Strong comeback for foreign apartment sales in Turkey in May 2024
2025-07-24
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Foreign sales of residential apartments in Turkey recorded a remarkable growth of 62.3% during May of this year, with Antalya leading the Turkish states in sales to foreigners, and Russian nationality ranked first among the foreign nationalities owning real estate in Turkey 2024.
Sales of apartments to foreigners show significant progress during the fifth month of 2024
According to data released by the Turkish Statistical Institute, the number of residential apartments sold to foreigners in Turkey during May of this year reached 2064 apartments, achieving a growth of 62.3% compared to the sales of the previous month, and recording the highest monthly sales number to foreigners during the current year.

The percentage of foreign sales during May of this year amounted to 1.9% of the total general sales of residential apartments across Turkey, while the total number of apartments sold to foreigners during the first five months reached 9,021 apartments.
Antalya leads the Turkish states in sales to foreigners
In the details of the data, Antalya ranked first among the Turkish states in selling residential apartments to foreigners during May 2024 with 797 apartments sold, followed by Istanbul with 668 apartments sold, and Mersin ranked third with 164 apartments sold.
The sales numbers in the ten states with the highest sales to foreigners during May and the first five months of the current year were as follows:
|
Foreign sales during the first five months
|
Foreign sales
May 2024
|
State
|
Number
|
|
3275 apartments
|
797 apartments
|
Antalya
|
1
|
|
3128 apartments
|
668 apartments
|
Istanbul
|
2
|
|
826 apartments
|
164 apartments
|
Mersin
|
3
|
|
210 apartments
|
52 apartments
|
Yalova
|
4
|
|
158 apartments
|
52 apartments
|
Izmir
|
5
|
|
221 apartments
|
51 apartments
|
Ankara
|
6
|
|
207 apartments
|
44 apartments
|
Bursa
|
7
|
|
150 apartments
|
39 apartments
|
Kocaeli
|
8
|
|
134 apartments
|
31 apartments
|
Aydin
|
9
|
|
131 apartments
|
23 apartments
|
Mugla
|
10
|
Russians top the list of nationalities buying the most
Regarding the ranking of foreign nationalities according to their purchases of residential apartments in Turkey, Russians ranked first among the foreign nationalities buying the most residential apartments in Turkey during May 2024, with 437 apartments purchased, followed by Iranians in second place with 207 apartments purchased, and Ukrainians in third place with 171 apartments purchased.
The purchase numbers for the ten nationalities buying the most were as follows:
|
Number
|
Foreign nationality
|
Purchases of foreign nationality from apartments
May 2024 |
|
1
|
Russians
|
437 apartments
|
|
2
|
Iranians
|
207 apartments
|
|
3
|
Ukrainians
|
171 apartments
|
|
4
|
Germans
|
104 apartments
|
|
5
|
Iraqis
|
98 apartments
|
|
6
|
Kazakhs
|
95 apartments
|
|
7
|
Azerbaijanis
|
65 apartments
|
|
8 |
Saudis
|
65 apartments
|
|
9
|
Americans
|
52 apartments
|
|
10
|
British
|
44 apartments
|
Edited by: Imtilak Real Estate©
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