Question: My daughter has purchased a 2 bedroomed apartment in Altinkum Turkey. The purchase price was £36,000 which she paid in good faith. A Tapu was not forthcoming and now it appears that the builder has defaulted with the money and she stands to lose everything. The agent have offered her a 1 bedroom apartment on a complex as an alternative. What do you think she should do? where do we stand legally? How would you redress the situation.
Answer: What you don’t say in your letter is whether the builder has simply disappeared with your daughter’s money, whether he is still around but refusing to return her money or whether they have gone out of business. For the purposes of this reply I will assume that your daughter have lost the whole of the £36,000 that she has paid and that there is no possibility of retrieving that amount.
Reading between the lines the “new” property is in a different complex and is being built by another developer. If that is the case then this is a completely unrelated purchase – despite the fact that it is being dressed up as an “alternative” to try and salvage your daughter’s purchase. Your daughter should proceed with this new property if it is the right property for her and also if your daughter and her lawyer are satisfied that the same thing will not happen to again. She should not proceed if this is simply to try and retreive something from what has happened in the past – because that is a separate issue and proceeding with this purchase will not bring her £36,000 back.
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