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Richview Park and Widdicombe Hill: What Is Not a Condominium

Two addresses in the Richview and Kingsview area are routinely presented as condominiums and are not. One is a freehold townhouse enclave; the other is a corridor of purpose-built rental towers. Between them they produce the most likely place in north Etobicoke for a buyer — or an agent — to get tenure wrong.

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Method: corporation numbers and registration dates below come from condos.ca; where a second independent source confirmed a number, I have said so. Walking distances are measured on the pedestrian network using the OSRM foot profile, not straight lines. Where a source publishes a figure I could not stand behind, I have said what it was and why I did not use it.

Richview Park, 387 to 403 The Westway and 91 Callowhill Drive — freehold

Richview Park is a 2018 development of 21 homes by Tiffany Park Homes, three storeys, spread across five civic addresses. A major listing portal files it as a condominium building.

The tell

The portal prints a registration date of “Jan 1, 2018” with no corporation number. A January-first registration date with no corporation number is, in my experience across this project, an extremely reliable signal that no condominium corporation record exists. It has caught purpose-built rentals, freehold enclaves and phantom buildings. It is a placeholder the database writes when it has nothing.

Three independent confirmations that it is freehold

  • The live MLS record at 399 The Westway gives the property type as attached / row / townhouse with no maintenance fee.
  • Two independent development write-ups describe Richview Park as freehold townhomes and single-family homes, completed 2018, by Tiffany Park Homes.
  • 403 The Westway resolves on the same portal as a freehold three-storey house, not as a unit of a condominium.

The one thing I could not resolve

The same portal page nonetheless lists fee inclusions of common elements, building insurance and water — which would imply a common elements condominium, or a parcel of tied land arrangement, where you own the home freehold and pay a shared charge for private roads or landscaping. The MLS record shows no fee at all. These cannot both be true, and I could not settle it from published sources. If there is a POTL corporation behind Richview Park, its number is not published anywhere I could find. Ask your lawyer to confirm before the deposit goes firm — a POTL charge you did not expect is a real monthly cost, and a POTL you assumed existed and does not changes who maintains the road.

The corporation also records a twelve-month change of 0 per cent across zero sales. Null result.

Orphan address records

The same portal maintains separate single-address pages for 403 The Westway, 91 Callowhill Drive and 2 Callowhill Drive. These are individual freehold houses, not buildings. They inflate any count of “condos in the area” that is built by scraping address pages.

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Jatin Dua, Sales Representative — RE/MAX Quantum Realty Inc., Brokerage. Not intended to solicit buyers or sellers currently under contract with another brokerage.

Widdicombe Hill Boulevard — mostly rental, and one genuine condominium

Widdicombe Hill Boulevard is a short street with a lot of towers on it. Almost all of them are purpose-built rental:

  • 53 and 57 Widdicombe Hill Blvd — “Widdicombe Place”, operated by QuadReal Residential Properties. 281 units, 18 storeys, built 1975.
  • 63, 73 and 120 Widdicombe Hill Blvd — operated by Park Property Management. 694 units, 17 storeys, built 1974.
  • 25 and 35 Widdicombe Hill Blvd — registered rental. 35 Widdicombe Hill is 121 units, 11 storeys, built 1968, managed by Orin Group Properties.

130 to 142 Widdicombe Hill Boulevard is the exception. That one is a genuine condominium corporation and is covered elsewhere on this site. So the street contains both, and the numbers are not grouped — the condominium sits at the high end, the rentals at the low end and in the middle.

Two independent errors on the same records

A major listing portal carries per-unit pages for both 53 and 57 Widdicombe Hill Boulevard typed as “Condo Apt” — for a building that is a registered rental. One of those pages is for unit 1902 in an 18-storey building, which cannot exist. Separately, a second portal publishes a page titled “25–35 Widdicombe Hill Blvd Condos” for another registered rental.

Three errors, two portals, one street. If you are relying on a listing site to tell you whether a Widdicombe Hill building is a condominium, you will get the wrong answer more often than the right one.

The general rule this produces

Across north Etobicoke I have now found the same four failure modes repeatedly: a placeholder registration date standing in for a missing corporation, a purpose-built rental typed as a condominium, a freehold enclave with a phantom fee line, and a unit number that could not exist in a building of the recorded height.

None of these requires special knowledge to catch. It requires asking one question before the deposit is firm: what is the corporation number, and on what date was it registered? If nobody can answer that from a document, the building is not a condominium until proven otherwise.

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Frequently asked questions

Is Richview Park on The Westway a condominium?

No. Richview Park is a 2018 development of 21 freehold homes by Tiffany Park Homes. A listing portal files it as a condominium and prints a January 1, 2018 registration date with no corporation number, which is a placeholder for a missing record. The MLS listing shows attached/row/townhouse with no maintenance fee.

Could Richview Park have a POTL or common elements corporation?

Possibly. One portal lists fee inclusions of common elements, building insurance and water, which would imply one, while the MLS record shows no fee. The two cannot both be right and no corporation number is published. Have your lawyer confirm before your deposit goes firm.

Are the buildings on Widdicombe Hill Boulevard condominiums?

Mostly no. 25, 35, 53, 57, 63, 73 and 120 Widdicombe Hill Blvd are registered purpose-built rentals. 130 to 142 Widdicombe Hill Boulevard is a genuine condominium corporation.

Why does a listing site show a condo unit at 53 Widdicombe Hill?

It is an error. 53 Widdicombe Hill Blvd is part of a registered rental building. The same portal carries a page for unit 1902 there, in a building recorded as 18 storeys, which is a second error on the same record.

What is the January 1 tell?

A registration date of January the first with no corporation number attached. Across this project it has reliably indicated that no condominium corporation record exists – the database writes a placeholder date when it has nothing real to show.

Sources

Thinking about buying or selling here?

I work this area every week and I will give you a straight answer, including when the answer is to wait. No pressure, and no drip campaign you cannot get out of.

Call or text 437-987-1925 Send me a message

Jatin Dua, Sales Representative — RE/MAX Quantum Realty Inc., Brokerage. Not intended to solicit buyers or sellers currently under contract with another brokerage.

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About the author — Jatin Dua, Etobicoke real estate agent

I’m a licensed Realtor with RE/MAX Quantum Realty at 799 The Queensway in Etobicoke, a few minutes from every building on this page. I work with buyers, sellers and investors across Mimico, Humber Bay Shores, New Toronto, Long Branch, Alderwood and the Stonegate–Queensway corridor. I write these building guides the way I’d brief a client at my own kitchen table: what is documented, what isn’t, and where the published numbers disagree with each other.

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Please read this. This page is general information for Ontario residents, not legal, tax, financial or investment advice, and it is not a substitute for a lawyer’s review of a status certificate or an accountant’s review of your numbers. Building details are drawn from the public sources listed above on the date shown and can change without notice; where those sources disagree with each other, I have said so rather than picking a number. Always verify unit-specific facts — fees, parking, locker, exclusive-use areas, rules and any special assessment — against the condominium corporation’s own documents before you commit. Not intended to solicit buyers or sellers currently under contract with another brokerage. E. & O.E.

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