Fly To Buy in Turkey

Why Turkey?
The country's beautiful natural heritage, warm climate and fascinating cultural identity makes it a great place to live or own rental accommodation. Since the Turkish government equalized property buying rules for foreign nationals in July 2003, there has been a steady stream of UK residents buying a little patch of Turkey to call their own. Prices remain low and the tourist industry is still expanding. Turkey is seen an investment hotspot.

Where to buy:
The Aegean coast is increasingly popular with tourists and offers the potential for holiday lets. Bodrum in the south is a pretty resort with a yacht harbour and ferry port. Snorkelling and scuba diving are on the menu and the nightlife is pumping, so while it's lively and has real spirit, this is not the place to find the peace and solitude of a rural idyll.

Alternatives are Antalya, the main city on the central Mediterranean coast and a great spot to explore the ancient cities and quieter villages of the region, and Fethiye, a pretty town surrounded by pine forests on the hills around Mount Mendos.

If you have a more pioneering spirit, the picturesque Ayvalik, the 'Olive Riviera', in the North Aegean has received recent attention as a potential property hotspot and there are other more remote villages worth exploring.

Although Bodrum is a desirable location, there are military-owned areas on the Bodrum peninsula that foreigners cannot buy and if you are thinking of buying a new-build property in that area, there is a 200 metre exclusion zone around the coast. This means that coastal areas are only sold for tourism and not for development. However, you may be able to find a resale property on the coast. After the Earthquake of 1999, all new properties built on the Bodrum Peninsula were built to withstand future earth tremors. If you are buying a resale property built before the earthquake, then you'll need to have a structural survey of the property.