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570 Bay St · Toronto

Motion

City score 97/100 — green category
97 / 100
City of Toronto RentSafeTO rating: Green — satisfactory.

Last evaluated 2026-08-28. Buildings scoring 85–100 are green, 70–84 yellow, 0–69 red — the same thresholds behind the colour-coded signs posted at rental building entrances since June 15, 2026. What the sign colours mean →

Score history: 2026: 97 · 2024: 95

Source: City of Toronto Open Data, RentSafeTO Apartment Building Evaluation.

Our read — from public records & cited coverage
  • Purpose-built rental (Concert Properties, 2013; now Oxford/Greystar-managed) at Bay & Dundas; scored 95/100 'Satisfactory' on its July 2024 RentSafeTO evaluation with zero open deficiencies
  • Resident record is split by platform: verified-resident reviews around 4/5 versus a mid-2s Google average; recurring complaints are move-out chargebacks and, in a 2025 Reddit thread, a multi-year resident describing dismissive management under the previous operator - management has since changed hands
  • Light-sleeper note: the block sits at the mouth of hospital row (sirens on Bay/Dundas/Elizabeth), the 505 streetcar passes the south face, and the former coach-terminal block immediately north is a construction site into ~2029-2030; west-facing high floors are the shielded exposures
  • Built 2013, so Ontario rent control applies - unusual among downtown purpose-built rentals

Building facts

Year built
2013
Units
463
Storeys
29
Elevators
5
Heating
Hot Water
A/C
Central Air
Pets allowed
YES
Laundry room
NO
Visitor parking
PAID
Non-smoking
NO
Managed by
Concert Realty Services Ltd.
Ward
Spadina-Fort York

Last TSSA elevator inspection on file with the City: FEB 24, 2016.

Source: City of Toronto Open Data, RentSafeTO Apartment Building Registration (owner-reported).

City evaluation by area

Each common area is scored 1–3 by a City evaluator (3 = no issues observed).

Elevator maintenance
3/3
Common-area pests
3/3
Building cleanliness
3/3
Garbage / compactor room
3/3
Laundry room
3/3
Common-area ventilation
3/3

Short-term rentals

2 active short-term-rental registrations at this address (8 in postal area M5G). High counts can mean hotel-style turnover in hallways and elevators.

Source: City of Toronto Open Data, Short Term Rentals Registration (refreshed daily).

Links & coverage

Resident reviews

No published resident reviews yet. If you've lived at Motion, you know things no dataset does — two minutes of your experience saves the next renter months of regret.

Lived here? Rate this building

Anonymous to the public. Structured, factual, about the building — reviews naming individual people are not published. All submissions are human-moderated before they appear.

Elevators (1 = terrible · 5 = great)
Pests (1 = terrible · 5 = great)
Noise (1 = terrible · 5 = great)
Heat & hot water (1 = terrible · 5 = great)
Management responsiveness (1 = terrible · 5 = great)
Deposit / key money returned (1 = terrible · 5 = great)
Were the elevators out of service in the past month?

Known issues worth flagging if you have first-hand knowledge: Kitec plumbing, special assessments, chronic elevator outages, pest treatments, heat/water interruptions, short-term-rental churn.

Reviews are first-hand resident accounts, moderated before publication. They are opinions of their authors, not statements of fact by this site. Corrections policy.