Apartment sales to foreigners in Turkey increased by 33% in August 2022!
2025-07-24
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According to data issued by the Turkish Statistics Authority, the number of apartments sold to foreigners during the month of August of this year 2022 reached 5,273 apartments. Thus, apartment sales to foreigners in Turkey achieved an increase of 33.33% compared to sales in July 2022.
An increase of about 45% during the first 8 months of 2022
The percentage of foreign sales of apartments in Turkey during August of this year 2022, amounted to 4.3% of the total general sales of apartments throughout Turkey.
As for the total sales of apartments to foreigners during the first eight months of this year 2022, it amounted to 44,595 apartments, achieving progress of 44.6% compared to sales of apartments to foreigners during the same period last year 2021.
Antalya tops the Turkish states that sell the most to foreigners
In the details of the issued data, the state of Antalya ranked first among the Turkish states that sold apartments to foreigners during August 2022 with the sale of 1,814 apartments.
Istanbul came in second place with the sale of 1,750 apartments, and the state of Mersin ranked third with the sale of 317 apartments.
The sales figures for the first eight months in the states that sell the most to foreigners are as follows:
|
Rank
|
State
|
The number of apartments sold to foreigners in August 2022
|
The number of apartments sold to foreigners during the first six months
|
|
1
|
Antalya
|
1,814 residential apartments
|
13,071 residential apartments
|
|
2
|
Istanbul
|
1,750 residential apartments
|
17,799 residential apartments
|
|
3
|
Mersin
|
317 residential apartments
|
2,261 residential apartments
|
|
4
|
Ankara
|
208 residential apartments
|
2,118 residential apartments
|
|
5
|
Bursa
|
193 residential apartments
|
1,326 residential apartments
|
|
6
|
Yalova
|
192 residential apartments
|
1,215 residential apartments
|
|
7
|
Trabzon
|
117 residential apartments
|
674 residential apartments
|
|
8
|
Sakarya
|
95 residential apartments
|
955 residential apartments
|
|
9
|
Izmir
|
87 residential apartments
|
883 residential apartments
|
|
10
|
Samsun
|
58 residential apartments
|
771 residential apartments
|
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Russians are at the forefront of the most purchasing nationalities
With regard to the classification of foreign nationalities according to their purchases of apartments in Turkey, the Russians ranked first as the most foreign nationalities buying apartments in Turkey in August 2022 with the purchase of 1,238 apartments, followed by the Iranians in the second place with the purchase of 633 apartments, while the Iraqis ranked In third place, with the purchase of 417 apartments.
The purchase figures for the 20 most-purchasing nationalities were as follows:
|
Rank |
Foreign nationality |
Foreign citizenship purchases from apartments in August 2022 |
|
1 |
Russians |
1,238 residential apartments |
|
2 |
Iranians |
633 residential apartments |
|
3 |
Iraqis |
417 residential apartments |
|
4 |
Germans |
256 residential apartments |
|
5 |
Kazakhs |
231 residential apartments |
|
6 |
Ukrainians |
219 residential apartments |
|
7 |
Kuwaitis |
195 residential apartments |
|
8 |
Saudis |
150 residential apartments |
|
9 |
Americans |
126 residential apartments |
|
10 |
Afghan |
108 residential apartments |
|
11 |
Azerbaijanis |
106 residential apartments |
|
12 |
English |
92 residential apartments |
|
13 |
Egyptians |
88 residential apartments |
|
14 |
Lebanese |
76 residential apartments |
|
15 |
Swedes |
69 residential apartments |
|
16 |
Sudanese |
66 residential apartments |
|
17 |
Jordanians |
66 residential apartments |
|
18 |
Yemenis |
61 residential apartments |
|
19 |
Palestinians |
60 residential apartments |
|
20 |
Qataris |
57 residential apartments |
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