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Showing posts with label How the real estate property market works in Turkey. Show all posts
Showing posts with label How the real estate property market works in Turkey. Show all posts

Saturday, May 30, 2020

‘The Guide’ of How to Buy Property in Turkey - Explains ‘What and Why’… Knowing ‘How’ is the Key

The Guide to Buying Property in Turkey - Like a LocalThe Guide...'Buy Like a Local'... How to Find and Invest in Property in Turkey a Safer, Smarter, Better Way...
Finally buyers can now rely on simple guidance on buying procedures used by
locals. Thus avoiding the numerous pitfalls and disastrous outcomes that occur
when foreign buyers of property in Turkey are mislead by English speaking estate
agents, and their glossy websites.

Regrettably, these same misleading procedures are also often followed by lawyers 
and mortgage brokers to which the agents introduce their foreign buyers.  In this
way many, many foreign buyers have completed a purchase without realising the
procedures they have followed would never be accepted by local Turkish buyers.
For good reason, too, most often because the misleading procedures of agents are
designed to minimise the buyers negotiating leverage on price discounts, and
conceal key deficiencies in title, the most common being the lack of habitation
certificates. Eventually the foreign buyers learn about the true market prices, and
the lack of permits, and in both cases, the cost of following English speaking agents’
buying procedures adds up to several thousand Pounds, Dollars or Euros.

Now thankfully,  ‘The Guide to Buying Property in Turkey - Like a Local ‘  describes
 ‘what’ the differences in procedure are, the local way,  and ‘why’ it is so important
to avoid following English speaking agents’ insistence and manipulations to obtain
a ‘reservation deposit’. Ten pages of detail are a must read for anyone and everyone
buying a property in Turkey.
 
A property purchase is a substantial investment, and a buyer that informs themselves
fully at the beginning of the procedure, has made the right first step protecting that
investment, ensuring a favourable outcome at the end. Too often buyers are mesmer-
ised by the many wonderful lifestyle attractions of great food, beautiful natural sur-
roundings, joyous social atmosphere, warm sunny climate, and cheap property with
ample proportions. And these are the circumstances, in which a buyer is tempted
into ignoring the essential procedural details of ‘how’ to buy, which is exactly what
agents are relying upon.
 
The ‘what’ and ‘why’ of buying are fully explained in the ten pages of the guide, 
conveying more than 30 years of insights into managing more than 3,000 property
purchase transactions for foreign buyers in Turkey. Unfortunately, what the Guide
can not do in the ten pages provided is to explain ‘HOW’ to do what is needed. For
the very simple reason that ten pages is simply insufficient to address the very wide
range of tactics and deceptions, applied by agents and their collaborators in law
offices and mortgage banks, for manipulating the trusting, unsuspecting foreign
buyer.  If a buyer isn’t hooked by the first trick an agent uses, the buyer will be
hooked by another, of the many in the agent’s proverbial bag of tricks. No amount
of advance reading and research can adequately guard against this outcome, for the
simple reason that buyers can not know what questions to ask, or what to instruct,
because they do not know what to expect of the situation, and most often only have
only the advice of agents and their collaborating lawyers and mortgage brokers to
consider. So many permutations and variations in the non-standardised nature of
Turkish property permits, title liens and claims, and payment procedures, means
that having done one, two, or three transactions, is not enough to obtain a satisfact-
ory awareness of everything that needs understanding, in the myriad of circumstan-
ces that can unfold for each different property transaction. Despite agents’ earnest
assurances to the contrary... (!!!).  
 
Fortunately, the ‘how’ is best obtained from advice available from independent 
professionals. These transaction managers perform an essential function & service,
scrutinising and directing all aspects of a purchase transaction, and are paid by
astute buyers to look after their best interests, in the detail required. This is often
not the case with lawyers and their conflicted interests, with the agents and develop-
ers that introduced the buyer, being their first allegiance. The temptation of huge
hidden price mark-ups and commissions is simply irresistable, like 'Gold Rush Fever'.
The legal reality is that consumer protection laws in Turkey are weak, and real
estate transactions for foreigners are un-regulated. That means that legal recourse
is limited, and costly. So with some optimism, looking forward to the future will
always be brighter when the needlessly predatory practices of English speaking
estate agents are eradicated from the market. Hopefully, 'The Guide…’ will help that
to happen soon....
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The Guide to Buying Property in Turkey - Comparison of Buying Procedures : The Agents Way vs The Local  Way

Monday, August 26, 2019

The New Ways of Turkey's Property Market in the Digital Age


A foreign property owner selling and wanting to find a buyer needs first to come to terms with the reality of the market today, in the internet age, a digital world.  And doing so will open their eyes to many advantages in the new way property is bought and sold, compared to the old ways. Not only can the foreign seller find a Turkish buyer faster, there is also no need to deal with an agent and their lies, and no need to pay huge commissions for the privilege…! 

Wake up, people….

So how does a foreigner that doesn’t speak Turkish get into the ‘real’ property sector in Turkey and deal with everything that needs doing? The best way to start is an easy solution- it’s the starters’ kit at mytapu.com… the Sellers Tool-kit for Residential Property in Turkey. This tool kit provides help, guidance, support to D.I.Y Do-It-Yourself selling of your property on the new digital platforms; because all the platforms are designed and working this way:  Peer – to – Peer. They work so that buyers and sellers can deal direct with each other…there’s no place for agents…! Desperate agents have wedged their way in, but they are not welcome by buyers or sellers. For example, the name of the biggest on-line exchange, when translated into English means… ‘For Sale Direct from the Owner’. These on-line exchanges are NOT small experimental fly-by-night start up operations. These are huge business owned by the Turkiye’s largest holding companies quoted on the Istanbul Stock Exchange. 

Sellers, what are you waiting for ? (Besides months and months for your agent and then maybe if they somehow trick one more foreigner into believing their sales pitch illusions, as a buyer, you are rewarded by paying the huge commission…!)