Residential structural features

Overview of residential structural features

While there are five key factors that influence about 85% of your assessed property value, there are a number of additional site and structural features that also impact your property value, but to a lesser extent.

Structural features, which are detailed below, describe key details about your home, such as the number of bathrooms, or whether you have central air or a finished basement.

Site features describe specific details about the property, such as whether there is a railway or a sports field nearby, or what the area's traffic patterns are.

Structural features

air conditioning
basement area size and use
bathrooms; number present
bedrooms; number present
condition; physical condition of house in relation to its age
design type
fireplaces
full storeys
heating type
fuel source
water heater
partial storeys
porches and decks
renovations; exterior or interior
split-level; back, side, unconventional
UFFI; present or has been removed

Property codes

There are different categories of residential properties, represented by structure codes. View all of the codes on our Property codes page.

Classification of properties

In addition to assessing properties, we classify every property in Ontario under seven major property classes:

residential
multi-residential
commercial
industrial
pipeline
farm
managed forests

Your property may belong to more than one class. For example, if it has an apartment on the second floor and a retail store on the main floor, we would classify it as "residential" for the apartment and "commercial" for the store.

Learn more about finding your property type.