Neighbourhood guide  /  West End

Little Italy

College Street cafés and patios, with well-kept semis on the side streets.

Little Italy runs along College Street roughly between Bathurst and Ossington, and it retains a genuine connection to the community that named it even as the restaurants have broadened. The commercial strip is busy in the evenings and lively in summer, when the patios extend across the sidewalks. Behind it, the residential streets are quiet and remarkably well kept — Victorian and Edwardian semis, many owned by the same families for decades, with the tidy front gardens and finished basements that mark a neighbourhood of long tenure. That low turnover keeps inventory thin.

Housing stock

Victorian and Edwardian semi-detached houses, some detached; apartments above the College Street retail.

Who buys here

Families, professionals, and long-established households; generational sales are common.

Transit

The 506 College streetcar; Christie and Ossington stations to the north.

Worth checking

Houses held for decades often have older mechanical systems. Budget for updates.

Homes for sale in Little Italy

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