Published 19 October 2026 · By Jatin Dua, Broker of Record, RE/MAX Quantum Realty
Building at a glance · Wellington Place
Charlie Condos in one look.
8 Charlotte St, Toronto
Built
2013
Storeys
36
Suites
314
Developer
Great Gulf
Corporation
TSCC-2298
Walk Score
100
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How you get around
Scores from Walk Score®
Walk Score
Walker's Paradise
Transit Score
Rider's Paradise
Bike Score
Biker's Paradise
Transit, nearest first
- 504King St West at Spadina Ave East Side504 King / 508 Lake Shore streetcarSteps away
- 1St Andrew stationLine 1 Yonge–University0.8 km
- 19BayTTC bus1.1 km
- GOUnion Station GOBarrie / Kitchener / Lakeshore East / Lakeshore West / Milton / Richmond Hill / Stouffville lines1.1 km
- UPUnion stationUP Express · Pearson to Union1.1 km
- 97YongeTTC bus1.2 km
- 114Queens Quay EastTTC bus1.2 km
TTC is renewing streetcar track at Long Branch Loop through late 2026; some Lake Shore streetcar trips run as buses.
Distances are straight-line from the building.
How far is everything?
From the front door, in kilometres.
Schools for this address
Public schools from the TDSB school locator, checked 18 October 2026. Boundaries change: confirm with the board before you buy.
ElementaryJK–6
Ogden Junior Public School
33 Phoebe St, Toronto
0.5 km · ~8 min walk
Zoned for this address
MiddleGr 7–8
Ryerson Community School
96 Denison Ave, Toronto
0.9 km · ~14 min walk
Zoned for this address
High schoolGr 9–12
Harbord Collegiate Institute
286 Harbord St, Toronto
2.4 km
Zoned for this address
Catholic elementary
Bishop Macdonell Catholic Elementary
0.8 km · ~13 min walk
Nearest, confirm zoning
Catholic elementary
St Mary Catholic Elementary School
0.9 km · ~14 min walk
Nearest, confirm zoning
Catholic secondary
St Joseph's College School
2.1 km
Nearest, confirm zoning
French-language · Viamonde (public)
Ecole Elementaire Pierre Elliott Trudeau
1.7 km
Nearest, confirm zoning
Catholic (TCDSB) and French-language schools shown are the nearest to the building, not confirmed zoning. Check the TCDSB school locator, Viamonde or MonAvenir.
By the numbers
What units at Charlie Condos actually trade for
| Unit type | Sold | Median price | Leased | Median rent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 bed | 3 | $510,000 | 24 | $2,700/mo |
| 2 bed | 5 | $825,000 | 13 | $3,600/mo |
Table covers the last 24 months. TRREB MLS® System aggregates; a median is shown only with 3 or more deals, and sizes come from listing ranges. Not an appraisal: get an estimate for your unit.
Living here
Renters, Airbnb and elevators at Charlie Condos
Do mostly owners or renters live here?
Renter-heavy building. Of 99 deals here in the last 24 months, 79 were leases and 20 were sales. A high lease share usually means more investor owners, more move-ins and a deeper pool of rental comparables.
Can you Airbnb a unit at Charlie Condos?
Some owners here hold City registrations, but the condo’s own declaration and rules can still forbid short stays. In Toronto you can only host in your principal residence, a whole unit for at most 180 nights a year, with a $390 yearly registration and 6% accommodation tax. You cannot buy here to run it as a full-time Airbnb. Check the condo’s rules in the status certificate before you count on it.
How reliable are the elevators?
Ontario requires residential buildings to report any elevator outage lasting 48 hours or more, and this address has none on record. Elevators still need modernizing every 25 to 30 years, so check the reserve fund study for the date.
Sources: TRREB MLS® System lease and sale counts; City of Toronto short-term rental registrations (Open Data, 18 Oct 2026); TSSA Residential Elevator Availability portal.
Before you buy here
Five things the listing will not tell you about Charlie Condos
- Reserve fund health. Ask for the latest reserve fund study and its date. A thin fund in an older building usually means fee jumps or a special assessment.
- Special assessments and big repairs. Check the status certificate for planned levies and for balcony, garage, window or elevator work.
- Insurance deductible. Find the corporation’s deductible for water damage. If it is higher than your own policy covers, raise your coverage before closing.
- Fee trend. Compare this year’s budget with last year’s. Rises of 2–5% a year are typical; bigger jumps need an explanation.
- Lawsuits and rules. Look for legal claims against the corporation, and for rules on pets, short-term rentals and leasing.
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Eat, drink and shop nearby
Within about a 10-minute walk.
Mexican
Chipotle
Steps away
Bakery
Nonni Cafe and Bakery
Steps away
Restaurant
Bar Hop
Steps away
Wings
Wings & Sips
Steps away
Sushi
Kibo Sushi
Steps away
Coffee
Tim Hortons
Steps away
Places from OpenStreetMap. Check hours before you go.
Parks nearby
- Clarence Square Park
- Grasett Park
- St. Andrew's Playground
Nearest grocery
No Frills
0.4 km · ~6 min walk
Prices: TRREB MLS® System aggregate medians for 8 Charlotte St, last 12 months (updated 18 October 2026), compiled by Jatin Dua, Broker of Record, RE/MAX Quantum Realty Inc., Brokerage; deemed reliable, not guaranteed. Schools: TDSB school locator; Catholic and French schools: nearest by distance. Transit and scores: Walk Score® and TTC/GO station locations. Nearby places: OpenStreetMap. Distances are straight-line estimates.
Charlie is the building I point to when someone tells me King West only has shoebox one-bedrooms. Great Gulf built this tower at King and Charlotte with a lot of two-bedroom-plus-den plans and some properly large upper suites, and that is still what sets it apart a decade on. The trade-off is a fee that looks high per square foot until you see what it covers. I’m Jatin Dua, RE/MAX Quantum Realty.
Quick answer
Charlie is a 36-storey, 314-suite condominium at 8 Charlotte Street, at the northwest corner of King Street West and Charlotte Street in the Wellington Place area of downtown Toronto. It was developed by Great Gulf and designed by Diamond Schmitt Architects, and was completed in 2013. The condominium corporation is TSCC-2298, registered on 4 March 2013. Condos.ca lists Icon Property Management as the manager. Suites run roughly 408 to 2,028 sq ft, and the maintenance fee includes common elements, heat, air conditioning, water and building insurance.
Charlie Condos at a glance
A Great Gulf tower that grew four floors
Charlie began as a 32-storey proposal. Great Gulf went back to the Committee of Adjustment for four more floors, which were approved in June 2008, and the tower finished at 36 storeys with construction winding down in early 2013. The corporation registered that March.
The architect was Diamond Schmitt, a Toronto firm better known for concert halls and university buildings than for condos. The tower is clear glass on an aluminium frame sitting over a brick base, and retail fills the King Street frontage at ground level. It reads as quieter and more restrained than the louder glass towers that went up around it in the same decade.
One detail most people never hear about: four suites, a bachelor, two one-bedrooms and a two-bedroom, were set aside for affordable housing through the Kehilla Residential Housing Programme, approved by City Council in July 2012. It does not change daily life in the building, but it tells you the project went through a real planning negotiation with the city.
Two-bedroom-plus-den was the plan, not an afterthought
Most King West towers of this era were sold to investors as one-bedrooms and one-plus-dens. Charlie was marketed differently. Reporting from construction describes the suites as mostly two-bedroom-plus-den, and the upper floors held a series of roughly 1,775 sq ft plans between the 30th and 35th floors, with a penthouse over 2,000 sq ft carrying a very large terrace.
Condos.ca puts the full suite range at about 408 to 2,028 sq ft, so there are compact units here too. But if you are an end user who needs a real second bedroom and a den you can use as an office, this is one of the few buildings on King where the floor plans were designed for you rather than retrofitted.
I could not confirm ceiling heights from a source I trust. Ask the listing agent for the plan, and if the den matters, check whether it has a door and a window or is simply an alcove off the living room.
For a downsizer coming out of a house, the upper-floor plans are the ones to see. A suite near 1,800 sq ft with a large terrace is close to the space many people are giving up, and in the middle of King West that format comes up for sale far less often than one-bedrooms do. When one does, it tends to attract a different buyer from the investor crowd, so expect fewer comparables and price it on its own merits.
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The fee looks high. Read what it includes
Active listings when I checked worked out to about $1.10 per square foot in monthly fees, which is above what many newer King West towers quote. That number alone puts some buyers off.
The difference is in the inclusions. Here the fee covers heat, air conditioning and water as well as common elements and building insurance. In a lot of newer downtown buildings, heating and cooling run through a suite-metered system that you pay on top. When you compare Charlie with a newer tower, add the other building’s monthly utility bill back on before deciding which is cheaper.
Hydro is generally your own cost, and parking is not listed as included, so confirm whether a space comes with the suite and whether it carries its own fee. The status certificate will tell you what the reserve fund looks like and whether any large projects are planned.
Living at King and Charlotte
Charlotte is a short street running north from King, a block east of Spadina, and the building sits right at the corner. Step out and you are in the middle of the King West restaurant strip and the theatre district, with the financial core a comfortable walk east.
That location cuts both ways. On a Friday night King Street is busy and loud, and lower suites facing King will hear it. If you sleep lightly, look at north- or west-facing suites on higher floors, which also tend to hold the open skyline views the tower was sold on.
Your near neighbours include King Charlotte Condos at 11 Charlotte and Charlotte Lofts at 36 Charlotte, so if you are comparing options on this block, look at all three. They are different ages and formats, and the comparison is useful.
What Charlie costs, and how to read the fee
Condos.ca puts the building average at about $947 per square foot. That is at the upper end for a 2013 King West tower, and I think it reflects the larger, end-user plans and the corner location rather than new-build finishes.
When I checked, the two suites for sale were both in the 800 to 999 sq ft range and asked between about $799,000 and $900,000, with monthly fees between roughly $930 and $1,100. That is a narrow sample, so treat it as a sense of the market rather than a valuation. The building sold report shows what has actually traded.
There were also five suites for lease, which suggests a healthy rental base alongside owner-occupiers. For an investor, the fee is the number to model carefully, because it eats into yield faster than in a building at $0.70 per square foot.
If you are selling a large suite here, do not let a buyer anchor on the building average. The per-square-foot figure is pulled around by the mix of small and large suites that happen to trade, and a big upper-floor plan with a terrace should be valued against other large downtown suites, not against a 500 sq ft one-bedroom down the hall.
Building specifications
| Building name | Charlie |
| Address | 8 Charlotte St, Toronto |
| Developer | Great Gulf |
| Architect | Diamond Schmitt Architects |
| Storeys | 36 |
| Total suites | 314 |
| Condo corporation | TSCC-2298 |
| Registered | 4 March 2013 |
| Property management | Icon Property Management |
| Suite sizes | Approximately 408 to 2,028 sq ft |
| Maintenance fees | About $1.10 per sq ft across active listings when checked |
| Fees include | Common elements, heat, air conditioning, water and building insurance |
Amenities at Charlie Condos
Great Gulf marketed an outdoor pool, a yoga and aerobics studio, a steam room and a garden, and condos.ca adds a party room, media room, meeting room and guest suites. An outdoor pool is a seasonal amenity in Toronto, but combined with the steam room and studio it gives you more than the gym-and-party-room package many King West towers settled for.
Jatin’s honest take on Charlie Condos
Who this building suits
Charlie suits end users who want to live on King West without compromising on space: couples who need a real second bedroom, people who work from home and need a den, and downsizers who want a large upper-floor suite in the core. It also suits buyers who prefer a single predictable monthly cost, since heat and cooling are in the fee.
What I’d want you to check
This building is now more than ten years old, which is when window seals, the garage membrane, the pool and mechanical equipment start appearing in reserve fund studies. Read the latest study and the last two years of board minutes, and ask whether any major work or fee increases are planned. Confirm parking and locker ownership, and check the noise exposure of the specific suite if it faces King. Finally, if you are looking at a penthouse or terrace suite, ask who is responsible for the terrace membrane and drainage, and whether any repairs have been charged back to owners.
The value question
At roughly $947 per square foot, Charlie is not cheap, and the fee is above the area norm. What you get is a layout that is hard to find elsewhere on King, a well-regarded architect, and utilities folded into one bill. For an owner-occupier planning to stay, I think the space justifies the price. For a pure investor chasing yield, there are cheaper buildings to look at first.
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Charlie Condos — frequently asked questions
Who built Charlie Condos?
Great Gulf developed the building, and Diamond Schmitt Architects designed it. It was completed in 2013.
How tall is Charlie and how many suites does it have?
36 storeys and 314 suites, according to condos.ca. It was originally proposed at 32 storeys before four floors were added in 2008.
What do the maintenance fees include?
Common elements, heat, air conditioning, water and building insurance. Hydro is typically separate, and parking should be confirmed suite by suite.
Why are the fees higher per square foot than other King West buildings?
Mostly because heating, cooling and water are bundled in. Newer towers often bill those separately, so compare total monthly costs rather than the fee alone.
Does Charlie have a pool?
Yes. Great Gulf marketed an outdoor pool, along with a yoga and aerobics studio, a steam room and a garden.
What are the suite sizes?
Roughly 408 to 2,028 sq ft. Many plans are two-bedroom-plus-den, and the upper floors include suites around 1,775 sq ft and a penthouse over 2,000 sq ft.
What is the condo corporation number?
TSCC-2298, registered on 4 March 2013.
Who manages the building?
Condos.ca lists Icon Property Management. Confirm the current manager through the status certificate.
Is Charlie noisy?
It sits at King and Charlotte, in the heart of the entertainment district, so King-facing lower suites hear the street. Higher suites and those facing north or west are generally quieter.
How does Charlie compare with King Charlotte Condos across the street?
They share a block but differ in age, size and suite mix. Compare fee inclusions and floor plans side by side; Charlie stands out for its larger two-bedroom-plus-den layouts.
How much do condos at Charlie Condos sell for?
Over the last 12 months the median resale at Charlie Condos was $822,500, across 11 sales. The typical unit sold in 33 days at about 96% of the asking price. That works out to roughly $965 per square foot.
How much is rent at Charlie Condos?
The median lease at Charlie Condos over the last 12 months was $2,875/mo, from 38 leases. Units typically leased in 10 days.
What does each unit type cost at Charlie Condos?
Over the last 24 months: One-bedrooms sold for a median $510,000 and rented for $2,700/mo; Two-bedrooms sold for a median $825,000 and rented for $3,600/mo. Each median uses three or more deals.
Are prices at Charlie Condos up or down since 2022?
Down about 21%. The median sold price per square foot was $1,220 in 2022 and $965 over the last 12 months. Pricing off 2022 comparables is the most common mistake sellers make here.
What rental yield does Charlie Condos offer an investor?
At a median price of $822,500 and a median rent of $2,875 a month, the gross yield is about 4.2%, before maintenance fees, property tax, insurance and mortgage interest. Net cash flow depends on the fee and your down payment, so run the numbers for the exact unit.
Do mostly owners or renters live at Charlie Condos?
Mostly renters. Of the deals here in the last 24 months, 80% were leases and 20% were sales.
Can you Airbnb a unit at Charlie Condos?
Only in limited cases. Toronto allows short-term rentals only in your principal residence, a whole unit for at most 180 nights a year, with a $390 yearly City registration and 6% accommodation tax. The City’s register shows 26 active short-term rental registrations at this address. The condo’s declaration and rules can ban short stays outright, so check them in the status certificate.
Has Charlie Condos had elevator outages?
None on record. Ontario requires residential buildings to report elevator outages of 48 hours or more to TSSA, and this address has no reported outage since July 2022.
What schools is Charlie Condos zoned for?
For TDSB public schools, the address is zoned for Ogden Junior Public School (Elementary, JK–6), Ryerson Community School (Middle, Gr 7–8), Harbord Collegiate Institute (High school, Gr 9–12). Catholic and French-language schools are listed on this page by distance. Boundaries change, so confirm with the board before you buy.
What is the closest subway or GO station to Charlie Condos?
The nearest subway is St Andrew station (Line 1 Yonge–University), 0.8 km away; the nearest GO station is Union Station GO on the Barrie / Kitchener / Lakeshore East / Lakeshore West / Milton / Richmond Hill / Stouffville lines, 1.1 km; UP Express runs from Union station, 1.1 km; the 504 King / 508 Lake Shore streetcar stops 0.1 km away; the closest bus is the Bay (TTC bus). Distances are straight-line from the building.
What is the Walk Score of Charlie Condos?
Walk Score 100, Transit Score 100 and Bike Score 96. Most daily errands can be done on foot.
What restaurants and shops are near Charlie Condos?
Within about a 10-minute walk: Chipotle (Mexican), Nonni Cafe and Bakery (Bakery), Bar Hop (Restaurant), Wings & Sips (Wings), Kibo Sushi (Sushi). The closest grocery store is No Frills, 0.4 km away.
Which parks are near Charlie Condos?
Clarence Square Park, Grasett Park, St. Andrew's Playground are the closest green spaces.
What is my unit at Charlie Condos worth?
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How do I find out when a unit at Charlie Condos lists or sells?
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About the author — Jatin Dua, Toronto condo broker
I’m Jatin Dua, Broker of Record at RE/MAX Quantum Realty. I work condo buildings across Toronto and the GTA every week, including King West, Liberty Village and CityPlace. What buyers and sellers usually need is someone who knows the individual buildings: which exposures get the light, which corporations keep healthy reserve funds, and which units are priced past what they will appraise for.
If you’re buying or selling at Charlie Condos, I’ll give you the honest version — including when I think you should walk away. Reach me at [email protected] or 833-330-1925, or book a free consultation.
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