Automation system to ease real estate sales to foreigners
Saturday, January 19, 2008
MUGLA - Turkish Daily News
The agreement signed by the Ministry of Housing and Public Works and the General Staff seems to ease the sale of real estate to foreigners. An automation system will be put into effect to designate if a land is located in a restricted military area. The system will begin operating by May. Justice and Development Party (AKP) Mugla Deputy Nil Hadir said that the necessary coordination had been supplied to solve the current problems in property sales, reported Do?an news agency.
In the scope of the protocol in question, the General Staff is to send 90 files, including the coordinates of militarily sensitive areas, to the Land Registry General Directorate of the Minstry of Housing and Public Works. The information within the files is to be processed in the automation system. Thus, it will become easier to designate whether a domain is in a military zone or not.
Recently in December, AKP Mugla Deputy H?d?r, meeting with Land Registry Assistant General Director Nihat Sahin, explained the problems in real estate sales deriving from the delay in obtaining decisions from the General Staff. Hadir asserted that it not only broke the faith of foreigners in Turkey, but also caused problems in credit payments as license and deed procedures could not be carried out.
Sahin, therefore, asked the General Staff and Ministry of Housing and Public Works to come to a mutual agreement. The negotiations ended in an agreement requiring the application of an automation system.