Bungalows for sale in Mississauga

Applewood, between Dixie Road and the Etobicoke Creek, has the largest run of them, brick three-bedroom plans on 50 foot frontages built by the tract builders of the late 1950s. Lakeview's grid south of the QEW holds a mix of wartime storey-and-a-half houses and later bungalows within a walk of the lake, and the streets nearest Lakeview Village are drawing renovators. Cooksville's pockets west of Hurontario and around the hospital carry 1950s bungalows on deep lots, many already converted to two units. Clarkson, especially the blocks between Clarkson Road and Southdown, adds side-split and raised versions from the 1960s with mature maples over the driveways. Malton's postwar bungalows near Derry and Airport Road are the smallest and the most affordable. A raised bungalow, with its half-flight of stairs and bright lower level, is common in Applewood Heights and along the Mississauga Valleys crescents.

Most of these houses are 60 years old or more, so read the age of everything that costs money: the roof, furnace and panel, any aluminum branch wiring from a 1960s build, the original galvanized or cast-iron plumbing, and the drain to the street, which can be clay on the earliest lots. Ask if the basement has ever flooded and whether a backwater valve went in, since Cooksville Creek and Etobicoke Creek run through several of these neighbourhoods. If you intend a lower-level suite, confirm the ceiling height and the position of the side entrance before you count the rent. If a rebuild is the plan, have the team pull the zoning for lot coverage, height and the city's infill rules, because Mineola and Lorne Park have their own limits. Downsizers should look for main-level laundry and a bedroom wing set apart from the living room.