The Gerrard India Bazaar, with affordable brick housing on the streets around it.
Written by Nick Ntoukas, Toronto realtor · Chestnut Park Real Estate · Updated August 2026
Little India — the Gerrard India Bazaar — runs along Gerrard Street East around Coxwell, and it is one of the most distinctive commercial strips in the city: sari shops, jewellers, groceries and restaurants concentrated in a few busy blocks. The residential streets around it hold modest brick semis and rowhouses, historically among the more affordable house stock in the east end, and the neighbourhood has drawn steady interest from buyers who want to be close to both Leslieville and the Danforth without paying for either. It remains genuinely mixed and locally rooted.
Brick semis and rowhouses, some detached; apartments above the Gerrard retail.
First-time buyers, young families, and long-established South Asian households.
The 506 Carlton streetcar; Coxwell station on the Bloor line to the north.
Houses here are often small. Confirm the actual square footage rather than relying on the listing.
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Straight-line distances from the centre of Little India. Proximity is not catchment — check the board locators or ask Nick. School locations: Statistics Canada, Open Database of Educational Facilities, adapted; contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence — Canada.
Worth a look if you like Little India — each has its own guide, live listings and schools.
Nick Ntoukas is a Toronto real estate agent with Chestnut Park Real Estate Limited, Brokerage — the exclusive Ontario affiliate of Christie’s International Real Estate — working with buyers and sellers across the GTA, including Little India. A written valuation of your Little India home is free and arrives within 48 hours: call 647-208-8588 or request it online.