A detached house for less than a $1.26M semi

The average semi-detached house in South Riverdale -- Leslieville, on the ground -- sold for $1,260,000 in Q1 2026, +3.1% against Q1 2025. That is the benchmark most east-end owners price themselves against, because it is the house they live in.

In 4 of the TRREB communities in district E03, the average DETACHED house sold for less than that.

The communities, cheapest first

• Crescent Town. Average detached $855,000, -24.2% year over year. $405,000 under the Leslieville semi average.
• O'Connor-Parkview. Average detached $1,003,000, -17.1% year over year. $257,000 under the Leslieville semi average.
• Woodbine-Lumsden. Average detached $1,198,000, +2.5% year over year. $62,000 under the Leslieville semi average.
• East York. Average detached $1,222,000, -13.1% year over year. $38,000 under the Leslieville semi average.

These are averages of arm's length sales in a single quarter, by property type, in communities TRREB reports individually. They are not estimates and they are not a model. Anyone can check them against the published report in about a minute, which is the point.

What the difference actually buys

Not a better house. A different one. A detached house north of the Danforth is typically twenty to thirty years newer than a Leslieville semi, on a wider lot, with parking that is legal rather than tolerated, and with two walls nobody else is attached to. It is also further from Queen East, further from the streetcar, and on a street that reads as suburban in a way Leslieville never will.

The spread is not a discount. It is the price of eleven minutes and a different kind of street, quoted honestly.

And the spread inside E03 is wider than the spread between E03 and Leslieville. Detached averages there run from $855,000 in Crescent Town to $1,905,000 in Broadview North -- $1,050,000 across 7 communities that share a postal district. Anyone quoting you one number for "East York" is flattening that, and the flattening is always in their favour.

Why this is a sequencing problem and not a search problem

Knowing the gap exists is easy. Capturing it is not, because capturing it means selling the semi and buying the detached in an order that does not cost you the difference in rent, storage or bridge interest. A $405,000 spread evaporates quickly if the move takes two closings and four months to execute.

So the number above is where the decision starts, not where it ends. The list date is where it ends.