January 2018 - 2Base Online Magazine (English)

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Obtaining deed got even faster + new
payment procedures for electricity
To obtain the title deed for your Turkish
holiday home is a swift and pretty
straightforward procedure.
Not that we recommend anyone trying to do this
themselves, but for those of us doing this on a
daily basis the rules, regulations and procedures
are fairly easy to deal with.
And now a new update to the Turkish laws has
made it even simpler.
As you can see on the picture it was a front page
story in the local press.
Previously any building needed to be approved for
sale to foreigners by the Turkish military.
This to prevent foreigners buying property in zones
of military interest, land zones or other restricted
areas where foreigners can not buy a property.
In Alanya for example this has always been a pro
forma process, since there are no such restricted
areas.
Most building already had the approval but sometimes
a property was sold in a building that never
got this military approval and so we had to apply
for this which would delay the entire title deed
process for several weeks.
any building in the area.
Be aware of new procedures for paying electricity
And now what we have your attention please
be aware of a minor but important change that
electricity company CLK Akdeniz has
implemented.
Until now your electric meter had a subscription
number.
Unfortunately this number was only unique to the
lcoal area of your house, so within a short distance
two electric meters could hold the same subscription
number.
Therefor CLK Akdeniz has added a new number
to all electric meters, which is a kind of a account
number.
Going forward this account number will be used to
identify your electric meter subscription.
The new account number is printed on your
electric invoice that you receive every month.
For those of you who use their Turkish bank for
automatic payment of electricity it is a good idea
to check if your bank is still paying the monthly bill
after this update.
Good news is that all such restrictions has been
removed from the Alanya area and the military
permission is no longer needed for foreigners in
For those of you who let 2Base take care of the
bills, we of course have it all under control
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