Istanbul, May 25 () - The mortgaged house sales throughout Turkey rose by 96.5 percent in April, against in the same month of last year, while total house sales increased by 42.7 percent over the same period, according to the House Sales Statistics data released by Turkstat on Monday.
New house sales in Turkey became rose by 40.1 percent to 53 thousand units over the same period, with 44.1 percent share of total house sales in Turkey, while second hand house sales rose by 44.9 percent to 67 thousand units.
Foreigners bought total 1,847 houses in April including 584 houses bought in Istanbul, followed by Antalya with 507 houses, Bursa and Yalova with 133 houses, Aydın with 90 houses, Mersin with 76 houses and Sakarya with 63 houses.