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Cyprus Today 31/05/08

The Homebuyers’ Pressure Group were first informed at a meeting with the Undersecretary of the Interior Ministry on Wednesday 19^th October 2005 that no one should enter into any Property Sales Contract or pay any deposits on properties until they have received their Permission to Purchase from the Interior Ministry.  Both the Interior Minister, Özkan Murat and Undersecretary Ali Alnar have re-confirmed this to us in recent months. This is the law.  You must decide whether or not to wait but remember you could be refused Permission. If that happens, even if you have paid for the property in full, you can never own it.

Foreigners are permitted to buy one property on no more than one donum of land per family unit (family unit means husband, wife and unmarried children).

The Undersecretary also advised that potential purchasers should submit and expedite their own Application and that the services of an Estate Agent or Lawyer/Solicitor are not required for this process.  This service is provided free by the TRNC government.

If your Application was made over 2 years ago, and you have not been informed that you have been approved, there may be a problem with it, or your lawyer / estate agent may have forgotten to inform you that your Permission is sanctioned. Get your Application number from whoever filed it on your behalf and contact the Interior Ministry yourself to check on it's status, telephone 00 90 392 611 1127 and ask for Sevil, Ayşa or Adnan.

From w/e 04/10.06 to 27.06/07 the Interior Ministry supplied us with the weekly Council of Ministers PTP approvals listing.  We have prepared a spreadsheet showing Application Numbers, Approval Number and Date of Approval. If your number appears on our weekly update you should give the Approval Number and Date to whoever made the Application on your behalf who should start the title transfer process  The next stage is for both you and the seller to pay the relevant taxes and the land owner then signs over the Koçan (Title Deed) to you.  On the 25th July 2007 the Interior Minister withdrew supplying us with further approval lists.

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