Cornell

What’s it Like Living in Cornell?

In this Realtor’s opinion, Cornell is simply the most family friendly community in all of Markham. Situated in the north east pocket of Markham surrounded by farmland and the Rouge River Valley, the streetscapes are pretty and pristine. Cornell houses have a distinctly Victorian charm with inviting front porches, and whimsical architectural details. Cars are kept at the rear in garages off laneways. On a nice day, you’ll see a constant stream of kids on bikes and parents with strollers heading to any one of dozens playgrounds, parks or the new dog park. Cornell has an abundance of shops, daycares, fitness studios, and salons. The community features a new state-of-the-art high school (with English and French immersion streams), three elementary schools and one elementary Catholic school. The Cornell Community Centre & Library offers a pool, courts, and lots of places to meet. Markham Stouffville Hospital and Cornell Transit Terminal round out the convenience offered by this community. Just a five minute drive away you’ll find the shops and boutiques of Main Street Markham, and a two minute drive gets you onto Highway 407. Cornell is a 30 minute drive to downtown Toronto.

What Types of Houses are in Cornell?

Cornell, located in northeast Markham, is a thoughtfully planned, family-friendly community known for its walkability, charming streetscapes, and mix of modern housing. The neighbourhood features a variety of freehold townhomes, semi-detached, and detached homes, many of which are Victorian-inspired with welcoming front porches and rear laneway garages. These homes were designed with traditional charm but offer the convenience of newer construction and modern layouts. You’ll also find a growing selection of stacked townhomes and low- to mid-rise condo buildings, particularly near major intersections like Bur Oak Avenue and Highway 7. With a strong sense of community, green spaces, and homes suited for first-time buyers, growing families, and downsizers alike, Cornell offers a balanced lifestyle in one of Markham’s most well-designed urban villages.

What is Close by in Cornell?

Cornell is a vibrant and growing community located in the eastern part of Markham, offering residents a convenient and comfortable lifestyle. Close by, you’ll find several parks and green spaces perfect for outdoor activities and family outings, including the popular Cornell Community Centre which features a swimming pool, fitness facilities, and a library. For shopping and dining, Cornell is near major retail hubs like the Cornell Village Plaza and the nearby Markville Shopping Centre, providing a variety of stores, restaurants, and services. Commuting is easy with quick access to Highway 407 and public transit options including local York Region Transit buses and nearby GO Transit stations, making it simple to reach downtown Toronto or other parts of the Greater Toronto Area. Families appreciate the well-regarded schools in the area, both public and private, as well as nearby medical facilities and community services that support a balanced and convenient lifestyle. Overall, Cornell offers the perfect blend of suburban tranquility with easy access to urban amenities.

What’s in Cornell

What are Housing Prices in Cornell?

The average selling price for homes in Cornell reached $1,130,529 in June 2025, reflecting a healthy 4.95% increase month-over-month from May’s average of $1,077,253. Compared to June 2024, prices have edged up by 0.60%, indicating a steady and resilient real estate market in the area.

When looking at housing types, detached homes remain the most expensive in Cornell, with an average selling price of $1,408,578. Semi-detached homes averaged $1,059,250, while freehold townhomes sold for approximately $976,815. Condo townhomes came in at $651,333, offering a more affordable entry point into the market. Notably, there were no recorded condo apartment sales this month.

This consistent upward trend shows that demand for homes in Cornell continues to grow, making it an attractive area for both buyers and investors alike.

What’s The Schooling Like in Cornell?

Cornell, offers excellent schooling options for families, with a mix of public and Catholic schools serving all grade levels. At the elementary level, Cornell Village Public School and Little Rouge Public School provide strong academic programs and a variety of extracurricular activities in a supportive environment. For high school, Bill Hogarth Secondary School offers both English and French Immersion programs with modern facilities and a wide range of courses. Nearby Catholic schools like St. Joseph Catholic Elementary and St. Brother André Catholic High School add faith-based education options. Overall, Cornell’s schools are well-regarded for their quality education and community involvement, making the area a great choice for families focused on learning.

 

How Do You Commute From Cornell?

Commuting from Cornell, Markham, is convenient thanks to its well-connected transportation network. The Cornell Bus Terminal, located near Highway 7 and Ninth Line, serves as a central hub for various transit options. Operated by York Region Transit (YRT), it offers multiple routes including YRT’s Route 1 (Highway 7), Route 9 (Ninth Line), and Viva Purple, which connects to Richmond Hill Centre Terminal. Additionally, GO Transit routes 52 and 56 provide connections to Oshawa and Oakville, respectively.

For those driving, Highway 407 runs along Cornell’s southern boundary, offering quick access to other parts of the Greater Toronto Area. The Mount Joy GO Station is approximately 5 minutes away by car, providing a direct route to Union Station in Toronto, which takes about 50 minutes.

Whether you’re commuting by bus, car, or train, Cornell’s transportation options make it a well-connected community for residents and visitors alike.

What Our Cornell Area Clients Say…

Travis Hale

“I truly appreciated the support and expertise from Susan Taylor Group throughout this entire process of purchasing my new home. From the start, Meliza was amazing, and Susan’s industry insight proved invaluable. It had been a while since I’d moved to a new home, so the binder, moving kit, and checklists were a lifesaver, removing so many decisions from my plate and keeping everything organized. The reminders, timelines, and practical tools made an otherwise overwhelming experience far more manageable. 

 
When people ask how the move went, I tell them without hesitation that I’d gladly work with Susan and Meliza again.” 
Travis Hale
August 2025, Cornell

Jonathan Martin

“Working with Meliza to purchase a home was an absolute pleasure. She was attentive, communicative, and always ready to help. Highly recommend and would gladly work with her again!”

Jonathan Martin
July 2025, Cornell

Natalie Mukherjee

“We had an amazing experience with Meliza and Susan on the rental of our coach home. Meliza was thorough in the screening and we landed another great tenant.”
Natalie Mukherjee
June 2025, Cornell

Oliver Bhamani

“My fiancé and I had a great experience working with Meliza. We just moved here from out of the country which was a stressful process but Meliza made the process of finding a place to rent very smooth and did everything to ensure we would be able to find a place that we loved. We are so incredibly grateful for everything she has done for our family!”

Oliver Bhamani
April 2025, Cornell

Sameer Shrestha

“Susan Taylor Real Estate Group has been an amazing experience working with them I have rented 2 properties through them and they just been great especially working with Meliza who was thorough, ethical and really satisfying experience I would recommend them to anyone the process made us feel at ease and got us amazing tenants within 2 weeks simply amazing I will not hesitate to use them in the future..”

Sameer Shrestha
Cornell, February 2024

Darlene McNeil

“I’d really like to take this opportunity to thank Meliza Pineda Munarriz for all her hard work, time, and attention to detail during the sale of my house. Meliza was so professional, kind, and considerate, especially in challenging times. Meliza took time to send me fabulous, well constructed, and informative emails detailing the weekly market and local competition updates. Meliza and Susan Taylor initially walked me through the stages of making my house look the best. After staging, painting, and decluttering, WOW, the house looked spectacular. Honestly, if you want a fabulous team that will go the extra distance for you, I highly recommend Remax-Susan Taylor Group, Please ask for Meliza! She will work so hard for you! Thank you again Meliza, for your kindness and patience with me! You’re tops in my book. Thank you Team!!!”

Darlene Mcneil
Cornell, February 2024

Sue Bright

“Susan Taylor and her team are amazing. I listed my home smack in the middle of the toughest and most uncertain market in a decade. Ever rising interest rates, too many houses competing for too few buyers and even my next door neighbour selling her beautiful home at the same time. It was a perfect storm. But Susan recommended a few small but high-impact finishes, brought in a design team to professionally stage my home and WOW! I sold at a great price! If you want strategic marketing, collaboration and panache – call Susan Taylor.”

Sue Bright
Cornell - January 2024

Anup Prem

We chose Susan’s team as they have helped us rent out our house in Markham in the past. We did not have to worry about anything from start to finish and did not even go into the house once during the process. We are currently living in a different city and Meliza handled everything for us – Right from looking at the current situation of the house, to hiring people to cut our grass, to do the deck renovation, to painting and staging – everything was done without us being there and Meliza handled everything like someone owning the house would.

So, we would highly recommend Susan’s team, especially with Meliza in it to take care of all your real estate related services!!!

Anup Prem
Markham - October 2023

Sandra S

It was a pleasure working with Susan (a true professional) and her team! What I valued most was the fast responses and availability, even on weekends. It was clear to me that you all are passionate about delivering the most seamless experience for your clients.

Sandra S
Markham, February 2023

Smriti Shrestha

We had an awesome experience with Susan Taylor and Meliza. Meliza was very prompt, professional and super nice. It was easy to deal with her and she was extremely helpful finding us a wonderful tenant! We are extremely Thankful to Susan and Meliza for their excellent service!!

Smriti Shrestha
Markham, January 2023

Sylvia Coates

As a first-time home seller, I was looking for a Realtor who knew my area well, and who had great communication to keep me organized through the process.  I was worried that because my home wasn’t super-upgraded, it may be difficult to sell.   I interviewed a few Realtors, and felt that Susan was best suited for the job as she knew the market very well and was really on her game.  I trusted her.  Susan and Sam had checklists and a very organized process that kept me on track. They helped to bring in the right tradespeople and provided the guidance to make my home look amazing.  And it worked: We sold fast and for a reasonable price.  We are very happy that we chose Susan and her Team.

Sylvia Coates
Cornell, Markham, November 2022

Kavitha Linson

We had a wonderful experience working with Susan and her team especially Meliza who managed our listing. They were well researched about the market, gave us guidance , did thorough due diligence and checks and importantly kept us updated every step of the way. We felt like a team working with them. We found a tenant within a week of our listing. All thanks to Susan and her amazing team!

Kavitha Linson
Cornell, July 2022

Frances Cheung & Stanley Do

Meliza supported us in purchasing a new home and selling our current one; she is a wonderful communicator and is always prompt in responding to inquiries.

On the sell side – Meliza puts in 100% of her effort to sell the home; she has a great eye for helping us prepare the home for sale and goes beyond expectations in marketing with multiple social media videos. She’s also very timely in checking in with potential buyers for feedback to encourage dialogue with buyer agents and leads. The market turned during our listing and we were sold the home for below expectations, but Meliza negotiated with the buying agent to optimize the final sale price.

On the purchasing side – Meliza was quick to respond to inquiries regarding the property and was also able to negotiate for a purchase price. The process was slightly rushed and there was uncertainty (again, due to the market fluctuations) that we weren’t able to account for. If we were to do this again, we should have asked Meliza more questions in terms of recourse and other safeguards for purchasing a home with a limited budget in a volatile market to be better informed.

Frances Cheung & Stanley Do
Markham, April 2022

Hayley Saramaki & Graham Langdale

When my husband and I first met Susan, we were just starting to get an idea of what we would like in our ideal home. We stopped by an open house in our neighbourhood, making it clear that we were a few years away from making the jump. Even though we weren’t prospective buyers for that particular home, Susan gave us SO much useful information and chatted for quite a while. We knew instantly that we would be interested in working with her in the future.

We stayed in touch, and a few years later, she had a listing for a family sized home in our preferred neighbourhood. It was beyond our initial anticipated budget, and we never thought in a million years we would be able to get into such a beautiful home – thankfully we were so wrong!! Susan’s team facilitated a stress-free purchase, where we were able to get the property UNDER ASKING in the crazy GTA market in Oct 2020. They also gave us a lot of information about how selling our condo would look before we decided to go through with everything, which gave us a lot of piece of mind when we bought before having sold off our property first (we had no problem selling it off!).

Her teammate Jessica was fabulous in coordinating all of the paperwork, negotiations, and walk-throughs of the home – not to mention the team was able to help us out when one of the appliances gave us trouble once we were in. She also took us through to see several other properties before we started re budgeting to get our dream home in the end. I would recommend working with Jessica and Susan to anyone looking to sell or purchase their dream place. They are easy to be in contact with, so personable, and pay attention to the little things that add up to be so important. Thank you!!

Hayley Saramaki & Graham Langdale
Markham, 2021

Jasmine Desai & Sunil Vaidya

I just wanted to send a big shout out to STG and especially Meliza for leasing out the Coach House. Meliza has been absolutely terrific and her customer service has been what I would classify as exceptional. You have a great partner and I’m sure you’ll enjoy continued success with staff like her.

Jasmine Desai & Sunil Vaidya
Markham, 2021

Susan Seto

Professionally, Susan Taylor was thorough and detailed in the process of selling our home. She has a network of different support companies she leans on to improve the appeal of the home prior to selling. For example, her stager provided recommendations which included some painting to update and refresh some of our rooms, and staging our home for selling appeal. Since Susan was informed of the comparable homes in the area that sold, and were currently available or coming soon to the market, it helped us understand her pricing recommendation for our house. Overall, we were happy and glad with Susan Taylor as our Realtor. She has great social and negotiating skills, is a hard worker and an enthusiastic individual with many years of experience in the real estate industry.

Susan Seto
Markham - 2018

Patricia & Paul

Susan Taylor was referred by a neighbour who sold his house in 2015. During the initial meeting we could feel that Susan is a very experienced real estate agent.

After the first meeting we were confident that she was the right person that we wanted to entrust to get the house sold at the best price possible in this buyer’s environment. During that meeting, she provided us with her suggestions on how to start preparing the house before the stager came in for a consultation and recommendations.

She also kept us updated on the market trend in the area until the house was ready to hit the market.

With her marketing background, our house was advertised in such a way as to attract the interest of as many potential buyers as possible.

Susan has no doubt a very great negotiating skills as she has been able to sell our house in 5 days after it was listed at the best price possible in this difficult market.

Patricia & Paul
Markham - 2018

Phil Passailaigue

…thx to Susan Taylor for her positive, tenacious, professional, yet no-pressure style…
…additional kudos to her A+ team…always on point…I highly recommend…
…a great experience start to finish…

Phil Passailaigue
Markham – 2018

Ivan Cheung

Working with Susan Taylor has been a pleasure – we were in need of a quick sale, we saw Susan’s listings on our streets getting tons of showings and they go quick! We decided to give Susan a call and on the very first meeting she showed up with a very comprehensive marketing plan and a fresh market analysis for our neighborhood. If your property is in need of staging/repairs Susan knows exactly who to bring in. At no point did our family feel uneasy about our sale, Susan had our backs. We would highly recommend Susan’s services as a realtor.

Ivan Cheung
Markham - 2019

Dan & Jackie Tinkler

Buying a home in a multiple offer situation was scary, especially because we really only took 48 hours to make the decision that we wanted to move! We never would’ve had the confidence to make things happen that quickly if we didn’t trust Susan’s expertise to guide us through the process. Despite us being one of multiple buyers vying for this property, Susan was able skillfully negotiate and secure it for us at a price that was in the range of market value.

We bought this home without having our current house even close to being ready to put on the market and that was a huge stressor for our family! But Susan, her Team, and their network of qualified tradespeople quickly descended on our home, put together a plan, and our house was ready for showings within a couple of weeks. It presented beautifully and it sold the first week.

We have a busy family… we couldn’t have managed having our house on the market for a long time! Susan knew the market in the neighbourhood and had no hesitancy on her recommended strategy to sell our home. While there were similarly sized and aged houses that had been on the market for months, she was able to get ours sold very quickly at a price we were happy with.

Dan & Jackie Tinkler
Markham - 2019

Shania Park

My family and I would like to thank Susan and her team (Meliza especially!) for their hard work. She is good at what she does and stays on top of things. If you are thinking of selling/buying, please do so with Susan!

Shania Park
Markham - 2019

Azaz Ahmed

Susan’s entire team is highly professional, I have been dealing with them for last 3 years, always found them helpful, meticulous and professional. Susan never advises wrong, her advice is always based on true facts. I have dealt with many Realtors but there is no comparison of Susan with others.

Azaz Ahmed
Markham - 2020

Bruce Plante and Jackie Charbonneau

“We had not had much experience selling homes, so we were green! We interviewed a couple of Realtors, and when we met Susan, she came across as more open than others. She explained local market conditions, the process of selling a home, and put together a marketing plan that impressed us. We also appreciated that she was from Remax, and the engine that the brand has with both local and international buyers. From the beginning we felt very comfortable dealing with Susan and her Team.
She put together a schedule for us with the steps that we would all take to get the house ready to put on the market. We were very happy with the level of communication. Really spot-on. They always kept us in the loop, and If we had questions, we reached out and got an answer right away. We could have gone sideways with anyone else, but they kept us on track!

The sale went really well, and we received a price above our expectations. We will, and have, recommended Susan Taylor Group to our friends.”

Bruce Plante and Jackie Charbonneau
Markham - 2020

Sandra and Pete McLaughlin

“Susan and Meliza,

We want to thank you for the outstanding service you provided us to sell our townhouse. Selling the house during these very uncertain times could have been a very stressful event, but your knowledge, insights and professionalism made the whole process a very positive experience for us.

Susan, we were very impressed with the time you spent with us leading up to listing the house. Meeting with us every week to assess the market situation during the COVID-19 pandemic really helped us to gain your insights and lean on your opinions on our options.

We are extremely happy with the outcome of our listing. I would recommend Susan and her team to anyone looking to buy or sell a house.

Thank you”

Sandra and Pete McLaughlin
Markham - 2020

Laura

“I have to start by thanking you and Meliza with the sale of my property. I appreciate your calmness and willingness to help me navigate this stressful time for me, that began with my renter through to this sale. It helped to know that I could contact you and speak frankly with you about my concerns.

I appreciate all your efforts, and wish you and your team nothing but continued success now and in the future.

All the best and thanks again.”

Laura
Markham - 2020