Real Estate

Real Estate

Our real estate team is expert in structuring and restructuring, commercial leases, zoning, licensing, permits, sale-leaseback transactions, and real estate finance.

The team advises the world’s leading international retailers, real estate funds, and developers in Turkey’s most famous shopping and residential complexes, urban re-generation projects, ports, and tourism facilities.

Our team has extensive experience in representing clients in all types of real estate transactions including:(i) development projects covering both residential and commercial development, (ii) real estate acquisitions and disposals including conditional sales, (iii) property management, (iv) urban regeneration projects, (v) commercial leases employing innovative methods such as build-to-suit or more robust servitude rights arrangements, (vi) zoning matters, which are key to the success of any real estate transaction, (vii) construction contracts including FDIC contracts, and (viii) construction and environmental related permitting processes.

In addition to pure real estate transactions, our team also provides cross disciplinary input in infrastructure projects along with our Infrastructure and Project Finance team as every infrastructure project has a real estate leg including both privately owned and government owned/controlled land.

In connection with our representation of clients in real estate transactions,  our firm  represents foreign individuals throughout the process of obtaining Turkish citizenship via investment in real estate with our unique understanding and deep knowledge of the requirements and procedures to acquire citizenship.

When applying for citizenship in connection with the purchase of real property, our citizenship acquisition team handles all of the procedures from inception to completion, including but not limited to: introducing Clients to the relevant market players (such as reliable developers and valuation companies if required by the client); property due diligence and acquisition; filing, monitoring, and finalizing citizenship applications; opening bank accounts; obtaining tax numbers; applying for and finalizing Turkish identity cards and passports, etc. Together with the exceptional guidance of our real-estate team, our firm provides multi-disciplinary services as a pioneer in both fields and assists foreign clients through every stage of the process.

We closely follow the entire process, working  quickly and effectively to manage every step of the citizenship process. Our firm has a broad client base ranging  from Central Europe to the Far East