National Post

June 14, 2025

By Connie Adair

Moss Park

418 Ontario Street
(Par­lia­ment and Carlton streets)

Asking price: $1,369,900
Sold for: $1,350,000
Taxes: $7,074 (2024)
Bedrooms: 2+1
Bathrooms: 2
Square footage: 1,506
Garage: 1
Days on the market: 8

This Ontario Street house “went to mar­ket amidst tar­iff announce­ments and a bizarre spring snowstorm, so our tim­ing wasn’t neces­sar­ily ideal,” says list­ing agent Liora Tal.

“We were bat­tling head­lines and the weather to get people through, as was the case for any homes that came to mar­ket in early April. That being said, those who were brav­ing the ‘storms’ were ser­i­ous buy­ers. For us, it was less about how many people vis­ited or the num­ber of offers we received and more about qual­ity (of poten­tial buy­ers),” she says.

Co-list­ing agent Daniel Bloch says, “The sellers also adjus­ted their expect­a­tions to reflect the mar­ket­place, which helped them avoid a months-long selling pro­cess.”

The 1,506-square-foot home was built in 1875 and “over the years it has been thought­fully updated by pre­vi­ous own­ers to reflect mod­ern stand­ards,” he says. “Like many prop­er­ties in the area, it was part of the neigh­bour­hood’s revital­iz­a­tion that began in the 1970s, a period marked by a grow­ing move­ment to pre­serve his­toric charm, pre­vent highrise devel­op­ments and restore clas­sic Vic­torian homes.”

Poten­tial buy­ers were taken by the choice between two primary bed­rooms, says Tal. “At the rear of the home, a renov­a­tion to cre­ate a peace­ful sanc­tu­ary involved the addi­tion of a stun­ning ensuite bath­room and tubu­lar sky­lights. At the front, the garden-facing bed­room with a vaul­ted ceil­ing and dormer win­dow has a gen­er­ous walk-in closet with new cus­tom organ­izers.”

A top-storey loft has a bright work-from-home space and a bonus den, she says.

Bloch says the home appealed to first-time buy­ers, espe­cially those look­ing for a condo altern­at­ive. “It’s a per­fectly sized home for a couple who wants to be in an estab­lished neigh­bour­hood.”

Tal says, “This home offers fant­astic value for its price point, sav­ing the buy­ers hun­dreds of dol­lars each month in main­ten­ance fees, not to men­tion its great long-term invest­ment poten­tial.”

Fea­tures include a con­tem­por­ary kit­chen, an open­concept liv­ing/din­ing room and a walkout to a back­yard oasis that includes a deck. The prop­erty also has ter­raced gar­dens and a car­port. The cur­rent own­ers com­mis­sioned an artist to paint a vibrant mural on the gar­age door.

List­ing Broker: Har­vey Kalles Real Estate Ltd. (Liora Tal and Daniel Bloch)