Four Seasons Life I Iskele: 24 Facilities, Built 2019 (2026)

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Four Seasons Life I Iskele: 24 Facilities, Built 2019 (2026)
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Description

Four Seasons Life I Iskele is a completed residential community in İskele, on the east coast of Northern Cyprus, which the developer Döveç Group lists as delivered in April 2019 with a private beach, pools and 24 named facilities. This guide to the Four Seasons Life I Iskele project reads what the developer’s page states and what it leaves out: no price, unit count, unit types or title-deed category appears. It then covers the İskele area, resale purchases and the foreign-buyer rules as of 17 October 2026.

Four Seasons Life I Iskele exterior render

Overview of Four Seasons Life I Iskele

The developer’s project page describes Four Seasons Life I as a fully completed community with an established lifestyle in which the sea and sand are already part of daily life. It gives April 2019 as the delivery date and İskele as the location, names five key highlights (private beach, swimming pool, aqua park, water sports and spa centre) and lists 24 features in all.

Two statements on the page are marketing, and this guide treats them that way. The developer calls the project “one of the most prestigious addresses in Iskele”, and says a rental management system is already operating there and providing “consistent yields”. No rental terms, fees or yield figures are published, so neither claim can be tested from the page.

What the page omits matters as much. It gives no total number of homes, no unit types or sizes, no floor plans, no price and no title-deed category. The developer’s projects page card shows the same gaps. Because the project is complete, no availability is listed: any home here may be obtainable only on the resale market, which the developer does not say itself, so availability should be confirmed in writing.

Four Seasons Life I Iskele key facts As published by the developer (dovecgroup.com, 18 October 2026)
Developer Döveç Group
Status Delivered (completed)
Delivery as published April 2019
Location text as published İskele (no street, plot or map point)
Total units Not published
Unit types and sizes Not published
Published starting price Not published (delivered project; no price or availability shown on dovecgroup.com on 18 October 2026)
Title-deed category Not stated
Facilities 24 listed, including private beach, pools, aqua park, spa centre, gym and 24/7 security
Contact Not reproduced

Neither the project page nor the listing card shows a price for this project, so there is no page-versus-card conflict to report here. Such conflicts do exist for four ongoing Döveç projects and are listed in section 7.

Unit types and sizes: what the developer publishes for the 2019 community

The developer’s page for Four Seasons Life I has no unit table. The first table below sets out each field a buyer would expect and what the page shows. The second groups the developer’s own list of 24 features; the grouping and the counts are this page’s, calculated from that list.

Unit data field As published by the developer
Unit types None listed
Sizes (m²) None listed
Number of units Not published
Floor plans None published
Bedrooms and bathrooms Not published
Residence-type list Empty
Price None
Photo gallery 12 images
Four Seasons Life aerial view of the beach and housing at sunset
Feature group (grouped by this page) Features as listed by the developer Count
Water and beach Private Beach, Swimming Pool, Aqua Park, Children’s Pool, Water Sports 5
Food, drink and services Restaurant, Pool Bar, Beach Bar, Hairdresser 4
Sport, leisure and grounds Spa Center, Gym, Cycling Path, Walking Track, Children’s Playground, Social Facility Area, Landscaped Areas, BBQ Area 8
Building services Air Conditioning, Internet, Central Satellite, Parking, Generator, 24/7 Security, Video Intercom 7
Total (5 + 4 + 8 + 7) All 24 features on the developer’s page 24

The size comparison below cannot compare Four Seasons Life I with anything, because its sizes are missing. It compares what the developer publishes for its six delivered projects, with ages calculated from the delivery month to 17 October 2026 (approximate, month-level).

Delivered Döveç project Delivered (as published) Age (calculated) Units published Features listed Sized unit types
Four Seasons Life I April 2019 90 months (7 years 6 months) None 24 None
Courtyard Long Beach May 2021 65 months (5 years 5 months) None 36 3 (50, 70, 90 m²)
Sky Sakarya May 2023 41 months (3 years 5 months) None 8 None
Panorama June 2023 40 months (3 years 4 months) None 12 None
Four Seasons Life II July 2024 27 months (2 years 3 months) 329 33 None
La Isla Villas February 2025 20 months (1 year 8 months) 211 21 5 (104.5 to 407 m²)
Four Seasons Life aerial view of the coastline and housing at sunset

Four Seasons Life I is the oldest delivery in the Döveç portfolio on this site and, with Panorama and Sky Sakarya, one of four delivered pages with no unit sizes (Four Seasons Life II is the fourth). It is the only one of the twelve listings with neither a unit count nor any unit types. Its 24 features sit below the median of the twelve projects’ feature counts (32.5, the mean of 32 and 33), but feature counts are not comparable across pages written at different times.

Project with published sizes Unit type Size (m²) Bedrooms Area per bedroom (m², calculated)
Courtyard Long Beach Studio 50 0 Not applicable
Courtyard Long Beach 1+1 70 1 70 / 1 = 70.0
Courtyard Long Beach 2+1 90 2 90 / 2 = 45.0
La Isla Villas 2+1 Loft Duplex 104.5 2 104.5 / 2 = 52.3
La Isla Villas 3+1 Garden Apartment 164 3 164 / 3 = 54.7
La Isla Villas 3+1 Villa 247 3 247 / 3 = 82.3
La Isla Villas 4+1 Villa 326 4 326 / 4 = 81.5
La Isla Villas 5+1 Villa 407 5 407 / 5 = 81.4

These ratios describe the neighbouring projects, not Four Seasons Life I, and they use the developer’s convention that N+1 means N bedrooms. They show the arithmetic a resale buyer should repeat with the seller’s figures: divide the area on the title by the number of bedrooms, then compare it with the area in any sales material. The fact packs do not say how the TRNC treats balconies, terraces or shares of common areas in a stated area, so the lawyer should confirm whether a stated area is gross or net.

Where no unit data exist, three documents fill the gap: the title deed, the condominium plan (condominium title or easement must exist before a foreign purchase permit can be sought under Law 52/2008, art. 8(2)) and a measured survey of the unit itself.

Location: İskele, the coast and the towns around the project

The developer’s page names İskele and nothing narrower: no street, plot number, neighbourhood or map point, and no coordinates. Its distance list reads beach, market, restaurant, cafe, shopping mall and gym “on site”, university 25 km and airport 65 km. It does not say which university or airport, or whether a figure is a straight line or a road distance. The 24-feature list names a restaurant, pool bar, beach bar and hairdresser but no market, cafe or shopping mall, so those three entries cannot be matched to a listed facility.

İskele (Trikomo) is the administrative centre of İskele district, which Wikipedia says separated from Gazimağusa district in 1998. The latest census (2011) counted 22,492 residents in the district, 7.9% of the TRNC’s 286,257 (22,492 / 286,257, calculated), and 7,906 in İskele municipality, which includes the town centre, Ötüken, Cevizli, Boğaz and 14 other mahalle (census Table 3). Wikipedia gives 23,098 for the district; the official table is used here. The only later figure is a TRNC-wide projection of 476,214 at the end of 2023, with no district split.

The developer’s page for this project does not mention Long Beach, although its cards for several other İskele projects do. Long Beach is the colloquial name of the İskele waterfront; a university thesis of February 2024 studied a 3 km stretch within an İskele district coastline of about 25 km, and no official source fixes its extent. Whether Four Seasons Life I Iskele lies on that stretch is therefore not established. The reference points in the table below are generic İskele points, not the project.

Daily services are thin inside the district. The Ministry of Health’s list of state hospitals names six and none is in İskele, and the Statistical Yearbook 2024 records zero in-patient beds in the district, state or private, for every year from 2020 to 2024. On 17 August 2026 the Health Minister said a Karpaz Hospital under construction would be finished by the end of 2026, a ministerial promise rather than a completed fact.

The nearest state hospital with in-patient beds is in Gazimağusa, 10.7 km by road from the Long Beach roundabout.

No university campus was found in İskele. Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU) in Famagusta is 12.0 km by road from the Long Beach roundabout and 17.6 km from İskele town on the same method, so the developer’s 25 km is not EMU measured from either point; the university and start point behind it are unstated. EMU’s official enrolment was 15,729 in 2024-25, 5.5% below its 2021-22 peak of 16,640, and TRNC higher-education enrolment fell 8.0% over the same period, so these figures give no support to a student-demand narrative.

Famagusta, the nearest city, had 40,920 residents in its municipality at the 2011 census. Gazimağusa Municipality quotes a State Planning Organisation 2020 projection of 55,868 and says more than 20,000 university students and staff also live in the city (municipal history page); the projection is not a count, and the two figures should not be mixed. See also this site’s Famagusta and Northern Cyprus pages.

Ercan Airport is 52.0 km by road from İskele town and 54.7 km from the Long Beach roundabout in the pack’s estimates, about an hour without traffic; Wikipedia says flights there are to and from Türkiye only. Larnaca Airport in the Republic of Cyprus is 73.2 km from İskele town, but that route crosses the Green Line and queues are excluded; the UN reported long delays at the main Nicosia crossing in January 2026.

The developer’s 65 km lies between the 54.7 km and 69.0 km road figures from Long Beach, so the airport it means cannot be inferred.

Around the coast, Salamis lies 6.6 km straight-line (8.1 km by road) from the Long Beach roundabout and Kantara Castle 13.5 km straight-line (21.9 km, 33 minutes by road) from İskele town. The nearest WMO-listed climate series is Paralimni in the Republic of Cyprus (2002-2011): July mean daily maximum 32.9 °C, August 33.3 °C, January 15.9 °C maximum and 8.1 °C minimum, and 331.1 mm of rain a year (sum of monthly means, calculated). These are not readings for the project.

On Karpaz beaches the Environment Protection Department counted 1,834 turtle nests in 2024 and publishes May-October rules for nesting beaches, among them no umbrellas within 35 m of the sea. Its note does not say whether the community’s own beach is a nesting beach, which is a fair question for an owner.

For completions, İskele recorded 541 dwellings with final approval in 2025 (194 urban + 347 rural), up from 264 in 2021 (Statistical Institute tables); these count finished buildings, not sales or rents. The sources contain no TRNC building-height or shoreline rule for İskele.

Nearby places and distances for Four Seasons Life I Iskele What it is Distance and type Source
Beach, market, restaurant, cafe, shopping mall, gym Facilities in the developer’s distance list On site (developer) Developer page
University (not named) Developer’s distance list 25 km (type not stated) Developer page
Airport (not named) Developer’s distance list 65 km (type not stated) Developer page
İskele town to Long Beach roundabout Two generic reference points 4.4 km straight-line; 5.7 km by road, 7 min OSRM, 17 Oct 2026
Long Beach roundabout to Famagusta Walled City Historic centre of the nearest city 14.1 km straight-line; 16.0 km by road, 19 min OSRM, 17 Oct 2026
İskele town to Famagusta Walled City Historic centre of the nearest city 18.4 km straight-line; 21.6 km by road, 26 min OSRM, 17 Oct 2026
Long Beach roundabout to Gazimağusa State Hospital Nearest state hospital with in-patient beds 10.2 km straight-line; 10.7 km by road, 12 min OSRM, 17 Oct 2026
Long Beach roundabout to Eastern Mediterranean University State university in Famagusta 11.3 km straight-line; 12.0 km by road, 14 min OSRM, 17 Oct 2026
İskele town to Ercan Airport Airport serving Türkiye flights 38.9 km straight-line; 52.0 km by road, 56 min OSRM, 17 Oct 2026
Long Beach roundabout to Ercan Airport Airport serving Türkiye flights 37.6 km straight-line; 54.7 km by road, 58 min OSRM, 17 Oct 2026
İskele town to Larnaca Airport Airport in the Republic of Cyprus 52.8 km straight-line; 73.2 km by road, 75 min (crossing queues excluded) OSRM, 17 Oct 2026
Four Seasons Life villas behind a swimming pool

Buying a resale at Four Seasons Life I Iskele: title deed, building age and condition

Age changes what a buyer is checking. Döveç Group lists the project as delivered in April 2019, which on 17 October 2026 makes it about 7 years and 6 months old (90 months, calculated from the delivery month). An off-plan buyer asks whether a building will be finished; a resale buyer asks what has happened to it since. The developer’s page is silent on that, so the questions below come from the legal and technical sources.

Title comes first. The developer states no title-deed category, and nothing in the sources allows one to be assumed. A completed project does not by itself show that each unit has been transferred: the transitional provisions of Decree-Law 89/2026 (Resmi Gazete No. 147, 7 August 2026), as summarised in the fact pack, allow completed and delivered homes to be transferred within 36 months. As of 17 October 2026 that rule depends on the decree staying in force or being enacted by Parliament.

The Land Registry’s “research document” (araştırma belgesi) is an information-only ownership query handled at the district Tapu Amirliği of registration (notice of 15 July 2025). An agency guide says it shows the registered owner, property details, mortgages, restrictions and other encumbrances. İskele has been a separate district since 1998, so the buyer’s lawyer should confirm which office holds the record. The same search is where the category of title, Turkish, exchange or another, should be read; no official definition table could be found online.

Area history is a general point, not a finding about this project. Wikipedia says Trikomo had an almost entirely Greek Cypriot population before 1974. The Immovable Property Commission reports 8,807 applications and 3,757 concluded as of 2 October 2026, and no decision naming İskele town was found. Because the plot is not published, no area-level reading can be applied to it. See this site’s article on title deeds.

Building age and condition are separate from title, and the fact packs contain no TRNC rule on inspecting existing buildings. What is sourced is limited. A 2015 regulation on buildings in earthquake zones, with a matching risk map, was cited by the president of the Chamber of Engineers and Architects (KTMMOB) in November 2025.

In February 2023 the then president said project approval checks seismic compliance, municipalities issue permits and must have supervision done by the project authors, and the İskele area has the most sensitive soil; both reports are secondary press accounts.

The building permit date of a 2019 delivery is not published, so whether the 2015 regulation governed the design is a question for the lawyer, answered from the permit and the final approval certificate (nihai tasvip), which the Statistical Institute treats as the mark of a completed building. The same statement says ground-investigation reports are required for public buildings, hotels and tall buildings, so ask whether one exists. An independent engineer’s survey is the natural complement.

Utilities give an indirect check. Under the decree, local authorities may not give permanent or temporary water connection, and the electricity authority may not give temporary or permanent electricity connection, until taxes and fees are paid; construction-site connections are exempt. A permanent connection in the seller’s name is consistent with fees having been paid, though the sources do not say a bill proves it. Ask for recent bills.

With 24 listed facilities, including pools, a spa centre, 24/7 security and a generator, a community of this kind carries recurring costs. The developer publishes no service-charge figure or management arrangement, and the packs cover neither the rules on service charges nor how arrears pass to a buyer. Ask the seller for the latest management statement and a statement of arrears.

The annual immovable property tax schedule effective 1 January 2025, the latest the pack found, gives a base of TL 6.60 per m² up to 120 m² and TL 7.15 above it, surcharges of 10% to 60% by building category and a 15% reduction only for buildings built in 2000 or earlier, which cannot apply to a 2019 delivery (schedule). As arithmetic only: 100 m² x TL 6.60 = TL 660, or TL 726 with a 10% surcharge and TL 1,056 with 60%. No 2026 schedule was located.

A resale follows the same fee rules as any purchase. As of 17 October 2026, RG 197 sets Land Registry fees on a sale to foreigners at 4% for a first property, 5.5% for a second and 6% for a third, valid only to and including 5 January 2027, with stamp duty of 0.5% on the agreement (Stamp Duty Law) falling on the buyer unless agreed otherwise.

A non-dealer seller pays a final withholding of 20% on a deemed gain, which the Income Tax Law formula reduces to 2.8% of the value (20% x 70% x 20%, calculated). Whether VAT applies to a resale was not established. See also this site’s cost of buying, building and renting guide.

Evidence from a longer ownership history What it can show What it cannot show Where to verify
Land Registry research document Registered owner, property details, mortgages and restrictions (agency guide) Whether the title category suits the buyer; whether a pre-1974 claim exists Land Registry notice; agency guide
Resmi Gazete permit notice (foreign seller) That a Council of Ministers permit preceded the seller’s registration The title category or the condition of the unit RG 147
Final approval certificate That the building was approved as completed Its structural condition today Statistical Institute bulletin
Water and electricity bills Connections consistent with fees having been paid Title, or absence of defects Law 52/2008
Management statement and service-charge ledger Recurring costs and any arrears The legal effect of arrears on a buyer (not covered by the packs) Developer page (facility list)
Tenancy records and holiday-house registration Income history; the registration certificate and operating permit needed for lets of up to 60 days Any yield; the developer’s “consistent yields” claim is untested Holiday Houses Law; Income Tax Law
Independent engineer’s survey Present condition of the unit and block Legal title KTMMOB statement

The list below turns these points into an order of work for a resale.

  1. Ask the seller for a copy of the title deed and have the lawyer obtain a Land Registry research document, then compare the unit identifier and area on both.
  2. Establish the title category and have the lawyer read the pre-1974 history of the land against the UK Government guidance on exchange and gift land.
  3. Confirm that condominium title or easement exists for the unit.
  4. Request the building permit date and the final approval certificate.
  5. Check mortgages, restrictions and other encumbrances, including any developer mortgage on the land.
  6. Ask for the management statement, the service charges paid and any arrears.
  7. Ask for recent water and electricity bills and confirm that the connections are permanent.
  8. Commission an independent engineer’s survey before signing the stamped agreement, because the one-month registration clock starts at signing.
  9. Check the acquisition limits, zone restrictions and who pays which taxes and fees.
  10. If the unit is let, collect tenancy agreements, rent-withholding receipts and any holiday-house registration.

Buying property in Northern Cyprus: the deadlines that run after signing

The rules below are those stated as of 17 October 2026. The limits on how much a foreigner may buy come from Decree-Law 89/2026 (RG 147), a Council of Ministers decree, not an act of Parliament, whose 90-day validity ends about 5 November 2026 unless Parliament enacts it. The consolidated Law 52/2008 on mevzuat.gov.ct.tr still shows the stricter text of Law 39/2024. Wherever the two differ, both are given, and every figure depends on the decree being in force or enacted.

A foreign buyer needs a Council of Ministers purchase permit (satın alma izni), applied for through the Interior Ministry, whose Property Unit publishes a document list that includes a police record from the applicant’s country. The decree allows up to 3 apartments (6 for nationals of states that recognise the TRNC); the consolidated text allows 1 apartment (3 for those nationals). No agricultural land, forest land or first-degree military zone may be sold to foreigners, and foreign holdings are capped at 7% of a district and 3% of the country.

Most of the process is a set of clocks. The stamped agreement must be registered at the district Land Registry within 1 month, with the taxes and fees on the sale paid and the permit application filed in the same period, or the contract is void. After the permit is published, fees are due within 75 working days (60 in the consolidated text) and the transfer must be signed within 1 year (6 months in the consolidated text), or the permit lapses.

A second application then costs double fees and a third for the same property is not allowed.

No official processing time for the permit exists in the laws read; the only durations found were developer statements, which are not official. The permit application fee is half the monthly gross minimum wage, and with the wage at TL 70,893 from 1 July 2026 that is TL 35,446.50 (TL 70,893 / 2, calculated). Contracts in foreign currency and free bank remittances are allowed under the Foreign Exchange Law, while the lira’s loss of value is shown by 35.02% consumer inflation in the year to September 2026.

Older agency pages quote 9% or 12% transfer fees; quotations differ, and the only official schedule found is RG 197. The separate topics of residence and citizenship are covered in this site’s guides to the residency programme and citizenship and immigration.

Step Who Typical time Source
Search the Land Registry and review documents Buyer’s independent lawyer No official time set Land Registry notice
Sign and stamp the sale agreement Buyer and seller; stamp duty 0.5%, buyer pays unless agreed At signing Stamp Duty Law
Register the stamped agreement at the district Land Registry and file the permit application Buyer, in person, by lawyer or by proxy Within 1 month of the agreement (decree); otherwise void RG 147
Permit decision, published in the Resmi Gazete Council of Ministers, via the Interior Ministry No official processing time found Law 52/2008
Pay the transfer fees Buyer (registration fee paid by the person registering title) Within 75 working days of publication (decree); 60 in the consolidated text RG 197
Sign the transfer declaration at the Land Registry Buyer and seller before the Tapu Amirliği official Within 1 year of publication (decree); 6 months in the consolidated text RG 147
Connect water and electricity Local authority and electricity authority Only after taxes and fees are paid Law 52/2008

Risks, title and due diligence

The developer’s page is silent on the title-deed category, so the category has to be read from the Land Registry record. The fee schedule in RG 197 shows that the register holds ordinary titles beside equivalent-property titles, such as Final Disposition Certificates and points held under Value Documents. The UK Government guidance warns that ownership of many properties in the north is disputed, that the ECHR continues to regard pre-1974 owners as legal owners, and that a purchase permit can be refused without reasons.

Courts outside the north matter too. In Demopoulos (1 March 2010) the ECHR Grand Chamber treated the Immovable Property Commission as the remedy to use first; Law 67/2005 accepts applications until 21 December 2027.

In Orams (28 April 2009) the EU Court of Justice held that a Republic of Cyprus judgment on land in the north must be enforced in other member states. UK guidance adds that a Republic of Cyprus offence in force since 20 October 2006 covers buying or selling property without the registered owner’s permission, up to 7 years, and is not retroactive.

A Cyprus Mail report of September 2025 quoted the Republic’s chief negotiator on arrests of EU and third-country nationals suspected of developing Greek Cypriot-owned land in the north; those are claims of the Greek Cypriot side.

The European Commission records that EU law is suspended in the north, and the UK travel advice says the Republic of Cyprus does not recognise residence permits issued there and that British consular support is limited. A purchase therefore gives no EU rights. The UK guidance also lists problems common in Cyprus, including lawyers acting for both vendor and builder, building without permits, payment plans left out of contracts and difficulty obtaining completion certificates and title deeds.

An independent lawyer is the guidance’s remedy; see also this site’s article on secure title deeds.

What to ask for Issuing office Why it matters Where to verify
Land Registry research document District Land Registry (Tapu Amirliği) Shows the registered owner and encumbrances tapu.gov.ct.tr notice
Title category and pre-1974 history of the land Land Registry record, read by the buyer’s lawyer Exchange or gift land can face restitution claims gov.uk guidance
Condominium title or easement for the unit Land Registry Precondition of a purchase permit application Law 52/2008
Building permit and final approval certificate Municipality (urban) or district office (rural) Evidence the building was approved and completed Statistical Institute bulletin
Statement of mortgages over unit and land Land Registry A developer mortgage on the land is a listed Cyprus problem gov.uk guidance
Permit notice in the Resmi Gazete Council of Ministers Starts the 75 working-day and one-year periods RG 147
Purchase-permit document list Interior Ministry, Property Unit Shows what the permit file must contain icisleri.gov.ct.tr list
Management statement and arrears Seller or management, as available Recurring costs for 24 listed facilities Developer page

How Four Seasons Life I Iskele compares with the other Döveç projects on this site

Döveç listing (including Four Seasons Life I Iskele) Status Delivery as published Area as published Unit types as published Published starting price (as shown on dovecgroup.com on 18 October 2026)
La Casalia Ongoing December 2027 Tatlısu Studio to 3+1 duplex villa; 2+1 villa and 3+1 loft named without sizes GBP 178,000
D-Point Ongoing December 2028 Long Beach · İskele 1+0 to 3+1 apartments; office; shop GBP 132,000
Natulux Ongoing May 2027 Tatlısu / Küçük Erenköy 1+1 to 3+1, penthouse, triplex, villas GBP 220,000
Querencia Ongoing March 2027 Long Beach · İskele Studio to 5+1 duplex and penthouses GBP 156,000
Four Seasons Life III Ongoing December 2026 İskele Studio, 1+1, 1+1 loft, 2+1; 3+1 named GBP 135,000
Courtyard Platinum Ongoing December 2026 İskele (card: Boğaz · İskele) Studio to 3+1 duplex GBP 127,000
La Isla Villas Delivered February 2025 Ötüken · İskele 2+1 loft duplex to 5+1 villa GBP 220,000 shown; availability not stated
Four Seasons Life II Delivered July 2024 İskele 1+1 loft (price entry only) GBP 160,000 shown; availability not stated
Panorama Delivered June 2023 İskele Studio, 1+1, 2+1, 3+1 (no sizes) Not published
Sky Sakarya Delivered May 2023 Famagusta 1+1, 2+1 (no sizes) Not published
Courtyard Long Beach Delivered May 2021 Long Beach · İskele Studio, 1+1, 2+1 Not published
Four Seasons Life I Iskele (this page) Delivered April 2019 İskele None listed Not published

Read the table as published figures side by side, not as a ranking. Six listings are ongoing and six delivered.

This page’s project is the oldest delivery and the only one with neither a unit count nor any unit types; Panorama and Sky Sakarya list types without sizes, and Courtyard Long Beach lists three sizes (50, 70 and 90 m²) without a unit count or price. Four Seasons Life II and Four Seasons Life III share the name, but the developer’s pages do not say whether the three stand next to each other.

Two projects are due on or before 31 December 2026 by the developer’s own dates, Four Seasons Life III and Courtyard Platinum, both December 2026; a buyer of either should confirm the handover status in writing. For delivered projects the developer shows no availability, so even where a figure appears it should be read as a historical entry.

Page and card prices also differ for four ongoing projects (La Casalia GBP 178,000 against 154,000; D-Point 132,000 against 125,000; Natulux 220,000 against 214,000; Querencia 156,000 against 144,000), and the table uses the page figure. Infinity Otuken, a listing by a different developer, is filed under Ötüken near Long Beach.

Döveç Group

Everything in this section is the developer’s own statement from its About page and has not been independently verified. Döveç Group says it was founded in 1989 by Muharrem Dovec and now has 16 group companies, more than 2,500 specialists and over 5,000 homes delivered across 36 or more years. It says it has served investors from over 50 countries and has received 22 international awards, including from PropertyNC. The page does not say which project won which award, so none is tied to this listing.

The company timeline on that page runs as follows: land parcelling from 1989; Döveç Brothers Ltd. in 1994, with a first major residential project in Yeniboğaziçi; Döveç Construction Ltd. in 2003, with developments in Yeniboğaziçi, İskele and Karpaz; a 2015 partnership with Eastern Mediterranean University, together with the launch of Alfam Student Residence and Döveç Fitness; and the 2022 launch of Querencia, which the page calls the most ambitious mixed-use development in Northern Cyprus history.

The page states a mission of building trust, progress and quality, and says six core principles guide it, of which the page text names endurance, experience, balance and innovation. These are statements of intent. A developer’s age and award statements say nothing about the title or condition of an individual resale unit, which depend on the documents listed in section 6.

Frequently asked questions

What is Four Seasons Life I Iskele?

Four Seasons Life I Iskele is a completed residential community in İskele that Döveç Group lists as delivered in April 2019. The developer’s page names 24 features, among them a private beach, swimming pool, aqua park, children’s pool, water sports, spa centre, gym, restaurant, pool bar and beach bar, and 24/7 security. It gives no street, plot, unit count, unit types, sizes or price, and no title-deed category.

Is the project still under construction?

No. The developer describes it as fully completed and gives April 2019 as the delivery date. On 17 October 2026 that is about 7 years and 6 months ago (90 months, calculated from the delivery month). The developer’s page does not publish the date of the building permit or the final approval certificate, so a buyer should ask for both through a lawyer.

Can I buy a new unit at Four Seasons Life I Iskele from the developer?

The developer’s page lists no available units and no prices for this delivered project, and it does not say that any are for sale. Homes here may be obtainable only on the resale market, from existing owners. Availability and price should be confirmed in writing with the seller, and the seller’s registered ownership checked at the Land Registry before any agreement is signed.

What unit types and sizes does Four Seasons Life I Iskele have?

The developer publishes none: no unit types, sizes, floor plans, bedroom or bathroom counts, and no total number of homes. The size and type of a particular unit can therefore be established only from the title deed, the condominium plan and a measured survey. The developer’s other delivered projects publish more, for example 50, 70 and 90 m² at Courtyard Long Beach, but those figures do not describe this project.

How far is it from the airport and the university?

The developer lists 65 km to an airport and 25 km to a university without naming either or saying whether the figure is a straight line or a road distance. From the Long Beach roundabout the pack’s estimates are 54.7 km by road to Ercan, 69.0 km to Larnaca and 12.0 km to Eastern Mediterranean University. The project’s own position is unpublished, so none of these can be assigned to it.

Does the developer state the title-deed category?

No. The developer’s pages publish no title-deed category for this project, and this guide does not assume one. The category, the registered owner and any mortgage or restriction have to be read from the Land Registry record, which a lawyer can request as a research document at the district Tapu Amirliği. UK Government guidance warns that former Greek Cypriot land later classed as exchange or gift land can face restitution claims.

Can foreigners buy here, and how many properties?

Decree-Law 89/2026, published on 7 August 2026, lets a foreigner buy up to 3 apartments with a Council of Ministers permit, as of 17 October 2026; the consolidated Law 52/2008 on mevzuat.gov.ct.tr still shows 1 apartment. The decree’s 90-day validity ends about 5 November 2026 unless Parliament enacts it, so the limit depends on it being in force. Nationals of states that recognise the TRNC have higher limits under both texts.

What taxes and fees apply to a resale?

As of 17 October 2026, Land Registry fees on a sale to foreigners are 4% for a first property, 5.5% for a second and 6% for a third under RG 197, valid only to and including 5 January 2027. Stamp duty on the agreement is 0.5% and falls on the buyer unless agreed otherwise. Housing up to 300 m² of closed area is in the 5% VAT schedule, but whether VAT applies to a resale was not established. Older agency quotations of 9% and 12% differ from the official schedule.

Does a purchase give residence or citizenship?

Not automatically. Under the Residence Permits and Visas Regulation of 5 October 2026, a property owner with a home suitable for residence, title and total property value of GBP 300,000 or more can receive a 10-year permit with no income test, and below that a 5-year permit. Permanent residence needs housing worth at least EUR 125,000, a qualifying income and six years of residence. No provision makes a home purchase a route to citizenship, and the Republic of Cyprus does not recognise permits issued in the north.

Does the developer promise rental income at Four Seasons Life I Iskele?

The developer’s page says a professional rental management system is “already fully operational” and offers “consistent yields”. That is marketing language: no terms, fees or yield figures are published. Rent is subject to a 10% withholding on gross rent under the Income Tax Law, and short lets of up to 60 days need a registration certificate and operating permit under the Holiday Houses Law. This site’s guide to renting through Airbnb covers compliance.

Sources and last check

Last checked: 17 October 2026. Sources:

This is not legal, tax or financial advice.

  • City Iskele
  • Country Northern Cyprus

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  • Barbeque
  • Gym
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