1000 Dundas St E Townhouses: 14 Homes, a 1980 Leslieville Condo

1000 Dundas Street East is one of the smallest condominiums I cover in Leslieville: 14 townhouses, registered in 1980, on a stretch of Dundas that has filled up with lofts and mid-rises around it. Small and old cuts both ways, and with a complex this size you have to do more of the homework yourself. I’m Jatin Dua, RE/MAX Quantum Realty.

Fourteen homes, one corporation

Condos.ca records 14 units at 1000 Dundas Street East, built in 1980. The condominium corporation is YCC-514, registered on 22 April 1980, and Castle Hill Property Management is listed as the manager. No developer is recorded in the sources I checked.

Fourteen owners is a very small corporation. Every decision, from a roof replacement to a rule change, is shared among a handful of households, and the board is made up of your neighbours. That can make a complex feel looked after by people who care about it. It also means there are very few owners to spread a large repair across.

Having a professional manager helps. In complexes this small, self-management is common, and a listed management company usually means someone is keeping the records, collecting the fees and organising contractors. Confirm that Castle Hill is still the manager when you buy, because small corporations do change firms.

It is also worth asking how many owners actually live on site. In a complex this size, if several homes are rented out, the board can struggle to find volunteers, and decisions stall. Ask how often the board turns over and when it last held an annual general meeting with a quorum.

What the public record does not tell you

The public data on this complex is thin. Condos.ca lists no amenities, no fee inclusions and no developer, and I found no current listings or published floor plans. It records the complex as one floor, which for a townhouse complex usually reflects how the database files row housing, not the number of levels inside each home.

That changes how you buy here. With nothing current to compare and no floor plans in circulation, you cannot assume what a typical unit looks like. Ask the listing agent for the floor plan, the number of levels, whether there is a basement and how parking works, and get the answers in writing.

The status certificate becomes the main document. It tells you what the fee covers, which parts of the home are common elements, who repairs the roof, windows and doors, and what the declaration says about pets, rentals and alterations. I would not form a view on value until I had read it.

A 1980 townhouse at 46 years old

A complex finished in 1980 has had more than four decades of Toronto weather. Roofs, windows, exterior doors, brick and siding, fencing and any shared driveway or garage all have limited lives. Most will have been replaced at least once by now, or will be due soon.

In a townhouse condominium, the split of responsibility is the thing to understand. Some corporations repair everything on the outside; others leave windows, doors and decks to the owners. The declaration and the status certificate set this out, and it changes how much the monthly fee is really buying you.

Read the reserve fund study and look at what has been done in the last ten years and what is scheduled for the next ten. Compare the reserve balance with the work coming. Ask whether a special assessment has been discussed, and read two years of board minutes. With 14 owners, one big project lands hard on each of them.

Dundas Street East between Broadview and Carlaw

This part of Dundas sits in South Riverdale, on the western edge of Leslieville. It is a mixed street of older houses, small shops and newer condominiums, and the closer you get to Carlaw, the more of it is former industrial space turned into lofts and offices.

The newer buildings show how much the area has changed. The Carlaw, a 12-storey Streetcar Developments condominium completed in 2015, stands at Carlaw and Dundas, and Flatiron Lofts, completed in 2012, is across the intersection. A 1980 townhouse complex is a very different product: ground-level living, no tower above you and no lobby to pay for.

The biggest change coming is the Ontario Line. Metrolinx is building an above-ground station at Gerrard and Carlaw, with station work there tentatively scheduled to run into 2031, and a Leslieville station over Queen Street east of De Grassi. Expect construction disruption on nearby streets for several years, then a much better transit link. The data panel on this page covers current transit, schools and parks.

Pricing: why there is no easy number here

Condos.ca shows no average price per square foot and no active listings for this complex, and with 14 units, sales are rare. I am not going to guess at a number. The data panel on this page shows whatever recent sales and rents the MLS has recorded.

When a townhouse here does come up, I price it two ways: against condo townhouses of a similar age elsewhere in South Riverdale and Leslieville, and against small freehold houses nearby. A condo townhouse usually trades below a comparable freehold because of the monthly fee and shared decision-making, and the size of that gap is what you are really negotiating.

The fee itself needs a closer look than usual, because I could not find what it includes. Get the current fee, the corporation’s budget and the list of what is covered before you compare it with anything else. For a proper read of what has sold here and nearby, ask me for a building sold report.

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