{"id":592515,"date":"2026-04-09T13:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T13:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/592515\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T13:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T13:05:08","slug":"seller-of-four-bedroom-house-trims-295000-off-asking-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/592515\/","title":{"rendered":"Seller of four-bedroom house trims $295,000 off asking price"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"display:block\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/resizer\/v2\/VLFHGNC56VAGHBXVBQ4GABIXGY.JPG?auth=fc0a744c5b3f4d906d0986d4f6bac2781bfda5dc2ec934fcd1dfd7dd64a1d042&amp;width=600&amp;height=400&amp;quality=80&amp;smart=true\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" data-photo-viewer-index=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Open this photo in gallery:<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">318 Maple Leaf Dr., Toronto<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Asking price: $3,995,000 (February, 2026)<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Selling price: $3.7-million (February, 2026)<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Taxes: $15,873 (2025) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Days on the market: 15<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Listing and buyer\u2019s agents: Robert Greenberg and Amir Kiabi, Harvey Kalles Real Estate Ltd.<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"display:block\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/resizer\/v2\/QL5QLDPGNVC7VPBRZGBNILMIE4.JPG?auth=389fb83b40d2cd734d8e780ea9a7ae5ba5d47bc90ff70b71af9801a1a1f6e288&amp;width=600&amp;height=400&amp;quality=80&amp;smart=true\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" data-photo-viewer-index=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Open this photo in gallery:<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"figcap-text\">No expense was spared in the building of the house at 318 Maple Leaf Dr., which includes windows imported from Italy and multiple wet bars throughout the home.artem gur\/Artem Gur<\/p>\n<p>The action <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">This large four-bedroom house near Yorkdale Shopping Centre stood out even in Toronto\u2019s heavy snowfalls this February, as a heated driveway kept parking easily available for touring buyers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">\u201cThis is a unique house for the area, it\u2019s like an estate with nine bathrooms and more than 6,100 square feet just above grade,\u201d said agent Amir Kiabi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">\u201cWhen we had the crazy snowstorms, it was quite distinctive from every other house on the street because they had a heated driveway. It was the only house with no snow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">The owners received an offer after about two weeks on the market and accepted a $295,000 reduction from the asking price.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">\u201cIn this market, once you price a property accurately, you can sell it fast,\u201d Mr. Kiabi said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">\u201cThere are very nice houses on Maple Leaf and in the surrounding area, but this is the highest transaction in that area, and I\u2019m not surprised. It would cost a lot more to build that house.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text mv-16 l-inset text-pb-8\" data-sophi-feature=\"interstitial\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/real-estate\/article-home-of-the-week-a-stratford-manse-redone-in-black-and-white\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Home of the Week: A Stratford manse redone in black and white<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"display:block\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/resizer\/v2\/C6S2TFAB6RDRVB2H6CVIDPMDOU.JPG?auth=801f04be285901bcca4ac70523638b2d0d7c7a5c93454da9236dc44e4bd17dca&amp;width=600&amp;height=400&amp;quality=80&amp;smart=true\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" data-photo-viewer-index=\"2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Open this photo in gallery:<\/a>What they got <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">This two-storey house on a 75- by 120-foot lot has a built-in triple garage, two offices and entertaining areas on each level. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">There is an enclosed kitchen on the main floor with two islands and French doors to a patio, an in-ground pool and a cabana. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">There are several wet bars, including one in the hall between the bedrooms upstairs and one in the basement gym. <\/p>\n<p><a style=\"display:block\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/resizer\/v2\/Q7PKD7MPY5H7LFKUP5YKAD3RUQ.JPG?auth=97468b1eb82358e65cb7fcdd1fe6430942b067037d09e45a0f1230f937cb3a22&amp;width=600&amp;height=400&amp;quality=80&amp;smart=true\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" data-photo-viewer-index=\"3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Open this photo in gallery:<\/a>The agent\u2019s take <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">\u201cThere were no expenses spared in this house,\u201d Mr. Kiabi said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">\u201cThe windows were German-engineered, imported from Italy and the kitchen had double islands with [stone] slabs. Those materials are very expensive; there\u2019s nothing like it I\u2019ve ever seen.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: 318 Maple Leaf Dr., Toronto Asking price: $3,995,000 (February, 2026) Selling price: $3.7-million&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,49594,143460,1398,968,3302,143459],"class_list":["post-592515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-done-deal","tag-donedeal","tag-nodelphi","tag-real-estate","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-home-sales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}