House sales increases by 10.6% in January --TurkStat
In Türkiye, house sales increased by 10.6% in January compared to the same month of the previous year and became 97 thousand 708, the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) said in a statement on Friday.
İstanbul had the highest share with 17.8% and 17 thousand 415 house sales.
The followers of İstanbul were Ankara with 8 thousand 808 house sales and Antalya with 5 thousand 572 house sales with the share of 9.0% and 5.7% respectively.
The provinces with the lowest number of sales were Hakkari with 23, Ardahan with 24 and Tunceli with 42 house sales.
Mortgaged house sales became 16 thousand 203
In Türkiye, mortgaged house sales decreased by 10.9% in January compared to the same month of the previous year and became 16 thousand 203.
Mortgaged house sales had 16.6% share of all house sales. 4 thousand 260 of the mortgaged house sales in January were first sales.
Other house sales became 81 thousand 505
In Türkiye, other house sales increased by 16.2% in January compared to the same month of the previous year and became 81 thousand 505. Other house sales had 83.4% share of all house sales.
27 thousand 532 houses were sold for the first time
In Türkiye, first time house sales increased by 1.2% in January compared to the same month of the previous year and became 27 thousand 532. First sales had 28.2% share of all house sales.
Second hand house sales became 70 thousand 176
In Türkiye, second hand house sales increased by 14.8% in January compared to the same month of the previous year and became 70 thousand 176. Second hand sales had 71.8% share of all house sales.
In January, 4 thousand 161 houses were sold to foreigners
House sales to foreigners decreased by 0.6% in January compared to the same month of the previous year and became 4 thousand 161. House sales to foreigners had 4.3% share of all house sales in January. Antalya ranked first with a thousand 592 sales to foreigners.
The followers of Antalya were İstanbul with a thousand 380 house sales and Mersin with 331 house sales to foreigners.
House sales were mostly made to Russian citizens according to nationalities
In January, Russian citizens bought 1,557 houses from Türkiye. The followers of Russia citizens were Iran citizens with 526 house sales, Iraq citizens with 229 house sales and Ukraine citizens with 157 house sales. (ILKHA)