The Secret to Successful Property Investing in Turkey

Buying a property in Turkiye almost certainly guarantees the dream of enjoying a happier and healthier lifestyle, but to achieve success, requires the secret know-how to prevent that dream from becoming an investor’s nightmare…

How to Buy... What are the First Steps...?

Ask this question in a google search, and the answers are all mostly the same. One of the key steps is ‘ find an agent’ . Of course that is because agents write the articles. In fact, local Turks have not used agents to find property for ten years or more. Those articles are only read by unknowing non-Turkish people making their google searches in English. Such articles written in English, Russian or Arabic by agents are simply guiding unsuspecting non-Turkish speaking buyers down a path to follow procedures that enable agents to manipulate the property purchase procedures for their benefit, at the expense of the investor.

Ok, but how can a property purchase be done safely and securely, avoiding these regrettable circumstances ?

MyTapu has the answer...

Buy Like a Local

Ask this question in a google search, and the answers are all mostly the same. One of the key steps is ‘ find an agent’ . Of course that is because agents write the articles. In fact, local Turks have not used agents to find property for ten years or more. Those articles are only read by unknowing non-Turkish people making their google searches in English. Such articles written in English, Russian or Arabic by agents are simply guiding unsuspecting non-Turkish speaking buyers down a path to follow procedures that enable agents to manipulate the property purchase procedures for their benefit, at the expense of the investor.

Ok, but how can a property purchase be done safely and securely, avoiding these regrettable circumstances ?

The real answer is to follow the same steps local Turkish buyers use. Asking an agent is not one of the steps. This is because agents have such a bad reputation in Turkey, that local buyers stopped using agents as soon as an alternative became available. more than ten years ago, with the introduction of on-line market places called ‘portals’ where property owners can communicate directly with buyers via on-portal messaging.

Many agents try to mislead naieve buyers into believing their own websites are portals- but none of those simple websites provide a buyer with direct messaging access to the owners. No, instead, agents put themselves in the communication between buyer and seller, and that is where the problems begin, which is how agents make their money. This is a lot more money than the 2-3% agents charge in commission.

English speaking agents are taking more than just commission – they typically enter an agreement with the owner to sell the property and pay the owner a fixed set price, and whatever higher price the agent sells for, the agent keeps. This additional ‘price mark-up’ is a ‘hidden profit’ for the agent, most often ranging from 20% to 40% (the highest seen is 60% !). So if a buyer receives a 10% discount from the agent, most often this is still 10% or more above the market price of the property the seller receives !.

Understanding this important reality is essential for investors wishing to avoid over paying, and expecting real investment returns. Ideally, a buying investor wants to know all the expenses and costs being charged at the beginning, and before committing and paying anything. This solution is available to investors by using the fee-based services provided by MyTapu Associates - without commissions nor 'hidden price mark-ups.

The Three Most Important Steps for Buying Property in Turkey

The summary of the real steps for safely buying property in Turkey are following the steps and buying the same way local Turks buy… ‘buying like a local’. This procedure covers the three most important aspects of buying a property in Turkey, at the beginning of the process:

1) Finding the Property

2) Checking the Sales Price with Market Prices

3) Checking the Property’s Permits and Cadastral details

These three are done during the early stages of finding a suitable property for purchase, and before visiting for a viewing. An unsuspecting buyer will be misled by agents into waiting to check price and permit documents until after paying a reservation deposit (never do it !).

How Does a Buyer Make the Best Possible Investment ?

If an investor ventures to manage these on his own, it can be nearly impossible without knowledge of the Turkish language, but help and guidance is available from mytapu with support services showing a buyer ‘how to’ use the portals to find a property meeting the buyers priorities and criteria. The Property Finder’s Service opens up for the buyer the entire market of properties available for sale in Turkey. All without an agent, and without being limited to only those properties an agent has positioned for selling at the maximum hidden profit.

Alternatively, a buyer may prefer to have someone else do this work; someone that can do it faster and more easily because of having years of experience – and for these investors mytapu provides The Property Search and Selection Service, designating an experienced property analyst and transaction expert to work on the buyer’s instructions. .

Both services provide the property buyer with the benefits of seeing all the property on the market of the type the buyer is looking for. In addition, both services enable the buyer to obtain professional market intelligence on prices, and professional assessment of the permits and cadastral circumstances for properties.

It is important to note that success is most often determined by the way in which the price and permit checks are integrated into the negotiations with the seller, and ensuring this information is checked before incurring expenses and time visiting the property. For this reason, appointing experts to these tasks with instructions is essential, and can be done with both services.

However, only the Property Search and Selection Service provides the buyer with the experts’ directly managed coordination of these aspects, which is crucially important. because the seller or the seller’s agent is most often, constantly striving to put the buyer in a position of not having these aspects checked without first making an advance payment deposit – which they always assure is refundable, but never is without the expenses incurred by going to court.

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Let’s look at each of these three aspects in a little more detail…

1) Finding the Property

2) Checking the Sales Price

3) Legal Checks & Due Diligence

Negotiation

During the process of having the above mentioned price and legal risks checked and clarified, the seller and buyer will be in discussion (unless the seller has granted a power of attorney, and if an agent does not have one, the agent is not authorised) , and this is the natural way for the negotiations to proceed – unlike the way agents guide buyers, to negotiate price first and apply pressure for the payment of a reservation deposit or other advance payment, before the risks are checked !

And for the reasons explained at the beginning of this article, describing agents’ ‘hidden profit and price mark-ups’, a buyer that is foolish enough to rely on an agents’ assurances about the existence of these risks, is foolish enough to pay 20-40% more than the market price for a property. The alternative- Independent Professional Advice – is essential, and is provided by the MyTapu services mentioned in this article, above.

Knowledge is the Key

Knowledge is THE most important ingredient of successful investing - essential. For this reason the best next step the reader should take is to become 'fully informed'. At mytapu, our policy is to ensure investors are fully informed so that they may make fully informed decisions, there-by ensuring successful outcomes for everyone.

How to Become Fully Informed ?

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For clarity and professional guidance, mytapu provides independent professional advice as fee based services, which are priced at a very small fraction of the economic value resulting from cost savings and preventing investment losses. Using these services also reduces uncertainty, stress and are also safer, more secure, faster and provide better results.

The Secret Revealed...

This is the Secret to buying a successful property investment in Turkey. It is a secret a buyer will not read about anywhere else on the English language internet, for the simple reason that all the articles about buying property in Turkey are published on the internet by agents’ and they do not want to reveal their ‘secret’ hidden price & profit mark-ups’. That is why those articles published by agents guide unsuspecting buyers down a misleading path by describing an alternative set of procedures that local Turks never follow. Buyer’s will benefit from protecting their capital and peace of mind, and ‘buying like a local’… otherwise buying into the dream of a better life-style will become a nightmare….

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The Secret to Successful Property Investing in Turkey

How to Buy... What are the First Steps...?

Buy Like a Local

The Three Most Important Steps for Buying Property in Turkey

How Does a Buyer Make the Best Possible Investment ?

Let’s look at each of these three aspects in a little more detail…

1) Finding the Property

2) Checking the Sales Price

3) Legal Checks & Due Diligence

Negotiation

Knowledge is the Key

How to Become Fully Informed ?

The Secret Revealed...

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