Scarborough Golf Club Road Townhouses: A Pool at Kingston and Eglinton

Most townhouse complexes in Scarborough give you visitor parking and a patch of lawn. This one, at 91 Muir Drive and 46 to 80 Scarborough Golf Club Road, gives you an indoor pool, a gym and a rec room, inside a 181-home complex from 1978 at the corner of Kingston Road and Eglinton Avenue East. That package is the reason to look here, and it is also the first thing I’d want you to cost out before you buy. I’m Jatin Dua, RE/MAX Quantum Realty.

A townhouse complex with a recreation centre

The defining feature here is the shared recreation space: an indoor pool, a gym and a rec room. In a townhouse corporation that is unusual. Most complexes of this era in east Scarborough were built with roads, parking and grounds and nothing else, so owners pay for roofs and paving and that is the end of it.

Buying a condo townhouse is also different from buying a freehold. You get a board, a reserve fund and a status certificate, which protects you from a surprise roof bill, but you accept rules on exterior changes, parking and the use of common areas. If you want full control of the outside of your home, a freehold is the better fit.

With 181 homes sharing the cost, the pool is more supportable than it would be in a small complex. Still, an indoor pool means a heated hall, filtration, dehumidification and regular inspections. Those are real operating costs, and they show up in the monthly fee. Ask management for the pool’s hours, any guest rules and when its equipment was last replaced.

If you swim, or you have kids who will use the pool all winter, that trade is worth it. If you never would, you are paying for something your neighbours enjoy, and you should compare this complex against a plainer one nearby before deciding.

Two storeys, family-sized, and nearly 50 years old

Condos.ca records the homes as two storeys, and every current listing is a three-bedroom plan, which tells you who the complex was built for. Some homes are marketed with additional rooms below grade, so confirm whether the home you are looking at has a finished basement and whether that work was permitted.

The corporation, YCC-397, was registered in June 1978. The YCC prefix is the old York Condominium Corporation numbering used across Metro Toronto before amalgamation, and it is a quick signal that you are looking at one of the city’s older condominium communities.

At this age, most homes have been renovated at least once, and quality varies from unit to unit. Original electrical panels, older windows and dated kitchens are common in townhomes from the late 1970s. Budget for the home you are actually buying, not the best one on the street.

What the fees are carrying

Across the five homes listed when I checked, monthly fees ran from about $757 to $1,118. That is a wide spread for one complex, and it usually reflects differences in unit entitlement, which is the share of common costs each home carries under the declaration.

I couldn’t find a published list of what those fees include, so I won’t guess. Ask the listing agent and the manager, Wilson Blanchard, whether water, cable or any utilities are bundled, and get the actual utility bills for the specific home.

In a complex this age, the fee is also funding the reserve. Roofs, windows, doors, private roads, underground services and the pool itself all have replacement cycles. The status certificate, the latest reserve fund study and recent board minutes will tell you whether those costs are planned for or still ahead.

Kingston Road and Eglinton: daily life and what may change

The complex sits right at the point where Eglinton Avenue East meets Kingston Road, at the edge of Scarborough Village and a short drive from Guildwood. A RioCan plaza with a Metro is a few minutes’ walk away, and Guildwood Village Shopping Centre is roughly a kilometre east. Kingston Road is busy, so homes facing the internal roads will be quieter.

Head south and you reach the Scarborough Bluffs shoreline, which is one of the reasons people stay in this part of the city for decades. The Guildwood and Eglinton GO stations are both nearby; the panel on this page shows the exact stops and routes.

The bigger long-term item is transit. The City’s planned Eglinton East LRT, now being branded as Scarborough East Rapid Transit, would run from Kennedy Station east on Eglinton to a stop at Eglinton and Kingston, then northeast along Kingston Road. That would put rapid transit at the corner of this complex. The line is still at the planning stage with no funding or opening date, so treat it as possible upside, not a reason to pay more today.

What homes here are asking

Five homes were listed for sale when I checked, with asking prices ranging from $399,000 to $619,900. For a three-bedroom townhouse within reach of the lake and two GO stations, that is well below what a freehold semi in the same area costs.

The width of that range matters. A gap of more than $200,000 inside one complex usually comes down to condition, basement finish and which side of the complex the home sits on. Asking prices are not sale prices, so lean on actual sold comparables before making an offer.

My building sold report shows aggregate sales for this address, and I can pull recent townhouse sales across Scarborough Village and Guildwood if you want a wider comparison.

Building specifications

Amenities at Scarborough Golf Club Road Townhouses

An indoor pool, gym and rec room turn this from a set of townhouses into something closer to a small community club, which is rare for Scarborough townhomes. You get year-round swimming without a membership, but you are also sharing the cost of keeping a heated pool hall running.

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