Acclaim Condos, 801 Sheppard Ave W: A 61-Suite Mid-Rise With a Lean Fee

Acclaim is the kind of building most buyers drive past on Sheppard Avenue West without noticing. It is seven storeys, 61 suites, no pool, no concierge, and that plainness is exactly why it can make sense for an owner who wants space and a modest fee more than a lobby. I’m Jatin Dua, RE/MAX Quantum Realty.

Small building, short amenity list, and that is the point

Acclaim rises about 20 metres over seven storeys and holds only 61 suites. Condos.ca lists a party room, a meeting room, visitor parking and an underground garage. There is no gym, pool or concierge on that list, and I would not expect one.

That matters for the budget. Every amenity a building carries has to be staffed, insured, cleaned and eventually replaced, and in a 61-suite building those costs are split among very few owners. Acclaim avoided most of that, which is why its fee structure is simpler than the tower down the road.

The trade-off is daily life. If you want to come home to a gym in the basement and someone at the front desk to take your parcels, this is the wrong building. If you already have a gym membership and order little online, you are not paying for things you will not use.

A building this size also governs differently. With 61 owners, the board is a few of your neighbours, votes are decided by a small group, and a single owner who stops paying fees has a bigger effect on the budget than in a 400-suite tower. Go to an annual general meeting if you can, or at least read the last two years of minutes.

Who built it: the sources disagree

Condos.ca names Urban Group as both developer and builder. CondoInvestments.ca credits Urbancorp. The names are close enough that this may be the same company recorded two ways, but I could not confirm it from a primary source, and I would rather tell you that than pick one.

For a 2012 building this matters less than it would for a pre-construction purchase. Fourteen years in, what counts is how the corporation has been run since registration: the reserve fund study, the maintenance history and the board minutes tell you far more than the original builder’s name.

Ask the property manager, listed as Eastway Property Management, for the most recent reserve fund study and any engineering reports. A building of this age should be starting to plan its first big items, such as roofing, caulking and garage membrane work.

Bigger suites than the street average

Condos.ca puts Acclaim’s suites at roughly 600 to 1,360 square feet. That top end is generous for a 2012 mid-rise; many condos completed in that era leaned toward compact one-bedroom plans, and the market kept moving smaller in the years after.

The lower end, around 600 square feet, is the one-bedroom-plus-den territory most investors buy. The upper end is family or downsizer space, and in a building this size there are only a handful of those suites, so they come up rarely.

No published floor plans were available when I checked, so ask for the plan of the specific suite. Measure the den, because in some plans a den is a true second room and in others it is an alcove that will not fit a bed.

Daily life on Sheppard Avenue West

This stretch of Sheppard, between Bathurst and Allen Road, is lined with mid-rise condos from the 1990s through the 2010s, including Plaza Royale at 872 Sheppard Ave W and Privilla Condos nearby. It is a practical, residential corridor rather than a destination street, with shops and services along Sheppard and Bathurst and the Allen Road and Highway 401 close by for drivers.

Clanton Park and Bathurst Manor are established neighbourhoods with a strong base of long-term owners, and that tends to keep these smaller buildings stable. The transit, schools and Walk Score details are in the data panel on this page.

Because the building fronts Sheppard, ask which way the suite faces. A unit facing the avenue will hear more traffic than one facing the back, and that difference shows up in resale.

If you are coming from a house in the area, the appeal is staying close to the same shops, services and friends while trading stairs and snow-shovelling for an elevator. That is a common move in this pocket, and it is one reason the larger suites here are worth watching for.

Pricing Acclaim against the district

Condos.ca puts Acclaim’s average at about $585 per square foot. For a 2012 building with parking included in the fee, that sits at the modest end of what I see in North York mid-rises of similar age.

For context, the TRREB Market Watch figures for district C06, which covers Bathurst Manor and Clanton Park, showed an average condo sale of about $478,000 in September 2026, at about 98% of asking, with roughly 4.8 months of inventory. That is a market where buyers have room to negotiate, and Acclaim is no exception.

There was a single listing active when I checked in October 2026, so I will not quote it. With only 61 suites, a year can pass with very few sales here. The panel above shows the recorded sales, and for a fair price I would also look at Plaza Royale and the other Sheppard West mid-rises of similar age and size.

Building specifications

Amenities at Acclaim Condos

This is a building for people who want a home, not a club: a party room and meeting room for the occasional gathering, visitor parking for guests, and an underground garage. Budget for a gym elsewhere if you need one.

Jatin’s honest take on Acclaim Condos

Acclaim Condos — frequently asked questions

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