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Done Deals – I’m in the News! – Condo with good view and new upgrades grabs two offers!!

October 28, 2022

Sydni Yu, Toronto – Special to The Globe and Mail. Published October 19, 2022

28 Ted Rogers Way, #2006, Toronto
Asking price: $689,000 (September, 2022)
Selling price: $725,000 (September, 2022)
Taxes: $2,616 (2022)
Days on the market: Two
Listing agent: Sandra Pate, Sage Real Estate Ltd.


The layout is modern with a den tucked between the bathroom and laundry closet.Sage Real Estate Ltd.

The action
Shortly after Labour Day, agent Sandra Pate listed this one-bedroom-plus-den unit for $689,000, optimistic that buyers might nudge that figure over $700,000 like similar units had received this summer. Two out of seven visitors didn’t disappoint, and spirited negotiations resulted in a $725,000 sale.
“One [unit] on Linden Street sold for $705,000 – it was in a similar vintage building and location – so I thought we’d get $705,000 or $710,000, not $725,000,” Ms. Pate said.
“But the supply has been very low. It wasn’t uncommon to go to a building years ago where you’d have 10 or 20 units for sale, and often times there are only one or two now.”


The 10-year-old condo provides more than 630-square-feet of space.

What they got
This more than 630-square-foot unit is barely 10 years old, but new flooring was recently installed, along with quartz countertops, marble backsplashes and stainless steel appliances in the kitchen.
The layout is modern with an entertaining space by the balcony, and a den tucked between the bathroom and laundry closet.
The unit comes with two storage lockers and parking. Monthly fees of $619 cover water, 24-hour concierge, a car wash and recreational amenities.


The kitchen was upgraded with brand new finishings.

The agent’s take
“It’s a special unit because it had quite a few things going for it, like an unobstructed west view, which is pretty hard to get downtown with everything blocked these days,” Ms. Pate said.
“It also has all new engineered hardwood flooring, and the kitchen was upgraded.”
Attractions are also scattered in and around the high-rise site. “There are fantastic facilities in the building, but it also shares amenities with 100 Hayden, and the two buildings are interconnected underground so you can zip over to their pool,” Ms. Pate said.
“It also has super easy access to the subway and downtown core.”

 

Filed Under: Real Estate News

I’m in the News!

October 4, 2021

Bidder for narrow row house trumps rival with $206,000 over asking offer

Done Deal – Sydnia Yu
Updated September 28, 2021

 

315 Highfield Rd. Toronto

Asking price: $699,000 (July, 2021)

Selling price: $905,000 (July, 2021)

Previous selling price: $125,000 (March, 1997)

Taxes: $3,134 (2021)

Days on the market: Two

Listing agent: Sandra Pate, Sage Real Estate Ltd.

 

The action

This two-bedroom row house on a 12-foot-by-100-foot lot had an eye-catching price under $700,000. One buyer tried to strike a deal before the offer date, but they were knocked out of contention by another bidder with a hefty $206,000 over asking offer.

“It’s a hot market, especially in that price range,” agent Sandra Pate said.

“There was one other house that was our competition, but it had a different offer date, so that was convenient.”

 


There is hardwood flooring in the living room and in the bedrooms upstairs.

 

What they got

This more than 100-year-old house has nine-foot ceilings on the main level and nearly seven-foot ceilings in the unfinished basement.

There is hardwood flooring in the living room and in the bedrooms upstairs.

The back garden can be reached from a den off the eat-in kitchen.

 

The agent’s take

“It has about 12-foot frontage, so it’s a baby house, but as cute as a button,” Ms. Pate said.

“It has nice high ceilings, and all the rooms were a good size.”

The property does not have parking, but transit and other essentials are down the street on Gerrard Street. “It’s a sweet neighbourhood that’s changed a lot since the seller bought it 24 years ago,” Ms. Pate said.

“There’s an interesting mixture now of nice coffee shops, cheese shop, a great health food store, Italian restaurant and Godspeed Brewery.”

 


The back garden can be reached from a den off the eat-in kitchen.

Filed Under: Real Estate News

I’m in the news again!

July 2, 2021

Done Deal

Three offers for east end Toronto home on a large lot

80 Dentonia Park Ave., Toronto

Asking price: $999,000 (March, 2021)

Selling price: $1,126,000 (March, 2021)

Previous selling prices: $385,000 (November, 2007); $193,500 (July, 1998)

Taxes: $3,316 (2020)

Days on the market: Seven

Listing agent: Sandra Pate, Sage Real Estate Ltd.

 

The action


The house sits on a 25-foot-by-100-foot lot close to Dentonia Park and the Victoria Park subway station.

 

This 94-year-old house only has one bathroom and the basement is unfinished, but it sits on a sizable 25-foot-by-100-foot lot close to Dentonia Park and the Victoria Park subway station. More than two dozen visitors toured the property, but none returned with a bid until after the presentation date had passed.

“People make the assumption when there’s an offer date that it’s going to sell, and it doesn’t always,” agent Sandra Pate said.

“The next day, I had eight phone calls from agents, and then I had three offers, which is not uncommon. Sometimes buyers are spread here, there and everywhere.

“There was also the worry it would sell for way more, but I said, ‘It wouldn’t sell for way more, we just wanted to sell it, so just bring in an offer.’”

 

What they got


There’s a wood burning fireplace and double doors off the dining room to a large deck.

 

The house has 1,140 square feet of living space and a standard three bedroom layout with formal living and dining rooms. There’s a wood burning fireplace and double doors off the dining room to a large deck.

Updates include a remodeled bathroom, and newer appliances and quartz countertops in the U-shaped kitchen.

There is a parking pad at the front of the property.

 

The agent’s take

“It’s detached with a lovely garden and is right on the park,” Ms. Pate said.

“In that price range, [frontages] are 15-, 16- or 17-feet if you’re lucky. This was 25.”

 

Filed Under: Real Estate News

I’m in the News!

April 8, 2021

With 17 bidders, east-end semi sells $366,000 over asking

 

Sydnia Yu, Toronto
Special to The Globe and Mail
Published April 5, 2021

 

SAGE REAL ESTATE LTD.
44 Roseheath Ave., Toronto

Asking price: $999,000 (February, 2021)
Selling price: $1,365,000 (February, 2021)
Previous selling price: $211,000 (November, 1998)
Taxes: $4,252 (2020)
Days on the market: Six
Listing agent: Sandra Pate, Sage Real Estate Ltd.

 

The action


The house has open living and dining areas and hardwood floors.

This semi-detached house was one of many east-end properties with an attractive starting price that found a bevy of suitors in a frantic market. More than 70 potential buyers came for in-person visits and 17 made offers.

“From the outside, it looks like your typical East York semi, but it actually has four bedrooms, which is very unusual, so there were no real good [comparisons],” agent Sandra Pate said.

“But we still had to price carefully because everyone else was $899,000 or $999,000. If we were a million and something, people would say we were too expensive. I’d rather fight for it.”

 

 What they got


The eat-in kitchen has an exit to a large deck.

Situated close to The Danforth, East Lynn Park and Woodbine subway station, this 95-year-old house on a 20-foot-by-110-foot lot combines traditional design and modern updates, with open living and dining areas and hardwood floors.

The separate eat-in kitchen has an exit to a large deck and mutual driveway. There’s a separate exit from the lower level recreation area which has a second full bathroom.

 

The agent’s take

“It has a very nice, deep and sunny west-facing garden, which is great, and had a nice deck in the backyard,” Ms. Pate said.
“The basement had been dug down by a previous owner, so it had great ceiling height over seven feet.”

Filed Under: Real Estate News

You too could own a Victorian ‘castle’! A special Toronto home, circa 1885.

October 23, 2020

Home of the Week: A Toronto home with a beehive dome – Shane Dingman Real Estate Reporter
Photos: downtownphotos.ca

31 Bedford Park Ave., Toronto
Asking Price: $1,499,000
Taxes: $6,550 (2020)
Lot Size: 30- by 125-feet
Agent: Sandra Pate, Sage Real Estate Ltd.

The back story


There’s a fireplace on the south wall of the circular living room.

In Toronto there are old houses and there are notable houses, and Esther Dalys happens to live in one of Toronto’s notable old houses.

So much so, it was featured in the 2003 book Old Toronto Houses by Tom Cruickshank. 31 Bedford hails from the High Victorian period (1867-1901), the defining period in terms of the look of old Toronto. “This was the age in which most of our now-familiar downtown neighbourhoods took shape, their straight-as-an-arrow streets lined with trees and red-brick houses,” writes Mr. Cruickshank. But unlike Second Empire or Terrace or even the Romanesque styles imported from overseas Ms. Dalys’ Shingle Style house borrows its form from New England and amplified the rusticism of the lowly wooden shingle. “It could be every bit as grand and self-indulgent as other Victorian fads … Shingle style was the first that was intended not to be so sophisticated, it charmed with primitivism.”


There is a small sitting room on the west side of the house.

31 Bedford Park, known as Mason House, and was featured in sales literature as a model home for the burgeoning Bedford Park village, but Mr. Cruickshank laments its “colossal beehive dome” is hemmed in by the narrow city frontage. “Nevertheless there is something dashing about its lofty silhouette and steeply pitched roof, but imagine the results had the house been blessed with more spacious surroundings,” he writes. By the way, if you’re looking for a walking tour of old Toronto you could do worse than this book as a starting point.

But the dome is what caught Ms. Dalys’s eye in 1998, when she first saw it. “I was living in another house and there had been a tragedy in the family and I was terribly depressed, and I was driving down this street and I saw this house that looked like a castle. And I thought, how can people be unhappy in a castle?” she said. And so, she bought it.

The house today

From the street that dome really does dominate the shape of the building. As you climb two short flights of stairs up the terrace it looms like a massive grain silo with a house bolted on to it. The front door is just beside this bulky cylinder leading into an entryway that is currently the landing for the two separated spaces; the door leading to Esther’s floor and the door leading upstairs to the tenanted apartments.


The front door is just beside the bulky cylinder leading into an entryway.

“At the moment I have some people living upstairs. I would imagine anyone buying this would buy it as a family home,” said Ms. Dalys.

The ground floor opens to a central dining room, with doors on each wall. The largest is a pair of double doors opening to the circular living room, 16 feet in diameter, with all white walls and a fireplace on the south wall. There’s hardwood throughout this level, and the ones above.


The ground floor opens to a central dining room, with doors on each wall.

A small sitting room on the west side has become Ms. Dalys’s bedroom, and the back of the house has the large kitchen (part of a rear addition) and breakfast area. Next to this is the bathroom with shower, which oddly has a door to the rear yard. The back deck is worn, but looks out onto a 40-foot deep yard with laneway access to park at least two cars.

 


The back deck is worn but looks out onto a 40-foot deep yard.

Upstairs are three more bedrooms, one of which is in the tower, which was formerly an upstairs living room. The house’s second bathroom – with claw foot tub – is at the end of the hall on the front of the house.


There are three bedrooms upstairs.

The tenant kitchen is in the central space, which has access to a rooftop deck above the downstairs bedroom. The third bedroom sits alone in the attic on the third floor, and there is an access through the closet to the top room in the dome, though Ms. Dalys warns the floor in there may not be weight bearing. She had always dreamed of finishing that space, perhaps even just as a secret room.


The tenant kitchen is in the central space.

Next chapter

Ms. Dalys is 88 years old, and her children feel its time to move closer to them and into a condo. “There’s a point in life when children decide to take over and become parents,” she said.

“My doctor tells me I’m in perfect health, I keep reminding [my daughter] I had a great grandfather who lived to 101, and I have his genes.”

With travel restrictions in place, wintering in Florida is no longer an option, and Ms. Dalys says she’s ready to skip a winter navigating the Mason House’s many stairs. But she will miss her Shingle Style castle greatly.

“When I first moved in, a lot of the neighbours asked if they could come in to see the house; a lot of people were curious about the interior … I always said no,” she said. Now, for a brief spell, the curious have a chance to see what they’ve been missing.

 

Filed Under: Real Estate News

I’m in the News! -‘Big reno project’ in Trinity Bellwoods draws $1.1-million bid.

October 23, 2020

SYDNIA YU, TORONTO SPECIAL TO THE GLOBE AND MAIL

 

SAGE REAL ESTATE LTD.
150 Claremont St., Toronto
Asking price: $799,000
Selling price: $1,100,000
Taxes: $5,577 (2020)
Days on the market: Six
Listing agent: Sandra Pate, Sage Real Estate Ltd.

 

The Action


The traditional layout features formal living and dining rooms.

Sensing that July would be prime market timing for this well-worn Trinity Bellwoods house, the owners rushed it to market in roughly original condition, despite competition from already renovated alternatives nearby. The thinking was sound, as seven bidders made their offers, with the winner paying $301,000 over the asking price.

“I asked the [seller] to get it ready ASAP because we had a very busy market and we were not sure how long that was going to last,” agent Sandra Pate said.

“I priced it low intentionally because it needed a lot of work.”

 

What They Got


The home is dated and in need of updating.

This semi-detached house is a typical example of early 20th-century dwellings, with brick façade and formal living and dining rooms.

The second floor has three bedrooms and one of the house’s two bathrooms.

Both the eat-in kitchen and unfinished basement have separate entrances from the fenced-in back yard. There is also a garage on the 16-foot-by-127-foot lot.

 

The Agents Take


Despite the building’s age, the property boasts a sizable lot and a highly desirable location.

 

“It had all old wiring, the roof needed to be redone, the floorings were all different levels, and it had the original 1910 boiler,” Ms. Pate said.

“It’s a big reno project – or maybe a start over – but it has a good-sized lot, a double car garage off a laneway and a terrific location.”

Filed Under: Real Estate News

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