Kentplus Famagusta: 336-Home Guide (2026)

Kentplus Famagusta is a residential scheme of 336 homes that NorthernLAND lists as a completed project in Famagusta, Northern Cyprus. This guide sets out what the developer’s page says about Kentplus Famagusta, where its English, Turkish, Polish and Russian versions differ, where the map pin places the scheme, and what the buyer of a completed unit can check before paying. The legal position is described as of 25 October 2026.

Overview of Kentplus Famagusta

The developer’s English project page says the scheme is “located in the heart of Famagusta” and comprises “a total of 336 residences” offering “2-bedroom and 3-bedroom apartments and villas”. The developer writes the name “KentPlus” in the body of that page and “Kentplus” in its project menu and web address; this guide uses the menu spelling. The Turkish version of the page gives the total as 336 “daire” (flats) and the types as 2+1 and 3+1.

The page lists swimming pools, children’s playgrounds, walking paths and landscaped areas. It adds that each home has air-conditioning infrastructure, water tanks and hydro-pressure systems, and the Turkish version also mentions double-glazed aluminium windows and a “ready delivery” status. The English text calls the home “immediately livable”. The developer’s projects page files the scheme under Completed Projects with the line “Urban living project offering all the comforts of modern city life.”

The developer’s page does not publish a price, a delivery date, a title-deed category or any floor area, and it carries no floor plan. No payment plan is published for this project: a pop-up on every NorthernLAND page advertises a plan for a different project, Grand Sapphire Blu, and is not a term of this scheme. The Russian and Polish versions carry only two generic company paragraphs, without the location or unit-count text.

Because so few numbers exist, the sections below concentrate on what can be established independently: where the map pin falls, what a total of 336 implies under the 2026 purchase rules, and which documents settle the questions the page leaves open.

Unit types and sizes: what the developer’s page states and omits

The developer publishes unit types in words but no areas. The table lists what is stated, where, and how this guide handles it. Only the bedroom counts and the total are usable; everything else is a gap that a buyer would have to close with documents.

Item	What the page says	Where	Handling in this guide
Bedroom counts	“2-bedroom and 3-bedroom” (English); “2+1 ve 3+1” (Turkish)	English and Turkish page text	Used as published
Forms of home	“apartments and villas”; Turkish “daire ve villa”	English and Turkish page text	No split and no count per form; not guessed
Total	336 “residences” (English); 336 “daire” (Turkish)	English and Turkish page text	Same figure, different noun; Russian and Polish pages omit it
Floor areas	None in any language	All versions	Not published
Floor plans and site plan	None	All versions	Not published
Blocks, floors, units per block	Not stated	All versions	Not published
Bathrooms, parking, storage	Not stated	All versions	Not published
Gallery	Eight images; their labels describe a two-storey white villa, aerial views of villas and gardens, villa fronts, a kitchen and dining area, a living room and a staircase	English page gallery	No apartment block, pool or playground is among them

The page uses two nouns for the same 336: “residences” in English and “daire” in Turkish. In Turkish, daire is the ordinary word for an apartment, so the Turkish sentence could be read as 336 apartments, yet the next sentence of the same text offers “daire ve villa” options.

The English text does not reconcile the two readings, and the gallery adds a third, because its eight photographs show villas, gardens and interiors only. A unit list by block and form would settle the point.

What the stated total implies can be calculated from the developer’s figure. The decree summarised in the fact pack caps sales of housing projects in zoned areas at 80% to foreigners. Applied to 336 homes, the cap is 268.8, so at most 268 homes could be sold to foreign buyers and at least 68 would remain for others. The sources do not say how the cap applies to a completed scheme sold over several years, which is a question for the buyer’s lawyer.

The two lower rows show why the per-buyer limit matters. The decree allows up to 3 apartments per foreign buyer, while the consolidated Law 52/2008 on mevzuat.gov.ct.tr still shows 1; both texts are in the consolidated law and in Resmi Gazete 147.

Before relying on any unit, a buyer can request the following in writing from the seller:

• net and gross closed area of the exact unit, with balcony, terrace and garden areas listed separately;
• a unit list for the whole scheme by block and form (apartment or villa) with the bedroom count of each, so that the 336 can be reconciled;
• the as-built floor plan, not the sales plan, with the block, floor and condominium unit number;
• for a villa, the registered plot area, the number of storeys and whether any pool is private or shared;
• what the “air-conditioning infrastructure” consists of: pipework only, or installed indoor and outdoor units;
• the capacity, ownership and servicing arrangement of the water tank and hydro-pressure system;
• the specification of windows and doors as built, including the double glazing mentioned on the Turkish page;
• the parking space or garage allocated to the unit, and whether it is registered with the unit;
• the registered area on the title entry, to be compared with the area in the sale contract.

Location of Kentplus Famagusta: the developer’s wording, the map pin and the distances

The English page says the scheme is “located in the heart of Famagusta”. The Turkish page says the project is positioned in Gazimağusa, and the Polish title names Famagusta, but the Polish and Russian bodies carry no location text and the Russian title says only Northern Cyprus.

No street address, parcel number or ward is published. The only location data is an embedded Google map centred on 35.1392 N, 33.8798 E with the label “Kent plus evleri”. The centre of an embedded map view is not a surveyed point, so every distance below is approximate and measured from that centre.

From that point the Walled City centre point used in the fact pack (Namık Kemal Square) is 5.9 km away in a straight line and 7.5 km by road, about 8 minutes on the OSRM estimate.

The campus of Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU) is 2.6 km away in a straight line and the Gazimağusa State Hospital 2.8 km. The municipality describes the historic centre as the walled Suriçi and says the city’s growth turned north and north-east after EMU became a state university in 1986. The map centre lies west-north-west of the Walled City.

A second source narrows the position. Reverse geocoding of the map centre in OpenStreetMap’s Nominatim service returns a road in the village of Güvercinlik, in Beyarmudu Municipality, Famagusta district. TRNC Law 15/2022 on municipal mergers lists Güvercinlik among the seven villages of Beyarmudu Municipality, while the settlements listed for Gazimağusa Municipality are Yukarı Derinya, Gazimağusa, Tuzla and Mutluyaka.

OpenStreetMap also holds a node named “Kent residency”, 0.25 km east of the map centre, addressed to Gazi Mustafa Kemal Boulevard in the Tuzla ward of Gazimağusa Municipality (OpenStreetMap lookup). That node cannot be matched to the scheme from the sources read. The result is that the map centre lies within a few hundred metres of the point where OpenStreetMap switches from Tuzla to Güvercinlik, so the municipal boundary cannot be placed from the developer’s map alone.

All of these places are in Famagusta district, so “Famagusta” is accurate in the district sense; whether “heart” is meant in that sense is not stated. The distinction matters in practice because municipalities issue building permits, according to a statement by the engineers’ chamber quoted in the fact pack, and the parcel number is what settles which municipality and which Land Registry record apply.

Census figures show the scale of the neighbouring units. In the 2011 census table, Güvercinlik village had 911 residents (453 men and 458 women) and the Tuzla ward 2,645, against 40,920 for Gazimağusa municipality as a whole (census table). The State Planning Organisation’s 2020 projection, quoted by the municipality, is 55,868 for the city, with more than 20,000 university students and staff living there for most of the year. A census count and a projection should not be mixed.

OpenStreetMap shows trunk roads named Mağusa-Lefkoşa Anayolu within 900 m of the map centre, a school named Neo Sevinç Schools 0.5 km to the west and the Güvercinlik industrial zone 1.4 km to the south-west.

These are volunteer-mapped features and may be out of date; they are listed so that a visitor knows what to look for, such as road noise. The Turkish highways directorate describes the Nicosia-Famagusta road as the busiest route in Northern Cyprus, with average daily traffic reaching 40,000.

Wider services are documented in the fact pack. The Gazimağusa State Hospital has about 160 beds (hospital page), the Statistical Yearbook counts 161 state in-patient beds in the district for 2022 to 2024, and EMU enrolled 15,729 students in 2024-25, down 5.5% from 16,640 in 2021-22 (Statistical Yearbook 2024; the university’s own handbook says “more than 16 thousand”, see handbook).

City Mall lists 65 stores on its own site. The nearest WMO-listed climate station, at Paralimni, shows a mean daily maximum of 33.3 C in August and 15.9 C in January and about 331 mm of rain a year (2002 to 2011; WMO data).

Ercan Airport is 34.2 km away in a straight line and 48.9 km by road, about 51 minutes on the same estimate. Larnaca Airport is 38.2 km away in a straight line; no road time is given because it depends on the crossing point used and on who may use it.

Nearby places and distances for Kentplus Famagusta (measured from the map-view centre)	What it is	Straight-line km (calculated)	Road km (OSRM estimate)	Source of the reference point
Kent residency node	OpenStreetMap node, tourism: apartment	0.25	not measured	OpenStreetMap lookup
Neo Sevinç Schools	School mapped in OpenStreetMap	0.5	not measured	OpenStreetMap lookup
Güvercinlik industrial zone	Mapped industrial land use	1.4	not measured	OpenStreetMap lookup
EMU campus	State university	2.6	4.5	Fact pack, OpenStreetMap point
Gazimağusa State Hospital	State hospital, Salamis Road	2.8	4.6	Fact pack, OpenStreetMap point
Çanakkale ward centroid	Ward of Famagusta municipality	3.2	not measured	Fact pack, OpenStreetMap centroid
Karakol ward centroid	Ward of Famagusta municipality	3.8	not measured	Fact pack, OpenStreetMap centroid
City Mall	Shopping centre	4.0	5.2	Fact pack, OpenStreetMap point
Famagusta Free Port	Largest port and only free port of the TRNC (municipality)	5.3	6.4	Fact pack, OpenStreetMap area centre
Walled City centre point	Namık Kemal Square, historic centre (Suriçi)	5.9	7.5	Fact pack, OpenStreetMap point
Salamis ancient city	Archaeological site	5.7	8.6	Fact pack, OpenStreetMap point
Yeni Boğaziçi village	Village north of the city	6.6	10.0	Fact pack, Wikipedia coordinate
Varosha (Kapalı Maraş)	Closed area, UN position applies	9.0	not measured	Fact pack, OpenStreetMap point
Long Beach (İskele)	Beach area in İskele district	12.1	14.9	Fact pack, OpenStreetMap point
Ercan Airport	Northern Cyprus airport	34.2	48.9	Fact pack, OpenStreetMap aerodrome
Larnaca Airport	Republic of Cyprus airport	38.2	not given	Fact pack, OpenStreetMap aerodrome

A completed urban scheme of 336 homes: the building-level checks

The developer presents the scheme as finished: “immediately livable” in English, “ready delivery” in Turkish, and a place in the Completed Projects group. A completed scheme removes the build-risk questions that dominate off-plan purchases, but it moves other questions to the front. Does each building hold the certificate that shows it was finished lawfully? Does each of the 336 homes have its own registered title? Who runs the shared parts? Who is the seller of the unit in question?

The first document is the final approval certificate, nihai tasvip in Turkish. The TRNC Statistical Institute compiles its construction statistics only from buildings that obtained it, which is why its 2025 figure for Famagusta district, 538 dwelling units in urban areas and 954 in rural areas, counts completed and approved buildings only (construction statistics bulletin).

The developer’s page does not say whether Kentplus Famagusta holds the certificate, for the whole scheme or block by block. The UK government guidance lists difficulty in obtaining final completion certificates and title deeds among the known problems in Cyprus.

The second is condominium title (kat mülkiyeti) or condominium easement (kat irtifakı) for the unit. Law 52/2008 requires one of them before a purchase permit application, and selling without it is an offence punishable by a fine of up to 500 times the gross monthly minimum wage.

At the July 2026 wage of TL 70,893 (Tax Department) that is TL 35,446,500 (calculated: 500 x 70,893). The decree also allows, for two years, an application on the basis of a building permit or planning approval where condominium title could not be established.

A mixed scheme of apartments and villas adds a classification question. The decree lists its options as alternatives: up to 3 apartments; or a detached house on land of up to 3,300 m2; or, in a mass-housing project, 2 two-storey detached villas, with 6 apartments or 3 villas for nationals of states that recognise the TRNC.

The consolidated text still shows 1 apartment. The buyer’s lawyer should confirm from the title schedule how the unit is classified, because that decides which row applies and whether the buyer’s other holdings count.

The third area is the shared parts. The page lists swimming pools, playgrounds and walking paths, all of which cost money to run, but it names no management company and no service-charge level, and the fact pack found no official tariff.

Charges are set in lira, and the consumer price index rose 35.02% in the twelve months to September 2026 (Statistical Institute), so a quoted charge can change quickly. The 2025 property tax schedule charges swimming pools at TL 35.60 per m2 (schedule); a 2026 schedule was not located. A buyer can ask whether pool tax is paid by the management or by each owner.

The fourth is utilities. Under the decree, local authorities may not give a permanent or temporary water connection, and the electricity authority may not give a temporary or permanent electricity connection, until the taxes and fees on the transfer have been paid. For a resale unit that points to the latest water and electricity bills, proof that they are paid, and the name on each account. The developer lists water tanks and hydro-pressure systems; who owns, services and pays for them is not stated.

The fifth is the seller. The page does not say whether units remain with the developer, so the seller of any given unit may be NorthernLAND, a company that bought stock, or a private owner. A research document (araştırma belgesi) from the district Land Registry office shows the registered owner, mortgages and restrictions.

Since 15 July 2025, during the roll-out of its new system, the Land Registry has handled transfers and research documents only at the office of the district where the property is registered. The UK guidance also names developer mortgages on the land as a known problem.

Dating evidence is thin. The page metadata gives 5 December 2022 as first publication and 17 August 2026 as the last modification, and the eight image files carry numeric names that, read as Unix time stamps, correspond to 6 December 2022 (an inference). That shows when the page and its images went online, not when the buildings were finished, so the age of the buildings is a question for the seller.

A buyer’s lawyer can work through the checks in this order for any unit in the scheme:

1. Fix the unit identifier: block, floor, condominium unit number and parcel number, taken from the title and not from the sales material.
2. Order the Land Registry research document and read the owner, title category, mortgages and restrictions.
3. Ask for the final approval certificate that covers the block, and the building permit it refers to.
4. Obtain the condominium title entry showing the unit’s share of the land and common parts.
5. Compare the registered area with the area in the draft contract, net and gross separately.
6. Ask who manages the shared parts, the monthly charge in writing in lira, the date of its last change and the arrears position of the unit.
7. Inspect the unit against the page’s list: air-conditioning pipework or units, windows, water tank and pump, damp and roof.
8. Check water and electricity accounts and any unpaid bills.
9. Confirm that the purchase fits the acquisition limits for the buyer’s nationality and existing holdings, and the 80% foreign-sales cap if it applies.
10. Only then agree the price and sign the stamped contract, which has to be registered within one month.

Buying property in Northern Cyprus in brief: the clocks that apply to a completed unit

A purchase in the TRNC runs against several clocks, and two of them are set by instruments that expire soon. As of 25 October 2026 the numerical limits and deadlines come from Decree-Law 89/2026 (Resmi Gazete 147, 7 August 2026), a Council of Ministers decree whose 90-day validity ends about 5 November 2026 unless Parliament enacts it. The consolidated Law 52/2008 still shows the earlier text, so sources differ depending on which version they quote.

The second expiring instrument is the Land Registry fee schedule in Resmi Gazete 197. For a foreign buyer it sets 4% for a first property, 5.5% for a second and 6% for a third, and it is valid until 5 January 2027 inclusive.

For nationals of states that recognise the TRNC the rates are 4% for properties 1 and 2, 5.5% for 3 and 4, and 6% for 5 and 6. Agency pages quote 6%, 9% and 12% from earlier years; those figures have not been matched to an official table.

For a completed unit in a block the order that protects a buyer is documents first, money second, permit third. The steps below follow that order, with the clock attached to each. Stamp duty on a sale agreement is 0.5% of the stated sum and falls on the buyer unless the parties agree otherwise (Stamp Duty Law).

The VAT regulation of 7 October 2026 puts housing up to 300 m2 of closed area in the 5% schedule, but it does not say which resales are within VAT, so that point is for the lawyer.

Step	Who	Deadline or typical time	Source
1. Search the title and review the approval, condominium and management documents	Buyer’s lawyer	Before any payment; no official time limit	Land Registry announcement
2. Sign and stamp the sale contract	Buyer and seller	Stamp duty 0.5% of the stated sum	Stamp Duty Law
3. Register the stamped contract at the district Land Registry and apply for the purchase permit	Buyer or lawyer	Within 1 month, or the contract is void automatically	Resmi Gazete 147
4. Interior Ministry checks and Council of Ministers permit	Interior Ministry	No statutory time limit; the sources give none	Interior Ministry document list
5. Sign the transfer declaration before the Land Registry official	Buyer and seller	Within 1 year of the permit’s publication (decree) or 6 months (consolidated text)	Resmi Gazete 147
6. Pay the transfer fees	Buyer, seller as agreed	Within 75 working days (decree) or 60 (consolidated text); rates valid to 5 January 2027	Resmi Gazete 197
7. Register the title; arrange water and electricity accounts	Land Registry; utilities	Connections are withheld until taxes and fees are paid	Resmi Gazete 147

No TRNC official source was found requiring foreign sale contracts to be registered at a district court; the decree requires registration at the Land Registry. A foreign buyer who has bought by contract may also apply for a property-based residence permit once at least one-third of the price is paid and the permit application is lodged (Residence and Visa Regulation).

A seller who is not a property dealer is taxed at transfer at an effective 2.8% of value on the formula in the Income Tax Law.

Risks, title and due diligence

The developer’s page states no title-deed category. The Land Registry fee schedule shows that the register distinguishes ordinary titles from titles issued under the equivalent-property system, and the UK guidance says that ownership of many properties in the north is disputed, with thousands of claims from people displaced in 1974. A buyer therefore needs the category of the title and the identity of the pre-1974 owner of the parcel. Whether the parcel has any such history cannot be determined from published material.

The surrounding legal framework does not depend on the developer. The European Court of Human Rights treats the Immovable Property Commission as the first remedy for pre-1974 owners (Demopoulos decision), and under Law 67/2005 the Commission accepts applications until 21 December 2027.

The Court of Justice of the EU held in the Orams case (press release 39/09) that a Republic of Cyprus judgment on land in the north can be enforced in other member states. The Republic’s criminal code also makes dealing in property without the registered owner’s permission an offence, according to the UK guidance.

Two time-limited rules sit on top of that. The decree may lapse or be enacted around 5 November 2026, and the fee schedule ends on 5 January 2027, so the version that applies on the signing date should be confirmed in writing by the lawyer.

Money risk is separate: consumer prices rose 35.02% in the twelve months to September 2026, lira-denominated service charges tend to follow inflation, and stamp duty on a foreign-currency price is calculated in lira at the official rate on the stamping date.

The Varosha restrictions in the UN texts concern the closed area. The map centre of the scheme is 9.0 km from the Varosha point (calculated, straight-line), so nothing in the sources suggests the scheme lies in the closed area, but only the parcel number can confirm where the parcel lies. Independent legal advice is recommended by the UK guidance, which also warns about lawyers acting for both vendor and builder.

How Kentplus Famagusta compares with the other NorthernLAND projects on this site

The developer lists 23 projects on its English projects page. Seventeen are new listings on this site, and the six others already appear on this site under other names. The first table covers the seventeen, from the developer’s pages as read on 25 October 2026. None of the seventeen pages publishes a price or a title-deed category, and none publishes a delivery date.

Among the seventeen, Kentplus Famagusta is the only completed scheme that states a unit count, and it is one of eight Famagusta projects. The map pins of five of the others can be compared with this one in straight lines (calculated): Saklı Kent 3.3 km, NorthernLAND Premier 3.5 km, Alasya Park 3.6 km, New Life 4.3 km and Via Park 4.6 km.

The Alasya Park map label also gives Gazi Mustafa Kemal Boulevard, the street OpenStreetMap gives for the “Kent residency” node in section 3; the sources do not connect the two.

Six further NorthernLAND projects are not new listings, because this site already carries a listing with matching text and renders. The table states what the developer’s page and the listing share, according to the data check of 25 October 2026; it does not say who developed the listing.

Read side by side, the eight Famagusta pages share the same gaps: no price, no sizes and no title-deed category. This scheme and Saklı Kent have map pins about 3.3 km apart, west of the pins of Premier, New Life and Via Park (calculated). The only Famagusta page that gives a number of homes is this one. This comparison is not a ranking, and no scheme here is said to be better than another.

NorthernLAND

The developer’s About Us page says NorthernLAND started its activities in 2003 with the goal of “quality life” and continues to operate in Northern Cyprus. It also refers to “the past 23 years” and to awards, without naming any. These are the developer’s marketing statements and are not verified here; the projects page repeats “23+ Years of Experience”, “30+ Completed Projects” and “1000+ Happy Customers” in the same way.

The Group of Companies page lists related businesses: NorthernLAND Holiday Rentals and NorthernLAND Rentals, Grand Sapphire Resort & Casino, Grand Sapphire Residences at İskele Long Beach, Grand Sapphire City Hotel in Famagusta, the FitPlus Fitness & Wellness Center with two branches (NorthernLAND Premier and Via Park), Cyprus Ways Rent a Car, and the Pera Mackenzie restaurant at Long Beach. The page gives operating hours for the gym and spa, which are not repeated here.

The site footer names the company as NorthernLAND Construction LTD, with a main office in the Sakarya ward of Famagusta and a sales office in Yeni İskele. No company registration number or named director appeared on the pages read for this guide. A buyer who needs to know which legal entity sold or will sell a given unit can ask for the full company name and registration number in writing and check them independently.

Frequently asked questions

What is Kentplus Famagusta?

Kentplus Famagusta is a scheme of 336 homes that NorthernLAND lists under Completed Projects in Famagusta. The developer describes 2-bedroom and 3-bedroom apartments and villas, with swimming pools, playgrounds, walking paths and landscaped areas. The page gives no price, sizes, delivery date or title-deed category, and its Russian and Polish versions omit the location and unit-count text. The map pin sits about 5.9 km west-north-west of the Walled City centre point, so the exact location should be confirmed with a parcel number.

How many homes are there, and are they apartments or villas?

The English and Turkish pages give a total of 336, as “residences” in English and “daire” (flats) in Turkish. Both speak of apartments and villas with 2 or 3 bedrooms, without a split by form or by bedroom count. The eight gallery images show villas, gardens and interiors, with no apartment block among them. A unit list by block and form, requested in writing, is the only way to reconcile the total with the mix.

Is Kentplus Famagusta in the centre of Famagusta?

The English page says “in the heart of Famagusta”, but no address is published. The map pin is 5.9 km in a straight line from the Walled City centre point, and OpenStreetMap places a road at the pin in Güvercinlik, Beyarmudu Municipality, within a few hundred metres of a point it assigns to the Tuzla ward of Gazimağusa Municipality. Both are in Famagusta district. The map pin is the centre of a map view, so the parcel number is what settles the position.

What does a home cost?

No price is published, and no payment plan is published for this project. A pop-up on the developer’s pages shows a plan for Grand Sapphire Blu, which is a different project. Any price has to come from the seller in writing, with the closed area of the unit stated, and can be set against the Land Registry assessed value. Fees and taxes on top of the price are described in the buying section, and the Land Registry fee schedule is valid only to 5 January 2027.

Is Kentplus Famagusta ready to move into?

The developer lists the scheme as completed, the English text calls the homes “immediately livable” and the Turkish text speaks of ready delivery. No delivery date is given. The page metadata shows first publication in December 2022, which does not date the buildings. A buyer can ask for the final approval certificate for the block, the condominium title for the unit and the latest utility bills, which together show whether the unit is complete in a legal sense.

Which title deed does Kentplus Famagusta carry?

The developer’s page states no title-deed category, so none can be reported. The title of each unit is shown in the Land Registry record, and the research document (araştırma belgesi) lists the owner, mortgages and restrictions. Because the UK guidance describes disputed pre-1974 ownership as a general risk in the north, the lawyer should identify the category and the previous owner of the parcel. The page on title deeds in Northern Cyprus explains the categories in general terms.

How many homes can a foreigner buy?

As of 25 October 2026, Decree-Law 89/2026 allows a foreign buyer up to 3 apartments, or 2 two-storey detached villas in a mass-housing project, or a detached house on land of up to 3,300 m2, with higher limits for nationals of states that recognise the TRNC. The consolidated text of Law 52/2008 on mevzuat.gov.ct.tr keeps the stricter limit of one apartment. The decree is a Council of Ministers decree with a 90-day validity ending about 5 November 2026 unless Parliament enacts it.

What running costs should a buyer expect?

None is published. The shared pools, playgrounds and paths need maintenance, and the page names no management company. Immovable property tax is charged per square metre under the 2025 schedule, with a separate rate for swimming pools, and a 2026 schedule was not located. Service charges are set in lira, and consumer prices rose 35.02% in the year to September 2026. The management charge, its last change and any arrears should be requested in writing.

Can a home be let to holiday guests?

Under the Holiday Houses Law a lease for tourism purposes of up to 60 days is a holiday-house letting and needs registration with the Tourism Planning Department and an operating permit before letting (Holiday Houses Law). Rent is subject to a 10% withholding tax, and renting immovable property is at 0% VAT in the regulation of 7 October 2026. The developer’s page makes no rental claim. The article on holiday letting in Cyprus covers the compliance steps in more detail.

Does buying a home here give residence rights?

Not automatically. The Residence and Visa Regulation of 5 October 2026 allows a property-based residence permit once the home is suitable for residence and, for a purchase by contract, at least one-third of the price is paid. With title and a total property value of GBP 300,000 or more the permit runs 10 years; below that it runs 5 years. It does not give EU rights or citizenship; the article on citizenship and immigration in Northern Cyprus describes the routes.

Sources and last check

Last checked: 25 October 2026. Sources:

• NorthernLAND, Kentplus project page (developer)
• NorthernLAND, Kentplus project page, Turkish version (developer)
• NorthernLAND, projects page (developer)
• TRNC Law 52/2008, consolidated text, mevzuat.gov.ct.tr
• Resmi Gazete 147, 7 August 2026 (Decree-Law 89/2026)
• OSRM public router, example route from the map-view centre to the Walled City point
• Gazimağusa Municipality, city history page
• TRNC Law 15/2022 on municipal mergers (list of municipalities and villages)
• OpenStreetMap Nominatim lookup: Kent residency, Neo Sevinç Schools, Güvercinlik industrial zone, Beyarmudu and Güvercinlik boundaries
• Yenidüzen, KTMMOB on project approval and earthquake rules, 14 February 2023
• TRNC Statistical Institute, 2011 census table 3 (wards and villages)
• Gazimağusa Municipality, municipal history page (2020 projection)
• Turkish General Directorate of Highways, Nicosia-Famagusta road project page
• Gazimağusa State Hospital, about page
• TRNC Statistical Institute, Statistical Yearbook 2024
• Eastern Mediterranean University, Information Handbook 2024
• City Mall Famagusta, operator site
• WMO World Weather Information Service, Paralimni climate data
• TRNC Statistical Institute, Construction and Parcel Statistics 2025
• UK government, buying property in Cyprus
• TRNC Tax Department, minimum wage from 1 July 2026
• TRNC Statistical Institute, Consumer Price Index, September 2026
• TRNC immovable property tax schedule, effective 1 January 2025
• Land Registry (Tapu ve Kadastro Dairesi) announcement, 15 July 2025
• Resmi Gazete 197, 7 October 2026 (Land Registry fees)
• TRNC Stamp Duty Law 19/1963, consolidated
• TRNC VAT rates regulation, updated 7 October 2026
• Interior Ministry Property Unit, permit document list
• TRNC Residence and Visa Regulation, 5 October 2026
• TRNC Income Tax Law, consolidated 25 May 2026
• ECHR, Demopoulos and Others v. Turkey, decision of 1 March 2010
• TRNC Law 67/2005, Immovable Property Commission, consolidated
• Court of Justice of the EU, press release 39/09 (Orams)
• Immovable Property Commission, statistics page
• NorthernLAND, About Us page (developer)
• NorthernLAND, Group of Companies page (developer)
• TRNC Holiday Houses Law

This is not legal, tax or financial advice.