For many years this beautiful Mediterranean Island was fraught with conflict. Tensions between the Turkish and Greek populations spilled over many times in the 1960′s after Cyprus had won it’s independence from British Colonial rule. In 1974 the Turkish Government mounted an invasion of the Island after a coup was carried out by the Greek [...]
Continue Reading ›››For nearly four decades Cyprus has had a somewhat choppy political history. However since September 2008 – when the reunification talks begun again in earnest for the first time since 2003 – both the current Cyprian leaders have been determined to find a resolution to the divide between the north and south of the island [...]
Continue Reading ›››For nearly four decades Cyprus has had a somewhat choppy political history. However since September 2008 – when the reunification talks begun again in earnest for the first time since 2003 – both the current Cyprian leaders have been determined to find a resolution to the divide between the north and south of the island [...]
Continue Reading ›››Mehmet Ali Talat and Dimitris Christofias, the respective leaders of Cyprus’ North Cyprus and Republic of Cyprus Federations, have both noted the importance of Cyprus property in their campaigns and their presidencies; they know the issue, if resolved, could spell a massive boom in Cyprus property prices, and that this would have a great effect [...]
Continue Reading ›››There has been a property boom in North Cyprus since the unification attempt was first made in 2004. The importance of this to the world of real estate and North Cyprus property markets cannot be ignored. The governments’ response to the current economic climate is also cause for optimism. Prime Minister Ferdi Sabit Soyer has [...]
Continue Reading ›››There are many factors influencing the appeal that property in North Cyprus has for overseas property investors right now. Firstly, Turkey is due to see the reopening of EU negotiating chapters this year, and the result of this is that Ankara is under unprecidented international scrutiny to provide useful and optimistic influence to the reunification [...]
Continue Reading ›››The boom in tourism and the inevitable property development which followed in the Greek majority Republic of Cyprus over the last ten years has not been mirrored in the uneasy line of symmetry cast by the 1974 green line – the UN patrolled border that separates the Turkish Cypriot controlled north with the now EU member state, the Republic Cyprus. Until now.
Continue Reading ›››Although property talks between the leaders of the Greek and Turkish communities in Cyprus have ended without an agreement being reached, there is good news for investors in property in North Cyprus. There has been a property boom in North Cyprus since the unification attempt was first made in 2004. The importance of this to [...]
Continue Reading ›››The current round of negotiations between Christofias and Talat have reached the topic of property, and land rights.
Continue Reading ›››It is a sad anniversary that marks the division of two communities, but this is exactly what is coming up for the island Cyprus, which has been physically split along the 1974 Green Line for thirty five years this year.
In that time the pitch of feeling on both sides of the island has oscillated from the optimism of a traveler certain that home rests just beyond the horizon to the entrenched pessimism, distrust and hatred that has come to characterise the twentieth century’s bleakest moments.
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