Yenişehir: a new city and jewel decorating the lands of Istanbul

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Yenişehir, or the new city in Istanbul, is a strategic development, residential, commercial, and investment project with multiple options. It was announced by President Erdogan during a special conference in 2023. The idea of establishing it came due to the large population increase in the city of Istanbul, which made the Turkish government think about searching for areas A new building that will be a natural urban extension of the city of Istanbul, which is one of the most densely populated cities in the world, with a population of about 16 million people.

The government’s attention turned towards the north of Istanbul, specifically in the Arnavutköy area, which is located on the European side of it, to create a new city. The Arnavutköy area quickly became one of the most attractive areas for real estate investment in Istanbul, especially with the imminent construction of the largest project. For infrastructure in Turkey, the “New Istanbul Canal”, where the new city “Yenisehir” will be surrounded by and along the “New Istanbul Canal”, where the city will attract hundreds of thousands of residents, in addition to implementing high-quality real estate and urban projects, in accordance with housing standards. And modern investment. After the state of Istanbul announced the issuance of ministerial approvals for building permits for the new city “Yenisehir Istanbul” in the Arnavutköy area, and since that time this announcement has continued to increase optimism about the future of real estate investment, especially Arnavutköy lands in the promising areas adjacent to the new Istanbul Canal, where The licenses issued gave a strong incentive for foreign investors to own “lands in Arnavutkoy” and real estate and begin buying and reserving apartments, villas and offices in the projects that will be built in the new city, and this in itself will cause an unprecedented rise in the “prices of Arnavutkoy lands” and real estate in the region in The coming period will undoubtedly be very big. In this article, we will talk about the “New City of Yenişehir”, its geographical location, details of the buildings, projects, population in the city, services, facilities and public transportation that will be available in it, and the economic, investment and real estate dimensions of this city, which will bring about a real revolution in the world of real estate in Turkey and investment in its lands.

Yenişehir Istanbul Location

Large parts of the new city “Yenisehir” are located within the Arnavutköy area in central and northern European Istanbul. It extends from the forest and village of Çamlar all the way to the banks of the Black Sea. Its lands are distributed on both banks of the “New Istanbul Canal” project. The new city will be next to the  new Istanbul airport .

The neighborhoods that will make up “Yenisehir Istanbul”

The announcement issued by the state of Istanbul regarding building permits for the new city “Yenisehir”, which is administratively affiliated with the Arnavutköy region in European Istanbul, was promising for real estate investors as well as for the residents of the residential neighborhoods that also received these licenses, which amount to 15 residential neighborhoods, which in turn will form the new city “Yenisehir”. The neighborhoods belong to the municipalities of Arnavutköy and Başakşehir, where the neighborhoods of the Arnavutköy municipality included 12 neighborhoods, which are: Çilingir , Tayakakadın , Hacımaşlı , Haraççı , Sazlıbosna , Dursunköy , Yeniköy , Baklalı , Hadımköy , Boyalık , Yassıören , and Taşoluk.

As for the neighborhoods of the municipality of Basaksehir, it included 3 neighborhoods: Kayabaşı , Şamlar , and Şahintepe.

Details of buildings and residents in the new city

Yenişehir Istanbul will have an area of approximately 131 thousand dunams (131 million square metres, 131 km2) of land, and its population is scheduled to be approximately 2.4 million people, and the final scheduled number of residential units to be built in the new city is approximately 800 to 850 thousand. Residential unit, and the projects and buildings that will contain these residential units will not be of high or towering heights as planned, meaning that the largest percentage of buildings will be only 6 floors high, with buildings and two-storey buildings higher than that as well, but the majority of the buildings are not These residential units will be within regular residential complexes with public facilities and fully equipped infrastructure, in addition to the new city containing other strategic and development projects related to vital sectors such as energy production, transportation, roads, bridges, etc.

Vital and recreational services and facilities 

The new city will include a large number of botanical parks and green spaces, which will have an area of approximately 50 thousand dunams (50 thousand square meters, 50 square kilometers), which is land designated for green spaces, in addition to water basins and artificial lakes. It will also include many diverse educational, health and entertainment facilities, commercial centers, financial and business centers, in addition to mosques, swimming pools, sports clubs, banking branches, government institutions and many diverse service centers that guarantee its residents a safe and comfortable life with full services and benefits.

Transport and communications in the new area

 The new city will naturally provide Yenişehir with an interconnected network of internal transportation, which is already widely available in the neighborhoods that will be within the Yenişehir plan, making it easy to reach the rest of the surrounding and nearby areas. A 200 km long railway network will also be constructed. km dedicated to the subway and trams. The city alone will include 4 bridges out of the 8 bridges that will be built on the new Bosphorus Canal, which in turn will form highways with a length of 43 kilometers. This transportation plan prepared for the new city “Yenisehir in Arnavutköy” will contribute significantly. It greatly reduces congestion in Istanbul to a very large extent.

The future of real estate investment in Yenişehir 

Anyone who has accurate knowledge of the impact of strong infrastructure on the future of real estate investment in any region knows very well that the region will witness an unprecedented urban leap and an unprecedented rise in its real estate market, especially in land prices that are part of the new plan for the city of Yenişehir. Likewise, the new canal project in Istanbul will contribute very significantly to creating a qualitative shift in the world of real estate investments in the new city “Yenisehir”, and Yenişehir Istanbul will constitute an exceptional and unparalleled investment station... Among the factors that prompted real estate investors to be optimistic about the future of investment in Yenişehir are :

  • First: Its distinctive geographical area, which will be next to the largest projects in Istanbul, the new Istanbul Canal, which will compete with the Bosphorus Strait, and thus the real estate and lands overlooking the Istanbul Canal will be equivalent to its material and investment value as the real estate and lands overlooking the Bosphorus.
  • Second: The largest construction companies in Istanbul will supervise the development and construction of projects in the new city, such as “Toki” Company, the leader in the field of urban construction, and “Emlak Konut” Company, which is considered one of the finest and oldest Turkish companies and has distinguished precedents and reputation in building modern residential complexes with integrated services.Many residential projects will be in partnership between the government company Emlak Konut and Toki with other Turkish construction companies to build several residential and commercial projects in the areas located on both banks of the canal, and thus Arnavutköy has become the owner of the largest investment site in Istanbul.
  • Third: Building a new city in Istanbul will meet the population need for thousands of employees and workers in Turkey, especially in the new Istanbul airport and its airlines and in the medical city in Basaksehir, for which the city is a quick arrival point.
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