The Haven at Carrington Park, 1101 Leslie St: Big Suites, All-In Fees

The Haven at Carrington Park is the building I show people who have outgrown a two-bedroom downtown and want room without buying a house. It is a 20-storey Monarch tower from 2003 on Leslie Street, with suites that run past 2,000 square feet and a fee that covers most of your utilities. The fee is the number that scares people, so most of this review is about whether it should. I’m Jatin Dua, RE/MAX Quantum Realty.

A Monarch tower from the early 2000s, built for space

Monarch Group developed The Haven, and Graziani + Corazza are credited with the architecture. At 20 storeys and about 66 metres, it is one of the taller buildings on this stretch of Leslie, but it reads as a building of its era: solid, conservative, and designed around the people who were buying in 2003, many of them downsizers from Don Mills and Leaside.

The building carries two street addresses, 1101 and 1105 Leslie Street, under one corporation. Don’t confuse it with Carrington Place at 1103 Leslie, which is a separate condominium with its own corporation, budget and reserve fund. When you compare fees or read a status certificate, make sure the paperwork is for TSCC-1813.

With 290 suites, it is big enough to support a full concierge and staff, but not so big that the lobby feels like a transit hub. That size is about right for the amenity package it carries.

Suites that compete with a house

Condos.ca lists suites from about 653 to 2,281 square feet. The bottom end is a normal one-bedroom; the top end is the size of a semi-detached house, and that upper half of the range is what defines the building.

Large suites from this period tend to have proper separate dining rooms, real laundry rooms, and more hallway than a modern plan. That is a trade-off rather than a flaw. You get walls to hang art on and rooms that close off, but you may also be paying fees on square footage that is corridor. Walk the plan and count how much of it you would actually use.

If you are buying a 2003 suite that has never been updated, budget for kitchens, bathrooms and flooring. The good news is that the bones of a larger suite give you room to renovate properly. Before you plan anything structural or move plumbing, ask management for the corporation’s renovation rules and approval process.

Why the fee is higher than you expect

Both suites listed for sale when I checked carried monthly fees of roughly $1,327 to $1,350. On a 600-square-foot one-bedroom that would be alarming. Here it reflects large suites and an inclusion list that covers heat, air conditioning, water, building insurance, parking and the common elements.

In a newer building you would pay for heating and cooling on your own meter, and often pay for parking separately. Put those costs back onto the newer building before you compare. On a large suite, the heating and cooling bill alone is not small, and here it is already inside the fee.

What is not in the condos.ca list is hydro, so plan for your own electricity bill. The bigger question at a building this age is not today’s fee but where it is heading, and that is a reserve fund question, which I cover below.

Leslie and Eglinton is about to look very different

For two decades this corner was defined by Sunnybrook Park, the ravines and the old Inn on the Park lands. That is changing. The Eglinton Crosstown line runs along Eglinton, and it has brought a wave of development proposals to the corner.

The biggest one nearby is at 1075 Leslie Street, the Toyota On the Park dealership site at the northeast corner of Leslie and Eglinton. A 2022 proposal by Rowbry Holdings, designed by BDP Quadrangle, called for four towers of 15 to 49 storeys with about 1,846 condominium units and a new public park. It is a proposal, not a building, so check its current status, but it tells you where this intersection is heading.

For owners here, that means construction, more traffic on Leslie, and more competing condo supply over the next decade. It also means more shops and services within walking distance of a corner that has always needed a car. Large suites like the ones at The Haven will be rare in the new towers, which mostly plan one-bedrooms.

What The Haven is asking, in context

Condos.ca puts the building’s average at about $647 per square foot. For an established tower near a future transit line, that is modest, and it reflects two things: the age of the building and the large suites, which always sell for less per foot than small ones.

Two suites were listed for sale when I checked, asking between $710,000 and $879,000, with monthly fees of roughly $1,327 to $1,350. Two suites were also listed for lease. Two listings is not a market, so treat the range as a snapshot, not a valuation.

If you are weighing a purchase here, the sales panel beside this review shows what has actually traded. For a suite-specific number, I would rather pull the recent comparable sales for your floor plan and exposure. You can book a call and I will walk you through them.

Building specifications

Amenities at The Haven at Carrington Park

Condos.ca and CondoInvestments.ca between them list concierge, guest suites, a party room, a meeting room, a car wash, a gym, a pool and a sauna. For buyers coming from a house, the guest suites and the car wash are the practical ones: family can visit without sleeping on your couch, and you can wash the car in February.

Jatin’s honest take on The Haven at Carrington Park

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