Curio Condos — 799 The Queensway, Etobicoke

Address note: this building is at 799 The Queensway. Some listings and earlier marketing use 801 The Queensway — it is the same building.

This is not the official website of Marlin Spring, DAMAC Properties or Curio Condos. This is an independent page maintained by Jatin Dua, Broker of Record at RE/MAX Quantum Realty. The Queensway is my home corridor — I live and work on it, and I keep a page like this for every building on it. Figures below are sourced and linked; verify before you sign.

Curio is a 10-storey, 206-suite condominium at 799 The Queensway in Etobicoke, developed by Marlin Spring together with DAMAC Properties and designed by Graziani + Corazza. It reached occupancy in September 2025, roughly two and a half years after demolition began — unusually fast for a Toronto build. It is no longer a pre-construction project: the developer is selling remaining finished inventory with 30-to-60-day closings and no interim occupancy period.

What the listing sites get wrong

Curio is a good example of how stale a syndicated condo listing gets. Several things circulating right now are simply out of date, and one of them will cost you money if you plan around it.

What you’ll read	What’s actually true
“Occupancy 2026” or “Occupancy TBA”	Marlin Spring’s parent company announced occupancy on 18 September 2025. The building is finished and people live in it. Any page still saying 2026 has not been touched in a year.
“146 units”	That was the earlier approved scheme. The built building is 206 suites. One broker site still says 203.
“By Marlin Spring”	Curio’s own website credits Marlin Spring and DAMAC Properties as partners. Worth knowing, because it tells you who is behind the closing and the warranty administration.
“10 storeys” / “11 storeys”	Genuinely inconsistent. The marketing material and the planning record say 10; Baz Group’s own occupancy press item says 11. It changes nothing about your suite, but it’s a useful reminder that even the developer’s material disagrees with itself.
Walk Score 76 or 79	Walk Score itself returns 90 — “Walker’s Paradise” for 799 The Queensway, with a Transit Score of 59 and a Bike Score of 71. The aggregators are quoting an older pull.

What should a suite here cost?

Here is the number that matters, and almost nobody puts it on a project page. In July 2026 the MLS® Home Price Index benchmark for a resale condo apartment in Toronto W07 — Stonegate-Queensway, the district this building sits in — was $519,500, down 8.62% year over year. Across Toronto West as a whole the average condo apartment sale price was $616,629 on 199 sales.

So a new suite at Curio is asking roughly $1,220 per square foot against a resale market where finished product is falling and the district benchmark is $519,500. That is not automatically a bad trade — you are buying a one-year-old building with a warranty, no special assessments, and no renovation risk. But you should walk in knowing the premium is real and that the comparison set is getting cheaper, not more expensive.

For context on the wider market: GTA new condo apartment sales in July 2026 ran at 237 units, roughly 80% below the ten-year average, and Urbanation recorded zero new project launches in both the first and second quarters of 2026 — the first time in at least thirty years. Completed-and-unsold developer inventory hit a record 5,001 units. Curio’s remaining suites are part of that story, and it is why the incentives on finished inventory are as aggressive as they currently are.

The neighbourhood, honestly

Transit

Walk Score 90, Transit Score 59, Bike Score 71. The 80 Queensway bus stops at the door. Mimico GO on the Lakeshore West line is about an 18-minute walk. The nearest subway access is Royal York or Kipling on Line 2, and both are a bus ride — this is a good transit address, not a steps-to-the-subway address, and anyone telling you otherwise is selling. If you drive, the Gardiner and Highway 427 are both a few minutes away, which is genuinely the corridor’s strength.

Everyday life

Costco and Sherway Gardens are both close. Queensway Park is nearby, and the Lake Ontario waterfront parks, beaches and trails are a short ride south. Humber College’s Lakeshore campus and the Toronto Police College are both in the area. The Queensway itself is a working retail strip — that’s the appeal for some buyers and the drawback for others.

Building features

As marketed by the developer: a café hub, a gaming and entertainment lounge with a pool table, a workshop for painting, woodworking, sewing and jewellery, a rooftop terrace with barbecues, a children’s outdoor play area, a pet play area, a fitness centre, a yoga and stretch room, and private co-working space. The brochure adds a wellness centre, pet spa, concierge and bike parking. Suites have quartz counters, stainless appliances, roughly nine-foot ceilings and in-suite year-round heating and cooling. Interiors are by Mason Studio; the property manager is Duka Property Management.

My read on Curio

Curio is the most straightforward buy on the Queensway right now, and that is the compliment. There is no completion risk, no interim occupancy period to carry, no deposit sitting in trust for four years, and no chance of a cancellation. You can see the actual suite, the actual view and the actual finishes before you sign, which in a 2026 market is worth more than most people credit.

What I’d push back on: at roughly $1,220 per square foot you are paying a meaningful premium over Etobicoke resale in a district where the benchmark is down 8.62% year over year. If your horizon is three years, that premium is a real headwind. If you’re an end user planning to stay seven-plus years, and the incentives on offer are as strong as the developer is currently advertising, the math gets a lot more forgiving.

Who it suits: an end user who wants new construction on The Queensway without waiting, a downsizer who wants a three-bedroom with parking, or a first-time buyer who qualifies for the GST rebate and wants to close quickly. Who it doesn’t: an investor. Toronto one-bedroom condo rents averaged $2,292 in the first quarter of 2026, down 4.1% year over year, and GTHA condo rents fell a further 1.3% by the second quarter. Run the carry before you get excited.

Deposits, rebates and the numbers that bite

Deposit. The original pre-construction structure published by brokers was $7,500 on signing, balance to 5% in 30 days, 5% on occupancy — but the building is complete and now sells as finished inventory, so that structure is almost certainly obsolete. Ask for the current terms in writing.

GST rebate. The federal First-Time Home Buyers’ GST rebate returns up to $50,000, in full on new homes up to $1,000,000 and phasing out to nothing at $1,500,000. Your agreement must be signed on or after 27 May 2025. Most Curio suites sit inside the full-rebate band — which, on a $700,000 suite, is real money and the single largest incentive available to a first-time buyer in this market right now.

Land transfer tax. Toronto charges both provincial and municipal LTT. A first-time buyer can combine the $4,000 provincial refund with the $4,475 Toronto rebate for up to $8,475. Note that the two rebates use different eligibility tests — the GST rebate looks back four calendar years; the LTT rebates require you to have never owned a home anywhere. It is possible to qualify for one and not the other.

Maintenance fees. Broker sources quote $0.69 and $0.78 per square foot and contradict each other; there is no developer-published fee schedule. What is confirmed from live leases in the building is that hydro and water are not included. Get the actual figure from the status certificate.

Tarion. Deposit protection on a condominium purchase in Ontario is capped at $20,000. Anything above that is protected only by the trust provisions of the Condominium Act and by whatever excess deposit insurance the developer carries. On a finished building this matters far less than on a pre-construction one — another point in Curio’s favour.

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