Homeowners in King Township, Ont., have basically won the lottery.
House prices in the region north of Toronto have nearly doubled in just the past year — up 89.6 per cent since October, 2015, according to data released this week by the Toronto Real Estate Board.
The average house price in King is now $1.919 million, up from $1.012 million a year earlier. House prices there have nearly tripled since 2013.
With Toronto house prices rising relentlessly year after year, more and more city inhabitants are moving out to the edges, forcing up house prices in places as far from Toronto as Kitchener-Waterloo and St. Catharines.
But the strongest house price growth over the past year has been in some of the most distant parts of Toronto's 905 suburban region, where many cities have seen nearly 40-per-cent price growth.
It's this sort of wild price appreciation that the federal Liberals are trying to cool off with the tougher new mortgage rules they introduced last month.
Experts say the new rules will slow down home sales across Canada, and may even lead to an outright correction. But for now, the impact hasn't been felt. Toronto's housing market continued to soar in October, with the average house price rising 21.1 per cent, to $762,795.
With numbers like that, is it any wonder that nearly half the region's millennials are seriously thinking about leaving?
Check out the 10 areas covered by the Toronto Real Estate Board that have seen the largest spikes in prices over the past year:
