Curio vs The Tailor: 799 or 1195 The Queensway?

Published 30 August 2026 · Jatin Dua, Broker of Record, RE/MAX Quantum Realty

Side by side

Two real differences, pulling opposite ways

Curio is finished. Occupancy was September 2025. No completion risk, no interim occupancy to carry, no deposit in trust, and you can read a status certificate with actual operating numbers instead of a developer’s first-year budget. That is worth real money in 2026.

The Tailor is much less dense. Roughly 13 doors per floor against 21. Quieter corridors, shorter elevator waits, fewer people in the amenity space. If building population is what you care about, The Tailor wins clearly and it is not close.

Location: these are genuinely different neighbourhoods

Curio at 799 sits inside the walkable service cluster — the restaurants between 620 and 960, Cosimo’s NoFrills essentially across the road at 748, the dentists, groomers and cafés. Daily life without the car is realistic.

The Tailor at 1195 is a driving address with big-box convenience: Longo’s at 1055 walkable, the Kipling Queensway Mall at 1255, Cineplex at 1025, and closer to the 427. The independent cluster is a bus ride.

Neither is better. But do not let a Walk Score convince you they are equivalent, because on foot they are not.

One thing specific to The Tailor

The Cineplex site at 1025 The Queensway is an approved masterplan. Buying at the west end means buying near a significant future construction site. That is not a reason to avoid it — redevelopment usually helps values over a long hold — but you should know you may be living beside a build for several years.

My read

Need to move within a year, or want to see exactly what you are buying: Curio. The certainty premium is worth it and the location is the better everyday address.

Have time, drive anyway, and want the quietest building of the two: The Tailor, and the 13-per-floor density is a genuine, durable advantage that Curio cannot match.

Note when comparing sold data that Curio appears as both 799 and 801 The Queensway — search both.

How to compare two buildings properly

These two sit at meaningfully different points along the corridor, which matters more than most buyers expect: walkability along The Queensway is not uniform, and the difference between a continuous occupied frontage and a stretch broken by parking lots is a real difference in daily life and in resale.

Buyers comparing two buildings on the same street almost always compare the wrong things — lobby finishes, amenity lists and the headline maintenance fee. None of those decide whether the purchase works out. Six things do.

1. The reserve fund against the age of the corporation. Both of these buildings are young enough that the fund is still accumulating and the budget has not been tested by a full operating cycle. Ask whether the first reserve fund study update has happened and what it did to the required contribution.
2. What each fee includes, and what is separately metered. Add your own estimated utility bills to whichever excludes them before comparing. Then divide by real usable square footage rather than the marketing number.
3. Three years of fee history for each. A young building whose fees have already jumped twice is telling you something the current number is not.
4. Whether the corporation is party to litigation. Construction deficiency claims are not unusual in newer corporations and they affect both fees and lender appetite.
5. Parking and locker ownership form. An owned unit, an exclusive-use common element, or a rental — only the first two convey with the sale.
6. What is proposed on the adjacent parcels. The corridor is still developing. The City of Toronto’s development application records are public, and a view or a quiet aspect that a filed application would remove is not something to pay for today.

And then the unit, not the building

Once the corporations are understood, the remaining variables are unit-level and they are the ones that move price most: exposure, floor, whether the outlook is protected, layout efficiency and whether every bedroom has a real exterior window, balcony depth, and where the unit sits relative to the elevators and the garbage chute. Two units with the same floor plan in the same building can differ substantially on these alone.

The status certificate answers the corporation questions definitively and the fee for it is capped at $100 including taxes under the Condominium Act, 1998. Order one for whichever building you choose, and have a lawyer read it — with ten to fifteen business days on the condition, because the corporation has statutory time to produce it.

Frequently asked questions

Sources

• City of Toronto — Planning and Development — current and proposed development along The Queensway corridor. Accessed 10 September 2026.
• Toronto Transit Commission — surface routes serving The Queensway and connections to Line 2. Accessed 10 September 2026.
• TRREB Market Watch, August 2026 — the Etobicoke average sale price of $1,049,793 across 243 sales. Accessed 10 September 2026.
• Condominium Act, 1998 — status certificates and the prescribed fee cap, reserve funds and reserve fund studies. Accessed 10 September 2026.

Related reading

• Curio Condos, 799 The Queensway — the full review
• The Tailor Residences, 1195 The Queensway
• 1025 The Queensway — the Cineplex site masterplan
• Reina vs The Tailor

Building specifications from the City of Toronto planning record, condominium registrations and developers’ published material — believed accurate but not guaranteed. Verify everything against the status certificate and disclosure statement before you sign. Not intended to solicit buyers or sellers under contract with another brokerage. E.&O.E.