Common-expense cost-sharing: equal for staffing, by land share for the rest, unless the management plan says otherwise

Rule record · last verified 20 September 2026

In force. Start date not confirmed in this record.

Rule

Unless the site's management plan says otherwise, staffing costs are split equally among owners and other common costs (incl. insurance) proportionally to land share; the Condominium Law provides that an owner remains liable for these costs even if they waive their right to use the shared areas.^[1]

Exceptions

This is the statutory DEFAULT rule — a specific development's management plan may lawfully set different cost-sharing terms, which NCR has not surveyed across individual developments.

Where this rule comes from

Instrument: Condominium Ownership and Construction Servitude Law, No. 35/2010, Article 22(1)
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.

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-liability-and-cost-split

Identifier condominium-common-expense-liability-and-cost-split · Open data · challenge this rule