Fenside-Parkwoods Movers, Toronto
Cactus has completed over 80 residential moves across northeast Toronto: Fenside-Parkwoods and the 43 communities around it. Here is what they cost, how long they run and what the City wants at the curb.
Call Cactus Moving now!
Licensed, insured & bonded · 8,956 moves on record since April 2024 
143 · written five-star Google reviews
Get your free estimate
No obligation. No deposit for local moves.
Thanks. We've got it.
A Toronto move coordinator will call you shortly to confirm the details and your quote.
Or call (647) 525-5855 nowMovers in Fenside-Parkwoods: what we know about moving here
Fenside-Parkwoods is a rental neighbourhood in towers. Two homes in three are rented and a similar share sit in a building of five storeys or more, which puts most of the housing behind a lobby door with a service elevator that property management releases rather than the crew. Semi-detached homes and low-rise apartments take most of what is left.
Households are middling in size, neither studio-small nor house-full, so the loads sit between a one-bedroom's and a family home's. Because renting dominates, much of the turnover here answers to lease ends rather than to closings, and a lease date is fixed weeks ahead by somebody other than the mover. The figures below come from the northeast Toronto ring this neighbourhood belongs to rather than from Fenside-Parkwoods alone.
Moving costs around Fenside-Parkwoods, by the numbers
The band next to Fenside-Parkwoods belongs to 43 northeast Toronto communities and the 89 residential moves recorded between them, with Banbury-Don Mills, Thorncliffe Park and Bayview Village supplying the counts. The middle job billed $675 with tax in and ran 3 hours on site, half of them between $488 and $1,247, and 78% graded small. Fenside-Parkwoods is a rented apartment neighbourhood, 63% of homes in towers and two thirds of them rented, which is the half of the pool it fits.
- The comparison set
- 43 neighbourhoods · 89 moves
- Crew hours on site
- 3 median
- How big those moves are
- 78% small · 21% medium
- Busiest months
- August, June and February
- What those moves cost
- $675 median
communities in northeast Toronto: this one and every community next to it
half ran 3–5.25 hours · 89 moves
August 18, June 11, February 9
half fell between $488 and $1,247 · based on 89 residential moves, total cost with tax
How much does it cost to move in Fenside-Parkwoods?
$675 is the pooled middle, tax in, across 89 residential moves in the northeast Toronto communities Fenside-Parkwoods is grouped with, with half of them between $488 and $1,247. Nothing in it is measured on this boundary. Cactus bills a local move by the hour, on a rate set by the crew and the truck and written into the agreement first.
-
What shapes a moving day in Fenside-Parkwoods?
The building. 63% of the homes are in a building of five storeys or more, so most days are a unit, a corridor, a service lift and a loading area rather than a driveway and stairs. Book the lift for the hour the crew arrives. A held window keeps the job near the 3-hour pooled middle, and a shared one does not.
-
Does renting change how a move here is planned?
It changes the timing more than the work. 66% of homes in Fenside-Parkwoods are rented, so moves cluster where leases end, which is the busy end of a month. It does not change the rate, which is hourly whichever day you pick. Booking earlier gets you the date and the lift window rather than a different price.
-
Do I need a permit to park a moving truck in Fenside-Parkwoods?
The City publishes nothing that covers a moving truck at the curb, only a street occupation permit written for moving containers, so ask 311 about your address. For an apartment address the more binding rules belong to the building, and its loading bay is booked with the superintendent rather than with anyone at the City.
Call Toronto or get a quote online. Either works.
Fenside-Parkwoods neighbourhood guide for moving day
One arrangement matters more than any other here: the service elevator, plus wherever the building will let a truck stand. Both are property management's to give rather than the crew's, and with two homes in three rented, most of these dates are set by a lease rather than by a closing, so ask as soon as the date exists rather than in the last week. On the street itself the City says nothing. There is no published rule covering a moving truck at a Toronto curb, and 311 is where your own address gets an answer.
Most homes in Fenside-Parkwoods were built 1961 to 1980
2021 federal census, 25% sample · the band holding the middle home
- People
- 20,510
2021 federal census
- Homes
- 8,145
- What people live in
-
- 63% apartments in buildings of five storeys or more
- 13% semi-detached houses
- 11% apartments in low-rise buildings
- In a building of five storeys or more
- 63% of homes
- Owned or rented
-
- 34% owned
- 66% rented
- One-person households
- 27%
People per household
2.5
2021 federal census, 25% sample
2021 federal census, 25% sample
Toronto publishes no page that covers a moving truck at the curb, and its Street Occupation Permit names moving containers only. Confirm with 311 whether your street needs a permit.
Not sure what the City wants on your street before a truck parks on it? We move in Fenside-Parkwoods every week and we will tell you who to ask: talk to our Toronto team
Figures come from Cactus’s own completed residential moves (business and high-frequency accounts excluded) and from official municipal open data; they are medians and quartiles, never averages, every published figure rests on at least five moves, percentages are rounded, and all-time counts are floors because some older pickup and drop-off addresses were never geocoded.
Real Customers. Real Movers. Real Reviews.
Five-star Google reviews from customers whose move Cactus completed, newest first, preferring the ones whose job falls inside Fenside-Parkwoods’s own boundary. Quoted verbatim from the public listing and trimmed at a sentence.
5 out of 5
Nico and Alex helped me move my condo stuff to the storage. They were very good at the job.
5 out of 5
Alex and Niko where absolute gems. They took care of everything with ease, precision, efficiency, and lightning fast speeds. If your moving you need to get them. It's a must have. An absolute. Just have
5 out of 5
Alex and Niko where fast, efficient, careful and overall just fantastic. I wpuld highly recommend everyone use them and cactus. They made a stressful move completely stressless. 1000000/10
5 out of 5
Alex and Niko where fantastic. Job got done super fast and nothing was damaged everything was super well protected and they where absolutely awesome!!! 100/10
5 out of 5
My experience with Cactus Moving was exceptional. Everyone at Cactus Moving was friendly and helpful. Faye who booked the move to Alex and Sam who moved us. Alex and Sam our movers worked hard and efficient in getting our belongings moved and in place in no time. Look no further. Highly recommended!
- Get your move quoted the same way
Reading one that sounds like your move? Our Toronto coordinators will walk through the whole day with you before anything is booked: call the Toronto office
Nearby and similar neighbourhoods in Toronto
- Banbury-Don Mills 18 moves
- Thorncliffe Park 11 moves
- Bayview Village 10 moves
- Don Valley Village 6 moves
- North Toronto 6 moves
- Henry Farm
- Agincourt North
- Agincourt South-Malvern West
- Bayview Woods-Steeles
- Bendale South
- Bendale-Glen Andrew
- Bridle Path-Sunnybrook-York Mills
- Centennial Scarborough
- Clairlea-Birchmount
- Cliffcrest
- Dorset Park
- East L’Amoreaux
- Eglinton East
- Flemingdon Park
- Golfdale-Cedarbrae-Woburn
- Guildwood
- Highland Creek
- Hillcrest Village
- Ionview
- Kennedy Park
- L’Amoreaux West
- Malvern East
- Malvern West
- Milliken
- Morningside
- Morningside Heights
- O`Connor Parkview
- Parkwoods-O’Connor Hills
- Pleasant View
- Scarborough Village
- St.Andrew-Windfields
- Steeles
- Tam O’Shanter-Sullivan
- Victoria Village
- West Hill
- West Rouge
- Wexford/Maryvale
- Woburn North
Ready to move? Start with a free quote.
No deposit for local moves, no fuel surcharge, and no charge for travel time. Tell us about your move and we will send you a personalized estimate.