Maison 77 Clarendon, 77 Clarendon Ave: A 5-Storey Menkes on the Ravine

Maison 77 Clarendon is not a condo in the way most Toronto buyers use the word. It is a five-storey, limestone-faced building of very large suites on a quiet South Hill corner, with a 24-hour doorman, valet parking and the Sir Winston Churchill Park ravine off the south side. The people it is built for are selling a house in Forest Hill, Rosedale or Lawrence Park, and the real question is whether it replaces that house well. I’m Jatin Dua, RE/MAX Quantum Realty.

A house-sized floor plan with a doorman

Most of the city’s boutique buildings still sell one- and two-bedroom suites. This one does not. Menkes markets residences from about 3,000 to more than 6,000 square feet, including a roughly 5,900-square-foot penthouse with two private balconies and a rooftop terrace of about 4,000 square feet.

The size data does not line up across sources, and I would rather tell you that than pick one. Menkes says 15 residences; UrbanToronto’s construction coverage and condos.ca both say 20 suites, and condos.ca lists sizes of roughly 1,700 to 3,300 square feet. The likeliest explanation is that the suite mix changed between launch and registration, or that some suites were combined, but you should confirm the final count and your suite’s registered area from the declaration and the survey plan.

Either way, the layouts are planned like houses. Menkes specifies 10-foot ceilings in the principal rooms, 8-foot solid-core interior doors, floor-to-ceiling thermally insulated windows and smooth white ceilings throughout. Every suite is marketed with a private balcony or terrace that has a gas barbecue connection.

Pre-war New York, built in 2025

Richard Wengle Architect designed this as a traditional building, not a glass box. The design borrows from Art Moderne and pre-war New York apartment buildings: a limestone and marble façade, an arched entrance, a mansard roof and bronze-tinted metal around the large windows.

UrbanToronto’s 2024 coverage described the details that make it work at street level. A concrete band at the fourth floor doubles as a balcony guard and carries a decorative frieze, setbacks and curved corner balconies break up the bulk, and the building tops out at about 22 metres, which is house-scale for this street.

The south elevation is different on purpose. It faces the trees of the ravine, so that side is mostly floor-to-ceiling glass between projecting corner balconies. If you are choosing between suites, the orientation matters more here than in most buildings: south means ravine and park, north means Clarendon Avenue.

Living at Clarendon and Russell Hill

The building sits on the southeast corner of Clarendon Avenue and Russell Hill Road, one block south of St. Clair Avenue West, with Sir Winston Churchill Park and its ravine immediately beside it. For most buyers, the nearest major intersection to name is St. Clair West and Spadina Road.

This is a residential pocket of older apartment buildings and large houses, and that is the appeal. You are a short walk from the shops and restaurants on St. Clair West, while Clarendon itself stays quiet. Casa Loma and Spadina House are close by to the south.

What you do not get is a lively street at the front door. If you want cafés downstairs and constant activity, this corner will feel too quiet. For someone downsizing from a house, that quiet is usually the point.

The ravine also sets the building’s long-term outlook. Sir Winston Churchill Park and the slope below it are public green space, so the south view is about as protected as a view gets in central Toronto. That is a big part of what you are paying for, and it is the main reason I would steer a buyer toward a south-facing suite here if the budget allows.

Staff and services are the real product

In a building this small, the services are what you are paying for. Menkes markets a 24-hour executive concierge and doorman or porter service, plus valet parking rather than self-park, which is closer to a New York co-op than to a typical Toronto condo.

The trade-off is cost. Staffing a 24-hour desk and a valet in a building of roughly 20 suites spreads a large payroll across very few owners, and that shows up in the monthly fee. Read the first-year budget closely: in a newly registered building it is often an estimate, and fees can be adjusted once the board has real operating numbers.

What it costs, in aggregate

Condos.ca shows an average of about $2,697 per square foot here. That is far above most of Toronto’s resale condo market and places this building in the same conversation as the city’s top boutique addresses in Yorkville, Forest Hill and Rosedale.

When I last checked, two suites were listed for sale, with asking prices ranging from about $3.75 million to $6.35 million and monthly fees from roughly $3,200 to $4,050. With only two listings and no settled resale history yet, there is no reliable building median to point to, so I would treat any per-square-foot figure as a starting point, not a verdict.

Condos.ca did not list what the fee includes. Before you compare it with another building, get the budget and find out whether heat, hydro, water, parking and valet service are covered.

Building specifications

Amenities at Maison 77 Clarendon

Menkes describes more than 7,600 square feet of ground-floor amenity space plus a south-facing outdoor area, which is a lot of club space for so few owners. For daily life, that means a private pool, spa and dining room you are unlikely to share with crowds, but confirm everything was delivered as marketed, because the brochure list is not the same as the as-built list.

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