The Neighbourhoods · Toronto · Updated July 2026
King West Luxury Condos & Lofts
King West, the new addition.
- $838–974
- Avg $/sq ft, sold
- 90 days to September 7, 2026
- 8
- Active $3M+
- MLS (TRREB) · Sep 15
- 43
- Avg days on market
- median 32 days
- 6.2
- Months of inventory
- 506 active ÷ 81 sales/mo
King West Luxury Condos & Lofts
KING Toronto by Bjarke Ingels, 1 Hotel Toronto, TIFF Lightbox, and one of the densest restaurant strips in Canada. Toronto’s culture-anchored luxury corridor.
What you’ll love
- TIFF, the rooftops, and fifteen years of one of the city’s densest restaurant strips inside a ten-minute walk, stitched together by the TTC’s busiest surface route. The draw is what the corridor is becoming, not what it already was.
What not to expect
- Establishment pedigree or a walk-to-school life — there is no high school inside the corridor, and the parks are real but modest. Buyers who want a century of institutional weight usually land in Yorkville, families in Forest Hill or Rosedale; King West rewards the young, the mobile, and the lock-and-leave.
King West, by its places.
The landmarks
Green space
The school run
Getting there
The tables
The last ninety days, on the record.
244 sales closed in King West in the ninety days to September 7, 2026 — an average of $752,506 against a median of $615,000, at 43 days on market. 506 listings are active as of this writing.
| Detachedthe enclaves | Townhomesthe middle register | Condosthe entry point | All Typesreference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Homes Sold | 0 | 0 | 244 | 244 |
| Average Sold Price | — | — | $752,506 | $752,506 |
| Median Sold Price | — | — | $615,000 | $615,000 |
| Sold Price Range | — | — | $337,500 – $5,318,000 | $337,500 – $5,318,000 |
| Total Sold Volume | — | — | $183,611,573 | $183,611,573 |
| Avg Days on Market | — | — | 43 days | 43 days |
| Price per Square Foot | — | — | $838 – $974 | $838 – $974 |
| Active Listings | 0 | 1 | 444 | 506 |
| New Listings This Period | 0 | 1 | 486 | 549 |
Condominiums led the quarter — 244 sales at a $752,506 average against a $615,000 median — and sat longest at 43 days. The capital is flowing to the neighbourhood's entry point.
Bjarke Ingels above one of the densest restaurant strips in Canada.
King West is Toronto’s youngest apex postcode. Where Yorkville is six city blocks of established density and Forest Hill is a school catchment, King West is a cultural strip — TIFF Lightbox, 1 Hotel Toronto, fifteen years of consistently the city’s best restaurants — that has, over the last decade, accumulated the residential mass to be considered an apex luxury market in its own right.
The corridor runs roughly from Bathurst to John, with a western extension to Strachan, and is increasingly bracketed by The Well at Front and Spadina to the south. Inside that footprint sit a dozen luxury condo buildings, an emerging anchor — KING Toronto, Westbank and Bjarke Ingels Group’s mountain-formed icon at Spadina and King — and a buyer who is, in most cases, choosing the neighbourhood for cultural infrastructure rather than residential establishment. That distinction is the entire story.
The active set
Closed $3M-plus King West condo transactions are inconsistently published in public sources. What is observable: the corridor’s apex inventory is concentrated in three buildings — Theatre Park (224 King West, 2015), 357 King West (Great Gulf, 2021 occupancy), and the awaited KING Toronto. Thompson Residences (55 Stewart Street, 2010) and Festival Tower above the TIFF Lightbox (80 John, 2012) carry the established hotel-branded resale inventory; SoHo Metropolitan Residences at 318 Wellington (a five-star hotel-branded address on the King West / Wellington boundary) trades quietly at the top end.
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.
King West’s luxury buildings
Six buildings define the King West luxury condominium segment. The corridor’s range — from boutique soft-loft (Seventy5 Portland) to Bjarke Ingels Group’s apex tower (KING Toronto) — is wider than any other Toronto luxury postcode.
Living in King West, in plain English
King West is the only Toronto neighbourhood where a resident’s daily walk-radius includes TIFF Lightbox (King and John — the Toronto International Film Festival’s permanent home), the 1 Hotel Toronto rooftop, Lavelle, and a fifteen-year-old strip of restaurants on King between Bathurst and Spadina that has remained, almost continuously, one of the densest fine-dining stretches in the country. The Well — Hariri Pontarini’s mixed-use anchor at Front and Spadina — opened in 2023 and is the southern bookend of the corridor; its retail came online progressively through 2024 and 2025.
Transit is uniquely good. The King Street Transit Priority Corridor — the 504 streetcar line between Bathurst and Jarvis — has been permanent since April 2019 and is the TTC’s busiest surface transit route. St. Andrew Station (Line 1) is at the eastern end. Pearson is approximately 25 minutes by car. For families, the public catchment is Niagara Street Junior PS, with City School — a TDSB alternative secondary school at Bathurst and Queens Quay — also drawing applicants from the area; private school families typically commute to Forest Hill or downtown via the Gardiner.
What’s missing
King West is missing the establishment overlay that defines Yorkville, Forest Hill, and Rosedale. There is no equivalent of the Mink Mile, no historic family compounds, no UCC. That is, for many King West buyers, the appeal — the corridor is for buyers who want apex residential without the establishment context. The flip side: King West is more sensitive to cycle than the older postcodes. When the cultural infrastructure (TIFF, the restaurants, 1 Hotel Toronto) softens, the residential demand softens with it. So far, neither has.
International buyers in King West
The international slice of King West activity has compressed materially. The federal foreign-buyer ban is extended to January 1, 2027, and Ontario’s 25% Non-Resident Speculation Tax plus Toronto’s 10% MNRST (in effect since January 1, 2025) bring the effective speculation tax to 35% for non-exempt international buyers. Model the NRST.
King West, in questions.
01What is KING Toronto and when does it complete?
KING Toronto is Westbank and Bjarke Ingels Group’s 440-unit "mountain-formed" apex condominium at 489–539 King Street West. Allied Properties REIT took operational control of the project from Westbank in mid-2025, and completion is now expected by the end of 2026 with construction-loan maturities extended to March 31, 2027.
02What anchors King West culturally?
Three anchors: the TIFF Lightbox (the Toronto International Film Festival’s permanent home, at King and John), 1 Hotel Toronto (550 Wellington West, with a rooftop), and a fifteen-year-old fine-dining strip on King between Bathurst and Spadina. The Well at Front and Spadina is the southern bookend.
03How does the King Street Transit Priority Corridor work?
The 504 streetcar between Bathurst and Jarvis runs on a transit-priority corridor, permanent since April 2019, that cut afternoon-peak travel times from roughly 25 minutes to roughly 20. As of 2024–2025, dedicated traffic agents at key intersections cut weekday peak transit times further.
04What price band defines King West luxury?
King West’s apex product (KING Toronto, Theatre Park penthouses, SoHo Met) trades at $2M-plus per residence. Mid-luxury one- and two-bedrooms sit in the $1.2M–$1.4M band. The live sold $/sq ft range and days on market for the area sit at the top of this page.
05Are international buyers active in King West today?
The international slice has compressed materially. The federal foreign-buyer ban is extended to January 1, 2027; Ontario’s 25% NRST plus Toronto’s 10% MNRST (in effect January 1, 2025) bring the effective speculation tax to 35% for non-exempt international buyers.
06What is King West known for?
King West is known for culture-anchored luxury rather than institutional history — the TIFF Lightbox; a fifteen-year run as one of Toronto’s densest concentrations of destination restaurants; and, as it finishes construction, Bjarke Ingels’ KING Toronto. It is the city’s newest apex luxury postcode, built on cultural infrastructure and walkability rather than old money.
07Why is it called King West?
King Street was laid out in Governor John Graves Simcoe’s original 1793 plan for the Town of York and named for the reigning British Crown; King West is simply the street’s western stretch, not a separately christened neighbourhood. The identity is far newer than the name — the corridor spent most of the twentieth century as Toronto’s garment and warehouse district, and only became a residential address after the City’s 1996 King-Spadina regeneration policy let the old factories convert to lofts and, later, condominiums.
08Is King West a good place to live?
For the right buyer it is one of the best addresses in the city: TIFF, a genuinely deep restaurant strip, and hotel rooftops inside a ten-minute walk, on the TTC’s busiest surface transit corridor. It rewards young, mobile, lock-and-leave owners far more than families — no high school sits inside the corridor, the public secondary options are thin, and the green space is real but modest. Buyers who want establishment pedigree should look to Yorkville instead; a walk-to-school life points to Forest Hill or Rosedale.
09How far is King West from the airport?
Pearson is roughly 25 minutes by car off-peak, in line with most downtown Toronto addresses. Billy Bishop, the downtown island airport, is closer for King West than for almost any other Toronto luxury postcode — call it 10 to 20 minutes by car off-peak, traffic depending. Most residents use a car service for either.
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