Boundary Walls, Fences and Gates: Small Structures, Real Rules
Walls, fences, gates, hedges and retaining walls follow real rules in North Cyprus. A field guide to who owns what, what commonly needs permission and what to check before you build.
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Claudia Neumann
Claudia fell for North Cyprus on a summer that was meant to be a holiday and turned into a life. She is the practical one on the team, the friend who tells you what she really thinks, and she has a soft spot for the small coastal villages most visitors drive straight past. Off the clock she is happiest swimming, cooking for friends or exploring another stretch of the island.
Ordently, Germany 30 articles
Written by Claudia Neumann
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Questions to Ask Before Reserving a North Cyprus Property
The reservation is the moment your position changes. Twenty three questions worth asking first, what a good answer sounds like, and the four replies that should stop you signing.
When the Neighbour Builds: Views, Rights and What You Can Actually Object To
One morning there are surveyor's stakes on the empty plot below your terrace. Here is the ladder of responses that actually exists, rung by rung, without false promises about any of them.
Healthcare in North Cyprus for New Residents: Clinics, Insurance and Planning
How care is organised here, what private treatment realistically involves, and the arrangements worth making from Germany before you fly. Written for people planning a move, not a holiday.
Title Deeds in North Cyprus: A Simple Guide for Buyers
A plain language guide to title deed questions in North Cyprus and why buyers should check the paperwork before paying a reservation fee.
Buying Property in North Cyprus: Process, Costs and Key Checks
A detailed buyer guide to viewings, reservation, contract checks, purchase costs, title questions and the documents you should ask for before signing.
Currency, Payment Stages and Moving Large Sums Safely
The largest transfer most people ever make, sent to a country they do not bank in, on instructions received by email. The fraud that targets exactly this, and the habits that defeat it.
Buying Off Plan in North Cyprus: Payment Stages, Delays and Buyer Protection
Off plan is how most new homes here are sold, and it works well when the contract is written properly. What the payment schedule should look like, what happens when a build runs late, and the clauses worth arguing over.
Buying in a Complex That Is Only Half Sold
The pool is blue, the lobby smells of paint, and half the balconies are bare concrete. Whether that is an opportunity or a warning depends on things you can count yourself.
North Cyprus Residency: What Property Buyers Should Prepare
A careful guide to residency preparation for property buyers, including documents, timing, bank evidence, health checks and where to get current advice.
Buying Where You Holidayed: When the Resort You Love Is the Wrong Purchase
You fell for North Cyprus on holiday and want to buy exactly where you stayed. First give your next trip a second job: seven quiet missions, each with a pass and a fail signal, that show whether your favourite spot fits your February as well as your July.
Is North Cyprus Safe for Foreign Buyers: Practical Checks Before You Travel
Two very different questions hide inside the word safe. Here is the honest answer to both, and the checks that remove almost all of the real risk before you book a flight.
From First Enquiry to Keys: What a Good Agency Actually Does
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.
Land and Plots in North Cyprus: What to Check Before You Buy to Build
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.
Pets, Pools and Balconies: The Rules Nobody Reads Until They Break One
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.
Buying With a Partner, a Company or Adult Children: How Ownership Is Held
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.
Buying Sight Unseen: When It Works and What Has to Be in Writing
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.
Orientation Matters: North Facing, South Facing and the Cyprus Sun
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.
Inheritance and Wills for Foreign Owners in North Cyprus
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.
Watching Your Build From 3,000 Kilometres: Reading Construction Progress Remotely
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.
Villa or Apartment in North Cyprus: Running Costs Compared
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.
Crossing the Line: Living in the North, Using the Whole Island
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.
Buying From a Distressed Seller Without Becoming One
Urgent sales exist, and they are neither shameful nor a hunting ground. Five safeguards make them work, and every one of them protects both sides of the table at once.
What a Snagging List Should Actually Contain, Room by Room
The inspection before final payment is the one moment the builder has to listen to you. Here is what to carry, what to open, and what to write down in every room of a new build.
Selling a Property in North Cyprus: What Foreign Owners Should Expect
Buying here is well documented. Selling is not. This is how a foreign owner gets from the decision to sell to money in a European account, and what usually slows that journey down.
Instalments, Banks or Cash: How Buyers Actually Pay for North Cyprus Property
Most North Cyprus purchases are paid in developer instalments, not with a mortgage. Here is how the three real payment routes compare, what each one costs, and where the risk actually sits.
Selling Off Plan Before Completion: What Assignment Actually Involves
Circumstances change faster than a building goes up. Whether you can hand your contract to someone else, what it costs, and why the honest answer is usually found in a clause you have already signed.
Health Insurance When You Move After Sixty
Moving to North Cyprus after sixty means leaving the German system with no room for guesswork about medical cover. We run time backwards from a future operation to the questions worth asking today.
What Happens Between Reservation and Title Transfer, Step by Step
You paid a reservation fee. Then the process disappears into a quiet period that can last a very long time. Here is what is actually happening at each stage, what you should be holding, and where the delays really come from.
What Listing Photos Do Not Show: Reading a Property Advert Like an Inspector
North Cyprus adverts follow a fixed photo script. Learn what each frame was composed to hide, and the one thing to request instead, before you book a single viewing.
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