What the registry shows
Thirty-two registered short-term rentals across 35 towers. Two buildings hold more than half of them.
Eau du Soleil Sky Tower 30 Shore Breeze Dr · 1.7% of units
11
Waters Edge at The Cove 38 Annie Craig Dr · unit count n/a
6
Eau du Soleil Water Tower 20 Shore Breeze Dr · 0.5% of units
3
Westlake I 2200 Lake Shore Blvd W · 0.7% of units
3
Lago at the Waterfront 56 Annie Craig Dr · 0.4% of units
2
Waterford A 2083 Lake Shore Blvd W · 1.1% of units
1
Jade Waterfront 33 Shore Breeze Dr · 0.3% of units
1
Vita on the Lake 70 Annie Craig Dr · 0.2% of units
1
Cove at Waterways 39 Annie Craig Dr · 0.4% of units
1
Westlake II 2212 Lake Shore Blvd W · 0.2% of units
1
Westlake III 2220 Lake Shore Blvd W · 0.2% of units
1
Palace Place 1 Palace Pier Crt · 0.2% of units
1
The other 23 towers: zero registered short-term rentals. Including Palace Pier, all three Marina Del Rey towers, all three Grand Harbour towers, both Newport Beach towers, all three Beyond the Sea towers, both Ocean Club buildings, Grenadier Landing and Waterscapes. None appear in the registry at all.
Why it’s lower than the reputation
Humber Bay Shores gets talked about like an Airbnb corridor. The registry says otherwise. And the reason is the rule itself.
Toronto only allows short-term rentals in your principal residence, capped at 180 days a year. A big share of Humber Bay Shores units are investor-owned or second homes. Pied-à-terres, parents parking money for kids, pre-construction assignments that never became someone’s address. None of those can legally be short-term rented. The bylaw was written to protect long-term housing stock, and in this neighbourhood, that is exactly what it is doing.
The buildings with the most registrations tell the same story from the other side. Eau du Soleil and Waters Edge at The Cove are newer towers with heavy investor ownership. The units most likely to actually be someone’s principal residence and rented out part-time are exactly the ones showing up.
The plain-English version: if you have been avoiding Humber Bay Shores because you assumed every other unit was an Airbnb, the City’s own data says you can relax. About three in every thousand units are registered.
What the listing won’t tell you
No listing ever mentions the Airbnb count in the building. Here is why it matters anyway.
For buyers, a high short-term rental count means more strangers in the hallways, more wear on the elevators and amenities, and a condo board that is one bad summer away from tightening the rules. Special rules, guest restrictions, higher fees to cover the churn. None of that shows up in the listing photos. In the two warmer buildings here, it is worth asking the property manager directly how the board handles it before you write an offer.
For sellers, the flip side is the opportunity. If your building has zero registered short-term rentals, that is a genuine selling point in a market where buyers quietly worry about it: a stable, mostly owner-occupied building. It belongs in the listing copy and in the conversation at every showing. Because the buyer’s agent is not going to bring it up, and the data backs you.
If you’re thinking of selling: ask me for your building’s number before we list. If it is zero, we say so loudly. If it isn’t, we get ahead of it with the board’s rules in hand.
How we’d present around it
This is the part no data table can do. It is the presentation strategy.
In a quiet building, we make stability part of the story: owner-occupied feel, familiar faces in the lobby, amenities that are actually available on a Saturday morning. That is what end-user buyers are really buying, and most listings never say it.
In one of the warmer buildings, we don’t hide from the number. We frame it. Strong investor demand means strong rental demand, which is exactly what an investor-buyer wants to hear, and the principal-residence rule means the building can’t legally tip further. We’d rather name the thing in the listing than let a buyer discover it on a City website after their showing.
The principle: every building has a story the data tells. Our job is to find the true version of it and present it first. Before someone else’s version gets there.
How we put these numbers together
The method, the limits, and what this can and can’t tell you. So you can quote it with confidence.
What we counted
We downloaded the City of Toronto’s Short-Term Rentals Registration open dataset on October 11, 2026. 8,724 active registrations, each with a street address. We matched those addresses against our fixed list of 35 Humber Bay Shores condo towers and counted the matches per building.
- 32 registrations matched Humber Bay Shores tower addresses.
- Density figures use each building’s unit count; Waters Edge at The Cove’s count was not yet verified, so no density is shown for it.
- Unit numbers are never shown. Building-level counts only.
What’s in. And what’s out
This counts registered operators only. The City’s Auditor General has flagged that roughly 10% of registrants may be overstepping the rules, and unregistered rentals exist outside this dataset entirely. Treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
One registration is allowed per dwelling unit, and registrations reflect the operator’s declared principal residence. The dataset is a snapshot, not a live feed.
Sources: City of Toronto Open Data, Short-Term Rentals Registration (pulled October 11, 2026); Toronto Auditor General short-term rental audit findings, 2024. Building unit counts from our Humber Bay Shores tower database.
Why we'll keep watching this
Nobody publishes tower-level short-term rental numbers for this neighbourhood. We will re-pull the registry and re-run the same match, so the numbers stay comparable over time.
The same 35 towersSo the area does not quietly change from one check to the next
The public registryThe same City dataset, matched the same way
Building-level countsBecause your tower matters more than the ward average
A fresh pull on a scheduleSo you can see if and when the picture moves
The simple takeaway: better local information leads to a better pricing conversation. That's the whole point of this report.
