Published 7 September 2026 · Updated 5 October 2026 · By Jatin Dua, Broker of Record, RE/MAX Quantum Realty
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How you get around
Scores from Walk Score®
Walk Score
Very Walkable
Transit Score
Good Transit
Bike Score
Very Bikeable
Transit, nearest first
- 6666 Prince EdwardTTC bus0.2 km
- 501Lake Shore Blvd W at Park Lawn Road501 Queen / 507 Long Branch streetcar0.2 km
- 8080 QueenswayTTC bus0.8 km
- GOMimico GOLakeshore West line1.6 km
- 2Jane stationLine 2 Bloor–Danforth3.0 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–5
Étienne Brûlé Junior School
50 Cloverhill Rd
1.6 km · ~25 min walk
Zoned for this address
Middle
Park Lawn Junior Middle School
71 Ballacaine Dr
2.1 km
Zoned for this address
High schoolGr 9–12
Lakeshore Collegiate Institute
350 Kipling Ave
4.1 km
Zoned for this address
Catholic elementary
St. Mark Catholic School
1.5 km · ~23 min walk
Nearest, confirm zoning
Catholic elementary
St. Leo Catholic School
1.8 km
Nearest, confirm zoning
Catholic secondary
Bishop Allen Academy Catholic Secondary School
2.4 km
Nearest, confirm zoning
French-language · MonAvenir (Catholic)
École élémentaire catholique Sainte-Marguerite-d'Youville
2.6 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 Water Tower at Eau Du Soleil actually trade for
| Unit type | Sold | Median price | Leased | Median rent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 bed | 1 | too few | 26 | $2,475/mo |
| 1 bed + den | 16 | $612,000 | 68 | $2,650/mo |
| 2 bed | 6 | $747,500 | 57 | $3,100/mo |
| 2 bed + den | 13 | $905,000 | 31 | $3,400/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 Water Tower at Eau Du Soleil
Do mostly owners or renters live here?
Renter-heavy building. Of 218 deals here in the last 24 months, 182 were leases and 36 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 Water Tower at Eau Du Soleil?
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 Water Tower at Eau Du Soleil
- 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.
Restaurant
Huevos Gourmet
Steps away
Italian
La Vecchia
0.3 km · ~5 min walk
American
Sunset Grill
0.3 km · ~5 min walk
British
Firkin on the Bay
0.4 km · ~6 min walk
Salad
Freshii
0.4 km · ~6 min walk
Café
Zen Cafe+
Steps away
Places from OpenStreetMap. Check hours before you go.
Parks nearby
- Marine Parade Drive
- Humber Bay Shores Park
- Palace Pier Park
Prices: TRREB MLS® System aggregate medians for 20 Shore Breeze Drive, last 12 months (updated 5 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.
Water Tower at Eau Du Soleil, 20 Shore Breeze Drive, is the shorter of the two Eau Du Soleil towers in Humber Bay Shores — 49 storeys, by Empire Communities, with exteriors by Zeidler Partnership Architects working with E.I. Richmond Architects.
Its sibling, Sky Tower at 30 Shore Breeze Drive, is 66 storeys and one of the tallest buildings in Etobicoke. They share a podium and amenity spaces. The unit count for Water Tower is genuinely disputed — 330 in some sources, 535 in others — and I explain below why that gap probably exists and why it matters to you.
How the two towers relate
Eau Du Soleil is a two-tower Empire Communities development sharing a podium and amenity spaces.
| Water Tower | 20 Shore Breeze Drive — 49 storeys |
| Sky Tower | 30 Shore Breeze Drive / 2183 Lake Shore Blvd W — 66 storeys, about 750 units |
Water Tower launched for sale first: UrbanToronto ran a “Water Tower Launching at Empire Communities’ Eau du Soleil” story in September 2013, and the project cleared a City approval step that November.
Zeidler describes the pair as “65- and 45-storey towers.” Every real estate source says 66 and 49. Architect project pages often describe an earlier design iteration rather than the built form.
I would go with 66 and 49, and tell you plainly that the architect’s own page differs. Neither tower appears in the CTBUH tall buildings database that I checked, so I have no independent height verification for either.
What this building has actually traded for: the last 12 months
Resales and leases recorded on the TRREB MLS® System for 20 Shore Breeze Drive, 5 October 2025 to 5 October 2026.
Over the past 12 months, units here sold for a median of $650,000 after a median 51 days on market, at about 96% of the asking price. Leased units rented for a median of $2,700 a month.
Source: TRREB MLS® System data, compiled by Jatin Dua, Broker of Record, RE/MAX Quantum Realty, Brokerage. Aggregate figures only; individual sale prices are not published on this page. Medians exclude zero and null values; samples under three are shown as counts only. The information is deemed reliable but not guaranteed. Updated 5 October 2026.
The unit count problem
One database gives Water Tower 535 units. Two other sources — including UrbanToronto’s project text — give 330 suites, which matches the original sales figure.
My best reading is that 330 is the number of residential suites originally sold in this tower, and 535 may reflect a registered corporation total that includes podium or shared components. I cannot prove that, and I am not going to pretend I can.
Why it matters: unit count is the denominator for every shared cost in the building. A reserve fund obligation divided by 330 owners is a very different number from the same obligation divided by 535. If you are trying to assess whether the fee and reserve are sensible, get the actual unit count from the status certificate rather than from any website, this one included.
Amenities
Published lists include a gym, indoor pool, hot tub, sauna, yoga studio, concierge, security guard, media room, party room, guest suites, rooftop deck, pet wash and visitor parking. Marketing text mentions a water lounge on the 49th floor and a saltwater pool.
Treat the 49th-floor water lounge and the saltwater specification as marketing until you have seen them — they come from promotional copy, not from a document.
The design, and the site history
This is the part worth knowing, and it comes straight from the architect. Zeidler describes sloped and terraced tower faces unified by a continuous sweeping gesture, white metal banding, and night lighting intended to create a landmark silhouette on the waterfront. That is not marketing puff from a listing site; it is the design intent from the firm that drew it.
Zeidler also describes the development as transforming Toronto’s historic “Motel Strip” into an urbanised waterfront community. That is the real history of Humber Bay Shores — a strip of postwar motels along Lake Shore Boulevard West, redeveloped from the 1990s onward into the tower cluster that stands there now. If you want to understand why Humber Bay looks the way it does, that is the whole story in one sentence.
Transit, plainly
Sources name a bus stop at Marine Parade Drive at Silver Moon Drive and note nearby GO service; Mimico GO appears in marketing copy. No source I read names a nearby subway station, and I am not going to invent one.
Humber Bay Shores is a bus-and-GO neighbourhood with fast Gardiner access and, in the warm months, a genuinely lovely waterfront trail commute by bike. It is not a subway neighbourhood. Anyone who tells you otherwise has not made the trip in a snowstorm.
What I could not verify
- The unit count, as above — 330 versus 535 is unresolved.
- The suite size range: 483–1,748 square feet from one source, 534–1,451 from another.
- Completion year: 2019 for the buildings per real estate sources; Zeidler’s own page gives 2022, which likely refers to the whole complex.
- The corporation number beyond a reported TSCC 2745 (two sources, likely one data origin).
- The current property manager.
- Independent height verification for either tower.
The takeaway
Water Tower is a genuine architectural landmark on the Humber Bay waterfront, from a serious firm, with the amenity package the location demands. Two things to be clear-eyed about: it is a bus-and-GO neighbourhood, not a subway one, and nobody can tell you with confidence how many units are in your building — get that from the status certificate, because every shared cost you will ever pay is divided by it.
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Building data for 20 Shore Breeze Drive
Pulled from City of Toronto open data · Etobicoke-Lakeshore · read 18 October 2026
Most recent permits here
- Designated Structures Sign Building Permit Related · Permit Issued · 2025-10-22Application for a permit to erect and display one first party wall sign, displaying static copy and illuminated, erected at the first…
- Designated Structures Sign Building Permit Related · Inspection · 2025-10-20Application for a permit to erect and display one first party wall sign, displaying static copy and illuminated, erected at the first…
What is proposed nearby
- Site plan application · 2150 Lake Shore Blvd W · 118 m awayProposed new transit station: Park Lawn GO Station. The station will be accessed from both sides of Park Lawn Road and from both the…
- Site plan application · 2189 Lake Shore Blvd W · 280 m awaySite Plan Approval - Proposed mixed use devleopment for a 59 storey building.
- Site plan application · 2194 Lake Shore Blvd W · 312 m awayThe proposed Phase 1 development
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Registered unit counts and plan numbers come from the City’s register of residential condominiums (2002–2018), so buildings registered before 2002 show no plan data here. Permits and development applications come from the City’s open data and are updated automatically. Always confirm details with the status certificate before you buy.
Frequently asked questions
How tall is Water Tower at Eau Du Soleil?
49 storeys according to real estate sources; its sibling Sky Tower at 30 Shore Breeze Drive is 66. The architect’s own project page describes the pair as 45 and 65 storeys, likely from an earlier design iteration. Neither appears in the CTBUH tall buildings database, so there is no independent height verification.
How many units are in 20 Shore Breeze Drive?
Sources disagree: 330 suites in some, 535 in others. The 330 figure matches the original sales count. The larger figure may reflect a registered total including shared components. Get the real number from the status certificate — it is the denominator for every shared cost you will pay.
What is the difference between Water Tower and Sky Tower?
They are the two towers of Empire Communities’ Eau Du Soleil, sharing a podium and amenity spaces. Water Tower is 20 Shore Breeze Drive at 49 storeys; Sky Tower is 30 Shore Breeze Drive at 66 storeys with about 750 units and is one of the tallest buildings in Etobicoke.
Is Humber Bay Shores near a subway station?
No source names one, and I will not invent one. Humber Bay is served by TTC buses and nearby GO rail, with fast Gardiner Expressway access and a waterfront trail that makes an excellent warm-weather bike commute. It is not a subway neighbourhood.
What was on the Eau Du Soleil site before?
Zeidler describes the development as transforming Toronto’s historic “Motel Strip” — the run of postwar motels along Lake Shore Boulevard West that was redeveloped from the 1990s onward into the Humber Bay Shores tower cluster.
Who designed Eau Du Soleil?
Zeidler Partnership Architects designed the exteriors in collaboration with E.I. Richmond Architects Ltd., confirmed on Zeidler’s own project page. The developer is Empire Communities.
How much do condos at Water Tower at Eau Du Soleil sell for?
Over the last 12 months the median resale at Water Tower at Eau Du Soleil was $650,000, across 15 sales. The typical unit sold in 51 days at about 96% of the asking price. That works out to roughly $1,013 per square foot.
How much is rent at Water Tower at Eau Du Soleil?
The median lease at Water Tower at Eau Du Soleil over the last 12 months was $2,700/mo, from 79 leases. Units typically leased in 17 days.
What does each unit type cost at Water Tower at Eau Du Soleil?
Over the last 24 months: One-bedrooms rented for $2,475/mo; One-bedroom-plus-dens sold for a median $612,000 and rented for $2,650/mo; Two-bedrooms sold for a median $747,500 and rented for $3,100/mo; Two-bedroom-plus-dens sold for a median $905,000 and rented for $3,400/mo. Each median uses three or more deals.
Are prices at Water Tower at Eau Du Soleil up or down since 2022?
Down about 20%. The median sold price per square foot was $1,273 in 2022 and $1,013 over the last 12 months. Pricing off 2022 comparables is the most common mistake sellers make here.
What rental yield does Water Tower at Eau Du Soleil offer an investor?
At a median price of $650,000 and a median rent of $2,700 a month, the gross yield is about 5.0%, 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 Water Tower at Eau Du Soleil?
Mostly renters. Of the deals here in the last 24 months, 83% were leases and 17% were sales.
Can you Airbnb a unit at Water Tower at Eau Du Soleil?
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 3 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 Water Tower at Eau Du Soleil 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 Water Tower at Eau Du Soleil zoned for?
For TDSB public schools, the address is zoned for Étienne Brûlé Junior School (Elementary, JK–5), Park Lawn Junior Middle School (Middle), Lakeshore 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 Walk Score of Water Tower at Eau Du Soleil?
Walk Score 76, Transit Score 63 and Bike Score 78. Most daily errands can be done on foot.
What restaurants and shops are near Water Tower at Eau Du Soleil?
Within about a 10-minute walk: Huevos Gourmet (Restaurant), La Vecchia (Italian), Sunset Grill (American), Firkin on the Bay (British), Freshii (Salad).
Which parks are near Water Tower at Eau Du Soleil?
Marine Parade Drive, Humber Bay Shores Park, Palace Pier Park are the closest green spaces.
What is my unit at Water Tower at Eau Du Soleil worth?
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Sources
Everything above that is a number or a name comes from one of these. Anything I could not source, I have marked as unverified in the text.
- Zeidler Architecture — Eau du Soleil Waterfront Condominiums. Architect attribution with E.I. Richmond, the design description, the Motel Strip site history, the 45- and 65-storey figures and a 2022 completion date. Accessed 7 September 2026.
- condos.ca — Water Tower at Eau Du Soleil, 20 Shore Breeze Drive. 49 storeys, the 535 unit figure, corporation number, property manager, amenity list, suite size range and nearby transit stops. Accessed 7 September 2026.
- UrbanToronto — Eau du Soleil Condos project database. The 330-suite figure, developer, and project description including the 49th-floor water lounge marketing text. Accessed 7 September 2026.
- UrbanToronto — Water Tower launching at Eau du Soleil, September 2013. The sales launch sequence and the November 2013 City approval step. Accessed 7 September 2026.
- strata.ca — Sky Tower at Eau Du Soleil, 30 Shore Breeze Dr. Sky Tower’s 66 storeys, roughly 750 units and 2019 completion, establishing the relationship between the two towers. Accessed 7 September 2026.
Related reading
- The Etobicoke condo directory — every condominium corporation I could find, by neighbourhood
- Boutique low-rise condos between Islington and Kipling
- The condos within walking distance of Islington station
- All of my Etobicoke real estate writing
About the author — Jatin Dua, Etobicoke real estate agent
I’m the Broker of Record at RE/MAX Quantum Realty, 799 The Queensway in Etobicoke, a few minutes from every building on this page. I work with buyers, sellers and investors across Mimico, Humber Bay Shores, New Toronto, Long Branch, Alderwood and the Stonegate–Queensway corridor. I write these building guides the way I’d brief a client at my own kitchen table: what is documented, what isn’t, and where the published numbers disagree with each other.
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