NOTE: If your Permission to Purchase has been applied for by a third party please insist on your Application Number, as you have probably paid a lot of money in advance for it.
Foreigners can now buy a completed property that is built on no more than five donums of land. The property must be registered on the kocan before you purchase.
If a property is not completed and registered on the kocan a foreigner is restricted to one property on no more than one domun of land.
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Go to the Ministry for the Interior offices in Lefkoşa, ask for Sevil.
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Take with you:
o
1 copy of your passport
o
1 copy of a certified Tapu Site Plan (supplied by Estate
Agent or Lawyer)
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1 copy of the Koçan
(supplied by Estate Agent or Lawyer)
o Reference from the Police of your home country, or a copy of your Residency Visa stamp in your passort.
o
Letter of application from yourself
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Complete the Permission to Purchase Application Form
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When your documents have been
checked by the office staff they will ask you to hand them in to
to the filing office across the corridor. This office will
issue you with your file number, i.e. year-number
This number is vital as it is the only way you can
monitor progress of your application through the system.
Important
telephone numbers:
Interior
Ministry
00 90 (0)392 611 1127
Updated: 16th August 2010