The realtor does not have the entire history correct. My mother owned this house for a number of years. My brothers and I added the addition on the back and sold it to a Toronto building inspector. It is located at 128 Day Avenue, near Dufferin and Rogers Road.
So funny. But fast forward to 2019, this house would probably be listed at $300,000. The prices in Toronto are outrageous. A 900 square foot home would cost you around $800,000.
I am a Toronto realtor and have been for 33 years. At that time, I inspected this home or a client. Your interview with the realtor made me laugh so much!
Laneway is a very common term. I think it's interesting so many people here are thrown off by it. It's not a driveway though. It's a common strip between two buildings that (usually, but not always) runs to a back lane behind the homes. You see these in older residential neighbourhoods. They won't have driveways, but will have a laneway that leads to a parking area and sometimes detached garage.
I am also Canadian and I have heard of laneway. It's called a Laneway because it is between 2 houses and narrow, while a driveway is the parking spot at the front of the property the lead to the garage or house. I don't really believe it's her bad that ya'll have never heard of a word.
A laneway is the block long space behind houses that usually allows, at least, a (small) car to drive through. This is why we have laneways behind houses in Toronto--originally, you could put telephone poles and run wires there, before that was cable TV wires, before that was the old TV aerials (triangular based towers), etc. plus have garbage collection, and other utility oriented tasks that are not done on the main street so as to make the main street look more beautiful.
Laneway is a technical term used in the industry. As a driveway implies it was to be used for cars, now back in 1912, not everyone owned cars. So as a result the lane way can be used for foot traffic, deliveries, and carriages.
I live nearby this house and to me, the driveway is where you drive your car to get into a garage. A laneway is just a random long road in between houses. That's how I've been calling it.
a laneway if the like little road, say you have two rows of houses and their backyards and driveway face each others, well a laneway goes in between the driveways straight down the middle for the cars to exit. hope that helps you, if t doesn't there is something called Google it can help. p.s im from toronto and a bunch of people call them laneways
@cisfa lol I'm from miss. area too and we obviously call it a driveway....but in Toronto they call it a laneway more so than a drive way cuz it really is a long lane way rather than what we have...or what is usually standard for the GTA....a driveway in front of your house.
@Currymastuh A lot of people use the word laneway in a place like Toronto with all its British immigrants. But that little house is in what used to be a driveway between the two houses. Residents in the houses on both sides of it would have had garages in their backyards and that shared driveway would be the only way for either of them to access their garage. A friend of mine used to live in a house like one of those and it and the neighbour's house still had their original garages!
I've seen a smaller house in Toronto near my high school... seriously... it is like a cute dwarf house, I wish I could send people a pic. There is also a person who lives there.
that house would be even more in vancouver. 4 bedroom dumps in rough areas are going for over 800,000 and regular family homes in avg areas are going for (on avg) 1.4mill. why do houses have to be so expensive?
A lane way is different then a driveway. A lane way is a space beside or behind homes that connects roads, or pathways, but is not considered a road. Its more like an alleyway, then a driveway. As you don't really own it. I hadn't heard of lane ways until moving to Toronto. Now I live across from one.
You now need an annual income of at least $275,000 per year to buy ANY house in Toronto. Two and three couples are now going together to buy a house there. It's the only way they can afford it. The three bedroom brick bungalow my wife and I owned was bought in 1976 for $50,000. We sold it for $365,000 ten years ago and retired out of the city. It's now flipped for over $700,000. Nuts!
@smokemadbong If you are actually saying that according to size, Canada is the second largest country in the world. I also realize you may just mean that Canada is always ignored more and not brought up, or as acknowleged as much as a place such as USA.
I hate how us Canadians study American geography, but they don`t study us. I told an American that i live in Ontario and he just said "Where is that?" I was thinking "are you serious?!" And I was just like ".... In Canada..." Like duh..
It's like a terrace house in the UK. My grandma lived in a one room basement with her four siblings and her parents. The room was split in two by a curtain. Ridiculous price for property. You can builder something bigger for less yourself...
@LxLight4ever Yeah we do call it a driveway in Canada too (I'm in Montreal), I never used the term ''laneway'' so I dunno what the real estate agent was talking about
It is a real house in toronto, cannot believe you guys have never heard of it. It is not fake. I am also from toronto..it is located in 'little italy' area.
carmium It's quite sad how in America some people they don't know any history or geography of the world beyond them or even their own state in some severe cases. This makes it easier to control the masses and to avoid beneficial things such as Universal Health Care. Which according to most Americans they think this will supposedly destroy America's economy. Instead we go into the war on terror. Terror is a concept you can't go to war on a concept. Bush wasted so much money on this and Obama is trying to fix up the pieces, yet most people blame him on ruining America due to not being educated and thinking critically.
Believe it or not, thats really cheap for Toronto:p if someone bought a condo the same size, you are looking at around 250 to 350k for the cheapest ones. This house is probably worth 250 - 300k now.
I wonder what it sold for. I would think houses that size are workable but you have to be far more organized than I am to live in one. I would be tempted to put a big dog bowl in the front.
The realtor does not have the entire history correct. My mother owned this house for a number of years. My brothers and I added the addition on the back and sold it to a Toronto building inspector. It is located at 128 Day Avenue, near Dufferin and Rogers Road.
my left ear enjoyed this, my right ear missed out.
Xactly lol
I don't get it.
Hamiltonian here. I was under the assumption that a laneway was another name for an alley.
If I could afford the house, I'd move there in a second. I LOVE Toronto!!
So funny. But fast forward to 2019, this house would probably be listed at $300,000. The prices in Toronto are outrageous. A 900 square foot home would cost you around $800,000.
Hello, there!
Finally a house in Toronto that I could afford! And no condo fees!
My right ear feels alone
I am a Toronto realtor and have been for 33 years. At that time, I inspected this home or a client. Your interview with the realtor made me laugh so much!
id love this for a weekend vacation :)
To a homeless dude, that's Graceland.
Laneway is a very common term. I think it's interesting so many people here are thrown off by it. It's not a driveway though.
It's a common strip between two buildings that (usually, but not always) runs to a back lane behind the homes. You see these in older residential neighbourhoods. They won't have driveways, but will have a laneway that leads to a parking area and sometimes detached garage.
I freak out whenever i see something from Canada on you-tube or anywhere!!!!!
I like these types of videos because they let me know if my left ear is still working
I've totally been there and I laughed so hard when I saw this on the show
I am also Canadian and I have heard of laneway. It's called a Laneway because it is between 2 houses and narrow, while a driveway is the parking spot at the front of the property the lead to the garage or house. I don't really believe it's her bad that ya'll have never heard of a word.
i live in hamilton and never heard of a laneway lol
ok im from ottawa and lots of ppl say laneway lol
A laneway is the block long space behind houses that usually allows, at least, a (small) car to drive through. This is why we have laneways behind houses in Toronto--originally, you could put telephone poles and run wires there, before that was cable TV wires, before that was the old TV aerials (triangular based towers), etc. plus have garbage collection, and other utility oriented tasks that are not done on the main street so as to make the main street look more beautiful.
My guess is a lane way is actually like an alley
Montrealer here, I'd call that a lane (laneway).
Laneway is a technical term used in the industry. As a driveway implies it was to be used for cars, now back in 1912, not everyone owned cars. So as a result the lane way can be used for foot traffic, deliveries, and carriages.
it was a lane-way... driveway is a different thing. Driveway is where you park, lane-ways are used to drive behind condo's to get to your driveway.
We have laneways all over cornwall, ontario!! And they have some pretty tiny houses as well!!
I heard of laneways, Ontario and Alberta calls alleys laneways too.
As another Canadian I call it an alley (not sure if you do or don't, you did not specify)
i live up the road from that street. If you're ever in toronto it's on day street north of morrison
I live nearby this house and to me, the driveway is where you drive your car to get into a garage. A laneway is just a random long road in between houses.
That's how I've been calling it.
Canada is really expensive
Toronto has an intricate network of LANEWAYS behind the older residential neighbourhoods.
a laneway if the like little road, say you have two rows of houses and their backyards and driveway face each others, well a laneway goes in between the driveways straight down the middle for the cars to exit. hope that helps you, if t doesn't there is something called Google it can help. p.s im from toronto and a bunch of people call them laneways
@cisfa lol I'm from miss. area too and we obviously call it a driveway....but in Toronto they call it a laneway more so than a drive way cuz it really is a long lane way rather than what we have...or what is usually standard for the GTA....a driveway in front of your house.
i live in toronto too .. ive seen this house because i pass by it every day for school xD
@mello11219 what neighbourhood is it in??? iv never heard of it and i live in toronto!!
holy shit! This house is right in my neighbourhood! I've seen it a thousand times
Americans cannot afford TORONTO..
Most Canadians cannot afford Toronto, either.
i love that house!
It's actually very nice inside and compact.
i saw it in the paper because I'm in toronto
I just went past that house!! Its like 10 mins away from me!!!
The hell? I'm Canadian and I've never heard anyone call a driveway a 'laneway' ever. We call it a driveway.
@xkelschrist where is it? i wanna go check it out!
i think a laneway is the little road between some townhouses, i searched it up on google LOL :P
@Currymastuh A lot of people use the word laneway in a place like Toronto with all its British immigrants. But that little house is in what used to be a driveway between the two houses. Residents in the houses on both sides of it would have had garages in their backyards and that shared driveway would be the only way for either of them to access their garage. A friend of mine used to live in a house like one of those and it and the neighbour's house still had their original garages!
lmao no one from toronto pronounces the second t in toronto clearly..
lots of people use the word laneway in toronto . its another word for an alley
@DancerMusicanActress Where in Toronto is it?
well same here (torontonian) and its a laneway a driveway is a separate thing, google it
I've seen a smaller house in Toronto near my high school... seriously... it is like a cute dwarf house, I wish I could send people a pic. There is also a person who lives there.
This house was advertised as the smallest house. It is just like a garage. It was on the news and I think is ridiculous to price that much.
Where exactly is this house? What street?
One thing not mentioned is that is 170k Canadian substantially less then 170 k American
funny part is when she said season ten and its season ted now
What I'm Canadian I don't call it a laneway! lol
that house would be even more in vancouver. 4 bedroom dumps in rough areas are going for over 800,000 and regular family homes in avg areas are going for (on avg) 1.4mill. why do houses have to be so expensive?
holy shit, that is small
no seriously, reminds me of "compac" computers ( ._.)
even Quebec city's smallest apartments are bigger, what the hell! O_o
I live in toronto canada
A lane way is different then a driveway. A lane way is a space beside or behind homes that connects roads, or pathways, but is not considered a road. Its more like an alleyway, then a driveway. As you don't really own it. I hadn't heard of lane ways until moving to Toronto. Now I live across from one.
@yvanelicia123 What street is it on? I want to go take a look at it now lol
That Ellen guy he's pretty funny.
You now need an annual income of at least $275,000 per year to buy ANY house in Toronto. Two and three couples are now going together to buy a house there. It's the only way they can afford it. The three bedroom brick bungalow my wife and I owned was bought in 1976 for $50,000. We sold it for $365,000 ten years ago and retired out of the city. It's now flipped for over $700,000. Nuts!
Houses on either side prolly pushing 750,000-900,000 if its downtown. Or even off the danforth
i believe a laneway is a drive way that goes between two houses, not every driveway does, hence the difference.
I'm just 45 mins east of Toronto, and I've never heard of a "Laneway"
|Where in Toronto is this?
@smokemadbong If you are actually saying that according to size, Canada is the second largest country in the world. I also realize you may just mean that Canada is always ignored more and not brought up, or as acknowleged as much as a place such as USA.
they should check out the vancouver
i live in toronto and call it a driveway lol
Did she buy it?
I hate how us Canadians study American geography, but they don`t study us. I told an American that i live in Ontario and he just said "Where is that?" I was thinking "are you serious?!" And I was just like ".... In Canada..." Like duh..
@ech613 thanks for the reply! im gonna check it out the next time i go to prospect cemetery! its sooo cute!!
yeah houses in Toronto are hellaa expensive. i live in toronto though and i'd really like to see it for myself!
@ffets the intersection of dufferin st. And rogers rd... Its pretty cute in person..
@pohsideuhn has to be a toronto thing because I am in northern ontario and a laneway is an alley and a drive way is where you park the car
It's like a terrace house in the UK. My grandma lived in a one room basement with her four siblings and her parents. The room was split in two by a curtain. Ridiculous price for property. You can builder something bigger for less yourself...
@LxLight4ever
Yeah we do call it a driveway in Canada too (I'm in Montreal), I never used the term ''laneway'' so I dunno what the real estate agent was talking about
Me too
That is cheap man, 2 bedroom downtown house for $1.2 million, no joke. My uncle works real estate.
you can buy 10 trailers that are just as big and just as nice + they are portable... 170 thousand for a fancy alley shack
I would seriously buy that house, lol.
What intersection is that even at...?
I'm thinking the cost is mostly based on land. Toronto is pretty expensive.
It is a real house in toronto, cannot believe you guys have never heard of it. It is not fake. I am also from toronto..it is located in 'little italy' area.
@pohsideuhn same from bc.she sounded french so maybe its a french Canadian thing...
Try Vancouver Pal
Ontario. This was 4 months ago.
A laneway must be a Toronto thing, I'm from Nova Scotia and I've never heard of a laneway either.
i wanna buy it
lol my godmother lives on the street where that house is. I have to walk by it everytime I visit.
175k is actually pretty cheap for a house in Toronto.
@ffets ur welcome!!
@xkelschrist cool, thanks!
Im from toronto... whats so confusing about a laneway???
At least our houses are not as bad as Vancouver's. It's crazy over there.
I grew up right next door at 130
carmium It's quite sad how in America some people they don't know any history or geography of the world beyond them or even their own state in some severe cases. This makes it easier to control the masses and to avoid beneficial things such as Universal Health Care. Which according to most Americans they think this will supposedly destroy America's economy. Instead we go into the war on terror. Terror is a concept you can't go to war on a concept. Bush wasted so much money on this and Obama is trying to fix up the pieces, yet most people blame him on ruining America due to not being educated and thinking critically.
Believe it or not, thats really cheap for Toronto:p if someone bought a condo the same size, you are looking at around 250 to 350k for the cheapest ones. This house is probably worth 250 - 300k now.
I can hear the aliens speaking!
I wonder what it sold for.
I would think houses that size are workable but you have to be far more organized than I am to live in one.
I would be tempted to put a big dog bowl in the front.
toronto is in ontario
@rebornluvaaa123 yeah, canada is such a small place, hardly anyone knows about it.
@ech613 where is it?? closest main intersection? i'm so curious! haha
Dufferin and Rogers road
42 by 7.2 feet two of them could fit inside a space shuttle.