Forest Hill Luxury Condos & Real Estate

Forest Hill is the Toronto neighbourhood that most resembles, in posture and in pace, a small European hill town. The streets curve. The trees are mature. Two of the country’s three best-known independent schools sit inside the footprint. The retail strip is one block long. And, almost uniquely among Toronto’s apex postcodes, the dominant housing form is the detached single-family residence — which is to say, the condo inventory at $3M and above is genuinely scarce.

That scarcity is the entire story. Forest Hill proper — bounded loosely by St. Clair Avenue West to the south, Eglinton to the north, Avenue Road to the east, and Bathurst to the west — has perhaps a dozen luxury condo and co-op buildings of any consequence, and only a handful of those trade meaningfully at $3M-plus. When inventory does appear, it sells on a different timeline than the rest of the city.

The active set

Recent named transactions at the $3M-plus tier are not consistently published in public sources for Forest Hill condominiums; the segment trades quietly. What is observable is the active listing set: boutique product at One Forest Hill and Forest Hill Private Residences, and 200 Russell Hill — Hirsh Developments’ completed boutique on the Nordheimer Ravine edge, now trading resale. Current asking prices are available on request; they move often enough that a printed number here would age badly.

Closed comps at $3M-plus from the past twelve months are best sourced through MLS directly; live sold-data integration is planned for this page.

Forest Hill’s luxury buildings

Five addresses define the luxury condominium segment in Forest Hill proper, with a sixth — Imperial Plaza — sitting on the Forest Hill / Deer Park boundary at 111 St. Clair West and frequently grouped here in marketing materials. Each commands a different positioning, and none are interchangeable.

Living in Forest Hill, in plain English

Forest Hill is the school catchment that buyers actually pay for. Upper Canada College, one of Canada’s foremost boys’ schools (approximately 1,280 students, JK–Y12, full IB), sits at 200 Lonsdale Road — directly inside the neighbourhood. Bishop Strachan School, the equivalent independent girls’ school, occupies a thirteen-acre campus at 298 Lonsdale Road, two blocks west. Branksome Hall is sometimes grouped with these institutions, but is geographically a Rosedale school. Forest Hill Collegiate Institute, the public option, is the catchment high school for most of the residential streets here.

Retail in Forest Hill proper is concentrated in a single short strip — Forest Hill Village, on Spadina Road around Lonsdale — anchored historically by an independent grocer, a few cafés, the pharmacy, and a small set of boutiques. It is not a destination retail district. Buyers do their grocery runs at the Loblaws on St. Clair. The Granite Club, at 2350 Bayview Avenue, is the dominant private-club address for Forest Hill families; the membership runs a multi-year waitlist.

Transit is the quiet asset. St. Clair West Station puts the Financial District roughly fifteen minutes away; Line 5, open since February 2026, brings a second high-frequency option at the north edge. Pearson is approximately 25 minutes by car, in line with Yorkville and Rosedale. Forest Hill is, in transit terms, equally well-connected as those neighbourhoods — but with a meaningfully larger residential footprint, the daily rhythm feels suburban rather than urban.

What’s missing

Forest Hill’s condo segment is, more than anything, missing inventory. Buyers who decide they want a Forest Hill condo often wait — sometimes for a year — for the right unit at the right building. Patience is a part of the strategy here in a way it is not in Yorkville or in King West, where new inventory delivers continuously.