Controversial Home Ads: “Not Suitable for Turkish Customers”

While astronomical increases have been observed especially in the prices of houses for sale and rental with high inflation, one more obstacle has recently started to appear in front of those who want to rent a new house. In some advertisements on the advertisement sites where rental houses are listed, “Let the Turks not call, only for rent to foreigners” notes such as

Advertisements created especially for houses in Istanbul’s Esenyurt, Beylikdüzü and Başakşehir districts focus on Arab customers. In some advertisements in which the advertisement information is written entirely in Arabic, “Turks should not call” as well as “Suitable for citizenshipThere are also phrases such as ”.

Here is the controversial ad:

According to the news of Cumhuriyet, Nizameddin Aşa, Chairman of the Board of Istanbul Public Real Estate Agents Chamber of Craftsmen, said in a statement about the names behind these announcements, “They usually deal with works that are still in project form and that are not put on the market. In this way as high as they want they can sell.” he declared.

Hakan Doğan, Founding President of All Entrepreneurial Real Estate Agents Association, said:These uncontrolled businesses also cause grievances in many businesses and transactions, especially in sales to foreigners. Even with their high advertisements they disrupt the market, cause the price to go up.” he declared.

While the housing market is in the hands of foreigners, the high rents demanded from foreigners increase the market average. Turkish tenants, on the other hand, continue to be unable to find a home in their own country…