Valleys of Thornhill Townhomes: Features, Location and Options

One Builder, One Product

The townhomes at The Valleys of Thornhill are being delivered by Treasure Hill, with two-car garages. That is worth stating plainly because this is a multi-builder community and the other two builders here are not offering townhomes at all. Starlane Home Corp. is delivering 33-foot single detached homes and Greenpark Group is delivering 38-foot and 50-foot singles. If a townhome is what you are looking for in this community, Treasure Hill is the only answer.

Treasure Hill is a Greater Toronto Area homebuilder with a portfolio concentrated in York Region low-rise communities, including townhome and single-family projects, and has participated in multi-builder master-planned communities structured much like this one.

Why the Two-Car Garage Matters More Than It Sounds

Most new townhomes in the GTA are built with a single-car garage. A two-car garage townhome is a different product, and the difference shows up in three places.

Parking and storage. Two interior spaces plus driveway capacity changes the calculation for a household with two drivers, and it removes the recurring annoyance of a townhome where one car lives outside year-round. In practice the garage also absorbs the storage that a townhome without a basement workshop has nowhere else to put.

Frontage. A double garage needs width. That means the townhome block is built on wider units than a single-garage equivalent, which generally translates into more interior width on the upper floors as well, not just at the garage door.

The ground floor plan. In a garage-front townhome, the garage sets the shape of the ground level. A double garage typically leaves a narrower but still usable entry and flex area beside it, and pushes the main living level up a storey. Whether that suits you depends on how you feel about stairs and where you want the kitchen to sit relative to the front door.

Townhome or Detached in the Same Community

Because both are available here, the comparison is unusually direct. You are not weighing a townhome in one place against a detached home somewhere else, with location doing half the work. The location is the same.

What differs is the lot. A detached home sits on its own lot with space on all sides, generally carries more square footage, and offers a wider range of structural and décor options because there is more building to vary. A townhome shares walls, sits on a narrower parcel, and typically represents a lower entry point into the same community. Our article on townhomes versus detached homes works through the investment side of that in detail.

One thing worth being honest about: shared walls are a real consideration and party-wall construction standards vary. Ask what the wall assembly between units is, because it is the single factor most likely to affect day-to-day satisfaction and it is not something you can assess from a floor plan.

Confirm the Ownership Structure Before You Sign

Townhomes in Ontario are not all the same legally, and the difference changes your rights and your monthly costs.

A fully freehold townhome means you own the land and the structure, you are responsible for your own maintenance, and there is no monthly fee. A freehold with common-element condominium townhome means you own your home freehold but a condominium corporation owns and maintains shared elements, often a private road, visitor parking or a shared landscaped area, and you pay a monthly fee toward that. A standard condominium townhome puts more of the structure under the corporation.

These are not interchangeable. The ten-day statutory rescission period under Ontario's Condominium Act applies to condominium purchases. A fully freehold purchase does not carry that statutory right, and any cancellation right comes from the agreement itself.

Ask which structure applies to the specific home you are offered, and if there is a common-element corporation, ask what the projected fee is and exactly what it covers. Then have a real estate lawyer read the agreement.

What Is Published and What Is Not

Specific plans, elevations, lot availability and pricing at a pre-construction community are released by phase, and they change between phases. This is an independent website, not the builder's sales office, so we do not publish a plan library or a price list that we cannot keep current. Our floor plans page explains how plan releases work and how to request what is currently available.

What we can tell you is what to compare when you do get a plan package: the frontage, the above-grade square footage, where the plan puts the main living level, the number of bathrooms relative to bedrooms, the basement condition as delivered, and which items on the drawing are standard versus optional. Upgrade lists are where pre-construction budgets usually go wrong, and our article on which upgrades are worth it covers how to think about that.

Costs Beyond the Purchase Price

A townhome purchase carries the same category of closing costs as any new freehold or condominium home in Ontario: land transfer tax, legal fees and disbursements, Tarion enrolment, utility enrolment and meter charges, development and education levies, and HST handled through the new housing rebate where it applies. Vaughan does not levy a municipal land transfer tax, which is a genuine difference from buying inside the City of Toronto, where a second tax applies on top of the provincial one.

Our breakdown of pre-construction closing costs goes line by line, and the deposit structures article covers the payment schedule.

Next Steps

Read the Treasure Hill profile for the builder's background, the townhome collection page for what the collection involves, and living in Vaughan for the area. Current plans, pricing and availability are released by phase and available on request.