Practice Areas
Real Estate and Construction Law
Title work, revenue-sharing construction agreements, urban regeneration and property disputes — from legal due diligence through to litigation.
Property transactions usually represent the largest investments and savings held by individuals and companies. A thorough legal review carried out before a purchase, lease or development decision is therefore decisive in preventing later disputes arising from title, zoning status, attachments, mortgages and registered annotations.
Urban regeneration and revenue-sharing construction projects in particular call for balanced and detailed contractual arrangements between landowners and contractors. Our work is based on establishing the legal status of the property, concluding the agreement, and monitoring performance carefully so that no rights are lost.
Scope of Services
- Legal Risk Analysis (Due Diligence) and Contract Review in Property Transactions: examination of title encumbrances, zoning and building permit status, and occupancy permits
- Drafting and Negotiation of Land-Share and Revenue-Sharing Construction Agreements
- Urban Regeneration (Law No. 6306): proceedings and legal advice
- Title Cancellation and Registration Actions: simulated transfers by the deceased, abuse of a power of attorney, fiduciary transactions and similar grounds
- Lease Law: drafting lease agreements, eviction proceedings, and actions for the determination or adaptation of rent
- Dissolution of Joint Ownership, Pre-emption and Prevention of Trespass Actions
- Disputes under the Condominium Ownership Act: amendment of management plans, common area conflicts and annulment of general assembly resolutions
- Creation and Removal of Mortgages, Usufruct and Other Limited Rights in Rem
Frequently Asked Questions
- What legal checks should be carried out before purchasing property?
- As part of the legal risk analysis (due diligence) performed before a purchase, the following should be examined: encumbrances recorded on the title register such as attachments, mortgages, usufruct, family residence annotations, interim injunctions and restraints on sale; confirmation of the current zoning plan and building permit with the municipality; the existence of an occupancy permit; and a legal assessment of whether the independent unit conforms to the approved project.
- In what form must a revenue-sharing construction agreement be executed?
- Because such agreements create an obligation to transfer immovable property, they are subject to a statutory formal requirement and must be drawn up before a notary as an official deed. Agreements in simple written form are, as a rule, invalid. The agreement should expressly set out the distribution of land shares, the technical specification, the staged levels at which title is transferred, the delivery deadline and the penalty for delay.
- On what grounds may a tenant of residential or roofed business premises be evicted?
- The Turkish Code of Obligations sets out the grounds for eviction exhaustively. These include a genuine and sincere need for housing or business premises on the part of the landlord or the relatives named in the statute, reconstruction or substantial renovation of the property, a duly executed written undertaking to vacate, and the service of two justified notices within a single lease year. Each ground carries its own notice periods and deadlines for bringing proceedings.
The explanations on this page are for general information only and do not constitute legal opinion. Every dispute must be assessed on its own facts.
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