In The Bridle Path area, High Point Road is like the middle child with The Bride Path and Park Lane Circle on either side.

At the moment the highest priced listing is on High Point Road, listing for $26,800,000. - Click here to see the photos –

The house really reminds me of The Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas. I especially like the indoor pool and indoor tennis court.

Kirby Chan
Sales Representative
Keller Williams Real Estate Service
17 Church Avenue, Toronto
info@kirbychan.com
www.KirbyChan.com
Direct: 416.305.8008
Twitter.com/@KirbyChan
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Top 10 in 2011

Average – $5,100,000 Range – $3,700,000 to $9,000,000
Number of listings sold over $3,000,000 – 18

Top 10 in 2010

Average – $6,800,000 Range – $4,750,000 to $12,900,000
Number of listings sold over $3,000,000 – 26

Top 10 in 2009

Average – $8,500,000 Range – $5,280,000 to $16,800,000
Number of listings sold over $3,000,000 – 33

These are some interesting numbers. What does it mean? Are luxury home prices dropping or are there less 10 million+  homes for sale? Leave me a comment and tell me what you think.

The number that interests me the most is the number of listings sold over $3,00,000. For the first four months of 2011, there are already 18 homes sold over $3,000,000. If this trend continues, luxury homes over $3 million may reach and surpass the 40 unit mark. Good news if you have a home around or over the $3,000,000 mark!

Kirby Chan
Sales Representative
Keller Williams Real Estate Service
17 Church Avenue, Toronto
info@kirbychan.com
www.KirbyChan.com
Direct: 416.305.8008
Twitter.com/@KirbyChan
Facebook.com/AboutKirby

We are located in Forest Hill, what I consider the heart of Luxury Homes.

In the following posts, I will be featuring:

New million dollar listings that come on the market and rating them.

Featured items that belong in every Luxury Home.

Enjoy!

Approximately 3800 sq.ft. plus a finished basement.

Hardwood floors, Travertine, Wainscotting through-out.

Breathtaking kitchen with top of the line appliances and a butler’s pantry.

If you are looking a custom built house with classic charm and exceptional finishes, than this is the house for you.

Buy and close before July 1st to avoid the HST!

Listing price – $2,158,000 Sold

For more information please contact the listing agent:

Kirby Chan
Sales Representative
www.KirbyChan.com
info@KirbyChan.com
416.305.8008

At the moment there are 4 properties available on Fifeshire Road.

77 Fifeshire Road – 116.29’ x 198’ lot size. 9-year old Custom-built Detached 2-storey home. Deep lot backing on to other homes. Approximately 6914 sq.ft. with 5 bedrooms and 9 washrooms. Finished basement. 4-car garage.

81 Fifeshire Road – 107.84’ x 246.44’ lot size. 2-year old Custom-built Detached 2-storey home. 5 Bedrooms and 7 washrooms. Finished basement. 4-car garage.

78 Fifeshire Road – 90’ x 222.5’ lot size. Brand new Custom-built Detached 2-storey home. Deep lot backing on to other homes. Approximately 6800 sq.ft. with 5 bedrooms and 7 washrooms. Finished basement. 3-car garage.

51 Fifeshire Road – 107.21’ x 182.8’ lot size. Brand new Custom-built Detached 2-storey home. Deep lot backing on to other homes. Approximately 6800 sq.ft. with 5 bedrooms and 10 washrooms. Finished basement. 4-car garage.

7 Fifeshire Road – 125.29’ x 220’ lot size. Brand new Custom-built Detached 2-storey home. One of the largest lots in the area. Approximately 10,000 sq.ft. with 6 bedrooms and 11 washrooms. Finished basement. 3-car garage. Extras: Elevator, Home Theatre, Wine Room, Salt Water Pool and Home Gym. Sold

Willowdale was originally settled by Jacob Cummer, who immigrated to Canada from the United States in 1797. Cummer was a mill owner on the nearby Don River, a proprietor of a tinsmith shop on Yonge Street and a self trained doctor and veterinarian. Cummer was held in such high esteem by his neighbours that this area was originally known as Kummer’s Settlement.

David Gibson, a distinguished land surveyor, was another leader in this community. Like most of his neighbours, Gibson participated in the ill-fated Toronto Rebellion of 1837. He was thus charged with high treason and escaped to the United States were he found employment as the First Assistant Engineer on the building of the Erie Canal.

Gibson returned to his Yonge Street farm in 1851, after being pardoned for his role in the Rebellion. He then helped to establish the “Willow Dale” post office, named after the many willow trees that once graced this district. Members of the Gibson family were still living in Gibson House in the 1920′s when the residential subdivision of Willowdale began to take place.

The Gibson House, circa 1851, is still standing in its original location at 5172 Yonge Street and is now a historic museum.

The Willowdale neighbourhood consists of single family homes, condominium townhouses and high-rise condominium towers. High density development is restricted along Yonge Street. The single family homes range in age from the original 1910 to 1950s construction (one and two-storey pre-war houses and modest one-and-half storey postwar houses). After the 1990s, very large replacement two-storey luxury homes were constructed by tearing down the original houses. It is in this neighbourhood that the term “monster homes” was first applied by Torontonians.

North York forms the central part of the northern half of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. As of the 2006 Census, it has a population of 635,370. The official 2001 census count was 608,288. Until 1998, it was the second-largest of six municipalities that comprised another larger municipal structure called Metropolitan Toronto. The previous year, the provincial Government of Ontario passed legislation to merge these municipalities into a single, new amalgamated City of Toronto. North York is one of the most diverse areas of Toronto, as it contains one of the richest areas of the city (The Bridle Path) and one of the poorest (Jane and Finch).

History

The Township of North York was formed on June 13, 1922 out of the rural part of the Township of York. The rapidly-urbanizing parts of the Township remained in that township. As North York itself became more urbanized, it became the Borough of North York in 1967, and then on February 14, 1979, the City of North York. To commemorate receiving its city charter on St. Valentine’s Day, the city’s corporate slogan was “The City with Heart”. It now forms the largest part of the area served by the “North York Community Council”, a committee of Toronto City Council.

Originally, North York was known as a regional agricultural hub composed of scattered villages. The area boomed following World War II, and by the 1950s and 1960s, it resembled many other sprawling North American suburbs. Of note is the community of Don Mills.

Development of North York Centre

While much of the area still retains a suburban nature, efforts led by former Mayor of North York and Toronto Mel Lastman were made to intensify development in the North York Centre area along Yonge Street between Finch and Sheppard Avenues, coinciding with the path of the Toronto Transit Commission’s Yonge subway line.

There are many stores and high-rise office and condominium apartment buildings along this central North York corridor, particularly centred around the old North York City Hall. Directly beside the old City Hall is the Toronto Centre for the Arts. Thanks to a new subway line along Sheppard Avenue, more high-rise condominiums are being built along the Sheppard East corridor.

The central area is gradually ceasing to be suburban, resembling a smaller version of the city’s downtown. World-renowned corporations have built their own office towers along Yonge Street in central North York, including the Canadian head offices of Procter & Gamble, Nestlé, Cadbury Adams, Lindt & Sprüngli, Equifax, and Xerox, while the Government of Canada maintains offices north of Sheppard Avenue. McDonald’s of Canada is also located in North York, although not along this corridor. This particular area is the region in the foreground of this photograph.[4] Many more office and condo towers have sprouted in the area of this photo since it was taken.

The section of Highway 401 which traverses North York is the busiest section of freeway in North America, exceeding 400,000 vehicles per day.

In the 1980s, the administration of Mel Lastman transformed North York. The former North York City Hall looks out upon a reflecting pool. Directly south of the city hall in the same complex is the former North York Board of Education building (now home to the Toronto District School Board. To the north and east of the complex are two large malls connected by an underground passage with subway access. The northern mall is connected to the North York Central Library, the largest full-service Toronto Public Library building in Toronto (second to Metro Reference in square footage). The library is a part of a much larger facility including a school board work station, swimming pool, snack bar, veterans centre and large hotel, the rooms of which look onto the inside of the mall. The more recently-built eastern mall (called “Empress Walk”) is built around a large multi-story cathedral-like hall and contains an Empire Theatres movie theatre and a Loblaws supermarket.

Amenities

Major shopping malls in North York include the Yorkdale Shopping Centre and Fairview Mall. Smaller locations include Centerpoint Mall, Bayview Village, Yorkgate Mall, Steeles West Market Mall, Jane Finch Mall and Sheppard Centre. It is also home to campuses of York University, Seneca College, Osgoode Hall Law School, and Tyndale University College and Seminary.

Major health-care facilities, such as North York General Hospital, Humber River Regional Hospital (Finch Avenue Site previously called York-Finch Hospital) and the massive Sunnybrook Hospital complex which includes a veterans’ residence and regional trauma centre are located in North York.

A military base and aircraft manufacturing facility is located at Downsview, although with the end of the Cold War, much of the land is now being transformed into a park.

Black Creek Pioneer Village, an authentic nineteenth-century village, and the Ontario Science Centre, which boasts over 800 science-oriented exhibits, are North York’s primary attractions. Not far from Black Creek Pioneer Village is York University’s main campus, and the infamous Jane and Finch neighbourhood.

Along North York’s Bathurst Street is one of the world’s most important Jewish communities, with a significant population of Holocaust survivors.

A small plaza containing Chinese restaurants and supermarkets is located at the intersection of Finch Avenue and Leslie Street. It first developed in the 1980s to serve the ethnic Chinese community, though its patronage has now diversified.

There are a multitude of North York sports clubs including the North York Storm, a girls hockey league, Gwendolen Tennis Club in the heart of North York near Yonge and Sheppard, and the venerable North York Aquatic Club, which was founded in 1958 as the North York Lions Swim Club and has produced many Olympian swimmers.

Original Wikipedia article can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_York,_Ontario

Forest Hill is an affluent neighbourhood in central Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Along with Rosedale and The Bridle Path, it is considered to be one of Toronto’s wealthiest neighbourhoods.

History

It was originally incorporated as a village in 1923, and later annexed by the City of Toronto in 1967, along with the Village of Swansea. The village was named after the summer home of John Wickson; previously it had been known as Spadina Heights (a name that continued to be applied to the neighbourhood into the twentieth century).

Prior to World War II, Forest Hill’s population was predominantly made up of wealthy Anglo-Protestants. During the 1940s and 1950s, many upwardly mobile Jews moved from the Spadina area of Toronto into Forest Hill. Forest Hill has many businesses catering to the Jewish community along Eglinton Avenue. Today, Jews make up about half of the population of Forest Hill, according to the 2001 census[citation needed].

Its original boundaries were Bathurst Street to the west, Upper Canada College to the east, Eglinton Avenue to the north, and Lonsdale Road and a portion of Montclair Avenue to the south (the original boundaries of School Section 30). Neighbourhoods north of Eglinton are sometimes though not unanimously regarded as Forest Hill.

North and South

Currently, for the purposes of social policy analysis & research, the city of Toronto’s Social Development & Administration division divides Forest Hill into two neighbourhoods: Forest Hill North and Forest Hill South.

Forest Hill North extends from Briar Hill Avenue in the north to Eglinton Avenue West in the south, and from Latimer Avenue in the east to Allen Road and Fairleigh Crescent in the north-west and south-west, respectively. For administrative purposes, Forest Hill North is Toronto neighbourhood #102. Politically, the residents of Forest Hill North are represented either in the Eglinton-Lawrence ward or in the St. Paul’s (west) ward.

As the name would imply, Forest Hill South is directly south of Forest Hill North. It extends from Eglinton Ave West in the north to Tichester Road in the south, and from Bathurst Street in the west to Elmsthorpe Road in the northeast and Avenue Road and the Oriole Parkway in the east. There is an additional stretch of Forest Hill South between Bathurst Street and Spadina Road, north of Lonsdale Road. The city of Toronto counts Forest Hill South as neighbourhood #101. The residents of Forest Hill South are represented in either the St. Paul’s (west) ward or the St. Paul’s (east) ward.

Forest Hill Village is a part of Forest Hill occupying most of the original area of the village. The Village extends roughly from Briar Hill Avenue in the north (the Upper Village, officially part of Forest Hill North) to Heath Street in the south (the Lower Village, officially the major part of Forest Hill South along Spadina Road between Bathurst Street/Cedarvale Ravine (whichever is further east) and Avenue Road. The designations Upper and Lower are based on height of land and not on positions on a map or along a watercourse.

The Lower Village is known for its upscale shopping and dining, although the actual mix of stores includes several modest enterprises. The Lower Village has attracted extensive residential development (especially of apartments), both within the original boundaries of Forest Hill and in adjacent neighbourhoods to which developers have now extended the Village and Forest Hill names.

Although the population of Forest Hill is lacking in diversity (the results of the 2001 census showed that 90% of the population was white), visible minorities are steadily moving into this neighbourhood.

Original Wikipedia article can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_Hill,_Toronto