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Please find a list of some of our press releases below.
Updated   30 June 2008
Orams petition and background

Lawyer assessment form

Specific Performance Law Petition 

Cyprus Today 28 June 2008     PTPs in 30 days

Cyprus Today 28 June 2008     Still only one dönüm

Cyprus Today 28 June 2008     Amaranta: Judge on standby

Cyprus Today 28 June 2008     LETTERS: Whingeing Expats

Cyprus Today 21 June 2008     OPINION: Don't blame the Brits

Cyprus Today 21 June 2008     Stop the whinges - plea

Cyprus Today 21 June 2008     Villa rentals 'killing hotel trade'

Cyprus Today 21 June 2008     Plea to lift remaining injunctions

Cyprus Today 21 June 2008     Committee overseeing completion of NCP properties

Cyprus Today 21 June 2008     Dismay at Soyer's vague response to list of queries

Cyprus Today 21 June 2008     Annual property tax confusion

Cyprus Today 21 June 2008     Plea for more people to sign petition

Cyprus Today 31 May 2008     Foreigners buying pre-74 Turkish properties being stalled, blocked

Cyprus Today 31 May 2008     Work stops again as AGA pay row escalates

Cyprus Today 31 May 2008     No closer to getting house won in raffle

Cyprus Today 24 May 2008     Amaranta blockade

Cyprus Today 24 May 2008     Misery grows for home buyers

Cyprus Today 17 May 2008     LETTTER: Sadly, Amaranta committee can't help the Chittocks

Cyprus Today 17 May 2008     Robb: No cash for Chittocks

Cyprus Star 16 May 2008     Stokes's 'act of desperation'

Cyprus Today 10 May 2008     £12,000 new blow for desperately ill British couple

Cyprus Today 10 May 2008     LETTER: Thanks

Cyprus Today 10 May 2008     Robb seeks £18m loan

Cyprus Today 10 May 2008     5,000 electricity meters arrive - and more on the way

Cyprus Star 09 May 2008     Land taxes reduced

Cyprus Star 09 May 2008     Cyprus Star's property conference

Cyprus Today 03 May 2008     Higher water bills for pools

Cyprus Star 02 May 2008     VAT - Pitfall for the wary

Cyprus Star 02 May 2008     Government under fire over estate agency law

Cyprus Today 26 April 2008     Ill couple fly back to UK after home dream turns sour

Cyprus Today 26 April 2008     What a fiasco

Cyprus Today 26 April 2008     Government backtracking, host of changes add to confusion

Cyprus Today 19 April 2008     Government must force transfer

Cyprus Today 19 April 2008     Drought: Pool tax plan

Cyprus Today 05 April 2008     Stamp duty deadline extended

Cyprus Today 05 April 2008     LETTERS: 540YTL upfront AND a deposit

Cyprus Today 29 March 2008     Estate agents face axe

Cyprus Today 29 March 2008     Law should make buying a property safer, says agent

Cyprus Today 29 March 2008     Builder NCP's offices close but still selling

Cyprus Today 29 March 2008     OPINION: Honestly, it's not on

Cyprus Today 22 March 2008     Property guide for buyers

Cyprus Today 22 March 2008     Letter:'Sensible way' to do things doesn't quite work here

Cyprus Today 15 March 2008     All buyers told to pay KDV

Cyprus Today 15 March 2008     Stamp duty chaos continues

Cyprus Today 15 March 2008     Letter: Pay KDV? Already?

Cyprus Today 15 March 2008     Stephen Day: Hats off to the HBPG

Cyprus Today 08 March 2008     Soyer gets an earful

Cyprus Today 08 March 2008     Questions and Answers

Cyprus Today 08 March 2008     Title deeds after 34 years

Cyprus Today 08 March 2008     Fifth of construction firms not registered, says union

Cyprus Today 08 March 2008     LETTER: Filling their pockets at our expense

Cyprus Observer 07 March 2008     Is Stamp Duty amnesty beginning of solutions?

Cyprus Today 01 March 2008     Stamp duty amnesty

Cyprus Today 01 March 2008     List your complaints of lawyers

Cyprus Today 01 March 2008     Lawyers pledge probe

Cyprus Today 01 March 2008     Letter: In defence of the lawyers

Cyprus Today 23 February 2008     Packed meeting votes to take action against lawyers

Cyprus Today 23 February 2008     Moves afoot to make cross-border property sales easier

Cyprus Observer 22 February 2008     New law on immovable property

Cyprus Today 16 February 2008     Plan to take lawyers to court over 'negligence, profiteering'

Cyprus Today 09 February 2008     Government mum on property stamp duty confusion

Cyprus Today 02 February 2008     Some lawyers giving false information to buyers

Cyprus Today 02 February 2008     Water prices shock for Alsancak

Cyprus Today 02 February 2008     Crackdown on illegal contractors

Cyprus Today 02 February 2008     Robb set to face music in UK

Cyprus Today 26 January 2008     Property buyers hit with extra tax

Cyprus Today 26 January 2008     Amaranta: First month on schedule

Cyprus Today 12 January 2008     Estate Agents list published

Cyprus Today 12 January 2008     Amaranta Valley completion plan gets official blessing

Cyprus Today 12 January 2008     LETTER - Give the buyers their deeds and fight builders for tax

Cyprus Today 12 January 2008     Candounas targets Kent couple

Cyprus Observer 04 January 2008     New Year brings some cheer for unfortunate Chittocks

Cyprus Today 22 December 2007     Property Complaints office is failing - HBPG

Cyprus Today 22 December 2007     Beware these major pitfalls if you're thinking of buying

Cyprus Today 22 December 2007     End in sight to dispute

Cyprus Today 22 December 2007     Landmark victory over Robb

Cyprus Today 22 December 2007     Aga: Back to work today

Cyprus Today 08 December 2007     It's buyer beware while new laws have still to be framed

Cyprus Today 17 November 2007     Property Complaints Office renamed, website launched

Cyprus Today 17 November 2007     Dream home nightmare

Cyprus Today 17 November 2007     Property Complaints Office renamed, website launched

Cyprus Today 17 November 2007     Sign that petition

Cyprus Observer 16 November 2007  The 'Orams Petition' grows / P I O website activated

Cyprus Today 03 November 2007     Police halt apartments

Cyprus Today 03 November 2007     Orams warn of dangers if you don't fight

Cyprus Today03 November 2007     Now municipalities can issue some construction permits

Cyprus Today 03 November 2007     North Cyprus: Heaven or hell?

Cyprus Observer 02 Novemberr 2007     'Orams and the Cyprus Problem inextricably linked'

Cyprus Observer 02 Novemberr 2007     Home Buyers Pressure Group encouraged

Cyprus Today 27 October 2007     'I'll root out the cheats'

Cyprus Today 27 October 2007     Book early to watch Turkish Army exercise at St Hilarion

Cyprus Today 27 October 2007     Orams at HBPG

Cyprus Times 21 October 2007     To all Aga buyers

Cyprus Today 20 October 2007     Orams: Sign the petition

Cyprus Today 20 October 2007     Work begins at Amaranta

Cyprus Today 20 October 2007     Aga: Full scale of massive legal tangle is only just emerging

Cyprus Today 20 October 2007     ABAG housewives' attackes angers Aga buyers trying to broker rescue deal

Cyprus Times 20 October 2007     Aga buyers happy!

Cyprus Observer 19 October 2007     Encouraging update for property purchases by foreigners

Cyprus Today 13 October 2007     New proposals set to trigger massive property changes

Cyprus Today 06 October 2007     Builders in crisis

Cyprus Today 06 October 2007     LETTER: Leasehold, Reason to panic

Cyprus Today 06 October 2007     'Extensive revision' of leasehold draft

Cyprus Today 29 September 2007     Leasehold offer to foreigners

Cyprus Today 29 September 2007     LETTER: Estate agents' union is just a mediator

Cyprus Today 22 September 2007     We must all be willing to compromise

Cyprus Observer 21 September 2007     New rules for purchase and sales of real estate

Cyprus Observer 21 September 2007     Property problems still high on government agenda

Cyprus Observer 21 September 2007     Inside the British consulate

Cyprus Today 15 September 2007     Round 1 to Bellapais objectors

Cyprus Today 15 September 2007     Aga buyers told: Pay more or homes won't be completed

Cyprus Today 01 September 2007     Talking point: know thyself ... and the others too

Cyprus Today 01 September 2007     Foreigners the bad apples

Cyprus Today 25 August 2007      Safa and Stokes sort it out

Cyprus Today 18 August 2007      We're sorry

Cyprus Observer 17 August 2007 HBPG under pressure

Cyprus Today 11 August 2007      HBPG faces £1M lawsuit

Cyprus Times 11 August 2007      No one new denies!

Cyprus Today 11 August 2007      VIEWS: Customer is king, Mr Safa

Cyprus Today 11 August 2007      Aga's Çatalköy owners must wait on Amaranta

Cyprus Today 11 August 2007      LETTER: Property Complaints Office praise

Cyprus Today 11 August 2007      New law bans building work on Sunday

Cyprus Today 04 August 2007      'Forgotten' Aga buyers band together to be heard

Cyprus Today 28 July 2007     Under-secretary chairs meeting on 21 property complaints

Cyprus Today 14 July 2007     Property complaints office might struggle with load

Cyprus Today 14 July 2007     New Amaranta deal hits snag

Cyprus Today 14 July 2007     Demand for probe into Soyer man's ties to new hotel

Cyprus Today 07 July 2007     Lodge your complaints

Cyprus Today 07 July 2007     New Amaranta deal

Cyprus Today 07 July 2007     LETTER: Making my point, Mr Day

Cyprus Today 30 June 2007    Lawyers will be probed - pledge

Cyprus Today 30 June 2007    Stephen Day responds to Bryan Hill

Cyprus Today 23 June 2007    Member's meeting

Cyprus Today 16 June 2007    Property Controls: Raft of new proposals

Cyprus Today 16 June 2007    LETTERS: Property Protests

Cyprus Today 09 June 2007    Soyer's homes pledge

Cyprus Today 02 June 2007    AT LARGE: Keeping your cool

Cyprus Today 26 May 2007     Property complaints office to be set up

Cyprus Today 19 May 2007     OPINION

Cyprus Today 19 May 2007     Confidence at a low

Cyprus Today 19 May 2007     We'll risk jail

Cyprus Observer 18 May 2007 Building sector discussed

Cyprus Observer 18 May 2007HBPG to protest outside Parliament

Kibris 18 May 2007                  Foreign residents unjustly treated

Cyprus Times 17 May 2007     DO SOMETHING!

Cyprus Times 16 May 2007     ENOUGH

Cyprus Today 12 May 2007     HBPG protest begins

Cyprus Today 12 May 2007     Fears of more building chaos

Cyprus Today 12 May 2007     Couple win two-year legal battle

Volkan 10 May 2007                Volkan: members meeting report

Cyprus Today 05 May 2007    Letter: Simple solution to estate agents' law

Cyprus Today 05 May 2007    Estate agents still in the dark over new law

Cyprus Today 05 May 2007    HBPG Meeting

Cyprus Today 05 May 2007    Fears of antiquities thieves at work in Karşıyaka

Cyprus Today 05 May 2007    'We feel betrayed'

Cyprus Today 28 April 2007    Homebuyers jet in for Paradise Villas case

Cyprus Today 28 April 2007    Still waiting for £5 lottery bungalow

Cyprus Today 28 April 2007    Estate Agents may challenge new law

Cyprus Today 28 April 2007    Land Registry: (Almost) all on computer

Cyprus Today 28 April 2007    Başpınar protest renewed as Alaska levels site

Cyprus Today 28 April 2007    Tutuşka property owners protest

Cyprus Today 21 April 2007    All for one and one for all

Cyprus Today 21 April 2007    Couple's Girne buy "nightmare" featured on televisionl

Cyprus Today 21 April 2007    Second Bellapais protest

Cyprus Today 21 April 2007    Government Summer Hours

Cyprus Times 20 April 2007    Open Invitation

Cyprus Today 14 April 2007    Robb: here is the deal

Cyprus Today 14 April 2007    Law 'won't end misery'

Cyprus Today 14 April 2007    Groups air grievances ...

Cyprus Observer 13 April 2007 Letter: Does anybody care?

Cyprus Today 07 April 2007    Amaranta takeover?

Cyprus Today 07 April 2007    Shock at Bellapais hotel plan

Cyprus Today 31 March 2007 Impasse: Aga plea

Cyprus Today 31 March 2007 HBPG hand over dossier

Cyprus Today 31 March 2007 Hats off to builder

Cyprus Today 24 March 2007 Opinion

Cyprus Today 24 March 2007 New laws to protect buyers, builders and the environment

Cyprus Today 24 March 2007 Permissions - Backlog is huge

Cyprus Today 10 March 2007 HBPG guest Avci pulls out at last minute

Cyprus Observer 09 March 2007 Deputy PM fails to show up for HBPG meeting

Cyprus Today & Cyprus Observer March 2007 Estate Agents bill

Cyprus Today 10 February 2007 Joy for home buyers

Cyprus Observer 09 February 2007 Homebuyers Pressure Group making progress

Cyprus Today 03 February 2007 Say NO to unregistered builders

Cyprus Today 03 February 2007 Construction marches on

Cyprus Today 03 February 2007 Turkish Title Land - Purchase Permissions

Cyprus Today 27 January 2007 Locked out of his own house

Cyprus Today 27 January 2007 Construction boom: We can't cope

Cyprus Today 13 January 2007 No access road to their new house

Cyprus Today 13 January 2007 "Dream Home" still has no power or water

Cyprus Today 23 December 2006 New laws or empty pledges?

Cyprus Today 16 December 2006 Mass protest called off .....

Cyprus Today 09 December 2006 ...permissions ....

Cyprus Today 25 November 2006 Get that permission, warns HBPG

Cyprus Today 25 November 2006 ... moratorium to curb concrete sprawl

Cyprus Today 14 October 2006 New law drafted to protect future home-buyers

Cyprus Today 14 October 2006 Power to the Paveys after 18-month battle

Cyprus Today 7 October 2006 Ex-mayor shocked at problems expat home-owners are facing

Cyprus Today 23 September 2006 Aga buyers keep up pressure ..

Cyprus Times 21 September 2006 HBPG meets Interior Minister

Cyprus Times 21 September 2006 HBPG meets Interior Minister - The Full Story

Cyprus Times 21 September 2006 HBPG meets Interior Minister - the 29 questions

Cyprus Times 5 August 2006 AGA Title Deeds on their way

Cyprus Times 5 August 2006 What about the real victims?

Cyprus Today 3 June 2006 No power for nine months

Cyprus Today 3 June 2006 Is someone listening to us at last ????

Cyprus Times 14 May 2006 ... the taxes payable on property ...

Cyprus Times 12 May 2006 All's well that ends well!

Cyprus Today April 8, 2006 Sweeping Property Reforms to protect property buyers

Cyprus Today April 1, 2006 Surveys Now Mandatory  **see below

17th March 2006: Alsancak Inspector speaks out on Building Debacle

10th March 2006 - Declaration Regarding Gary Robb from Minister of Foreign Affairs

7th March 2006 - Environmental and Ecological Disaster in Alsancak

1st March 2006 - Press Release Disclaimer

10 December 2005 - Pressure group is gaining prestige - Cyprus Today

November 2005 - Recommendations for Solutions to Property Problems

10th September 2005 - Cyprus Times Notice

6th September 2005 - Letter to Cyprus Today How it all began.

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