Downtown Whitby townhouses for sale

Townhouses downtown are a mix that reflects a century of infill. Freehold rows from the 1970s and 1980s appear on the side streets toward Garden Street and near the 401, usually with a single garage and a fenced rear yard. Condominium townhouses, some stacked, arrived in the 1990s and 2000s on former commercial or institutional sites off Dundas Street and Cochrane Street, and newer stacked blocks have followed along the main streets as land values pushed density up. Buyers are first-time households who want a yard and a walk to Brock Street without the maintenance of a century home, and downsizers who prefer a townhouse over an apartment. On freehold rows check the shared wall, roof age and drainage between units; on condo rows read the declaration for fee coverage, parking and the exterior maintenance schedule. Some rows sit on common-element or parcel-of-tied-land tenure, which carries a fee even though the house is freehold.