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Market analysis, legal explainers and honest area portraits from our research desk in Germany and our experts in Cyprus. No sales talk, just what we would want to know before buying here ourselves.
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We spent a week riding along with a pool maintenance man on his round of North Cyprus villas. Here is what a private pool really costs to run, what winter and neglect do to it, and when a shared site pool is honestly the better choice.
Watch someone buy here for the second time and the change is obvious. They ask fewer questions, and much better ones. What they stop doing, what they start doing, and what that tells a first time buyer.
Anyone can send listings. The real work sits between your first email and the day you collect the keys: verification, honest advice, negotiation, oversight and aftercare. Here is what to expect, and how to test it.
A plot with a view is the cheapest way to own a dream and the most expensive way to own a problem. The checks that decide which one you have bought, in the order a careful buyer does them.
One evening in Kyrenia sets your service charge, spends the reserve fund and appoints the management. The full AGM agenda, item by item, and what absence really costs.
Almost every foreign buyer skips it, and almost every one of them is deciding on the basis of a beach they will visit eight times a year. What the capital actually offers, who it suits, and where it genuinely does not.
Five short case files from complex life in North Cyprus: a dog, a barbecue, an early swimmer, a glazed balcony and a second car. Each one ends with the question that would have prevented it.
Whose name goes on the deed gets about three minutes of thought and then governs the next thirty years. The common structures, what each one solves, what each one costs, and the questions that belong with your lawyer.
Three garden menus for North Cyprus written as recipe cards: what to plant, when the Cyprus year says to plant it, how much each garden drinks through the dry summer and what it costs to keep.
Moving abroad with a six year old is logistics. Moving with a fifteen year old is a negotiation. Here are the five objections teenagers actually raise, answered honestly.
We talk more people out of this than into it. But it does happen, and it can be done responsibly. Here is the traffic light we use before agreeing to sell a property to somebody who has never stood in it.
Why a south balcony is not the automatic winner in North Cyprus, why north can mean the best sea view in Kyrenia, and how to read the facing from a floor plan before you fly.
The unglamorous week after handover. Which accounts you actually need, what to bring to the counter, why you should photograph the meters before you sign anything, and the one debt you must never inherit.
No bank stands in a North Cyprus purchase demanding an inspection, so nobody orders a survey unless you do. Here is what an independent surveyor actually checks, what it costs, and which findings should truly end a deal.
Nobody buys a holiday home thinking about their estate. But a property in one country and a will in another is exactly the situation that leaves a family stuck. What to put in place, and when.
More than three hundred days of sun a year is not a brochure line; it is your home's power plant. What the rooftop solar heater really saves, when photovoltaics make sense, and what to check on a listing.
A holiday property spends most of the year empty, and empty is exactly the condition most policies treat differently. What actually goes wrong, what the cover should include, and the clause that quietly cancels it.
Your off plan apartment is rising in North Cyprus while you live in Germany. Here are the five exhibits a remote owner should request on a fixed rhythm, what each one proves, what it cannot prove, and the reply that should worry you.
Two properties at the same purchase price can differ by several thousand euros a year to live in. This is where that money goes, line by line, and how to work out which shape actually suits your year.
Checkpoints, an identity card and a second insurance policy for the car: on paper the Green Line sounds like effort. In daily life it is a routine that puts two more airports, a wider shopping landscape and half an island within reach.
Labour is affordable, materials are not always, and the paperwork is the part that ends projects. If you are tempted by a tired village house or a dated apartment, read this before you make an offer.
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