$415,000
For sale: Detached

135 James St, a detached three-bedroom home in downtown's Inner Harbour neighbourhood, sits so far back from the road the kids can head for the street and not make it back until lunchtime. There is a covered porch strong as a bunker, and a full-width living room with modern hardwood floors. There is a formal dining room and an old kitchen tucked away at the back. There is also a covered breezeway between the house and the double-deep block garage in which you can build your airship or your go-karts. The three smallish bedrooms gather around the upstairs bathroom. The house was renovated in the 1980s is my guess, and much loved, but it's about due another go. Another unit above the garage would make an awful lot of sense. Something to house the in-laws or help with the mortgage. But you could also just bring the family and call it home pretty much as-is, build vegetable gardens out front, make friends with the marvellous neighbours, walk every morning to the Elm Cafe and Daughters Grocery, or head straight up Pine to the Sunday market.
Sold data
Homes in East Of Sir John A Blvd took a median of 22 days to sell over the last 365 days, with the quickest quarter selling within 12 days and the slowest quarter taking more than 48, across 144 recorded sales.
That clock counts only the listing each home finally sold on. Measured from the first time these properties came to market, including any earlier listings that were withdrawn and re-entered, the median is 36 days.
The median sale price was $499,900.
Homes sold for about 2.6% below asking on average, so there was room to negotiate.
About 18% of sales closed above the list price.
Around 17% of sellers reduced their price before finding a buyer.
Based on 144 recorded sales in the last 1 year. Aggregate statistics only; individual sale prices are not shown.
Schools
Kingston (East of Sir John A. Blvd) has 38 Fraser Institute–rated schools (29 elementary and 9 secondary), averaging 5.8/10.
School ratings from the Fraser Institute's Ontario school report cards.
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