Three bedrooms, four very different houses
The same bedroom count can describe a compact postwar bungalow and a Brooklin town twice its size, so filter by what surrounds the bedrooms. An older bungalow near downtown gives you a full basement to grow into, a driveway for several cars and a lot deep enough for a garden suite one day, at the price of dated wiring and windows. A 1970s semi in Pringle Creek shares one wall, usually has a single garage and a decent yard, and often hides a side entrance. A Taunton North or Brooklin freehold row trades yard for a newer kitchen, a main-floor powder room and a garage that fits one car with the bikes in front of it. A condo townhouse in Rolling Acres or Port Whitby moves the roof and the snow into the monthly charge, and the status certificate shows whether that charge is keeping pace. Decide which of those trades you can live with first.