Yes. A foreign national who lawfully owns a Turkish property registered in their own name at the Land Registry can sell it in the same way a Turkish owner can, and the core of the process is identical. What differs is the preparation. You will need your title deed record to be clean of anything that has not been disclosed or discharged, a live DASK policy, settled building charges and municipal tax, and — if you will not attend the Land Registry in person — a properly drawn, notarised and usually apostilled power of attorney. The transaction itself completes when the transfer of ownership is registered, not when a contract is signed or a deposit is received.

The registration step itself is quick once everything is in order; what determines the overall timetable is how much preparation was done before a buyer appeared. Sellers who obtain a current title deed extract, clear lapsed annotations, discharge any mortgage and settle arrears before listing can move to completion in a matter of weeks after agreeing terms. Sellers who begin those tasks after accepting an offer commonly add months, because discharging a mortgage, removing an annotation that has lapsed but never been struck off, or regularising an inherited or jointly held ownership all take real calendar time. If your buyer is a foreign national, add time for their military and security zone clearance, their Turkish tax number and a sworn translator for the appointment.

It depends chiefly on how long you have owned the property. Turkish income tax law applies a five-year holding period to property disposals by individuals: a gain on a property sold within five years of acquisition falls within the charge, while a disposal after more than five years of ownership is generally outside it. Where the charge applies, the taxable amount is the difference between the sale price and an indexed acquisition cost rather than the full sale proceeds, so the price recorded on your original title deed directly affects what you owe. We have deliberately not printed rates or bands here because they change and a stale figure would be actively misleading — have your position assessed by a licensed Turkish tax adviser before you agree a price, not after.

Yes, and most non-resident owners do. The mechanism is a power of attorney authorising someone in Turkey to represent you at the Land Registry. If it is executed outside Turkey it will generally need to be prepared at a Turkish consulate or notarised locally, apostilled and translated. The Land Registry is particular about the scope of the document, so it must be drafted specifically for the sale of that property rather than adapted from one issued for another purpose, and a power of attorney drawn years ago for a purchase will not necessarily serve. Arrange it early: it is one of the few steps that cannot be compressed at the last minute.

Through Turkey's mandatory secure payment system. Since 1 July 2026, payments for the sale and purchase of residential property, land plots and other real estate must move through that system rather than passing directly between buyer and seller. The funds are held and released to you only after the transfer of ownership has been registered at the Land Registry, and a commission is deducted from the amount passed on. It applies to deposits and partial payments as well as to the balance. The practical consequence is one of sequencing: if you were expecting to receive money on signature, plan your onward payments around registration instead, and keep clear evidence of the funds received for your own tax file.

Property acquired under the citizenship by investment route is held under a three-year commitment not to sell, recorded as a formal annotation on the title deed. The restriction lapses automatically once the three-year period ends, but the annotation itself remains on the deed until the owner applies to have it removed — and an annotation still showing on the record will stop a sale even though the underlying restriction has expired. Check your title deed record for it well before you plan to market the property, and apply for removal in good time. This is one of the most common reasons a citizenship-route seller finds a completion date slipping at the last moment.