Real Estate & Construction Law

Our real estate team is expert in structuring and restructuring, commercial leases, zoning, licensing, permits, sale-leaseback transactions, and real estate finance. Partners advises the world’s leading international retailers, real estate funds, and developers in Turkey’s most famous residential complexes, urban re-generation projects, ports, and tourism facilities.

Our Law firm has extensive experience in representing clients in all types of real estate transactions including:

• Development Projects Covering Both Residential and Commercial Development,
• Real Estate Acquisitions and Disposals Including Conditional Sales,
• Property Management,
• Preparation of sales and purchase contracts and execution of title transfers at land registry offices
• Preparation of lease contracts for real estate properties and execution of such contracts
• Debt collection, litigation, exchange of official correspondences and counselling on daily legal matters for shopping malls, business centres and residence projects
• Participating in general assembly and board meetings
• Preparation of construction, engineering, subcontractor and supplier contracts
• Review of construction plans and obtaining legal permits
• Assigning limited property rights and individual rights
• Execution of real estate property transactions for Turkish Citizenship applications
• Cases of expropriation and confiscating without expropriation
• Urban Regeneration Projects,
• Commercial Leases Employing Innovative Methods Such as Build-To-Suit or More Robust Servitude Rights Arrangements,
• Zoning Matters, Which Are Key to The Success of Any Real Estate Transaction,
• Construction Contracts İncluding FDIC Contracts,
• Construction and Environmental Related Permitting Processes,
• Disputes About Law of Property Ownerships
• Consulting on law of property ownership
• Preparation and pursuance of all official correspondence
• Cases arising out of law of property ownership
• Collection of contribution fees and other receivables arising due to legislation
• Participation in general assembly and board meetings
• Preparation of outsourcing or service contracts
• Statutory supervision of changes in management plans

In addition to pure real estate transactions, our Law Firm 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.