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How the four categories differ →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.

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.
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 |

| 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 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.
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 |

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.
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 |
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 |
| 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Last checked: 17 October 2026. Sources:
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