Eastdale detached homes for sale

Eastdale's detached stock spans thirty years of Oshawa subdivision building, from late-1950s bungalows near King Street East to early-1980s two-storeys near Harmony Road North and Adelaide Avenue. The middle decades are the sweet spot for space: 1960s and 1970s split-levels, both side and back designs, on frontages of 50 to 60 feet with a garage, four levels of living area and a basement that often has its own entrance. Brick exteriors, poured or block foundations and copper plumbing are typical, but expect roofs, windows and furnaces on a second or third cycle, and look for aluminum wiring in the 1970s houses, older 100-amp panels that have been loaded up with a hot tub or a basement suite, and drain tiles that have never been cleaned. Properties on the creek valley edge or beside Beau Valley Park are the most wanted and the most regulated. Compare houses by what has been replaced rather than by the finishes, and ask for permits on any downstairs apartment.