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How the four categories differ →Carrington 11 Kyrenia is an apartment building in the city centre of Kyrenia (Girne) that the developer Carrington lists as completed. The developer’s page publishes no unit count, bedroom mix, floor area, price, completion year, street address or usable map pin. This guide sets out what the page states, the one place where it contradicts itself, what official sources say about Kyrenia, and the checks a buyer needs when little is published. Legal points are as of 26 October 2026.

The developer’s project page for Carrington 11 Kyrenia is titled “Carrington 11 | Central City Apartments in Kyrenia”. The page’s structured data records publication on 15 February 2026 and a last edit on 14 April 2026; because no Last-Modified header is sent, nothing else dates the text.
The projects list shows a card with the badge “Completed”, the location “City Center, Kyrenia”, no year and no price.
The FAQ answers the question “Is Carrington 11 completed?” with “Yes” and calls the building ready for immediate delivery, so on the status itself the page does not contradict itself.
The page states a short list of things: a central position in Kyrenia, modern apartment layouts, elevator access, walking distance to daily amenities and public transport, and closeness to universities and hospitals. It names no street, shop, school or hospital, gives no distance and has no floor plan; its two images show the building from the street and from above, with the Kyrenia mountain range behind.
Prices and availability are not published. Because the building is described as completed, an apartment that is still on offer is either unsold stock held by the developer or a unit that an owner is reselling, and the page does not say which or whether any unit is available. Alongside the facts it makes claims about rental demand, resale liquidity and rising values, none backed by a figure or source; they are treated as marketing and left out.
One sentence stands out. The payment plan describes a schedule “aligned with construction progress” although the building is called completed, and the page does not explain the difference. Section 4 treats it as an open question for written confirmation, not as a fact in either direction.
| Carrington 11 Kyrenia key facts | As published | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Developer | Carrington (Carrington Group; Carrington Cyprus, carringtoncyprus.com) | Company statements are attributed in section 8 |
| Status | Completed (list badge; FAQ “Yes … ready for immediate delivery”) | No completion certificate or handover record is published |
| Delivery year | Not published | No delivery card and no “built in” line, unlike several other Carrington pages |
| Location as published | “City Center, Kyrenia”; “in the heart of Kyrenia” | No street, ward, parcel number or distance |
| Map pin | Not published | The map embedded on the page has an empty query |
| Total units | Not published | No count on the page, the card or the list |
| Unit types | “Modern apartment layouts” | Apartments only; no bedroom mix |
| Sizes and floor plans | Not published | No area, plan or bathroom count |
| Price | Not published | No “Starting Price” on the card, the page or the list |
| Payment plan | Deposit (amount not stated); 35% down payment on contract; balance in interest-free instalments | Also “aligned with construction progress”; no amounts, term or dates |
| Amenities listed | Elevator access | Parking is not mentioned |
| Title-deed category | Not stated | To be read from the title and a Land Registry search |
| Page languages | English only | Turkish, German and Russian addresses return 404 |
| Contact details | Not reproduced |
The only statement about the apartments themselves is the phrase “modern apartment layouts”. There is no Unit Types section, no card entry such as 1+1 or 2+1, no bedroom count and no area. The developer’s other central Kyrenia pages publish more, as the table shows. It sets this building beside them as printed on 26 October 2026, and it is a comparison of how much each page says, not of the buildings.
| Central Kyrenia pages compared | Units | Types printed | Sizes printed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrington 11 (this page) | Not published | “Modern apartment layouts” | None |
| Carrington 44 | 16 | 1+1, 2+1 and 3+1 | None |
| Carrington 55 | 10 (text) | 3+1 apartments | None |
| Carrington 22 | 38 | 1-bedroom and 2-bedroom apartments; 2+1 penthouses on the 6th floor | One penthouse plan: 85 m2 plus 28 m2 terrace |
| Elite Residence | 38 in the text; 16 on the card | 1, 2 and 3 bedrooms | Internal area ranges in the text |
| Gold Tower | Not published | 1+1, 2+1 and 3+1 | None |
| Park Avenue | 24 residential plus 36 commercial and office units | 2 and 3 bedrooms | Plan areas of 80 m2 and 85 m2 for 2-bedroom layouts |

The missing unit count has a legal side. Three apartments is the cap under the decree and one the cap in the consolidated Law 52/2008 text still shown on the legislation portal; for nationals of states that recognise the TRNC the corresponding figures are six and three.
Two further limits are shares of the unit count: housing projects in zoned areas may be sold to foreigners only up to 80%, and foreign buyers who are first-degree relatives or share a nationality may not together take more than half of the apartments on one parcel (Resmi Gazete No. 147, 7 August 2026; Law 52/2008, consolidated).
A share of an unknown number cannot be applied to a building whose unit count is not published.
Each flat must also have its own legal identity. Law 35/2010 requires each unit to hold condominium title (kat mülkiyeti) or a condominium easement (kat irtifakı) before a permit application can be made, and a sale without one is an offence. A buyer can ask for the condominium plan and compare the flat number and the areas quoted by a seller with it.
Size also affects VAT: the Tax Department regulation of 7 October 2026 places housing up to 300 m2 of closed area in the 5% schedule and housing of 300 m2 or more in the 10% schedule, yet it does not state which sales fall within VAT (VAT rates regulation). Whether a quoted price includes VAT is therefore a written question.
The page describes the building’s position as “City Center, Kyrenia” and “in the heart of Kyrenia”. Its Location section adds that the project gives access to supermarkets, cafés, restaurants, schools and public services, that its proximity to universities and business districts supports year-round occupancy, and that it has easy access to main roads and public transport. These are claims without a named place or a distance. The statement about occupancy is a marketing claim, and no occupancy data is cited.
The map embedded on the page has an empty query, so it shows no marker. Several other Carrington pages publish at least a coordinate pair, but this one does not, and no street, ward or parcel number appears anywhere. For that reason nothing in this guide is measured from the building.
The table below measures from Kyrenia Castle at the harbour, which stands in for “the centre of Kyrenia”. A real address could lie a kilometre or two from that point, so the distances describe the town and not the flat. Straight-line values are great-circle (haversine) distances between OpenStreetMap coordinates taken from a Nominatim lookup of 26 October 2026.
Road values and journey times come from the public OSRM routing service on OpenStreetMap data and assume no traffic, no queues and no border formalities.
| Nearby places and distances from the Kyrenia Castle reference point (not from the building) | What it is | Straight-line | By road (OSRM) | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kyrenia harbour | Harbour on Deniz Sokak | 0.13 km | 0.4 km, 1 min | OSM node 2151133556; OSRM route |
| Akçiçek Hospital | State hospital in Kyrenia | 0.55 km | 1.0 km, 3 min | OSM node 1665300494; OSRM route |
| University of Kyrenia (Girne Üniversitesi) | University campus in Karakum | 1.85 km | 3.0 km, 6 min | OSM node 5110566425; OSRM route |
| Girne American University | University campus on the Kyrenia ring road | 4.43 km | 5.9 km, 10 min | OSM way 169391630; OSRM route; university site |
| Bellapais Abbey | Historic abbey above the town | 4.88 km | 6.3 km, 11 min | OSM relation 2747685; OSRM route |
| Nicosia (Lefkoşa) | Capital of the north | 18.96 km | 29.5 km, 36 min | OSM node 1893015330; OSRM route |
| Esentepe village centre | Village east of Kyrenia where the developer lists other projects | 23.66 km | 27.9 km, 32 min | OSM relation 16272364; OSRM route |
| Ercan Airport | The north’s airport | 26.78 km | 47.6 km, 53 min | OSM way 309402250; OSRM route |
| Larnaca Airport | Republic of Cyprus airport | 58.94 km | 79.0 km, 80 min, crossing the Green Line | OSM way 384792729; OSRM route |
Read against the page’s claims, the table shows the harbour and the state hospital within about one kilometre of the castle and two university campuses within about six kilometres by road. A flat close to the harbour is not within easy walking distance of the campus on the ring road, and a flat in Karakum may be nearer the University of Kyrenia than one by the harbour.
Which of these applies to this building depends on an address that the page does not give, so “walking distance to universities” cannot be tested until the parcel is known. For the use of a flat the longer legs matter more.
Ercan is about 48 km by road, and the route to Larnaca crosses the Green Line; UK Government travel advice says that the Republic of Cyprus authorities consider a person who enters the Republic via the north, for example through Ercan, to have entered illegally (FCDO entry requirements).
The latest census, from 2011, counted Girne district at 69,163 residents, 24.2% of the TRNC total of 286,257 (calculated), and the municipal table lists 33,207 residents for the Girne municipality, of whom 17,712 were men and 15,495 women (district table; municipality table). The census predates the municipal mergers of Law 15/2022, and no later census exists, so the figures give an order of magnitude and not today’s population.
The Ministry of Health names Girne Dr. Akçiçek State Hospital in its list of state hospitals. In Girne district the Statistical Yearbook 2024 lists a single state in-patient institution with 72 beds, plus five private institutions with 112 beds. BRTK reported on 28 January 2026 that a new Girne hospital had finished construction, with equipment and staffing still under way and about 148 beds planned (BRTK report). The sources give no opening date, so the hospital is not counted as open.
The page’s claim of closeness to universities is the one with the most data behind it.
The yearbook’s higher-education table lists Girne American University and Kyrenia University among the north’s institutions, and total enrolment across all of them was 114,000 in 2021-22 and 104,873 in 2024-25, a fall of 8.0% (calculated).
The yearbook gives no breakdown of students by town in the table read for this guide, so no Kyrenia student figure is stated. Students as a source of long-term demand is a claim the official series does not support on its own, and the page offers no figure.
Tourism and building figures show the district’s scale. At the end of 2024 Girne district had 79 accommodation establishments with 15,208 beds, which is 54.5% of the TRNC’s 27,910 (calculated), among them 15 five-star hotels with 9,176 beds.
In 2025 final approval was given to 344 dwelling units in urban Kyrenia and 1,460 in rural Kyrenia, 1,804 together (calculated), compared with 887 in urban Nicosia (Construction and Parcel Statistics 2025); only buildings that obtained final approval are counted.
The Girne weather station’s 2024 monthly means ran from 15.0 C in January to 30.7 C in July, 22.0 C across the year, and its 510.2 mm of rain included 311.0 mm in January and December (calculated); one year is not a climate normal.
Most listing pages give a buyer something to compare: a count, an area, a price, a date. The page for Carrington 11 Kyrenia gives a status, a town and a short payment outline, so the work of verifying the building falls to documents outside the page. This section turns each statement on the page into something that can be tested and puts the tests in the order a careful buyer would run them. None of it implies a defect in the building. It describes what the page leaves open.
The payment plan is the one place where the page can be read two ways. It lists a reservation with an initial deposit whose amount is not stated, a 35% down payment on contract and the remaining balance in interest-free instalments, and it adds that the schedule is “aligned with construction progress”. The FAQ says that flexible instalment options exist “depending on current availability and unit type”.
For a building called completed, a schedule tied to construction progress could be a line carried over from a page about an unfinished project, or a description of stage payments for a unit that is not finished, or something else. The page does not say, and neither reading is assumed here.
What a buyer needs is the written schedule for the particular flat, with the date each instalment falls due and the event, if any, that triggers it.
The schedule interacts with the legal clock. The decree gives a buyer one month to register the stamped sale contract at the Land Registry and to lodge the permit application; a contract that misses the month is void automatically.
After the permit is published the buyer has a year to sign the transfer declaration, and where no mortgage is registered in the seller’s favour that year starts only once the whole price stated in the document filed with the Ministry has been paid (Resmi Gazete No. 147).
The instalment term, and any mortgage registered in the seller’s favour, therefore affect when that year begins, and the contract should say which applies.
The 35% down payment also sits just above one third. The residence regulation lets an owner who bought by contract apply for a property-based residence permit when at least one third of the price has been paid and the Council of Ministers permit application is lodged, and 35% is above 33.3% (calculated).
That is arithmetic about a threshold and not a statement that a permit would be granted, because the other conditions of the Residence and Visa Regulation still apply, and the page publishes no price on which a one-third figure could be calculated.
A completed building raises a second question that a page for an unfinished one does not: who is selling. The FAQ answer to the question about projects with a low entry price refers readers to the developer’s “completed or under-construction developments” without naming a project or a price. If the seller is the developer, the sale is a first sale of a new flat.
If the seller is an owner, it is a resale, and the seller’s own title and the history of the unit come into play. The VAT position differs between the two in agency statements, but the Tax Department’s regulation does not say which sales fall within VAT, and the agency statement that private resales are outside VAT could not be verified against an official text.
The buyer should therefore ask for the VAT treatment in writing for the specific sale.
The page exists only in English. For several other Carrington projects the English, Turkish and German texts disagree, and the disagreement is itself information. Here there is a single text with nothing to cross-check it against, last modified on 14 April 2026, so every statement rests on one source.
| Statement on the page | What it can be tested against | Document or office |
|---|---|---|
| “Completed … ready for immediate delivery” | Completion year; certificate of final approval; connected utilities | Municipality and planning authority; seller |
| “In the heart of Kyrenia” | Address, parcel number and the parcel’s position on the register | District Tapu Amirliği (Land Registry office) |
| “Walking distance to daily amenities” | Distances walked from the real address to shops, a bus stop and services | The buyer’s own visit |
| “Close to universities and hospitals” | Distances from the address to campuses and the state hospital (town-level figures are in section 3) | Map measurement from the address |
| “Elevator access” | Maintenance contract and last inspection record | Management company or owners’ body |
| “Modern apartment layouts” | Approved plan and condominium plan for the flat | Seller; Land Registry |
| “35% down payment upon contract” | Amount, currency, due date and receipt in the signed contract | Sale contract stamped at the Tax Department |
| “Aligned with construction progress” | Written statement of what triggers each instalment | Seller |
| A structural-warranty statement that appears on the developer’s pages | The warranty document: scope, duration and who gives it | Seller |
A purchase in the north runs on several clocks, and in a completed building the first question is who the seller is. The sequence below starts there and ends with the utility connections. Every date and rate below is as of 26 October 2026.
Two of the instruments are temporary: the Council of Ministers issued Decree-Law 89/2026 in Resmi Gazete No. 147 of 7 August 2026 without Parliament, and it lapses about 5 November 2026, 90 days on, unless Parliament enacts it; the fees for foreign buyers in Resmi Gazete No. 197 (7 October 2026) run only to 5 January 2027 inclusive.
The sources do not show whether Parliament has acted, and the legislation portal’s consolidated Law 52/2008 still carries the stricter Law 39/2024 text.
| Step | What happens | Office | Limit or cost | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Identify the seller and the flat | Name of the registered owner, the flat’s number and the parcel; developer stock or resale | Buyer and own lawyer | Before any payment | UK Government property guidance |
| 2. Search the title | Research document (araştırma belgesi) on the parcel | District Tapu Amirliği | Since 15 July 2025 handled only at the district where the property is registered | Land Registry announcement |
| 3. Collect the building papers | Final approval, building permit, condominium title or easement | Seller; municipality | Condominium title must exist before the permit application | Law 52/2008 |
| 4. Sign and stamp the contract | Sale agreement stamped under the Stamp Duty Law | Tax Department | 0.5% of the stated sum up to TL 89,000,000; buyer pays unless agreed | Stamp Duty Law |
| 5. Register and apply | Registration of the stamped contract and the permit application | Tapu Amirliği; Interior Ministry | Within 1 month, otherwise void automatically | Resmi Gazete 147 |
| 6. Permit | Council of Ministers purchase permit, published in the Gazette | Interior Ministry | No time limit in the law; application fee TL 35,446.50 (calculated) | Law 52/2008; wage notice |
| 7. Fees | Transfer fees paid by the person registering title | Land Registry | Within 75 working days (decree) or 60 (Law 39/2024 text); 4%, 5.5% or 6% by property count | Resmi Gazete 197 |
| 8. Transfer | Transfer declaration signed at the Tapu Amirliği | Buyer and seller | Within 1 year (decree) or 6 months (Law 39/2024 text) of publication | Resmi Gazete 147 |
| 9. Utilities | Water and electricity connections | Municipality; electricity authority | Withheld until taxes and fees are paid | Resmi Gazete 147 |
The caps in section 2 apply at step 6: three apartments under the decree against one in the consolidated text.
At step 3 the decree allows, for two years from its entry into force, an application supported by a building permit or a Town Planning Department approval where condominium title could not be established, so a building without condominium title is a question for the lawyer and not an automatic bar.
The permit is a discretionary decision, and neither the law nor the decree sets a processing time, and months quoted by developers are statements, not law. A buyer abroad may file in person, through a proxy or via a lawyer.
Among the papers on the Interior Ministry’s list are a passport or ID copy, a copy of the title, a location plan with the area marked and the applicant’s original police record from the home country.
Decree-Law 63/2026 required that record to be apostilled and no more than three months old; the current 89/2026 text keeps that rule only for applications by licensed intermediaries, while Law 52/2008 still requires the applicant’s police record. The application fee is half of the gross monthly minimum wage (TL 70,893 from 1 July 2026), which gives TL 35,446.50 (calculated; wage notice).
Fee sources disagree, and only the official one is used here. Agency pages quote Land Registry fees of 6%, 9% or 12%, whereas the only official schedule found gives 4%, 5.5% or 6% by property count, with a separate scale for nationals of recognising states, and it expires on 5 January 2027. A transfer after that date needs a fresh check.
When the contract states a foreign-currency sum, the stamp is calculated in lira at the official effective selling rate on the day of stamping.
For the general sequence, see the step-by-step buying guide, the guide for foreign buyers and, for a completed building bought on instalments, the guide to off-plan purchases, which covers contracts, payments and delivery for buildings that are not yet finished and is relevant to the “construction progress” line.
Information risk comes first. With no address, unit count or completion year, the identity of the building is itself unverified, and a sales file could refer to a different building with a similar name. The developer uses numbered names (Carrington 11, 22, 44 and 55) for several central Kyrenia buildings, so a buyer should tie the name to a parcel number before anything is signed.
The page states no title-deed category. Agency guides sort TRNC deeds into Turkish title, exchange (equivalent) title and allocation title, although no official definition table was found; the category therefore has to be read from the deed and the Land Registry record, as the title-deed check guide explains.
Under Article 159 of the Constitution, property found abandoned on 13 February 1975 vests in the State.
The UK Government’s property guidance describes ownership of many properties in the north as disputed, with thousands of claims from people displaced in 1974, and warns that a settlement could restore land later classed as exchange or “gift” land to its original owner (UK Government property guidance).
The European Court of Human Rights pointed to the Immovable Property Commission as the remedy in Demopoulos (decision of 1 March 2010). On 23 October 2026 the Commission’s site gave 8,820 applications lodged against 3,787 concluded, and Law 67/2005 keeps the application window open to 21 December 2027 (Commission statistics; Law 67/2005).
The Court of Justice ruled in Orams (28 April 2009) that a Republic of Cyprus court’s judgment on land in the north is enforceable in the other member states, and Loizidou v. Turkey (18 December 1996) also concerned plots in Kyrenia (judgment). Neither the judgments nor the Commission’s bulletins, which carry no place names, can clear a particular plot.
The same guidance notes a Republic of Cyprus criminal-law amendment, in force from 20 October 2006, that makes it an offence to buy or sell property without the registered owner’s permission. The safety guide and the north and south comparison widen the picture.
The UK guidance’s list of recurring building problems applies here as to any Cyprus purchase: a lawyer acting for both vendor and builder, work without correct permits, payment plans missing from contracts, delays in final completion certificates and title deeds, and developer mortgages on the land. The building’s age is unknown, which leaves open which rules applied to its design, because the president of the Chamber of Engineers and Architects said on 12 November 2025 that the earthquake-zone building regulation dates from 2015 (Kıbrıs Gazetesi report).
Money risk is separate. If a price is quoted in pounds or euros, the lira matters at stamping and at the Land Registry, and consumer prices rose 35.02% over the 12 months to September 2026 (Statistical Institute). Letting a flat for tourism for up to 60 days requires registration under the Holiday Houses Law, and rent carries 10% withholding, as the rental guide sets out.
| Document | Issuing office | Why it matters | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Research document (araştırma belgesi) | District Tapu Amirliği | Shows the registered owner, the property details and registered encumbrances | Land Registry announcement: tapu.gov.ct.tr |
| Title deed and its category | District Tapu Amirliği | The category and the pre-1974 history of the land decide much of the title risk | UK guidance: gov.uk |
| Condominium title or easement for the flat | Land Registry (Law 35/2010) | Required before a permit application; selling without it is an offence | Law 52/2008: mevzuat.gov.ct.tr |
| Building permit and certificate of final approval | Municipality and planning authority | Shows that the building was lawfully built and completed; the Statistical Institute counts only buildings with final approval | UK guidance: gov.uk; statistics |
| Mortgage and encumbrance check on the parcel | District Tapu Amirliği | Developer mortgages over the land are a recurring problem named by the UK guidance | UK guidance: gov.uk |
| Signed contract with the payment schedule | Parties; stamped at the Tax Department | Payment plans left out of contracts are a recurring problem named by the UK guidance | Stamp Duty Law: vergi.gov.ct.tr |
| Purchase permit | Interior Ministry; Council of Ministers | Without it the title cannot pass to a foreign buyer; fixed deadlines follow its publication | Resmi Gazete 147: basimevi.gov.ct.tr |
| Management company statutes, service charge and accounts | Seller or owners’ body | Running costs; no official tariff exists, so they are requested in writing | No official source; request in writing |
| Tax and utility clearance for the unit | Tax Department; utilities | Unpaid taxes and utility bills are a checklist item in the sources; connections are withheld until fees are paid | Resmi Gazete 147: basimevi.gov.ct.tr |
The table lists all 24 Carrington listings as the developer’s pages and list showed them on 26 October 2026, with the status, town, unit count, from-price and delivery year exactly as printed. A page that contradicts itself is shown with both values. The row for Carrington 11 is the page this guide describes, and the others link to their own guides.
| Carrington project compared with Carrington 11 Kyrenia | Status as shown | Town | Units as published | Published from-price | Delivery as published |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atlantis Pearl | Off Plan | Tatlisu | 176 | GBP 144,950 | Card 2030; text 2028 |
| Malibu | Completed (list badge); text says nearing completion | Tatlisu | Card 44; text 75 | GBP 399,951 | No card date; text 2026 |
| Sea Magic Deluxe | Under Construction (list badge); payment text says completed | Esentepe | 20 (overview bullet) | Not published | Not published |
| Pine Hills Residence | Off Plan | Esentepe | 17 | GBP 269,950 | 2031 |
| Lagoon | Off Plan | Tatlisu | 32 | GBP 344,950 | Card 2029; text 2028 |
| Malibu Zone 6 | Off Plan | Tatlisu | 24 | GBP 169,950 | Text 2028; no card date |
| Atlantis Beach Apartments | Completed | Tatlisu | 43 | GBP 199,950 | 2024 |
| Sea Magic Garden | Under Construction | Esentepe | Card 110 | GBP 199,950 | FAQ: 2026 |
| Malibu Zone 5 | Under Construction | Tatlisu | 48 | GBP 189,950 | Card 2027; text 2028 |
| Elite Residence | Completed | Kyrenia | Text 38; card 16 | GBP 189,950 | Text: built 2022; no card date |
| Poseidon Girne | Completed | Bahçeli (Kyrenia district) | Card 48 | GBP 399,950 | Card 2024 |
| Park Avenue | Under Construction | Kyrenia | 24 residential plus 36 commercial and office | GBP 264,950 | Card 2027; text 2026 |
| Carrington 44 | Completed | Kyrenia | 16 | Not published | 2019 |
| Carrington 55 | Completed (list badge) | Kyrenia | 10 | GBP 249,950 | Card 2025 |
| Gold Tower | Completed | Kyrenia | Not published | Not published | Not published |
| Sea Magic Park | Completed (list badge) | Esentepe | 98 | Not published | Card 2027; text: built 2016 |
| Sea Magic Premium | Completed | Esentepe | 30 | Not published | Text: built 2014 |
| Carrington 11 (this guide) | Completed | Kyrenia | Not published | Not published | Not published |
| The Residence | Completed | Esentepe (Bahçeli) | 24 | Not published | Text: built 2008 |
| The Morlais | Completed (list badge) | Esentepe or Bahçeli (card and text differ) | Not published | Not published | Not published |
| Sea Magic (community page) | Completed (list badge); text says the Garden phase is off-plan | Esentepe | Not published | Not published | Not published |
| Carrington 22 | Completed | Kyrenia | 38 | GBP 290,950 | Card 2019; text 2018 |
| Sunset Valley | Completed (list badge) | Tatlisu (English) or Bahçeli (other languages) | Not published | Not published | Not published |
| Sea Magic Royal | Completed | Esentepe | Text 44; FAQ 12 | GBP 369,950 | Card 2021; text 2019 |
Seven of the 24 pages are central Kyrenia buildings: Carrington 11, 22, 44 and 55, Elite Residence, Gold Tower and Park Avenue. One more, Poseidon Girne, is in Bahçeli in Kyrenia district, nine are in Esentepe (see the Esentepe page) and seven in Tatlısu (the Tatlisu page). Fourteen pages print a from-price and ten do not.
Among the central Kyrenia buildings four print one, Elite Residence at GBP 189,950, Carrington 55 at GBP 249,950, Park Avenue at GBP 264,950 and Carrington 22 at GBP 290,950, while Carrington 11, Carrington 44 and Gold Tower do not. Those prices belong to other buildings and are not an estimate for this one. Five pages print no unit count, and Sea Magic Royal prints two that conflict.
The developer’s page for Carrington 11 lists Carrington 55 as its related project. For the wider market see the property price guide, the town-by-town guide and the Northern Cyprus overview.
On its About Us page, read on 26 October 2026, Carrington Group presents itself as a family-run developer with over 35 years of developing, building and managing beachfront villas and apartments in North Cyprus; the project pages, the one for Carrington 11 Kyrenia among them, say “over 30 years” instead.
Neither figure has been verified independently. The About page says the group specialises in coastal developments with horizontal architectural concepts and low-density planning, that its projects are in coastal areas such as Kyrenia and Esentepe, and that it provides internationally certified building materials and a structural warranty.
The services it names are site and landscape maintenance, rental and property management, airport transfer coordination, car rental, after-sales technical support, and legal and title deed process management, all described as delivered under one corporate structure. It makes award, rental-return and appreciation statements; no award is named and no return figure or warranty document is published, so those statements are not repeated as facts.
One consequence is practical. Carrington 11 is a central-city building, whereas most of the developer’s 24 listings are on the coast, and where the developer both sells and offers legal and title deed process management, the arrangement resembles one that UK Government guidance lists among recurring problems in Cyprus, a lawyer acting for both vendor and builder.
A buyer who wants independent advice has to appoint it separately.
The developer says so. The list card carries the badge “Completed”, and the FAQ answers “Yes” and describes the building as a completed city-centre development ready for immediate delivery. The page gives no completion year, no certificate of final approval and no handover record.
Its payment plan also speaks of a schedule “aligned with construction progress”, which the page does not reconcile with the status. A buyer can ask for the certificate of final approval, the date it was issued, and a written explanation of the payment-schedule wording for the specific flat.
The page does not say. There is no unit count on the page or the list card, and no other language version exists to check against. Other central Kyrenia pages by the developer print 16 (Carrington 44), 10 (Carrington 55), 24 residential units (Park Avenue) and 38 (Carrington 22), but those figures belong to other buildings.
The count matters legally, because the 80% foreign-sales cap and the half-of-parcel rule under Decree-Law 89/2026 are shares of the number of units. It should be requested in writing together with a schedule by floor.
No price is published. The page shows no “Starting Price” and the list card shows none. The developer’s pages for other Kyrenia city buildings print from-prices in pounds, for example GBP 189,950 for Elite Residence and GBP 290,950 for Carrington 22, but each belongs to a different building and none is an estimate here.
A buyer should ask for a written price for the specific flat, its currency, the exchange-rate rule if it is not lira, and whether VAT is included; the Tax Department regulation sets 5% for housing up to 300 m2 of closed area and 10% from 300 m2 but does not say which sales fall within it.
The page offers only the phrase “modern apartment layouts”. It gives no bedroom mix, no area, no bathroom count and no floor plan, and its two images show the building from outside. The developer’s other city pages print types such as 1+1, 2+1 and 3+1, but that does not tell a buyer what this building contains. The schedule in the checklist of section 2 sets out what to request: bedrooms, bathrooms, gross and net area, terraces, and how each area is measured, matched to the registered flat number.
The page gives “City Center, Kyrenia” and “in the heart of Kyrenia” and nothing more. There is no street, ward or parcel number, and the embedded map has an empty query, so it shows no pin. The distances in this guide are therefore measured from Kyrenia Castle at the harbour as a town-centre reference: the state hospital is 1.0 km away by road, the University of Kyrenia 3.0 km and Girne American University 5.9 km. The building itself should be fixed by a parcel number and a Land Registry search, not by the town name.
Three elements: a reservation with an initial deposit whose amount is not stated, a 35% down payment on contract, and the remaining balance in interest-free instalments. It adds that the schedule is “aligned with construction progress”, and the FAQ says flexible instalment options depend on availability and unit type.
No amount, term, date or currency is printed. A signed schedule with dates is needed, because under the decree the year for signing the transfer declaration starts when the whole price has been paid where no mortgage is registered for the seller (as of 26 October 2026).
The page states no title-deed category and publishes no title document. In the north the category (Turkish, exchange or equivalent, allocation) and the pre-1974 history of the land decide much of the risk, and no official definition table was found, so the category is read from the deed and from the research document issued by the district Land Registry office. According to the UK Government’s property guidance, many properties in the north have disputed ownership. The title-deed guide explains the search and the categories.
A foreign buyer first needs a purchase permit from the Council of Ministers, applied for via the Interior Ministry. On 26 October 2026 the answer depends on the text: Decree-Law 89/2026 caps a foreign buyer at three apartments (six for nationals of recognising states), while the consolidated Law 52/2008 on the legislation portal caps it at one (three).
Unless Parliament enacts it, that decree falls away about 5 November 2026. Registering the stamped contract and applying for the permit each have a one-month limit. The page says nothing about this building’s eligibility.
For a foreign buyer the Land Registry fee schedule gives 4% for a first property, 5.5% for a second and 6% for a third, valid to 5 January 2027 (Resmi Gazete No. 197). The buyer bears stamp duty of 0.5% of the stated sum unless the parties agree otherwise.
The permit application fee is TL 35,446.50 (calculated from the July 2026 minimum wage). VAT is set out in the Tax Department regulation, with the caveat in section 2. A worked example is in the taxes and fees guide; annual property tax follows the 2025 schedule, the newest found.
It can support a residence permit, but it does not confer citizenship. Once the title deed is in the applicant’s name, a property-based permit lasts 10 years at a value of GBP 300,000 or more and 5 years below that, with no income test.
On a stamped contract alone, one third of the price must have been paid and the permit application filed. Permanent residence requires housing of at least EUR 125,000 and six years of continuous permits, three from age 60. No provision makes buying an automatic route to citizenship; see the residence and citizenship page.
Last checked: 26 October 2026. Sources:
This is not legal, tax or financial advice.
