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Licensed intermediary investor

Rule record · last verified 10 October 2026

In force from 6 October 2026 until 4 January 2027.

Rule

While the decree is in force, a foreign natural or legal person may obtain an annual licence from the Ministry’s Undersecretariat to take at least ten dwellings a year (excluding land and plots) into its disposal by written agreement, at project stage or after final approval, without acquiring ownership, in order to market and transfer them to foreign buyers. The licence fee is twice the monthly gross minimum wage; agreements must be registered at the District Land Registry within one month; transfers to buyers must be completed within two years of final approval; the applicant must produce an apostilled criminal-record certificate no more than three months old. If an investor fails to market and transfer within the two-year window, the property must instead be brought within the Holiday Homes legislation by obtaining the usage certificate described for over-limit pre-2024 contracts, or the Ministry cancels the investor's licence.[1][2]

Applies to

Who:
Individuals · Companies and other legal entities · Investors

Where this rule comes from

Authority
Council of Ministers, 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 10 October 2026.
Legal review
Not yet reviewed by a named legal reviewer.

Regulatory events

History of this rule

  • — First published from the primary text. (version 1, First published)
  • — Decree 119/2026 (6 October 2026) repealed and replaced Decree 89/2026. This provision's core terms (licence fee, one-month registration, two-year marketing window, apostilled criminal-record certificate for the investor) are restated unchanged. One genuine addition found and added to the statement: a Holiday-Homes-usage-certificate fallback if an investor fails to market/transfer within the two-year window, as an alternative route to outright licence cancellation — read in full from src-gazette-2026-196-decree-119-2026 (Article 8A(6)) before publishing. (version 2, Revised)

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. [1]
    Decree with force of law 119/2026 regulating the rules on acquisition of immovable property by foreigners (Official Gazette No. 196, EK I Bölüm II, 6 October 2026)

    Official Gazette of the TRNC (State Printing Office) · Legislation and gazettes · 6 October 2026 · original in Turkish · accessed 10 October 2026 · source record

  2. [2]
    Official Gazette No. 147 of 7 August 2026: Decree with force of law 89/2026 regulating the rules on acquisition of immovable property by foreigners

    Official Gazette of the TRNC (State Printing Office) · Legislation and gazettes · 7 August 2026 · original in Turkish · accessed 14 September 2026 · source record

Cite this record

https://northcyprusreference.com/en/rules/decree-licensed-intermediary-investor

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