Which town gives a fourth bedroom the most room
Think of Durham's four-bedroom market as a ladder that runs west to east. Pickering sits at the top, Ajax and Whitby share the middle rungs, and Oshawa and Clarington sit below them, with prices typically stepping down at each town line for a house of the same age. Whitby earns its place in the middle with three things: Highway 412 tying the 401 to the 407 without leaving town, which Ajax lacks, a GO station with a parking structure, and school catchments in Brooklin and Taunton North that families ask about by name. Within Whitby, a 1990s four-bedroom house in Rolling Acres or Williamsburg generally gives you a deeper lot and a finished basement, while a 2000s house up in Taunton North or in Brooklin trades that for a bigger main floor on a narrower lot. Measure the fourth bedroom in either case, since builders have called a nine-foot den a bedroom, and let the public or Catholic board tell you which school a particular address feeds.