Living at 700 The Queensway — Etobicoke’s Smallest Condo Townhome Community

700 The Queensway is the smallest residential condominium corporation on this entire corridor: eight two-storey stacked townhomes, built in 1999, each roughly 1,200 square feet with two bedrooms and a private entrance. It is not an apartment building and it does not behave like one. If you want condo ownership without elevators, corridors or a concierge, this is one of the very few addresses on The Queensway that offers it — and units come up roughly never. I’m Jatin Dua, RE/MAX Quantum Realty.

What you are actually buying

This is the distinction that matters and that most listing sites get wrong: 700 The Queensway is not an apartment condo. It is a small cluster of two-level stacked townhomes at 694, 696, 698 and 700 The Queensway, registered together as MTCC-1269.

Each unit runs about 1,200 square feet across two floors — two bedrooms with walk-in closets, a washroom on each level, a private entrance shared with just one other unit, and a Juliet balcony facing a quiet residential street rather than the arterial.

Twelve hundred square feet is substantially more space than almost anything else on this corridor at a comparable price. Most two-bedroom apartment suites nearby run 700 to 950 square feet.

Self-managed, and what that means for you

With eight units, this corporation is self-managed — the owners run it themselves rather than paying a management company. That has two sides and you should understand both.

In your favour: no management fee, so more of your monthly payment goes to actual maintenance and the reserve fund. Decisions get made quickly because there are eight people involved, not four hundred.

Against: self-managed corporations depend entirely on the competence and goodwill of the owners doing the work. If the person who has handled the books for a decade sells and moves, that expertise leaves with them. Before you buy here, I would want to see the reserve fund study, the last three years of minutes, and get a clear sense of who actually runs things.

The pricing problem

That is not a criticism of the building — it is the arithmetic of eight units. But it does mean that if you want to buy or sell here, conventional comparables do not exist and pricing has to be built from adjacent townhome product rather than from the building itself. That is real analytical work, and it is exactly the kind of thing I would rather do properly than guess at.

Location

Routes 80 Queensway and 76 Royal York South stop at “The Queensway at Wesley St” and “The Queensway at Holbrooke Ave,” both a short walk. Royal York Station is roughly a 24-minute walk. Gardiner access is about 4 minutes by car.

Three parks are steps away — Sir Casimir Gzowski, Superior and Lora Hill — which combined with the townhome format makes this genuinely practical for a family with young children or a dog. Walk Score is 82.

Building specifications

Amenities at 700 The Queensway

There are no building amenities beyond visitor parking, and at eight units there never could be. You are buying a townhouse that happens to be under a condominium corporation — which is exactly the point for the people who want it.

Jatin’s honest take on 700 The Queensway

700 The Queensway — frequently asked questions

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