EghtesadOnline: Thirty-six percent of all homebuyers in the first four months of the current fiscal year (March 20-July 21) used Bank Maskan loans to finance their homes.

EghtesadOnline: Bank Maskan, the agent bank of Iran's housing sector, has paid a total of 89,000 billion rials ($760.68 million) in home loans under the Housing Savings Account scheme since its launch in June 2015.

EghtesadOnline: First-time homebuyers have accounted for a 20% share of total home deals in the capital city Tehran, since the start of the third quarter of the current Iranian year (Sept. 23).

EghtesadOnline: A review of data by the Central Bank of Iran shows that residents of Tehran, the bustling capital city accounting for roughly half of all home sales in the country, increasingly favor smaller homes as their purchasing power has dwindled.