Turkey real estate market — prices, rental yield and trend
- Average price: $1,755 / m²
- Gross rental yield: 7.32%
- 12-month price change (USD): 6.6%
- Transaction cost: 8.7%
- Price basis: local-market average
Residential property in Turkey averages $1,755 per square metre, +6.6% in dollar terms over the last twelve months. That makes it the 62nd most expensive of the 70 markets in the set. In local currency the same twelve months read +24.5%; the 17.9-point gap is the exchange rate, not the housing market.
What a buyer pays in Turkey
The $1,755 figure is a local-market average across all residential property types: it describes the capital's market, not the country as a whole — most of the country trades well below it. Buying costs — transfer tax or stamp duty, notary, registration and agency — come to about 8.7% of the price here. On a 100 m² apartment at the average price that is roughly $15,268 on top of the $175,500 purchase price. That is close to the 9.5% median across the set. Inside Turkey we track 2 local markets separately: Istanbul at $3,161 (80.1% above the national figure) down to Antalya at $1,170.
What it earns
Long-term letting returns about 7.3% gross on the purchase price, 14th of 69 markets by gross yield. Measured against local earnings, the price-to-income ratio is 6.6 — that is how many years of an average local income one average home costs, and it says more about who can buy here than any price figure does.
How this figure is built
The price figure for Turkey comes from the source we judge most reliable for this market. It was last refreshed on 2026-07-23. We rate our confidence in this market’s data high: the underlying series is official and current. We recompute every market the same way; a figure that fails our checks is suppressed, not guessed.
Sources: TCMB RPPI · tcmb.gov.tr · globalpropertyguide.com · numbeo.com. Snapshot: 2026-07-23.
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