Though would-be home buyers are well aware that Toronto's real estate market somehow continues to get increasingly wild, competitive andoverpriced, it seems that other parts of the region are曲ickly catching up.

When it comes to condos specifically, after abrief pandemic lull, the city proper had aninconsistent rocky returnto hittingrecord high sales volumesin the second quarter of 2021,with prices also spikingto reach, on average, 44 per cent more than 2017's housing peak.

But, it seems the allure of living in parts of the downtown corehas fadedover the course of the health crisis, and relocating elsewhere — whether it's toa nearby suburboranother part of the country— is a popular phenomenon.

Condo prices in locales such asOshawaandPickeringhave skyrocketed as a result, while prices elsewhere in the GTA are likewisestarting to rise at a way faster pacethan in T.O.

Average home prices are now above $1 million in 90 per cent of the Greater Toronto Areahttps://t.co/DmEG1z1r72#Toronto#GTA#TorontoRealEstate#RealEstate

— blogTO (@blogTO)August 17, 2021

The latest numbers fromStrata.cashow that for the first time in six months, listings on the platform for condos outside of the city provided way higher returns on investment than those inside of it in August.

In fact, when looking at the condo buildings where prices have lept the most in the last year, only one Toronto property made the top 10 list, with the rest located in Burlington, Oshawa, Hamilton and Mississauga — a clear deviation from past trends, where Toronto complexes always dominated.

Prices at Toronto's Pears on the Avenue Condos in Yorkville rose, on average, 41 per cent, while units in Burlington's Lakepoint Condos saw a whopping 53 per cent price hike in the same time period

The remaining up-and-coming properties in the top 10 — again, none of them in Toronto, but four of them in Oshawa — saw prices inflate between 34 and 40 per cent during the last 12 months after people bought for cheap and sold for a pretty penny.

Condo prices up 50% in Oshawa as people keep leaving Torontohttps://t.co/IWtfvZu5at#Oshawa#Toronto#Ontario#RealEstate

— blogTO (@blogTO)March 23, 2021

"This may simply reaffirm what many of us have known all along: Homebuyers are increasingly looking outside city limits for affordability, and the data is finally starting to reflect that trend," Strata.ca's experts say intheir new reportreleased this week.

"By looking outside the city, you're buying into a market at much cheaper prices with the potential to earn back that investment at a much quicker pace."

Though things may be getting more expensive at a faster rate outside the city, prices, of course, remain highest downtown, where condos average at $895 per square foot versus $647 in Burlington or $505 in Oshawa.

Weirdly enough, though, average rent prices in Toronto were outpaced by those in another Ontario city last month:Barrie, of all places.