Jordan Peterson's house in Toronto up for sale as he and his wife relocate to the U.S.

Best-selling author and commentator Jordan Peterson and his wife, Tammy, are selling their Toronto home and relocating to Arizona. The listing for the couple’s home at 68 Olive Avenue in the city’s Seaton Village, part of the greater community of Annex, went live last week, and the Petersons’ ownership was confirmed by their daughter, Mikhaila Fuller. In an email to the National Post, Fuller, the CEO of Peterson Academy she co-founded with her father, said her parents are moving to Arizona to be close to her, her husband Jordan and their children Elizabeth Peterson and George Peterson Fuller. “With the touring they do, they were hardly in Toronto at all anymore, and it didn’t make sense to keep the house,” Fuller wrote, noting her parents “are not rebuying in Toronto.” As for the property they’re leaving behind, realtor Daniel Freeman told National Post that Peterson and his family have called the 100-year-old-plus midtown home theirs since 1999, with extensive improvements and upgrades completed within the last nine years. “A bespoke retreat that fuses bold architecture with soulful living, nestled in one of Toronto’s most neighbourly pockets,” the listing reads. From the outside, the semi-detached brick home doesn’t look significantly different than the other two-storey homes along the quiet street. Its modesty is one of Freeman’s favourite things about the home. “The homes that I always enjoy the most are the ones where your expectations from the outside are different from what you see on the inside. It’s like unwrapping a gift box,” he said. “For this house, it’s like you have five or six gifts that you have to unwrap, and each time there’s another surprise.” The first comes the moment you enter a bright sun porch through a stained glass door adjacent to a beautiful stained glass window custom-designed by Toronto’s Eve Guinan Design Restoration. The rest of the carpet-free first and second floors — redone by interior designer Shelley Kirsch in 2019 — are bright and welcoming, featuring two spacious bedrooms and a newly renovated bathroom that Freeman said would rival “any Forest Hill or modern rebuilt home in the city.” The “show stopper,” according to the listing, is a third-storey bedroom “that feels plucked from a Muskoka escape” with its vaulted ceilings and exposed wooden beams. The add-on also features two gas fireplaces, a seating area overlooking the front of the house and a rear deck above the backyard. “One of the people that came through the open house on Saturday said ‘I feel like I’m in a large cabin staring out into the trees on the side of a mountain,’” Freeman said of the space designed by local architects Doug Rylett and Cathy Tafler. The basement features the last two of the five bedrooms, laundry and an infrared sauna. Freeman said they were able to make great use of the space by lowering, or benching, the basement floor without disturbing the existing foundation walls. By doing so and employing the right waterproofing, heating and ventilation, Freeman said the home isn’t at risk for the usual mustiness most old basements in the area are known for. “The lower level doesn’t feel any different than the rest of the house in this property, The basement also features access to a stunning backyard with living plant walls, durable ipe hardwood decking, motorized retractable awnings and a “garage style shed, ideal for storage or studio.” Other bells and whistles inside include smart climate control and automation, central air conditioning and vacuum, tankless water heater and, as Freeman discovered over the weekend, “a filtration system that offers carbonated filtered water” from the sink. As for the location, Freeman said it’s close to four major grocery stores and subway access, has high walkability and bike scores, sits on the doorstep of well-appointed Vermont Square Park, and features a tight-knit neighbourhood of people. He once lived on Olive, and Freeman Real Estate is based just around the corner on Bathurst Street. “Olive Avenue is known to be one of the warmest, friendliest blocks in this midtown area,” he said. “It has a historical block party once or twice a year, where everyone shares a potluck dinner on the street, where the kids play and they have a little stage they put up and they have shows.” Because the house is “like fine art,” Freeman doesn’t think it will be on the market for long. The psychologist and his wife are asking $2,268,000, but Freeman said, “the value is greater than the listing price” because of “so many intangibles.”

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