443 Manse Road Townhouses: 38 Homes Sharing One Outdoor Pool

443 Manse Road is a 38-home townhouse complex with something most complexes three times its size do not have: an outdoor pool. That is a real summer perk for families, and it is also the single biggest thing I would investigate before you buy, because 38 owners split every dollar it costs. I’m Jatin Dua, RE/MAX Quantum Realty.

A pool, shared by 38 households

The outdoor pool is what separates this complex from its West Hill neighbours. West Hill Heights on Collinsgrove Road has 81 homes and no pool on record; 152 Homestead Road has 39 homes and no pool either. Here, a complex of almost exactly the same size as Homestead chose to build and keep one.

For a family with young children, a pool steps from the front door is a genuine quality-of-life feature from June to September. It also tends to create a little community: neighbours who actually know each other, which helps when the board needs volunteers.

The cost side is straightforward arithmetic. Every pool needs opening and closing each season, chemicals, insurance, fencing and safety rules, and, every couple of decades, major work such as resurfacing, new filtration or a new deck. To use a purely illustrative number, a $60,000 pool project in a 38-home complex works out to roughly $1,600 per home before anything else. That is why the reserve fund study matters more here than at most townhouses.

It is also worth asking how the pool is run. Who opens and closes it, whether there is a lifeguard or posted rules only, what the hours are, and whether guests are allowed. Those answers tell you both what it costs and how much you will actually use it.

Manse Road and the 1979 townhouse cluster

Manse Road is the line that splits West Hill in two; the eastern side is often called Manse Valley. The complex sits toward the Kingston Road end, in an area that filled in during the 1960s and 1970s once new bridges over Highland Creek opened better access to Highway 401.

YCC-483 was registered in July 1979, part of a run of townhouse corporations registered in this part of West Hill within about a year. 152 Homestead Road (YCC-447) came in December 1978 and West Hill Heights (YCC-498) in November 1979. Same era, similar construction, very different amenity choices.

Condos.ca does not record who built the complex, and I could not find another source. At 47 years old, the builder matters much less than how the corporation has maintained what was built.

What to check in a 1979 townhouse

By now the complex has almost certainly been through at least one round of roofs and likely windows, doors and paving. Find out when each was last done, how it was paid for, and when the reserve fund study expects the next round. If any of it was paid by special levy, ask why the fund was short.

Condos.ca lists a parking garage. Ask whether each home has its own built-in garage or whether there is a shared structure, and read the declaration for who repairs garage doors, driveways and the slab. A shared structure is a corporation cost; a private garage door is often yours.

Inside the home, have an inspector look at the electrical panel and wiring type, since homes of this era can include aluminum branch wiring, and check the lowest level for any sign of water. Note the age of the furnace, air conditioner and hot water tank, and whether the tank is rented.

The neighbourhood around it

Day to day, West Hill shops on Kingston Road, a wide four-lane corridor of plazas rather than a walkable main street. The old Morningside Mall closed and was replaced by a plaza by 2007, and many former commercial sites in the area are being rebuilt as townhouses, which keeps adding newer competition for resale homes like these.

The green space is the real draw. Morningside Park, roughly 241 hectares of the Highland Creek valley between Lawrence Avenue East and Ellesmere Road, is the largest municipal park in Toronto, and East Point Park sits on the lake to the south. The University of Toronto Scarborough is close by, with athletics facilities and a forested creek corridor.

The City’s proposed Eglinton East LRT would run along Kingston Road and north on Morningside Avenue. As of April 2026 it had no opening date, and the province said it was not a current priority. Treat it as a possibility, not a reason to pay more. The panel on this page shows today’s TTC and GO options.

Pricing and fees: what we can and can’t see

There were no homes listed for sale at the time of writing, and condos.ca does not publish a size range or average price per square foot for this complex. With only 38 homes, resales are infrequent, so the sold data in the panel above may rest on only a handful of trades.

That makes this a building where I would build the price from comparables: recent sales here if there are any, then townhouse sales at West Hill Heights, 152 Homestead Road and other late-1970s complexes nearby, adjusted for the pool and for the size and condition of the specific home.

On fees, expect this complex to run higher than a comparable complex with no pool, because the pool has to be funded. A higher fee is not a bad sign on its own. A fee that looks the same as the no-pool complexes nearby would make me look harder at the reserve fund.

Building specifications

Amenities at 443 Manse Road Townhouses

An outdoor pool in a 38-home complex is unusual and, for families, a strong reason to choose it. It also means part of every owner’s fee goes to a facility that only opens a few months a year, so it should be weighed honestly if you will not use it.

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