Rosei2201 wrote on Mon Jan 4, 2021 11:27am:
Having previously owned a property in Cyprus on the Southern Greek Cypriot side for 18 years let me give you some cautious warnings before considering buying there. Many properties in Cyprus don’t have title deeds issued for decades due to an arcane bureaucracy which means you have to be ...
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...very careful when buying in this Country, No title deeeds can be a real nightmare. A good independent lawyer is needed to protect your buying interest. I would recommend never purchasing without knowing the Deeds are available. Also in Northern Cyprus Turkish occupied, questions over original ownership of land, prior to the Turkish invasion in the 1970’s still exist so you have to be even more careful there.
We love visiting Cyprus and will still return for holidays now we have sold our apartment at a much lower asking price, as it had no deeds 18 years after it was newly constructed. My warning is not, don’t go there, just be super cautious about buying property. It’s not as straightforward as Spain where we got our Escritera, title deeds within 2 months.
Interesting good to know about this.