Property

The question of whether to buy property or to rent comes up all the time. Most young people with limited funds as well as others face this decision. Obviously when ...

Equivalent to participation in defrauding a property owner and taking away their property The lack of adequate supervision and control of certifying officers provides the possibility of defrauding owners of ...

The Association for the Protection of Borrowers (Syprodat) this week met with the Cyprus Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Keve) in order to discuss a range of issues, including the ...

Antonis Loizou F.R.I.C.S. For those who are interested in buying real estate through auctions, we keep noting various scams which surface from time to time with ...

The arbitration clause in any agreement such as the provision of services, contracting, sale or rental of immovable property or agreement with any other object, is the basis for referring ...

Deputies on Wednesday were discussing a mechanism aimed at protecting – and preventing – trapped buyers, after Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides submitted a bill to the House legal committee. The aim is ...

Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides on Wednesday described the recent decision by the House of Parliament to suspend the foreclosure bill as “shooting ourselves in the foot”, noting that the only ...

State-owned asset management company Kedipes chairman Lambros Papadopoulos on Tuesday said that frequent interventions in the foreclosure framework will negatively affect the company’s ability to generate cash inflows. The ...

Events and conference management firm the Emanuel Group on Tuesday announced that it will be hosting an event in Israel aiming to showcase Cyprus properties to the country’s domestic ...

By Antonis Loizou FRICS The rental situation with the constant increases for residential units, has been a concern for some time now, to the extent that it affects the local ...

The civil jurisdiction of the District Courts is determined by article 22 of the Courts of Justice Law, 14/1960, following the general and specific instructions issued by the Supreme Court. The President ...

The law passed last week by the House set to freeze foreclosures until the end of January 2023 has a slew of interpretive issues, financial ombudsman Pavlos Ioannou said on Monday. ...

The powers vested in the Court of Appeal do not give it jurisdiction to review its decisions or orders, except in rare cases, where it can set aside a decision ...

By Antonis Loizou FRICS Our protests about the non-functional common expenses law and other related legal disputes are well known. While the issue is very serious and its results are ...

A significant boost to the availability of student accommodation in Nicosia’s old town is underway, with 25 applications having been submitted for the creation of 315 rooms. Notably, all the applications – ...

If there is an act of defraud, the Court will issue an order for the payment of the due installments as monetary penalty Failure of the judgment debtor to pay ...

By Yiannis Misirlis* During a recent discussion between a young property developer and a real estate agent, the new real estate market conditions came into focus. It was early in ...

Architectural heritage is an important asset for the country, Interior Minister Nicos Nouris said on Wednesday as he announced the comprehensive programme for the protection and promotion of listed buildings. ...

Council for Registration of Real Estate Agents president Marinos Kineyirou this week said that the domestic property market continues to exhibit great resilience, although he conceded that the various concurrent ...

Over 7,000 Greek Cypriots have applied to the Immovable Property Commission (IPC), according to the north’s ‘ambassador’ to Ankara. Ismet Korukoglu, in wide-ranging statements to Turkish media, hit out against ...

Around two months ago I wrote an article about the traffic problem that exists coming into Nicosia from the highway, which is getting worse over time. In addition to the ...

The deputy tourism ministry said on Monday that renters operating on platforms such as Airbnb have registered about 2,000 units with the government, ahead of the February deadline to do so. ...

It is permissible to adjudicate disputes mentioned in the referral notice and not other claims The jurisdiction of an arbitrator should be limited to adjudicating disputes which are the subject ...

Planning permission and building permission are not the same thing, but both should be in place before construction starts A letter received by the Cyprus Mail (also sent to Interior ...