Avenue 151 Yorkville, 151 Avenue Rd: Teeple’s Sculpted 10-Storey Boutique

Avenue 151 is the building people slow down to look at on Avenue Road. Teeple Architects wrapped ten storeys in curving white precast and wraparound terraces, and put only about 71 suites inside, so it lives more like a private residence than a tower. The design is the reason to buy here, and the fee is the reason to do the maths twice. I’m Jatin Dua, RE/MAX Quantum Realty.

A building that was designed to be looked at

Most mid-rise condos on this stretch of Avenue Road are brick or plain glass. Avenue 151 went the other way. Teeple Architects, working with Lemay, used sculptural white precast concrete panels that curve around the balconies and run as horizontal ridges along the slab edges, so the facade reads as a set of flowing bands rather than a grid.

On the Avenue Road side, the precast rises to about the sixth floor and frames the balconies in curved panels. On the south face, diagonal precast accents appear on the even-numbered floors from four to ten. The north side, which sits against a six-storey commercial neighbour, is more solid on the lower floors and opens up with windows above it.

At street level there are tall glazed sections, copper-toned materials and gold framing, with retail on the ground floor and the residents’ amenity space on the second floor. It is a deliberate statement building, and that matters for resale: buyers who want this look have very few alternatives in midtown.

Seventy-one suites, and most of them are not small

With roughly 71 suites over ten floors, you are sharing elevators and amenities with far fewer neighbours than in a typical Yorkville tower. Condos.ca gives suite sizes of about 662 to 2,658 sq ft, which tells you the building was planned around one-bedroom-plus-dens, two-bedrooms and large upper-floor homes rather than investor studios.

The upper floors are where the wraparound terraces are, and those suites are a different market from the lower one-bedroom-plus-dens. If you are buying a terrace suite, compare it only with other terrace suites. I would also ask for the exact terrace size and exposure in writing, because the curved precast changes how usable each terrace is from suite to suite.

One small inconsistency to be aware of: one current listing falls into a size band below the 662 sq ft minimum condos.ca shows. That usually means a data entry difference, not a hidden studio, but always measure against the registered floor plan rather than the listing.

The team, and a young building’s paperwork

Dash Developments built Avenue 151 with a long list of specialist consultants: Teeple for design, Giovanni A. Tassone as architect of record, esQape design and Johnson Chou on the interiors, Strybos Barron King on landscape and SKYGRiD as the builder. Construction was underway by late 2017, the structure rose through 2018 and 2019, and the corporation registered in November 2020.

That timeline matters because the building is only about six years old. It is past the first-year shake-out but still young enough that the original warranty process, any deficiency claims and the first reserve fund study are recent history. Those documents tell you more about how this building will age than any brochure does.

Because only about 71 owners share every cost here, each decision by the board carries more weight per suite than it would in a 400-unit tower. Read the last two years of board minutes alongside the status certificate.

Where it sits: Avenue Road south of Davenport

This is the northwest edge of Yorkville, where the boutique shops and galleries give way to the Annex’s residential streets. You are a short walk from Yorkville Avenue and Bloor Street, and the quieter streets of the Annex are just to the west. Avenue Road itself is a busy arterial, so suites on the east face trade some quiet for the view.

Parking is in a garage that ramps in directly from Avenue Road. That is convenient, but it also means turning into and out of a busy street. Ask how the ramp works at rush hour before you assume it will suit you. Transit, schools, parks and Walk Score for this address are shown in the data panel on this page.

Price per square foot is moderate; the fee is not

Condos.ca reports a building average of about $827 per square foot. That is below the $1,100-plus that the newest Yorkville towers often trade at, which partly reflects the larger average suite size here; big suites almost always trade lower per square foot than small ones.

The fee is the bigger number to think about. Across the active listings when I checked, fees ran from about $677 to $1,390 a month, which works out to roughly $1.69 per square foot. That is high for a building this new, and it covers only common elements, building insurance and water. Hydro, heat and cooling are on you, and parking may be separate depending on how it was sold.

When I checked there were four suites for sale and two for rent. The one-bedroom-plus-dens were asking from about $818,000 to $1,099,000, and the full range across all four listings ran from about $499,000 to $1,099,000. With only 71 suites, closed sales are thin, so ask me for the building sold report before you set an offer price.

Building specifications

Amenities at Avenue 151 Yorkville

The amenity package is small, which is normal for a 71-suite building: a concierge, a gym and a party room on the second floor. You are paying for the architecture, the suite sizes and the low density, not for a pool or a rooftop club. If a full amenity floor matters to you, the larger Yorkville towers are a better fit.

Jatin’s honest take on Avenue 151 Yorkville

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