Signatures on Bloor, 55 Bloor St E: Hydro-Included Suites at Yonge

Signatures on Bloor is the building where the maintenance fee looks alarming until you read what it pays for. It is a 19-storey tower from about 2000, a few steps east of Yonge and Bloor, with compact suites and a fee that covers hydro, heat, air conditioning and parking. For a buyer who wants the Yonge and Bloor address at a lower entry price, it is worth understanding properly. I’m Jatin Dua, RE/MAX Quantum Realty.

Steps from Yonge and Bloor, across from the old Bay

The address is the reason this building exists. It sits on the south side of Bloor Street East a short walk from the Yonge and Bloor intersection, across the street from the Hudson’s Bay Centre. Yorkville is a few minutes west, and the Church-Wellesley Village is a few minutes south.

The block across the street is changing. Hudson’s Bay closed its store at 2 Bloor Street East in 2022, and in April 2026 Brookfield Properties filed a zoning application to turn the upper floors into self-storage while renovating the ground floor and concourse as retail and re-cladding the facade. That application had not been decided at the time of writing, but it is the biggest change likely on your doorstep, and a refreshed retail frontage would help this stretch of Bloor.

The building itself is a conventional concrete tower rather than an architectural statement. Its ground floor has carried retail; one listing site names a Freshii, though storefronts on Bloor change often. What you are buying is location and an inclusive fee, not design.

Living on Bloor itself means living with Bloor. The street carries heavy traffic and pedestrian crowds most of the day, and a suite facing it will hear more than one facing south toward Hayden Street. Ask which way a suite faces, and if you are a light sleeper, visit on a Friday evening before you decide.

Compact suites with eight-foot ceilings

Suites run from about 379 square feet for the smallest studios to about 1,060 square feet for two-bedroom-plus-den plans. The mix includes studios, one-bedroom-plus-dens, two-bedrooms and two-bedroom-plus-dens The suites listed for sale at the time of writing were both in the 600 to 800 square foot range.

Listing descriptions mention open-concept kitchens and living areas, laminate floors, granite counters in many suites and walk-out balconies on many plans. Ceilings are about eight feet, which is standard for a building of this age and noticeably lower than the nine-foot ceilings in newer towers. If ceiling height matters to you, see a suite before you fall for the floor plan.

A 379-square-foot studio is a single room, and it suits a student, a pied-à-terre or an investor rather than a couple. The one-plus-den and two-bedroom plans are where owner-occupiers usually land.

The fee covers almost everything

This is the most important thing to understand about Signatures on Bloor. Across the active listings, fees worked out to about $1.51 per square foot, which is roughly double what many newer downtown towers charge. On a headline comparison, the building looks expensive to own.

But the fee includes common elements, heat, hydro, air conditioning, building insurance, parking and water. In most newer buildings you pay your own hydro bill, your own heating and cooling, and often a separate charge for parking. Add those back onto a newer building’s fee and the gap shrinks a great deal. For a small suite, hydro alone can be a meaningful monthly cost that simply does not exist here.

The trade-off is that the corporation, not you, carries the energy risk. When utility rates rise, everyone’s fee rises with them, whether or not you used much power. Look at how fees have moved over the last few budgets to see how the board has handled that.

Records that do not agree

Public records for this building conflict on a few points. condos.ca lists Maple Ridge Community Management as manager; another listing site names Kindle Property Management. Neither may be current, so ask the seller’s agent who manages it today.

Pet rules are also reported two ways. condos.ca shows a pet restriction, while another site says cats and dogs are allowed with no stated count. That is the kind of detail you must confirm from the declaration and rules in the status certificate, not from a listing.

The build year appears as both 1999 and 2000, which is usually construction versus registration and does not matter. The developer is not listed on any source I found.

What Signatures on Bloor costs, and what the fee covers

condos.ca puts the building average at about $735 per square foot. For an address this close to Yonge and Bloor, that is low, and it reflects the age of the building, the eight-foot ceilings and, above all, the high fee per square foot, which buyers price in.

At the time of writing two suites were listed for sale, both between 600 and 800 square feet, with asking prices of about $575,000 to $579,000. That is an unusually low entry point for this intersection, and it is a direct consequence of the fee.

Rentals are permitted according to one listing site, and small suites with hydro and heat included are easy for tenants to budget for. That is why investors look here. Check the declaration for any minimum lease term before you buy with a rental plan in mind.

When you compare it with a newer building nearby, calculate total monthly cost, including hydro, heating and parking, not just the fee. For aggregate recent sales, see my building sold report.

Building specifications

Amenities at Signatures on Bloor

The amenities are modest and practical: a concierge desk, a gym, a sauna, a party room and a games room. Nobody buys here for the amenities; with Yorkville, the Bloor Street gyms and the Yonge line steps away, the city does most of that work.

Jatin’s honest take on Signatures on Bloor

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