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Statutory acquisition limit: one property per foreigner

Rule record · last verified 23 September 2026

Superseded This rule stopped applying on 6 August 2026. The current rule is Current acquisition limits under the decree in force. The record is kept for history.

Rule · superseded

Under the law as amended in 2024, a foreign natural or legal person may buy one immovable property with Council of Ministers permission: either land of up to 1,338 m² suitable for a building permit on which only one dwelling may be built; or one apartment (up to three apartments for citizens of states that recognise the TRNC and grant reciprocal rights); or a detached house on land of up to 3,300 m² on which no further dwelling may be built.[1]

Practical implication

These are the limits written into the law. While a decree with force of law is in force they are displaced by the decree’s wider limits; check which instrument applies on the day you contract.

Applies to

Who:
Other foreign nationals · Citizens of states recognising the TRNC with reciprocal rights
Property type:
Land plot · Apartment · Detached house

Where this rule comes from

Instrument
Immovable Property Acquisition and Long-Term Lease (Aliens) Law, No. 52/2008, consolidated with amending Law 39/2024, Article 8(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 23 September 2026.
Legal review
Not yet reviewed by a named legal reviewer. Marked for priority review.

Lineage

Regulatory events

History of this rule

  • — First published from the primary text. (version 1, First published)
  • — M1 truth-reconciliation mechanical fix (master plan §10, Bucket D; research/candidates/cand-correction-decree-89-2026-supersession-links-missing.json): marked superseded by decree-acquisition-limits per event-2026-08-07-decree-89-2026, which already recorded this supersession — the same defect and fix already applied to the transfer-deadline, tax-deadline and investment-purchase pairs (see e.g. statutory-tax-deadline-sixty-business-days). No legal conclusion changed; this rule's own statement is unedited. Not a Founder-reviewed correction like those three — recorded here as a mechanical data-consistency fix only, pending the Founder's own sign-off if a formal review record is wanted. (version 2, Corrected)

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]
    Immovable Property Acquisition and Long-Term Lease (Aliens) Law, No. 52/2008, consolidated with amending Law 39/2024

    Central Legislation Office, TRNC · Legislation and gazettes · 10 November 2008 · original in Turkish · accessed 14 September 2026 · source record

Cite this record

https://northcyprusreference.com/en/rules/statutory-acquisition-limits

Identifier statutory-acquisition-limits · Open data · challenge this rule