61 Windy Golf Way Townhouses: A Self-Managed 1974 Complex Near Eglinton

Windy Golfway is one of those Flemingdon Park streets most Torontonians have never driven down, and the 40 condo townhomes on it are rarely listed. What makes this complex different is not the homes but how it is run: condos.ca lists it as self-managed, with no property management company. That can be a strength or a weakness, and I will tell you how to find out which. I’m Jatin Dua, RE/MAX Quantum Realty.

Self-managed: what that really means

In a self-managed corporation, the board of directors does the work a property manager would normally do: hiring contractors, collecting fees, keeping the books, answering owners and preparing the documents a buyer needs. Some small Toronto corporations have run this way for decades and run it well, with low overhead and owners who care.

The risk is that it depends on a few volunteers. If the people doing the work move, burn out or disagree, records and maintenance can slip. In Ontario, condo managers must be licensed by the Condominium Management Regulatory Authority of Ontario (CMRAO), but a board managing its own corporation is not hiring a manager at all, so the quality of administration comes down to the people involved.

Before you buy, I would want to see how quickly the corporation produces a complete status certificate, whether the financial statements are audited, how the reserve fund study is kept current, and who answers owners’ requests. Ask the board how long the current arrangement has been in place and whether it has considered hiring a manager.

A 1974 townhouse corporation

YCC-145 was registered in June 1974, early in the history of Ontario condominiums. Condos.ca does not name a developer, and I could not find an architect or any press coverage of the original project. The declaration will name the original declarant.

Condos.ca records the complex as a single storey, which reflects how the database counts low-rise projects rather than the homes themselves. The name also varies: condos.ca calls it 61 Windy Golf Way Townhouses, its page title uses 1 Windy Golfway and the address range runs from 1 to 76. Listings use both Windy Golfway and Windy Golf Way. Your lawyer can confirm the legal description.

Condos.ca lists a parking garage and visitor parking. A shared underground garage in a 1974 complex is the biggest single item to look at in the reserve fund study, because membrane, drainage and concrete repairs are costly and are shared among only 40 owners.

Fees and owner responsibilities

Condos.ca does not publish a fee inclusion list for this corporation, and nothing was listed for sale or lease when I prepared this page. In townhouse complexes of this era, owners often pay their own heat and hydro. Ask for the budget, a year of utility bills from the seller and the status certificate, and compare total monthly cost rather than the fee alone.

Read the declaration for who is responsible for windows, doors, roofs and any private yard or patio. In older townhouse corporations, those lines differ from one complex to the next, and they decide whether a new set of windows is your bill or a shared one.

With barbecues permitted, as condos.ca lists, private outdoor space here is usable in the way many condo owners miss. Check the rules for any limits on fuel or placement.

Between the golf course and Line 5

Windy Golfway sits in the north part of Flemingdon Park, close to Don Mills Road and Eglinton Avenue, alongside neighbouring streets such as Shady Golfway and Edgecliff Golfway with their towers. The street names point to the Flemingdon Park Golf Club in the Don Valley nearby, which has shaped the green outlook of this pocket for decades. The data panel on this page lists transit, schools and parks with distances.

Line 5 Eglinton runs along Eglinton Avenue to the north, and the Ontario Line is under construction along Don Mills Road with a planned connection at Don Mills and Eglinton. Together they give this corner of Flemingdon Park far better transit than it had when these homes were built.

The golf course itself may change. Cityzen, Greybrook and Tercot have applied to build four towers of 42 to 56 storeys, about 2,170 homes, at 155 St Dennis Drive on the north end of the club property, and to give about 95 per cent of the land to the city as public parkland. The proposal is not approved, but if it goes ahead, residents would gain a large public park in the valley, along with years of construction and many new neighbours.

Pricing a rarely listed townhouse

Condos.ca does not publish suite sizes or an average price per square foot for this complex, and with 40 homes and long gaps between sales, a building average would not mean much. Use the 12-month sold figures in the data panel above.

I price homes here against other condo townhouses in Flemingdon Park and Don Mills, and against the larger suites in the towers on the surrounding golfway streets. A townhouse should carry a premium over a tower suite for the front door, the stairs and the lack of elevators, but age, a shared garage and the self-managed question can narrow it.

For recent trades in this complex and the towers nearby, ask me for the building sold report.

Building specifications

Amenities at 61 Windy Golf Way Townhouses

The amenity list is short: a parking garage, visitor parking and permission to barbecue. For 40 homes that is the right scale, and the valley parks and trails nearby do the job an amenity floor would do elsewhere.

Jatin’s honest take on 61 Windy Golf Way Townhouses

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