This home has been listed 2 times in the last two years. "This property" adds up the days each of those listings was actually on the market before being withdrawn, suspended or expiring — the quiet months between them are not counted.
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
- 3-Storey
- Class
- Residential Freehold
- Age
- 100+
- Fronting on
- East
- Community
- Durand
- Municipality
- Hamilton
- Cross street
- ABERDEEN AVENUE
- Zoning
- R2
Inside
- Bedrooms
- 6
- Bedrooms above grade
- 6
- Bathrooms
- 6
- Washrooms
- 1 on the main floor · 2 on the second floor · 1 on the second floor
- Kitchens
- 1
- Rooms above grade
- 19
- Family room
- Yes
- Fireplace
- Yes
- Fireplaces
- 3
- Basement
- Full, Walk-Out
- Laundry
- Lower Level
- Size
- 5000 +
Building
- Construction
- Brick
- Roof
- Slate
- Foundation
- Poured Concrete
- Other structures
- Fence - Full, Storage, Workshop
Parking
- Garage
- Attached
- Covered spaces
- 2
- Driveway spaces
- 2
- Total parking
- 4
- Features
- Private
Land
- Lot
- 120 × 70 feet
- View
- Downtown, City, Pool
- Pool
- Inground, Salt
Heating, cooling and services
- Heating
- Forced Air
- Heat source
- Gas
- Cooling
- Central Air
- Water
- Municipal
- Sewer
- Sewer
- Electricity
- Yes
- Gas
- Yes
- Cable
- Yes
Features
- Property
- Electric Car Charger, Fenced Yard, Golf, Hospital, School, Arts Centre
- Interior
- Auto Garage Door Remote, Bar Fridge, Central Vacuum, Floor Drain, Guest Accommodations, Storage, Water Heater Owned
Listing
- MLS number
- X13768876
- Status
- New
- Previous status
- Draft
- Listed on
- 2026-09-10
- Expires
- 2026-12-31
- Taxes
- $22,951 (2025)
- Board
- Toronto Regional Real Estate Board
Listing history
This address has been listed 2 times.
Where this home 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Queensdale School Hamilton-Wentworth DSB | Elementary | 718 m | / 10 64% met the standard |
| Central Junior Public School Hamilton-Wentworth DSB | Elementary | 811 m | / 10 41% met the standard · 3 of 6 measures |
| Kanétskare Elementary School Middle School Hamilton-Wentworth DSB | Elementary | 784 m | / 10 68% met the standard · 3 of 6 measures |
| St. Charles Catholic Adult Secondary School Hamilton-Wentworth CDSB | Secondary | 1.0 km | Not reported |
| Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Elementary School Hamilton-Wentworth CDSB | Elementary | 1.1 km | / 10 80% met the standard |
| Queen Victoria Elementary Public School Hamilton-Wentworth DSB | Elementary | 925 m | / 10 46% 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
The market around this home
Detached houses in Hamilton — 5,837 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 hamilton. 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 450 people.
The neighbourhood, by the census
Statistics Canada 2021 Census for dissemination area 35250387 — the few blocks around this address, home to 450 people. It describes the area, not this property.
Percentages are of the 270 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
Monthly rent starts from the median of recent 6-bedroom leases in Hamilton. Change it to anything you like.
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.
