Special offers for special customers

Turquoise Homes has been working very hard this year on developing our customer offers and we have two new deals, exclusive to new buyers.

Offer 1! FREE WASHING MACHINE

For all new buyers on Turquoise Homes' own projects, a free brand-new washing machine for your apartment. This washing machine comes with full service guarantees and will free you from boring sunday mornings at the nearest launderette, not to mention saving you £400 - enough for two return flights to Turkey!


Offer 2! £1,500 CASH BACK

If you buy a property on one of our own projects and pay upfront, we will also give you an amazing £1,500 back - in cash! This offer applies to all new customers who pay the first 90% of their property cost at the time of purchase. That's a total of 8-10 return flights to Turkey - enough to cover two trips for a family of four plus an extra sneaky break away from the kids!

These offers are available on three projects:
Luxury Development Phases 1 & 2
Luxury Development III

These three neighbouring developments are within 10 minutes walk of Altinkum's Main Beach and 5 minutes walk of the main street. Luxury Development Phases 1 & 2 are identical with a selection of 1, 2, 3 bedroom single-floor apartments and 3 bedroom duplexes. Luxury Development III consists of 3 bedroom single-floor apartments and 4 bedroom duplexes. All properties are south-facing with wide terraces / balconies and granite-tiled floors, fitted kitchens and bathrooms, elegant decorative plasterwork on the ceiling, intercom entry systems and uPVC double-glazed doors and windows.

We still have a handful of these properties available so whether you are looking for one, two or three bedrooms, or even a duplex, there is something to suit your family and your pocket.

Altinkum Property 1-bed apartment
Altinkum Property 2-bed apartment
Altinkum Property 2-bed apartment
Altinkum Property 3-bed apartment
Altinkum Property 3-4 bed duplex penthouse

* Please note, we can only make these offers available to buyers on our own projects and ONLY to new buyers.

Another Great Deal for Turquoise Homes customers - Your Property in Print!

We're always working hard to negotiate some good deals for customers of Turquoise Homes and we've managed to land another one. Our friends at Exclusive Holidays Magazine, a publication you may have seen on the shelves of your local branch of WH Smiths and all good bookshops (as the saying goes), have put together something special for Turquoise Homes customers:

Option 1: 1/6 page advert in Exclusive Holidays Magazine for 12 months + Full page web advert for 12 months on www.thevillafinder.com for £250 which is normally £515 (+ vat if customers are based in the uk).

Option 2: 12 months advertising on www.thevillafinder.com for £95.

Here's a bit of information about the magazine straight from the horse's mouth:

"Since its launch in 2001, Exclusive Holidays magazine has gone from strength to strength, now boasting over 350 pages of private villas, apartments and farmhouses all over the world, as well as villa companies offering a wide selection of properties. As well as properties for rent, Exclusive Holidays also features informative articles on worldwide destinations, plus a travel section packed with flights, travel insurers, car hire and other relevant services. Published 4 times a year, the magazine has a high profile in the UK and is available in leading retailers such as WHSmiths and Waitrose, as well as promotions at holiday exhibitions throughout the year."

If you're interested in this new offer, exclusive to Turquoise Homes customers, contact info@tropicalbeachhomes.com and we'll start the ball rolling for you! And in the meantime, check out our own ad on the site: http://www.thevillafinder.com/EH2111249.html

Exclusive to Turquoise Homes Customers - Money off Top Holiday Rentals Website!

Here at Turquoise we're always looking for ways to do something extra for our customers and as a lot of you are hoping to let your properties this year, we have arranged something extra-special just for you. Owners Direct, one of the top holiday rentals companies on the web, is doing an exclusive deal that is only available to Turquoise Homes customers.

But first, this is what Chris, of Owners Direct, has to say about the company:

"Owners Direct was formed in 1997, and for the first three years we produced a printed brochure of privately owned properties for holiday rental. In 2000, we transferred our business entirely onto the internet. We were therefore one of the first companies to advertise holiday accommodation "direct from the owner" over the internet. Our company has grown steadily over the past 5 years and we now advertise over 7000 properties Worldwide. Ours is a very popular website with holidaymakers, and we are currently receiving up to 20,000 visitors to our site per day, who between them view over 300,000 pages per day."

The normal cost of advertising on Owners Direct is £100 for 12 months or £65 for 6 months, excluding VAT for UK residents, and there is an existing introductory offer of 3 months for free. This price includes 4 photos, and additional photos can be added at £5 per photo.

Turquoise Homes customers can take advantage of ANOTHER three months for free, meaning a whole year's advertising for an amazing £65!

This offer is only available through Turquoise Homes so if you'd like to take part, please email me expressing your interest, or call the office on +90 256 813 58 66. Registration on the website is through a standard process so you will need to have your account adjusted manually after registering. We're hoping this will be a valuable supplement to the automatic posting on our website, and naturally we will continue to offer our courtesy meet-and-greet service, arranging airport transfers, cleaning and a general friendly welcome for your guests!

Chris tells me that now is the time to get those summer rentals so get your descriptions ready and get going!

(and don't worry if you're not a Turquoise Homes customer - Owners Direct offer an excellent combination of superb quality and incredible value for money for ANYONE looking to rent out their holiday home. You can register online at http://www.ownersdirect.co.uk/register.asp
and become a member of one of the highest-ranking holiday rentals sites on the web!)

New Flights Serving Altinkum

Two pieces of good news for those with an interest in Altinkum, whether you're just looking for a decent flight for your holiday or are thinking of buying property and are looking for evidence that this part of Turkey is as up-and-coming as we say it is...

Firstly, hooray for BA! Having seen my snide comments about the cost of their flights and the inconvenience of having to fly via Istanbul, British Airways have responded by introducing direct flights between London Gatwick and Izmir, starting from 26th March. A little birdie (thanks BH!) has told me that prices start from £140 RETURN, including taxes! The little research I've done seems to back this up so get booking before they all sell out. BA, a little credit for the idea, and some commission for the bookings, please!
British Airways New Summer Timetable News

Secondly, hooray for Thomas Cook! Whose summer 2006 flights to Bodrum start on the 1st April. Sample cost , return to Gatwick - £122.61 per person! Again, commission due on any bookings, I think!
Thomas Cook Website

(Incidentally we DON'T get commission on any flights you book whether through our recommendation or otherwise. Our policy when we ARE offered commission from our suppliers is to pass the savings onto you, whether through a discount or additional service for free - just one of the many reasons why it's good to choose Turquoise).

New Year, New... Insurance!

Happy New Year from all of us at Turquoise Homes, and a warm welcome into 2006.

Things are getting nicely underway over here in Altinkum, with great weather smiling on the builders keen to get their new properties up and running before the start of the season. We have some of our own which are coming along quite nicely, as you can see from this picture taken in early December (next installment eagerly awaited!).

Another type of new development came out of our visit at the end of last year to Overseas Property Professional (OPP Live '05) at Alexandra Palace. We at Turquoise Homes are always looking to improve the services we offer our customers, and in response to requests from some of you, we are working with a UK-based company to bring you a number of different products to make owning or buying your property in Turkey easier and happier than ever. This is a brand-new partnership and the products themselves are also brand-new to Turkey so the finer details are still in development, but look out for.... [cue Price Is Right theme music]

Home insurance in English for your property in Turkey - 24/7 helpline!
Equity release on your second home in Spain to invest in your third home in Turkey!
£10 foreign exchange and transfer from your UK bank account to your Turkish Lira savings account!
A discount for Turquoise Homes customers on insurance, foreign exchange and much more!

These are just three examples, and we have many more in the pipeline so please watch this space, or contact us if you want to know more. If there's anything else you'd really like to see us offer, let us know - this really is for you and so the more input we have, the better we can make it.

So, New Year, New Insurance. Something this good doesn't need a catchy title, anyway. Happy new year.

Turkey Property Law Reinstated! Applications from new foreign buyers now being accepted

Towards the end of 2004, investigations took place into the law governing the purchase of property in Turkey by foreign individuals. There was concern that a loophole in the law permitted foreign entities in the guise of individuals to purchase large plots of land (30,000 hectares, about the size of a medium-sized village) in sensitive areas of the country.

Earlier this year (2005) the Turkish Constitutional Court made a ruling that the law was unconstitutional, and subsequently suspended the law, pending redraft. The initial redraft was rejected, and as a result, new or pending applications for title deeds by foreigners could not be processed until the law was redrafted and ratified.

The new law has now been ratified by the Turkish Government, and yesterday, 14th November 2005, the Land Registry was able to recommence processing deed applications for property by foreigners. This means that all applications by foreigners wishing to purchase holiday homes will be processed as before by the Turkish Land Registry. The only significant change known at the moment is a reduction in the amount of land foreigners can purchase, down now to 10,000 hectares.

As yet, the British Embassy in Ankara has not yet updated the information on its website, but readers should expect to see new information published soon.

New Cheap Short-Trip Flights to Izmir

British owners of homes in Altinkum have found their choices on when to visit and for how long restricted by the flights available. During the summer we largely have to rely on the charter airlines and their 7, 14 and 21 day holiday flights, and during the winter on expensive BA and Lufthansa flights via Germany or Istanbul.

But now two new German players have entered the game - GermanWings and Sun Express. Both fly from the UK and Ireland via Germany but undercut BA / Lufthansa prices considerably, and fly on several days of the week, allowing the canny flyer to potentially spend a long weekend in Altinkum for under £150!

At the moment, GermanWings flies from Dublin, Edinburgh, Birmingham and London Stansted to Cologne/Bonn and Stuttgart, and from Cologne/Bonn and Stuttgart to Izmir during the summer months.

Sun Express offers a winter service to Izmir from Cologne/Bonn, Berlin Schoenfeld, Stuttgart, Frankfurt-Main, Hanover, Zurich and Munich, enabling passengers to connect from all over the UK and Ireland on Easyjet and Ryanair.

Congratulations to both these operators for recognising the demand for greater flexibility and cheaper prices and for making the effort to meet this demand. And many thanks to Barry D and Graham B for their great recommendations.