Three questions decide whether anything else matters: can you own it, does the register hold, and is your deposit protected. Here are the answers for Türkiye, each with the law or source it rests on. The answers are written for EU and EEA citizens; where rules differ for other nationals, the ownership answer says so. As of September 2026.
The core answers
Can you buy property here as an EU citizen?
Full ownership possible, limited to 30 hectares per person and at most 10 percent of a district's area. Military restricted zones are excluded.
Legal basis: Land Registry Law 2644, Art. 35
Residence
Citizenship from USD 400,000 in property with a 3-year holding period; ongoing, but 6,134 naturalisations were revoked in 2026
Source: imidaily.com
First thing to check
- Whether the property lies in a restricted or security zone. Clearance is checked only during the transfer procedure, not before.
All 24 dimensions
Scale 0 to 100, higher is better. Each value shows where it comes from: tied to a published index, own research with a source on file, or approximated from comparable countries.
Law and register
| Dimension | Score | Origin |
|---|---|---|
| Property rights | 26 | Index |
| Register | 82 | Research |
| Deposit protection | 52 | Research |
| Rule of law | 25 | Index |
| Freedom from corruption | 27 | Index |
| Political stability | 37 | Index |
Money and market
| Dimension | Score | Origin |
|---|---|---|
| Purchase costs | 42 | Index |
| Tax burden | 28 | Index |
| Entry price | 78 | Index |
| Rental yield | 66 | Research |
| Short-term rental | 35 | Research |
| Price development | 100 | Index |
| Demand pipeline | 29 | Index |
Residence and access
| Dimension | Score | Origin |
|---|---|---|
| Residence | 90 | Research |
| Exit | 70 | Index |
| Currency | 2 | Index |
| Accessibility | 82 | Research |
Place and building stock
| Dimension | Score | Origin |
|---|---|---|
| Climate | 64 | Index |
| Natural hazards | 18 | Index |
| Utilities | 65 | Index |
| Build quality | 63 | Research |
| Construction cost | 70 | Research |
| Quality of life | 55 | Index |
| Healthcare | 69 | Index |
Researched individually
These entries do not come from an index but from research for this country. The source is given with each.
Residence
Citizenship from USD 400,000 in property with a 3-year holding period; the programme is ongoing, but in 2026 6,134 naturalisations were revoked
Source: imidaily.com · 2026
Accessibility
1,922 km great-circle distance from Munich
Source: Grosskreisentfernung Muenchen-Hauptstadt · 2026
Build quality
BQCI 13/15 (WB Doing Business 2020) + WGI Government Effectiveness 49,97 (2024), Gewicht 35/65
Source: archive.doingbusiness.org · 2019
Place and building materials
What to check in Türkiye
Derived from the four weakest dimensions of this country - statistically, that is where buyers lose money.
- Currency. The exchange-rate risk between purchase currency, rental currency and your own.
- Natural hazards. Exposure to earthquake, storm, flood and wildfire at the specific site, not the national average.
- Rule of law. Whether you can actually enforce a contract in a dispute and how long that takes.
- Property rights. Whether you can acquire full ownership at all as a foreign private individual - or only a right of use, a company or a special zone.
Developers and projects in Türkiye
The developer index records 65 projects and 42 developers in Türkiye without rating them, each entry with source and retrieval date. An excerpt:
| Project | Place | Developer | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homlara | Aksu | Bekir Samut İnşaat A.Ş. | under construction |
| Sky Port Terrace | Aksu | MES İnşaat | under construction |
| Valens Loca | Aksu | Çağrıcı İnşaat | under construction |
| Valens Plus | Aksu | Çağrıcı İnşaat | under construction |
| Bey Vista | Alanya | Bey Property | under construction |
| Beyzade | Alanya | Bey Property | under construction |
| Elite Marine 3 | Alanya | Elite Sinerji | completed |
| La Montana | Alanya | La Montana Construction | completed |
| Mevacity Alanya | Alanya | Ünsal Group | under construction |
| The Colosseum | Alanya | Güzel Invest | under construction |
| The Sea Pearl Collection | Alanya | Ka Collection | completed |
| The Yacht Collection | Alanya | Ka Collection | completed |
Individual project pages are currently in German; they contain the recorded data, the source and the retrieval date.
All 65 projects and 42 developers in Türkiye
What the guide cannot do
A country can look good in all three columns and the specific property can still be a total loss. The reverse is also true: in a country with a weak register, a cleanly titled plot can be entirely unproblematic. The guide tells you what the environment looks like. Whether this one property holds up is decided by the review.