Crowdfunding Now Rivals Bank Mortgages in Turkish Housing Sales

2018年12月5日 下午12:00 [GMT+8]

Unregulated Turkish crowdfunders say they’re grabbing a bigger share of the housing market as a surge in mortgage rates offered by traditional lenders prices out most potential homebuyers.

With rates at a 14-year high, “current financing conditions don’t serve low- and middle-income families,” Murat Ciftci, chairman of home and auto financing firm Birevim, said in an interview late last month. “As interest rates rose, people became more interested in our shared-savings system.”

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