Scarborough
A third of a million people, among the cheapest detached houses in the city, the steepest price falls of the last year, and a subway extension that has not opened.
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6 guides in the largest of the four areas by land and among the cheapest by price. Scarborough is postwar subdivision on a grid of arterial roads a kilometre apart, with apartment slabs from the 1960s and 1970s standing beside single-family streets, and since the 1970s it has been one of the main arrival neighbourhoods in the country.
The transit question is the whole argument. Line 3 closed in 2023 and the Line 2 extension is under construction with no date anyone should plan a mortgage around, so what exists today is buses and, in a few places, a GO train. Price the service that runs now. The market has been repricing it: the district around Agincourt fell 8.66% on the composite over the year to July 2026, against 3.62% in Mimico's and 5.62% in the Annex's. What you get for that is a detached benchmark of about $1.05 million in a city where the old-city equivalent is $2.6 million, on the same 0.767% tax rate. Whether that is a bargain depends entirely on how you value the commute, and the honest answer is that only you can price it.
6 communities, guide by guide
Agincourt
A detached house at $1.05M and a composite down 8.66% over the year, in a neighbourhood whose subway is still being built.
- $1.05M
- Detached benchmark in TRREB district E07, July 2026, down 9.40% year over year
- $481k
- Apartment benchmark in the same district and month, down 9.06% year over year
Birchcliffe-Cliffside
The top of the Scarborough Bluffs, where a cottage strip became a bungalow strip and is now being replaced one lot at a time, with the lake ninety metres straight down.
- $1.05M
- Detached benchmark in TRREB district E06, July 2026, down 8.08% year over year
- $569,400
- Apartment benchmark in the same district and month, down 0.38%, the mildest fall in the city
Cedarbrae
A 1960s subdivision named after a golf course, with a library that has been the neighbourhood's front door since 1963 and a hospital campus at its edge.
- $886,000
- Detached benchmark in TRREB district E09, July 2026, down 7.78% year over year
- $429,800
- Apartment benchmark in the same district and month, down 13.61% year over year
Malvern East
A 1970s Ontario Housing Corporation new town in north-east Scarborough, designated an Emerging Neighbourhood in the City's own index, with some of the cheapest freehold townhouses in the city.
- $950k
- Single-family detached benchmark in TRREB district E11, July 2026, down 5.94% year over year
- $594k
- Townhouse benchmark in the same district and month, July 2026, down 7.24% year over year
West Hill
Twenty-eight thousand people between the Highland Creek ravine and the Bluffs' eastern end, a Neighbourhood Improvement Area with two GO stations and the lowest apartment benchmark in the city.
- $384k
- Apartment benchmark in TRREB district E10, July 2026, the lowest of any Toronto district
- −14.51%
- The fall in that apartment benchmark over the year to July 2026, against 7.09% city-wide
Wexford-Maryvale
A 1950s subdivision around a village that predates it by a century, on the north side of the Golden Mile's rebuild, in the district with the second-cheapest detached benchmark in the City of Toronto.
- $881k
- Detached benchmark in TRREB district E04, July 2026, down 9.24% year over year
- $419k
- Apartment benchmark in TRREB district E04, July 2026, down 8.27% year over year
Photographs: Agincourt GO station, April 2026 by Dillan Payne, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons · Birchmount Stadium by FaysaLBinDaruL, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons · Cedarbrae Collegiate Institute by SimonP, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons · Scarborough City Centre from Highway 401 by EelamStyleZ, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons · Intersection of Lawrence Ave and Morningside Ave in Scarborough, July 9 2025 (02) by Dillan Payne, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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