Condos for Sale in Oshawa

Windfields has the newest and largest group: mid-rise buildings along Simcoe Street North and Winchester Road within a walk of the north campus, with a heavy share of investor-owned suites rented to students and staff, and retail growing up around them. Downtown Central has a mix, from converted and infill buildings near the Four Corners to new mid-rises aimed at Ontario Tech's downtown campus and the Tribute Communities Centre crowd. O'Neill's older apartment condos sit along Mary Street and Simcoe Street North close to the hospital, which draws health care workers and long-time owners who appreciate the suite sizes. Centennial and Samac have 1980s buildings on Adelaide Avenue and Stevenson Road North with mature grounds. McLaughlin has a handful near the Oshawa Centre. Lakeview has very few, so a condo with a lake view is rare in this city and priced as such.

Read the status certificate before the condition period ends and look for three things: whether the reserve fund study is current and funded, whether a special assessment or lawsuit is pending, and what the declaration says about rentals, pets and smoking. In the 1970s and 1980s buildings, ask which big items are done, such as the roof, the windows, the balconies and the garage membrane, and which are next. In the new Windfields buildings, check whether fees rose sharply after the first-year budget and how many suites are rented, because a building that is mostly investor-owned behaves differently at annual meetings. Confirm the parking space and locker are deeded rather than leased. Visit at night to judge noise from Simcoe Street or the rail line. If the unit is tenanted, the Residential Tenancies Act controls when and how you can take possession, regardless of what the condo rules say.