750 Military Trail Townhouses: 21 Split-Level Homes by UTSC

750 Military Trail is the kind of complex you only find if you are looking hard: 21 townhouses, registered in 1980, tucked onto a stretch of Military Trail that most of Toronto knows only as the road to the University of Toronto Scarborough. What it offers is simple and rare at this price point, a split-level family home with a garage, a driveway and a fenced yard. What it asks of you is a careful look at a small, older corporation. I’m Jatin Dua, RE/MAX Quantum Realty.

A 21-home corporation, and why the size matters

Twenty-one homes is small for a Toronto condominium corporation, and that shapes everything about owning here. Every roof replacement, paving job and insurance renewal is shared among only 21 owners, so each owner’s share of a big project is larger than it would be in a 150-home complex.

The upside is that a small corporation is easy to understand. You can read a few years of budgets and minutes in an evening, the board is made up of your neighbours, and decisions tend to move quickly. The risk is that one or two disengaged owners, or one unexpected repair, can matter a lot.

Condos.ca records the build year as 1980, matching the December 1980 registration, while a recent listing gave the age of the property as 1979. That kind of one-year gap is normal when construction straddles a year end, and it does not change anything about how you should evaluate the complex.

Split-level plans with a garage, a driveway and a yard

Condos.ca lists the complex as one storey, but that is a database convention for townhouses rather than a description of the homes. A recent listing here described a three-bedroom, two-bathroom split-level townhouse of roughly 1,318 square feet, with the three bedrooms grouped on the upper level and the living areas separated from them by a half-flight of stairs.

That split-level arrangement is the main thing that sets these homes apart from the stacked and back-to-back townhouses built in Scarborough more recently. It gives you more separation between where the family sleeps and where it lives, and it usually means more usable space for the footprint.

The same listing showed two parking spaces, an attached garage plus a private driveway, and a fully fenced backyard. It also had forced-air gas heating, central air and a full, unfinished basement. That basement is the opportunity. Finished well, it can become a fourth bedroom, an office or a recreation room, though you should check the corporation’s rules on alterations first.

What the fee appears to cover, and what it does not

Condos.ca has no inclusion list for MTCC-538. The recent listing said the monthly fee covered landscaping, building insurance and common area maintenance. That is a lean package, and it means you should expect to pay your own heat, hydro and water, but confirm each item in the status certificate before you budget.

A lean fee is not automatically a good fee. In a complex this age, the fee is mostly funding the reserve for roofs, windows, doors, fences, paving and the shared services underground. If the fee looks low next to neighbouring complexes, ask whether that is because the reserve fund is strong or because increases have been put off.

With only one home on the market when I checked, I will not quote a fee from a single listing. Ask the property manager for the current budget and the fee history over the past five years, and compare that against the reserve fund study’s recommended contributions.

Morningside’s daily reality: two campuses and a lot of green

This part of Scarborough is organised around education. UTSC sits further along Military Trail, and Centennial College has a campus in the area too. That brings steady rental demand and a daytime population of students and staff, which keeps local shops and transit busy.

The Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre on the UTSC campus at 875 Morningside Avenue has two Olympic-sized pools, a diving tank and a fitness area, and it is open to the public. For a complex with no pool or gym of its own, that is the amenity package most owners actually use. Highland Creek’s ravines and Morningside Park are the local green space, and Rouge National Urban Park is a short drive east.

The long-term change to watch is transit. The City of Toronto’s planned Eglinton East LRT would run about 18.6 kilometres from Kennedy Station to Malvern Town Centre with 27 stops, passing UTSC. It has no confirmed opening date, so I treat it as future upside rather than something to pay for today. The data panel on this page shows today’s transit options.

Pricing a home in a complex this small

There was one home for sale and none for rent when I checked, so there is no meaningful asking-price range to report. In a 21-home complex, sales are infrequent, and the sold data in the panel above should be read as a handful of data points rather than a trend line.

That is why I would always widen the comparison. 705 Military Trail Townhouses, a larger complex next door covering 705 to 819 Military Trail, sells homes of a similar era and type, and its sales can help you judge whether a price here is fair. Adjust for plan, size, garage and basement finish when you compare.

Condition will move the price more than anything else. An updated kitchen, newer windows and a finished basement can separate two otherwise identical homes by a wide margin. If you want the aggregates pulled properly, my building sold report does that for you.

Building specifications

Amenities at 750 Military Trail Townhouses

There are no shared facilities here beyond visitor parking, and barbecues are permitted. The real amenities are your own garage, driveway and fenced yard, with the public pools at the Pan Am Sports Centre nearby.

Jatin’s honest take on 750 Military Trail Townhouses

750 Military Trail Townhouses — frequently asked questions

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