Unpaid common-expense debts can become a registered priority charge against a unit

Rule record · last verified 20 September 2026

In force. Start date not confirmed in this record.

Rule

Unpaid common-expense debts, once court-established, can be registered as a priority charge against a unit at the District Land Registry — a genuine due-diligence risk for a buyer of resale property.^[1]

Exceptions

Confirms the legal mechanism exists. Does not establish how commonly this occurs in practice, nor whether a standard encumbrance search at the Land Registry would reliably surface such a memorandum before purchase — that practical due-diligence question was not separately researched.

Where this rule comes from

Instrument: Condominium Ownership and Construction Servitude Law, No. 35/2010, Article 24(1)-(3)
Authority: Assembly of the Republic (Cumhuriyet Meclisi), TRNC
Jurisdiction: Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC)
Basis: Legislation · asserted by us within this jurisdiction
Verification: Primary source verified. We read the primary text ourselves on 20 September 2026.
Legal review: Not yet reviewed by a named legal reviewer. Marked for priority review.

Editorial note

Where the underlying research recorded an uncertainty, it appears in this rule's own Exceptions section, not omitted.

History of this rule

20 September 2026 — Published following Founder approval (decision recorded 2026-09-20, by the Founder). (version 1, First published)

Sources for this rule

Numbered in order of first use. Each entry names the kind of source it is and the day we read it.

[1]
Condominium Ownership and Construction Servitude Law, No. 35/2010
Assembly of the Republic (Cumhuriyet Meclisi), TRNC · Legislation and gazettes · original in Turkish · accessed 20 September 2026 · source record

Cite this record

https://northcyprusreference.com/en/rules/condominium-common-expense-arrears-registered-charge

Identifier condominium-common-expense-arrears-registered-charge · Open data · challenge this rule