Foreigners Are Getting Less Housing
Foreigners Investments in Real Estate sector have decreased for the last 2 years. This result is valid for all kind of the real estate. In 2016, there is a 6.7% decrease was seen compared to the 2015 as the area-based. Also there is a 14.3% decline in the number of transactions. We see some changes in the list sorting of the countries.
For example; Gulf countries decreased their real estate investments in Turkey. We can compare the years 2015-2016 below:

2015-Country Investments
- Saudi Arabia – 1.445.589 m2 with 2.200 transaction
- England-882.383 m2 with 4.552 transaction
- Kuwait-537.854m2 with 2.299 transaction
- Germany- 461.217m2 with 1280 transaction
- Quatar- 391.726m2 with 279 transaction
- Iraq- 287.889m2 with 4.407 transaction
- America-242.315m2 with 264 transaction
- Russia- 209.301m2 with 2.377 transaction
- Azerbaijan-127.172m2 with 864 transaction
- United Arab Emirates-113.092m2 with 329 transaction
2016- Country Investments
- Saudi Arabia- 782.674m2 with 1.827 transaction
- Germany- 649.254m2 with 1.474 transaction
- England- 557.706m2 with 2.556 transaction
- Kuwait- 480.135m2 with 1.749 transaction
- Azerbaijan- 280.247m2 with 724 transaction
- Iraq- 269.640m2 with 3.726 transaction
- Russia- 201.538m2 with 1.449 transaction
- Lebanon- 175.602m2 with 191 transaction
- North Cyprus Turkish Republic- 172.382m2 with 180 transaction
- Afghanistan- 145.127m2 with 1.623 transaction