Buying a Property - Seek Professional Legal Advice

We hear of many property deals that have gone sour because proper legal advice wasn’t sought when purchasing their property.

So why should you use a lawyer?

When buying in Turkey many foreign purchasers don’t use a lawyer. Here is some reasons why:

1. They aren’t forced to because there’s no mortgage company checking the property as they are cash buyers;
2. The seller or estate agent says you don’t need to waste your money on a lawyer;
3. The fear of additional purchase costs.

But, as more and more foreign property owners are finding, they now wish that they had used a lawyer when their dream purchase later develops legal, planning or ownership problems or serious structural defects.

But many of these problems could have been avoided if the buyers had just used an good 'independent' lawyer. For L500 most lawyers will carry out a full conveyance service for any property buyer.

This will involve the following:

1. A full check of the deeds at the Tapu office. This check can now only be carried out by registered lawyers.
2. Check of planning permissions, building permits, sitting permissions, tax due, outstanding fees, electricity and water supplies and more.
3. The drawing up of a detailed purchase contract with the seller including the payments terms, currency type, fixtures and fittings and other things included in the sale.