In 2015 compared to the previous year, property sales in Turkey increased by 10.6%. Istanbul had the highest share of property sales with an 18.6% share. 239.767 properties were sold in Istanbul in 2015. Ankara takes second place after Istanbul with an 11.4% share. 146.537 properties were sold in Ankara in 2015. Then Izmir takes third place after Izmir with 77.796 (6%) property sales. The lowest property sales in 2015 were in Hakkari with 139 properties. 434388 properties were sold in Turkey with a mortgage. 854.932 sales are the other property sales in Turkey.
Property sales in Turkey increased by 5.9% in December 2015 compared to the same month of the previous year. Property sales in Turkey became 142.599. Istanbul had the highest share with 18.7% of property sales. 26.595 properties were sold in December 2015. Ankara takes second place after Istanbul. Izmir takes third place after Ankara. Hakkari, Şırnak, and Ardahan are the provinces that have the lowest property sales in Turkey in 2015.
Mortgaged property sales in Turkey were decreased in 2015. Property sales with mortgages throughout Turkey became 40.283 by decreasing 6.6% compared to the same month of the previous year. Other house sales became 102.316 by increasing 11.8% compared to the same month of the previous year in Turkey.
New property sales in Turkey became 74.032. The sales were increased by 12.4% compared to the same month of the previous year. New build properties sales had a 51.9% share of all property sales in Turkey. Second-hand property sales in Turkey became 68.567. The sales were decreased by 0.4% compared to the same month of the previous year.
22.830 properties were sold to foreigners in Turkey in 2015
Property sales to foreigners increased by 20.4% in 2015 compared to the previous year. Istanbul was the first province with 7.493 sales in 2015 in property sales to foreigners. Antalya was the second province after Istanbul with 6.072 sales. Bursa was the third province with 1.501 sales and Yalova was the fourth province with 1.425 sales.
2.283 properties were sold to foreigners in December 2015. 2.283 properties were sold to foreigners in Turkey. Istanbul was the first province in December 2015 with 977 sales. The followers of Istanbul were Antalya with 460 property sales, Bursa with 139 property sales, and Yalova with 118 property sales.
According to country nationalities, most property sales were made to Iraqi Citizens. Iraqi citizens bought 4.228 properties from Turkey in 2015. The followers were Saudi Arabia with 2704 property sales, Kuwait with 2130 property sales, Russia with 2036 property sales, and England with 1054 property sales. Just Iraqi citizens bought 512 properties from Turkey in December. The followers of Iraq were Saudi Arabia with 258 property sales, Kuwait with 209 property sales, and Russia with 150 property sales.
774.874 (60.1%) properties were bought by men. 382.237 (29.6%) properties were bought by women. In general in Turkey 29.708 (2.3%) properties were bought jointly by women and men.