Front exterior of 42 Melville Avenue, a detached brick 2-storey with a covered porch and garden on a Dupont/Christie street
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42 Melville Avenue

Listed at $1,199,000

3Bedrooms
2Bathrooms
20 × 114Lot, feet
8Days on market
2Parking spaces
01 / THE PROPERTY

Perfect opportunity at Dupont/Christie.

A detached brick 2-storey waiting for its next chapter — on Melville Avenue, in the Dupont/Christie pocket of Dovercourt-Wallace Emerson-Junction. The listing said it plainly: “Perfect opportunity and countless potential.”

Three bedrooms up, a separate-entrance basement with income-suite potential, an attached 2-car garage — and a deep 20 × 114 ft lot in one of Toronto’s most walkable west-end pockets.

Rear view of 42 Melville Avenue from the backyard, with a grapevine-covered pergola, patio, and chiminea
The backyard — a grapevine-covered pergola, patio, and deep 20 × 114 ft lot.
02 / THE HOME

Renovator bones, end-user upside.

Main floor: living 16′ × 10′5″, dining 15′2″ × 10′5″, kitchen 10′2″ × 10′5″. Second floor: all three bedrooms — master 12′7″ × 12′3″, second 11′9″ × 9′5″, third 8′10″ × 7′10″. Below, a basement with its own entrance, ready to be someone’s income suite.

  • 3 bedrooms, all on the second level
  • Separate-entrance basement, income potential
  • Attached 2-car garage + driveway
  • 20 × 114 ft lot (~2,280 sq ft)
  • Gas forced air, central A/C
  • Grapevine pergola, fenced backyard
03 / THE OUTCOME

Eight days. Gone.

Listed June 9, 2021 at $1,199,000 — in the middle of Toronto’s peak 2021 market, where a detached brick home at Dupont/Christie with renovation upside was exactly what buyers were hunting.

  1. 01

    Priced for action

    Listed at $1,199,000 — positioned as the opportunity it was, inviting end-users and renovators alike.

  2. 02

    Countless potential

    Detached on a 20 × 114 ft lot, separate-entrance basement, attached 2-car garage — the ingredients buyers pay up for.

  3. 03

    Sold in eight days

    Firm by June 17, 2021 — just eight days on market in the red-hot 2021 spring market.

  4. 04

    The close

    Closed September 15, 2021 — a clean, fast result on a classic west-end detached.

04 / THE GALLERY

See the home.

SOLD

Countless potential, sold in 8 days.

List price

$1,199,000

Listed by Jim Emilson — Emilson Group at EXP Realty — Sold June 17, 2021