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<\/a>Photo:\u00a0Erik Mclean<\/a> \/ Unsplash<\/a><\/em><\/p>\nOver the course of the pandemic, there\u2019s been a lot of chatter about the urban exodus, the term coined for the pandemic-driven migration of city residents to the outer suburbs.<\/p>\n
To understand how this trend is impacting new construction home buying, Livabl<\/em> looked at BuzzBuzzHome visitor inquiry data from regions across the Greater Toronto Area to see which areas were seeing large spikes in interest from home shoppers browsing the online home search portal.<\/p>\n Many suburban GTA areas with new home developments saw a significant influx of home shopper interest this fall when compared to the same period a year ago. With the help of BuzzBuzzHome\u2019s Data team, Livabl<\/em> compiled a top 10 list of GTA suburbs that recorded the largest increases in visitor inquiries sent to new developments within their borders.<\/p>\n Visitor inquiry data used to compile the annual changes for each community were submitted between September 1st and November 30th in 2019 and 2020.<\/p>\n Smaller municipalities were among those that experienced the highest levels of annual growth.<\/p>\n Courtice<\/a> and Newcastle<\/a>, located east of Toronto, reported an increase in visitor inquiries by 844 percent and 854 percent, respectively. North of the city, in Uxbridge<\/a>, a substantial rise in visitor inquiries resulted in annual growth of 1,000 percent.<\/p>\n Oshawa<\/a> and Clarington<\/a>, and other municipalities east of downtown, accounted for the majority of the communities that made up the top-10 list. Pickering<\/a> and Bowmanville<\/a> saw a 397 percent and 402 percent jump in inquiries between 2019 and 2020, respectively. Oshawa and Clarington reported annual increases of 437 percent and 621 percent, respectively.<\/p>\n\n<\/a>Data source: BuzzBuzzHome, created via Venngage<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n