Davisville Village vs Danforth & Greektown in 2026

Published 10 September 2026 · By Jatin Dua, Broker of Record, RE/MAX Quantum Realty

Last updated 10 September 2026. Written by Jatin Dua, Broker of Record at RE/MAX Quantum Realty, 799 The Queensway, Etobicoke · Toronto neighbourhood comparison · 9 min read

Quick answer

This is a condo-against-house decision, and the deciding number is time. In Q1 2026 a condo apartment in TRREB’s Mount Pleasant West community, the heart of Davisville Village, averaged $632,000 and took 40 days to sell at 97% of asking. In the same quarter a semi-detached house in Danforth Village-East York averaged $1,124,000 and took twelve days at 111% of asking. Roughly half a million dollars separates them, but the more useful difference is that one market gives you time to think and the other does not. Danforth & Greektown is the answer if you need a house with a yard and can compete. Davisville Village is the answer if you want leverage and a shorter commute.

Forty days to decide, or twelve

Buyers usually frame this comparison as midtown against the east end. I would frame it as leverage against scarcity. On the Davisville side, the Q1 2026 numbers describe a market where you are the scarce party: 89 condo apartment sales against 226 new listings in TRREB’s Mount Pleasant West community, a 39% sales-to-new-listings ratio, 40 days on market and 97% of asking. You can view five buildings, sleep on it, and negotiate.

On the Danforth, you are the plentiful party. Danforth Village-East York recorded 18 semi-detached sales at an average of $1,124,000 and a median of $1,110,000, in twelve days, at 111% of list, alongside 24 detached sales averaging $1,295,000 in 25 days at 103%. At district level in August 2026, E03 was carrying 2.7 months of inventory against 4.6 city-wide, selling at 100% of list in 33 days. Year to date it has recorded 475 sales at 103% of list and 21 average days on market — the fastest market I write about.

Boiled to one sentence

In Davisville you choose between listings. On the Danforth the listing chooses between buyers. That is worth more to your outcome than the half-million-dollar difference in the headline prices.

Fast and over asking is not the same as going up

This is the part I have to say slowly, because it is counter-intuitive and because it costs people money. E03 is simultaneously the tightest market and the fastest-falling benchmark in this series. In August 2026 the E03 composite benchmark was $1,022,100, down 5.62% year over year — the steepest composite decline of any district I cover — with detached at $1,173,200 down 6.62% and attached at $1,072,900 down 6.79%. No townhouse benchmark is published because the segment is too thin.

So houses are selling in twelve days at 111% of list, from asking prices that are lower than they were a year ago. Fast sales at high sale-to-list ratios do not mean rising values. They mean an underpricing strategy that is working exactly as intended. If you walk into that market believing 111% of list is evidence of appreciation, you will bid as though the benchmark is going up when TRREB says it is going down.

OVER ASKING DOES NOT MEAN APPRECIATINGE03 houses sold at 100% to 111% of list in 12 to 33 days in 2026, and the district composite benchmark still fell 5.62% year over year. Sale-to-list ratio measures the gap between the asking price and the sale price, nothing more. Ask your agent for the benchmark, not the ratio.

Davisville’s story is the mirror. C10’s composite benchmark reached $929,600 in August 2026, up 2.56% — the only rising district benchmark in midtown or north Toronto, against a city-wide fall of 3.73% — with its apartment benchmark at $597,900, down just 1.53% against the city’s −6.88%. That is a slow, unglamorous market whose index is holding, sitting next to a fast, competitive market whose index is falling. Neither of those sentences is the one people expect.

Five BIAs on one street, and two neighbourhoods under one name

Danforth Avenue runs roughly 9.2 kilometres, beginning at the Prince Edward Viaduct as the physical continuation of Bloor Street and running east to Kingston Road. Along that stretch sit five separate Business Improvement Areas, and locals navigate by those rather than by City neighbourhood names: Broadview Danforth from Broadview to Hampton, GreekTown on the Danforth from Hampton to Dewhurst just east of Jones, Danforth Mosaic across three kilometres from Jones to Westlake, Danforth Village from Westlake to Victoria Park, and Crossroads of the Danforth east of Victoria Park.

DANFORTH VILLAGE IS NOT GREEKTOWNDanforth Village is the far-east BIA, running from Westlake Avenue to Victoria Park. Greektown is roughly three kilometres west of it. TRREB’s Danforth Village-East York community is different again. If a listing says Danforth Village and shows you a photograph of bilingual Greek street signs, someone is guessing.

On the MLS side, most of this is district E03, comprising Broadview North, Crescent Town, Danforth, Danforth Village-East York, East York, O’Connor-Parkview, Playter Estates-Danforth and Woodbine-Lumsden. Greektown’s western end straddles into E01 and the far east into E02. City neighbourhoods here — #66 Danforth, #59 Danforth-East York, #67 Playter Estates-Danforth and others — were all left alone in the 2022 restructure.

Davisville had the opposite treatment: one place turned into two on paper. The MLS side stayed put under district C10, with its two communities. The City side did not — in April 2022 legacy neighbourhood #104 Mount Pleasant West became #173 North Toronto and #174 South Eglinton-Davisville, while most portals carried on publishing #104. The upshot is the same on both sides of town: the name on the listing is not a unit anybody measures.

What you are actually buying, in dwellings

City neighbourhood #66 Danforth holds 3,910 households: 1,255 semi-detached (32.1%), 1,345 apartments in buildings under five storeys (34.4%), 685 single-detached, and just 395 in buildings of five storeys or more. Owner-occupancy is 63.4%, the 2020 median household income was $98,000, and 76.3% of the stock was built in 1960 or earlier — the highest pre-1960 share of any neighbourhood I write about. This is a streetcar suburb built out mainly in the 1910s to 1930s: brick semis and detached houses on narrow lots, with 1960s and 1970s apartment slabs at Crescent Town and Main Square.

Davisville’s Yonge-spine half is the exact inverse. City neighbourhood #174 South Eglinton-Davisville is 11,295 of 13,185 households — 85.7% — in apartments of five storeys or more, 69.6% renter, with a 2020 median household income of $80,000 and 21.7% of its stock built between 2016 and 2021. Next door, #173 North Toronto is 89.9% five-plus-storey apartments, 81.4% renter, and contains fifteen single-detached houses in the entire neighbourhood. Houses in the Davisville area live east of Mount Pleasant Road, in #99 Mount Pleasant East, which is 29.9% detached and 22.0% semi-detached with 51.5% of stock pre-1960.

Q1 2026, TRREB community	Danforth & Greektown (E03)	Davisville area (C10)
Semi-detached	Danforth Village-East York: 18 sales, avg $1,124K, median $1,110K, 12 days, 111%	Mount Pleasant East: 12 sales, avg $1,523K, median $1,418K, 20 days, 106%
Detached	Danforth Village-East York: 24 sales, avg $1,295K, median $1,250K, 25 days, 103%	Mount Pleasant East: 13 sales, avg $2,125K, median $2,100K, 9 days, 100%
Condo apartment	Crescent Town: 8 sales, avg $434K, 56 days, 94%	Mount Pleasant West: 89 sales, avg $632K, median $615K, 40 days, 97%
Other detached readings	Broadview North: 5 sales, avg $1,905K, median $1,750K; O’Connor-Parkview: 17 sales, avg $1,003K, median $880K	Mount Pleasant West: 4 sales, avg $2,323K, 2 days, 104%
Composite benchmark, Aug 2026	$1,022,100, down 5.62%	$929,600, up 2.56%
District inventory, Aug 2026	2.7 months, 100% of list, 33 days	3.8 months, 97% of list, 33 days

Note the Crescent Town condo line, because it is the whole condo story on the Danforth. In August 2026 the entire E03 district recorded three condo apartment sales, averaging $384,000. This is the most house-dominated and most condo-starved market in the east end. If you want an apartment here, the choice is Crescent Town, Main Square or nothing.

The trade, plainly

Roughly half a million dollars buys you land, a yard and a front door of your own on the Danforth, in a market where you will pay over asking and compete on offer night. The same half million, kept, buys you a shorter commute, a much larger choice of units, and a benchmark that is currently holding rather than falling.

A subway under the street, against a subway at the end of it

The Danforth’s transit case is unusually simple: Line 2 Bloor-Danforth runs directly under Danforth Avenue, with stations east from Yonge at Broadview, Chester, Pape, Donlands, Greenwood, Coxwell, Woodbine and Main Street. Pape station at 743 Pape Avenue opened on 26 February 1966 and carries the 25 Don Mills, 72 Pape, 81 Thorncliffe Park, 925 Don Mills Express and the 300 and 325 Blue Night routes. Streetcars 505 Dundas and 504 King serve Broadview at the west end; 506 Carlton runs on Gerrard and Main. Pape to Bloor-Yonge is 5 stops on Line 2, and Bloor-Yonge to Union is 6 stops on Line 1.

Davisville sits on Line 1 rather than under a high street. It is 10 stops from Davisville station to Union and 11 from Eglinton, on one ride with no transfer. The station itself, at 1900 Yonge Street, dates from 30 March 1954 and has been accessible since 2002. Since 8 February 2026 the neighbourhood has also had Line 5, including Mount Pleasant station at Mount Pleasant Road and Eglinton, whose entrance rebuilt the catalogued facade of the 1928 Imperial Bank of Canada building.

One practical Danforth quirk worth knowing before you buy near Main Street: Danforth GO at 213 Main Street is on the Lakeshore East line, but the 506 streetcar and the 64 Main and 135 Gerrard buses pass on Main Street without a stop immediately beside the station, and Main Street subway station is over 300 metres away north of Danforth Avenue. Metrolinx has identified Main-Danforth as a mobility hub; today it is three transit services that nearly meet.

And if you drive, know what Destination Danforth did. Pilot cycle tracks went in from Broadview to Dawes Road in summer 2020, were made permanent on 15 December 2021, and were extended from Dawes to Victoria Park in summer 2022. The design gives protected bike lanes on both sides, one traffic lane in each direction, 24/7 on-street parking and loading on both sides, and curb extensions. Measured outcomes: weekday cycling volumes up 67% and 133% at two monitoring locations, and vehicle volumes down 15 to 18%. That is a cycling-priority street now, by design.

Schools, and the widest spread in the east end

Fraser Institute figures are data year 2023/24 and both the TDSB and the Ontario Public School Boards’ Association dispute the methodology — OPSBA has called the rankings a flawed picture. Catchment is set by street address, so check the TDSB “Find Your School” tool rather than trusting any map an agent draws.

The Danforth spread is enormous. Secondary: Malvern CI ranks 15 of 742 with a 9.1 and Riverdale CI 33 with an 8.7, while Danforth CTI ranks 422 with a 5.8 and East York CI 478 with a 5.5. Monarch Park and Rosedale Heights School of the Arts both rank 86 with an 8.0. Marc Garneau CI ranks 666 with a 3.8, though it hosts a selective TOPS programme and its score reflects the whole-school cohort.
Danforth elementary, same spread. Pape Avenue PS ranks 42 of 3,047 with a 9.7. Jackman Avenue ranks 351 at 8.0, Wilkinson 480 at 7.7, Earl Beatty 643 at 7.4, Frankland 1,348 at 6.3 after a steep single-year drop from a five-year rank of 345, and Blake Street 1,703 at 5.8. Holy Rosary ranks 182 at 8.6.
Davisville secondary. North Toronto Collegiate ranks 46 with an 8.4 and a five-year rank of 17 at 8.8; Northern Secondary ranks 65 with an 8.2; Lawrence Park Collegiate, adjacent to the north, ranks 15 with a 9.1.
Davisville elementary, with a caveat. Davisville Junior PS reads 1,426 and 6.2 today against a five-year rank of 461 and a 7.5 — and the school was operating displaced while its site was rebuilt, which is the obvious candidate for that drop. Maurice Cody, Hodgson Senior and Eglinton Junior are absent from the table entirely, which means unranked, not poor.

The practical consequence differs between the two. On the Danforth, school catchment is the single biggest financial variable on the street — two houses three blocks apart can sit on opposite sides of a line separating rank 42 from rank 1,703. In Davisville the secondary options cluster much more tightly, and the elementary picture is genuinely difficult to read because of the rebuild.

The two problems each place has that nobody puts in the brochure

Danforth & Greektown

Ontario Line construction, into the 2030s. Underground stations are planned at Pape, a Line 2 interchange with a new platform built underneath and perpendicular to the existing Line 2 platforms, and at Cosburn, at Cosburn and Pape, serving Pape Village. The Pape station bus terminal was closed from 12 May 2024 to late 2025. Tunnelling began on 20 April 2026, a $4.3 billion contract for the Pape tunnel section was signed in August 2026, and total project cost is reported at $34 billion. Opening is stated only as early 2030s, with no firm date. Buyers on Pape Avenue and Cosburn Avenue need this disclosed before they bid.
You cannot buy a condo here. Three condo apartment sales across the entire E03 district in August 2026. City neighbourhood #66 Danforth has 395 households in five-plus-storey apartments out of 3,910. There is no entry-level product and no downsizing-in-place option.
The stock is old. 76.3% of #66 Danforth was built in 1960 or earlier, and #59 Danforth-East York is 69.3% pre-1960. Budget for the wiring, the supply lines and the drain lateral in any house of that vintage.
The street itself has changed. One traffic lane each way after Destination Danforth, with measured vehicle volumes down 15 to 18%. If your daily life depends on driving along the Danforth quickly, you should test it before you buy, not after.

Davisville Village

The condo oversupply is real and measurable. 226 new listings against 89 sales in Q1 2026, at 40 days on market. That is your advantage as a buyer and your problem as a seller.
Construction, most of it open-ended. February 2027 is the target for the aquatic centre on the old Davisville Junior PS site. The Davisville Avenue redesign is still at consultation stage, and the Yonge and Eglinton node has been a working construction zone for over ten years.
Davisville Yard is right at the station. The TTC’s main Line 1 maintenance yard is the reason the Beltline Trail bridges over Yonge Street here rather than running through it.
Two products, one name. #173 North Toronto is 81.4% renter with fifteen detached houses in it. Mount Pleasant East is a 1920s and 1930s house belt. Buyers who say “Davisville” often mean one and are shown the other.

What is being built, and what came back

The Danforth’s planning picture is unsettled. The Danforth Avenue Planning Study ran from July 2014 to final recommendations in 2022, and Official Plan Amendment 573 and SASP 772, covering the Don Valley to Coxwell, were enacted by Council on 7 April 2022 through By-law 269-2022, limiting height in Policy Area A to 24 metres excluding mechanical penthouse. That was appealed to the Ontario Land Tribunal and its current in-force status is not confirmed — I would not tell you a 24-metre limit applies today without checking with City Planning first. Named applications include 1095 and 1111 Danforth Avenue, 2451 to 2495 Danforth Avenue, 985 Woodbine Avenue with 2078 to 2102 Danforth Avenue, and 1117 Danforth Avenue, which proposes 108 affordable and rent-controlled units.

On the cultural side, one correction for anyone reading older articles: Taste of the Danforth was first held in 1994 with 5,000 attendees and peaked at roughly 1.5 million by 2015, but it was cancelled in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024 and 2025. It returned in 2026 with $400,000 invested by Ontario and the City, after east-end leaders publicly criticised the federal government in August 2026 for not contributing. Any piece describing it as an unbroken annual fixture is out of date.

Davisville’s headline project is civic rather than residential. On the former Davisville Junior PS site east of Yonge and Davisville, the City and the TDSB are building the Davisville Community and Aquatic Centre together with a replacement school — three storeys, a six-lane 25-metre pool with leisure and tot pools alongside it, a dance studio, a teaching kitchen and rooftop fitness. Ground was broken on 12 November 2024 and February 2027 is the expected finish. The trade is a shared one: pool access for the school, and the school’s double gym and parking garage for the City outside school hours. Sitting above all of it are Midtown in Focus and Ready, Set, Midtown, the City’s Yonge-Eglinton secondary plan and zoning review.

Who each of these is actually for

A family that needs a yard and a second child’s bedroom, with about $1.1M. The Danforth, and specifically Danforth Village-East York, where 18 semis traded at a $1,110,000 median in Q1 2026. Budget above asking — 111% of list is the pattern, not the exception — and get your financing and inspection sorted before you look.
A first-time buyer under $700,000. Davisville. Eighty-nine condo apartments traded in one quarter at a $615,000 median with 226 competing listings. There is essentially no equivalent product on the Danforth. If it is your first purchase, the first-time buyer guide covers the parts that catch people out.
Someone who hates competing. Davisville, without much argument. Forty days on market at 97% of list is a negotiating environment. Twelve days at 111% is not.
A buyer whose horizon is five years or more. Read the benchmarks rather than the ratios. E03’s composite fell 5.62% and C10’s rose 2.56% in the year to August 2026. That is one year of index movement, not a forecast, but it is the opposite of what the days-on-market figures would lead you to assume.
Anyone buying on Pape or Cosburn. Get the Ontario Line construction schedule in front of you first. Tunnelling started in April 2026 and opening is stated only as early 2030s. That is a long time to live beside a worksite, and it should be reflected in what you pay.

Common questions

Is a Davisville condo cheaper than a Danforth semi?

By a large margin. In Q1 2026, condo apartments in TRREB’s Mount Pleasant West community averaged $632,000 with a median of $615,000. Semi-detached houses in Danforth Village-East York averaged $1,124,000 with a median of $1,110,000. The gap is roughly half a million dollars. You are buying land, a yard and a private entrance on the Danforth, and buying a shorter commute and no maintenance obligations in Davisville.

Why do Danforth houses sell in twelve days if prices are falling?

Because sale-to-list ratio and benchmark price measure different things. E03 houses sold at 100% to 111% of asking in 12 to 33 days during 2026, but from lower asking prices than a year earlier — the district composite benchmark was $1,022,100 in August 2026, down 5.62% year over year. Fast, over-asking sales are evidence of an underpricing strategy working, not evidence of rising values.

Can I buy a condo on the Danforth?

Barely. The entire E03 district recorded three condo apartment sales in August 2026, averaging $384,000, and City neighbourhood #66 Danforth has 395 households in buildings of five storeys or more out of 3,910. The main apartment stock is the 1960s and 1970s slabs at Crescent Town and Main Square, where eight condo sales averaged $434,000 in Q1 2026 at 56 days on market.

Is Greektown the same as Danforth Village?

No, and the confusion costs buyers time. GreekTown on the Danforth is the BIA running from Hampton Avenue to Dewhurst Boulevard just east of Jones. Danforth Village is a different BIA roughly three kilometres east, running from Westlake Avenue to Victoria Park. Between them sits Danforth Mosaic. TRREB’s Danforth Village-East York community is different again from all three.

Which has the shorter commute to Union, Davisville or the Danforth?

They are close, and the answer depends on transfers. Davisville station is 10 stops from Union on a single ride down Line 1. From the Danforth, Pape is 5 stops to Bloor-Yonge on Line 2, then 6 stops from Bloor-Yonge to Union on Line 1 — eleven stops with one transfer. Neither figure is a travel time; the TTC does not publish citable station-to-station times.

How long will Ontario Line construction affect Pape and Cosburn?

Longer than most buyers assume. Tunnelling began on 20 April 2026 and a $4.3 billion contract for the Pape tunnel section was signed in August 2026, on a project reported at $34 billion in total. The Pape station bus terminal was already closed from 12 May 2024 to late 2025. Metrolinx states opening only as early 2030s with no firm date, so plan for construction alongside you for years.

Danforth Semi or Davisville Condo?

Send me the two you are weighing and how long you plan to stay. I will tell you what that Danforth block has actually traded at this year, how many units are competing with that Davisville listing right now, and whether I would bid at all.

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Davisville Village vs Danforth & Greektown: $632K or $1,124K?