Bill to restrict foreign land purchases heads to plenum
Akel will bring a bill to the House plenum on April 2 aiming to restrict the acquisition of Cypriot land by foreigners, a measure described by party officials as necessary to ...
Buying property in Cyprus, a familiar tale of woe
Purchasing property in Cyprus could very well qualify as an extreme sport.
The property pages of newspapers may well be full of reports proclaiming 2025 as being the strongest year for ...
Cyprus is being bought, piece by piece
Yesterday, I went to view a property for sale. There was also an Israeli lawyer at the viewing, apparently a resident of Limassol for the past eight years. This morning (18 ...
MPs move to tighten rules on property sales to foreigners
Parliament on Thursday began discussing proposed legislation to curb the sale of real estate to non-Cypriot nationals, with some MPs even calling the matter one of national security.
Aristos Damianou, ...
Government insists property arrests are not political
Government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis on Tuesday once again insisted that the arrests made by the Republic of Cyprus of people accused of selling Greek Cypriot-owned property in the north are ...
Police get tough on those selling property in north
Cyprus’ authorities are getting tough on people found to be selling Greek Cypriot property in the north, with a 49-year-old German woman recently remanded the latest incident, it emerged on ...
Iranian stripped of residence rights after selling north properties
An Iranian national who held permanent residence in the Republic has been stripped of his residence rights after being found to have been facilitating the sale of Greek Cypriot properties ...
Arrested Turkish Cypriot lawyer ‘taken hostage’
Turkish Cypriot lawyer Akan Kursat was “taken hostage” when he was arrested in Italy, Turkish Cypriot Bar Association chairman Hasan Esendagli said on Thursday.
Kursat was arrested while on holiday ...
Mafia on both sides ‘involved in property sales’
Mafia on both sides of the divide in Cyprus seem to be cooperating in selling off Greek Cypriot properties in the north to foreigners, HP party leader Kudret Ozersay said ...
North’s CTP lists concerns over property sales to foreigners
Political party CTP in the north on Monday finally weighed in on the arrest of Turkish Cypriot lawyer Akan Kursat, whose wife is a CTP ‘MP’, following Kursat’s arrest ...
Measures against illegal property sales in north advancing, says spokesman (Updated)
By Iole Damaskinos and Nikolaos Prakas
Legal measures are being examined to deal with the sale of Greek Cypriot properties in the north, Government Spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Friday.
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High-end property sales thrive amid growing demand
The property market on the island remains buoyant with even high-end property sales continuing to rise, statistics released by Sotheby’s International Realty real estate agency show.
In the first ...
Property sales in Cyprus up across the board
Property sales in the first nine months of 2022 are up by 37.2 per cent, recording the most activity in the real estate market since 2008.
Limassol continues to lead the pack with 3,315 ...
Real-estate sales up 39% in first half, ‘driven mainly by domestic demand’
Real-estate sales in Cyprus rose 39 per cent in the first half of this year over the same period last year as people turn to property as a safe investment in ...