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17 Bathurst St · Toronto

The LakeShore

Condo — exempt from RentSafeTO inspections & signs
No City rating
This building has no RentSafeTO score — and never will under current rules.

The City's evaluation program covers purpose-built rental buildings only. Condos are exempt, so no inspection score and no colour-coded sign exist for this address. Resident reviews are the only record. Why condos have no signs →

Our read — from public records & cited coverage
  • Concord tower (2021) above the flagship Loblaws; the most negatively-reviewed of the newer Fort York towers in 2025 Reddit threads - five independent resident accounts across three threads
  • Reported issues: a March 2025 flood that disabled elevators for days, chronic elevator breakdowns, a summer-long A/C outage, pest complaints, heavily-used amenities, and slow maintenance
  • First occupied after November 2018, so no rent-increase guideline; residents report steep renewal increases in recent years
  • One multi-year resident dissents and reports a fine experience - the split is noted

Building facts

Year built
2021
Units
886
Storeys
41
Ward
Spadina-Fort York

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

Short-term rentals

0 active short-term-rental registrations at this address. 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 The LakeShore, 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.