October 2026
Property Snapshot
What is being built, applied for, and sold in Kensington–Chinatown.
Home prices
The average across all homes sold in the district — not the price of any individual home.
average sale price
$778,870
August 2026 · 231 sales
12-month average: $815,975.
| Month | Average sale price |
|---|---|
| Aug 2025 | $813,335 |
| Sep 2025 | $853,493 |
| Oct 2025 | $846,197 |
| Nov 2025 | $796,345 |
| Dec 2025 | $778,532 |
| Jan 2026 | $757,256 |
| Feb 2026 | $846,628 |
| Mar 2026 | $811,594 |
| Apr 2026 | $818,716 |
| May 2026 | $831,586 |
| Jun 2026 | $852,972 |
| Jul 2026 | $773,284 |
| Aug 2026 | $778,870 |
Based on 231 sales in August 2026.
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Sales and average price by major home type, July 2026 — the latest Market Watch issue that carries this breakdown.
| Home type | Sales | Average price |
|---|---|---|
| Detached | 6 | $1,519,333 |
| Semi-Detached | 18 | $1,341,278 |
| Att/Row/Townhouse | 11 | $1,195,573 |
| Condo Townhouse | 13 | $1,006,383 |
| Condo Apartment | 229 | $675,574 |
No sales recorded in July 2026: Link, Co-Op Apartment, Detached Condo, Co-Ownership Apartment.
- January – August 2026, across 2,055 sales
- $812,243
TRREB Market Watch, district C01, published 2026-09-03. Updated when TRREB publishes the next Market Watch.
Average sale price by year
TRREB’s own average sale price by year, across the whole Toronto Regional Real Estate Board area — every district combined, not this neighbourhood alone.
| Month | Average sale price |
|---|---|
| 2013 | $525,681 |
| 2014 | $569,402 |
| 2015 | $623,529 |
| 2016 | $731,927 |
| 2017 | $823,422 |
| 2018 | $784,118 |
| 2019 | $812,989 |
| 2020 | $926,340 |
| 2021 | $1,098,088 |
| 2022 | $1,193,766 |
| 2023 | $1,131,219 |
| 2024 | $1,120,241 |
TRREB Market Watch, historic annual statistics.
Committee of Adjustment
Requests to build slightly outside the zoning rules, or to divide a lot. Each gets a public hearing.
hearings coming up
1
Updated daily · as of 6 October 2026
Decided in September 2026
2 — all approved
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Every hearing scheduled as of 6 October 2026, in the order it will be heard. Descriptions are the City’s own words.
Wednesday 4 November
9:30 a.m. · Virtual Hearing / Committee Room 1, Second Floor, Toronto City Hall, 100 Queen St W, M5H 2N2
42 Carr St · Tentative date
To construct a new four-storey detached building (houseplex) with a front entrance with stairs, three side (west) covered entrances with stairs, side (west) second storey covered balconies, a corner (northwest) covered balcony located on the second storey, and a rear third floor rooftop patio. There will be three vehicular visitor parking space in the rear yard. There will be a total of six residential dwelling units on this lot.
File A0667/26TEY
City of Toronto Open Data — Committee of Adjustment Applications, as of 2026-10-06.
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Building permits
Permission to start work that already meets the rules. Most are small: a deck, a furnace, or a basement.
permits issued this month
21
September 2026
Total over the last 12 months
- Kensington–Chinatown
- 362
- Average Toronto neighbourhood this size
- about 260
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Every permit issued in September 2026, grouped by address. One property often has several — a new building carries its own plumbing, drain and mechanical permits. Descriptions are the City’s own words, and the status is where each permit stands now, not when it was issued — so work that has since finished reads “Closed”, and the stages are explained on the About the data page.
285 Augusta Ave
- 3 WALL SIGNS**TAQUERIA "EL PASTORCITO"** · Issued (Permit Issued)
283 College St
- Interior alterations for restaurant <30 seats · Work under way (Inspection)
- Plumbing - Interior alterations for restaurant <30 seats · Work under way (Inspection)
297 College St
- Waterproofing replacement, localized concrete repairs, and drain and drain pipe replacement within the parking garage and loading dock. · Issued (Permit Issued)
333 College St
- Drain - Proposal to construct 20 storey, 553 Unit (706 Beds), Student Residence building with retail on ground floor. · Issued (Permit Issued)
- Conditional Permit - Part Permit - Proposal to construct 20 storey, 553 Unit (706 Beds), Student Residence building with retail on ground floor. · Issued (Permit Issued)
453 Dundas St W
- Proposal to replace the smoke detectors in the kitchen and living room areas with rate of rise heat detectors · Issued (Permit Issued)
City of Toronto Open Data — Building Permits (active and cleared), as of 2026-10-06.
Development applications
A request to build something the current rules don’t allow — a rezoning, or a variance.
applications in the latest quarter on record
1
June 2026 – August 2026
Total over the last 12 months
- Kensington–Chinatown
- 5
- Average Toronto neighbourhood this size
- about 3
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Every application the City lists as still open in this neighbourhood, newest first — whatever year it was filed. The figures above count applications submitted in the period shown.
22 July 2026 · OPA / Rezoning · Under Review
309 Augusta Ave
Proposed six storey hotel with restaurant components containing 2194sqm of non-residential gross floor area. No parking is proposed.
Application 26 206718 STE 11 OZ
18 March 2026 · Site Plan Approval · Under Review
150 College St
The proposed development has a height of 9-storeys above-grade (41.4 metres to the top of the main building) with additional rooftop mechanical penthouses and projecting elements (55.4 metres to the highest point of these elements). The proposed development consists of a gross floor area of 25,387 square metres.
Application 26 131356 STE 11 SA
31 August 2022 · Site Plan Approval · Under Review
505 University Ave
The redevelopment proposes a 64-storey mixed-use building with a 12-storey office podium and is inclusive of four levels of below-grade parking with a total of 171 parking spaces. The redevelopment proposes 704 dwelling units, resulting in a total residential gross floor area (GFA) of 46,683 sq. m., a total of 24,919 sq. m. of office GFA, and a total of 460 sq. m of retail GFA which results in a total Floor Space Index (FSI) of 21.65, pursuant to GFA calculations under By-law 569-2013.
Application 22 198151 STE 11 SA
28 August 2022 · Site Plan Approval · Under Review
195 College St, 193 College St, 197 College St and 4 more addresses
Related App 22 150580 STE 11 OZSite Plan application for proposal for a 31-storey mixed-use building containing 492 purpose-built rental units. The proposed non-residential gross floor area is 1,379 square metres, and the proposed residential gross floor area is 19,924 square metres.
Application 22 196930 STE 11 SA
17 August 2022 · Site Plan Approval · Under Review
522 University Ave
Site Plan Control application to permit a 64-storey mixed-use building, comprised of a 51-storey residential tower atop a 15-storey office podium. The proposal consists of a total of approximately 54,983 square metres of gross floor area, of which 33,570 square metres would be dedicated to residential uses, 21,202 square metres to office uses, and 2111 square metres to retail uses, resulting in a density of 22.8 FSI. The proposed building will contain a total of 579 dwelling units in a range of unit types.
Application 22 192155 STE 11 SA
City of Toronto Open Data — Development Applications, as of 2026-10-06. Refreshes automatically when the source publishes.
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Applications and permits are separate City processes. Most building permits never involve a development application, and the two counts above are not connected — a permit issued this month is not the outcome of an application made this month.
An application is a request, not an approval. Sale prices cover TRREB district C01, which may cover a wider area than Kensington–Chinatown alone.
The October 2026 safety report covers what was reported to police. Each figure names the period it covers.
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