Bayview Place, 10-30 Fashion Roseway: Low-Rise Living at Bayview

Bayview Place is the opposite of everything going up around Bayview and Sheppard. It is a five-storey, 1978 Cadillac Fairview complex across three addresses on Fashion Roseway, with large suites, an outdoor pool and a fee that covers nearly every utility. As towers rise on the mall lands nearby, a low-rise building like this becomes rarer, and that is both its appeal and its question. I’m Jatin Dua, RE/MAX Quantum Realty.

Five storeys in a neighbourhood of towers

Bayview Place spreads 239 suites across three addresses, 10, 20 and 30 Fashion Roseway, rather than stacking them in one tower. At five storeys, it has more in common with a large garden apartment complex than with the 30- and 40-storey buildings now common around Bayview and Sheppard.

Cadillac Fairview, the company most people now know as the owner of malls such as Fairview Mall, developed it in 1978. It was built as one complex with a shared outdoor pool and a single corporation, YCC-444, so all three addresses share one budget, one reserve fund and one board.

Low-rise has real advantages day to day. You are never more than a few floors from the ground, stairs are a realistic option, and the scale feels like a neighbourhood rather than a hotel lobby. The trade-off is that you will not get the long views a tower offers.

Large suites with almost everything included

Condos.ca lists suites from about 862 to 1,263 sq ft. That is two- and three-bedroom stock, sized for families and downsizers rather than investors looking for a small rental.

Because the complex runs across three addresses, the suite you buy sits in a particular wing, which may have its own entrance and certainly has its own outlook. Ask which address and which side of the building a suite faces, how far it is from the parking entrance and the pool, and whether its windows look toward the street or the grounds. Two suites with identical floor plans can live very differently.

The fee covers common elements, heat, hydro, air conditioning, cable TV, building insurance, parking and water. Hydro and cable are the unusual ones. In a new building nearby, you would pay your own electricity bill, your own internet and TV package, and often a separate parking charge.

Across the three current listings, monthly fees ranged from $927 to $1,206. Before you compare that with a newer condo, add those utilities back on. On a suite of this size, the gap often shrinks to something much smaller than the raw numbers suggest.

The other side of bulk utilities is shared risk. If energy costs rise, every owner pays through the fee, whatever their own usage. Look at the utility lines in the last two budgets and ask whether the board has considered sub-metering.

Bayview and Sheppard is about to change

The bigger story is around the building. QuadReal owns the 22-acre Bayview Village site at Bayview and Sheppard and has a masterplan for it. The North Village, with a 23-storey tower, is already under construction, and plans for a South Village with 44- and 52-storey towers on a shared podium have been submitted to the City.

The South Village application includes about 1,074 units and connects to Bayview station on the Sheppard line. It still needs Official Plan and zoning approvals, so nothing about its timing is certain.

For an owner at Bayview Place, more density next door brings more shops, more traffic and years of construction. It can also lift demand for established buildings nearby, though that is not guaranteed. Check the City’s development application map for anything closer to Fashion Roseway before you buy.

The neighbourhood it belongs to

Bayview Village itself was planned in 1954 by a group led by Farlinger Development, with a layout that follows the land’s natural contours and a large share of green space. The shopping centre opened at the northeast corner of Bayview and Sheppard in 1963.

Sources label the location differently. Condos.ca places Bayview Place in Avondale, while many listings call it Willowdale East or Bayview Village. They all describe the same pocket near Bayview and Sheppard, so search under all three names when you are tracking listings here.

That history explains why this part of North York still feels quieter than Yonge and Sheppard, even with the towers going up. Bayview Place sits on the edge of that older, lower-density fabric.

What Bayview Place costs

Condos.ca puts the building average at about $513 per square foot. That is a large discount to the newer towers at Bayview and Sheppard, where small suites often trade at much higher prices per foot. Age, the fee and the low-rise format all play a part.

When I checked, three suites were for sale and none for lease. Asking prices ran from $499,990 to $599,000. For a two- or three-bedroom with utilities and parking included, near a subway line and a major mall, that is one of the lower entry points in the area.

Think about the fee as part of the price. A suite with a lower asking price and a higher fee can cost more over five years than one priced higher with a lower fee, so run both numbers together. With so few listings at any time, patience matters; the right suite here may take a few months to appear.

For recorded sales, use the market data on this page or ask me for the building sold report.

Building specifications

Amenities at Bayview Place

The amenity list is short: an outdoor pool, bike storage, a security system and visitor parking. There is no concierge or gym listed, so this suits people who would rather pay for space and utilities than for staffed lobbies and amenity floors.

Jatin’s honest take on Bayview Place

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