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The article is concerned with the research of land market development at the regional and municipal levels. Regional features of increasing polarization of space between densely populated regional centers and remote peripheral areas are shown. Land turnover characteristics, as well as demographic and migration indicators of municipalities, are selected as a tool reflecting the regional features of agglomeration growth. The article reveals the role of land redistribution, which shows a connection that may not always be apparent with the processes of population migration, but is closely related to the factor of distance between the center and the periphery. As a consequence of these processes, the spatial and social fabric of rural communities is being transformed. A territorial and functional transformation of large cities and their suburban areas is observed (an expansion of suburban areas, the transformation of country dwelling into urban areas, the reproduction of an urban lifestyle by the rural population in the suburbs, the professional transformation of the rural population, etc.). The example of the region demonstrates how agricultural lands, following the all-Russian trend, are acquiring an increasingly important role in the formation of suburbs. The trend toward the exclusion of agricultural lands from the turnover is increasing. Abandoned agricultural lands are used for residential development. The features of the intraregional population migration flow and the spatial distortion of the direction of its vector due to the presence of the region’s largest recreational site, namely, Lake Baikal, as well as border areas, are highlighted. The article uses cartographic material of the processed Rosreestr data from 2011 to 2022, as well as materials of the field studies in rural communities of the Baikal region.