Apartments for Rent in Scarborough, ON

Scarborough is the east end of Toronto, from Victoria Park Avenue to the Rouge River and from Steeles down to the Bluffs. It has a large stock of purpose-built rental towers, and that is what keeps it the most affordable part of the city for renters. Most of the apartments listed here are in mid-century highrises with bigger floor plans than a new condo, on-site management, and utilities included in the rent more often than you will find downtown.

The current listings on GottaRent cluster in a few areas. Markham Road and Scarborough Golf Club Road (30 Tuxedo Court, 1050 Markham Road, 567 Scarborough Golf Club Road) and McCowan Road south of Lawrence. West Hill and Morningside near the University of Toronto Scarborough campus (280 Morningside Avenue, 30 Livonia Place, 4000 Lawrence Avenue East). The Victoria Park and Eglinton corridor on the North York border (1757 and 2265 Victoria Park, 2283 Eglinton East). And Agincourt at Bay Mills Boulevard near Sheppard and Birchmount. About two thirds of the units are one- or two-bedrooms; there are also bachelors, a couple of one- and two-bedroom-plus-den layouts, and a handful of three-bedrooms.

Getting downtown without a car is straightforward from most of these buildings. Line 2 ends at Kennedy, the Lakeshore East GO line stops at Scarborough, Eglinton, Guildwood and Rouge Hill, and the 401 runs the full width of the district. Students at UTSC and at Centennial College's Progress campus tend to look along Morningside, Ellesmere and Progress Avenue. For comparison, the neighbouring North York and Toronto pages list the same kinds of buildings a few kilometres west, usually at $100 to $400 more a month, and Oshawa further east is cheaper again.