Downsview Homes & Real Estate Toronto

Downsview is one of Toronto's largest neighbourhoods — reaching north from Highway 401 to Sheppard Avenue, and west from Bathurst Street to Highway 400. The area takes its name from Down’s View farm, established in 1842 by settler John Perkins Bull, near the intersection of Keele Street and Wilson Avenue. This remained a largely agricultural community until 1928, when De Havilland Aircraft Company built a factory on the site of present-day Downsview Lands Park.

Rolling hills, spacious lots, and single-family homes built between World War II and the early 1970s, lend the streets of Downsview a nice suburban feel—with many homes backing onto a greenbelt and parkland. The area includes several large post-WWII subdivisions, with detached, semi-detached and split-level houses, all with driveways—the most typical being a 3-bedroom bungalow style. Some houses and condos have been built more recently near Downsview subway station.

Downsview homes are in the low to mid price ranges, with an average price of $348,919.

The community has convenient access to Highways 401 and 400. For those preferring public transportation, TTC buses along Sheppard connect to the Downsview station on the Spadina-University subway line (where you can connect to York Region VIVA buses)... buses along Finch connect to the Yonge subway line (where you can connect to other VIVA buses or the eastward Sheppard RT line)... and buses on Keele, Dufferin and Bathurst connect to the Bloor-Danforth subway line. The Downsview area has seven public elementary schools, two Catholic elementary schools, public high schools, and two public libraries. York University is a shoret distance north, on Steeles... Humber College's North Campus is a few miles east along Finch)... and University of Toronto is accessible via the Spadina-University-Yonge subway line.

Downsview has a number of shopping malls, including North York Sheridan Mall (Jane Street & Wilson Avenue), Downsview Plaza (Keele Street & Wilson), Lawrence Square (Lawrence Avenue West & the Allen Expressway), and the landmark Yorkdale Shopping Centre (Dufferin & Highway 401

For residents of Downsview homes there is no shortage of recreational facilities. The community has access to a 5 km paved recreational trail that runs from Black Creek Pioneer Village to Downsview Dells Park, with picnic areas and a great toboggan hill at its west end. The West Don parklands and recreational pathways are in the northwest of the community... and Downsview Lands Park, at Keele and Sheppard — where over 800,000 attended a Papal Mass by Pope John Paul II in July 28, 2002 — is developing into one of Toronto's largest parks, with baseball, soccer and running facilities.

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