Welcome To
79 Badgerow Ave
For Lease
Send This Listing To A FriendThree proper bedrooms, two bathrooms, a finished basement, AND outdoor space front and back? Yep, this Leslieville rental has it all!
79 Badgerow Avenue has the space you need and the personality you want, with warm, refinished dark parquet floors, a renovated kitchen with storage for days, and a finished basement ready for movie marathons, work-from-home days or your latest fitness obsession.
Outside, sip your morning coffee on the front porch, get your garden growing in the generous front yard, or kick back in your private backyard. There’s even laneway parking with room for a car (and a motorcycle) or a couple of bikes!
And did we mention Leslieville? Coffee shops, local restaurants, independent boutiques and Queen Street East are all part of your neighbourhood playground. More room to live, more reasons to love where you live. This one’s got the good stuff!
Available: immediately
Includes: appliances, all electric light fixtures, central air, parking
Want to make this your new home?
If you’re interested in renting this unit, you’ll need to provide:
- Meeting with Landlord (In-person or virtual)
- Completed application form
- Proof of employment
- Credit check
- 3 references
- First and last month’s deposit was delivered via bank draft or certified cheque.
About Leslieville
Some neighbourhoods are easy to love at first sight; others, like Leslieville, turn that love into loyalty. This tree-lined pocket of Toronto’s east end has evolved into one of the city’s most magnetic communities, blending character, creativity, and convenience without losing the sense that people actually live here.
What makes it different is the rhythm of everyday life. The neighbourhood has a relaxed, almost village-like quality, but never a shortage of places worth walking to. People know their baristas. Brunch spots fill with locals. A quick coffee can become part of the morning routine, and dinner, drinks, or a bottle of wine for the weekend rarely require much planning.
The local food scene is a big part of that appeal. Lake Inez delivers the kind of combination that keeps a neighbourhood restaurant in regular rotation: fantastic food and an atmosphere that makes you want to stay. Alice Marie Coffee has your caffeine covered, while Bar Etc and Poor Romeo’s make a strong case for keeping cocktail plans close to home. And when the occasion calls for a good bottle, East End Vine is the kind of neighbourhood wine shop where an incredible recommendation is part of the experience.
That concentration of independent spots gives Leslieville its personality. Coffee shops, restaurants, cocktail bars, breweries, and local businesses aren’t simply amenities; they’re part of how the neighbourhood functions. They give you places to become a regular and make spontaneous plans possible.
There’s plenty happening beyond the food scene, too. Running groups move through tree-lined streets, cyclists head toward the lake, and farmers’ market bags come home filled with produce from local growers. Boutique fitness studios, galleries, and indie shops add to the neighbourhood’s creative pulse, while parks, off-leash dog areas, splash pads, and patios make it easy to spend a weekend close to home. Families, professionals, and long-time residents overlap here, giving the neighbourhood a sense of community that feels established rather than manufactured.
Getting around is another part of the equation. Transit, bike lanes, and major routes make downtown accessible without requiring you to live in the middle of it. The streetcar and bus service along Dundas and Queen East already connect the neighbourhood to the wider city, with an important new rapid transit option on the way.
The Ontario Line will bring rapid transit directly into the neighbourhood, with the new Leslieville Station at Queen St E and DeGrassi. Now under construction, the 15.6-kilometre line will run from Exhibition Place through downtown to Don Mills Road, giving residents a new way to reach the core and connect with Toronto’s wider subway, GO, streetcar, and bus network.
It’s a meaningful addition to a neighbourhood whose appeal has never depended on a single destination. Leslieville works because the pieces fit together: good food, independent businesses, tree-lined streets, places to gather, ways to get outside, and increasingly connected transit.
It’s close to downtown without feeling like downtown and full of reasons to stay local when you get home.
