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Assistance with real estate purchase in russian or English?

Last activity 01 November 2024 by Andrey Ryazantsev

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Andrey Ryazantsev

I'm looking forward to buy an affordable apartment in a colder city of Turkey. I've been to several cities and I narrowed down my options to Bolu, Eskişehir, and Isparta.


What I'm struggling with is language first of all. Many local real estate agencies in these cities only have a handful of employees who are very unlikely to speak foreign languages. And if I'm lucky enough to find someone - I'll be extremely limited in options. And besides that I'm more interested in unfinished projects rather than ready apartments as I want to request alterations without wasting money to renovate what is already built.


When I visited the cities I've seen a large amount of constructions going on, but they are listed nowhere except at construction companies' websites at best,


With all that in mind - can anyone please suggest what kind of person I need to look for to help me with:

  1. communicating with construction companies, requesting projects
  2. communicate with local real estate agents to work through paperwork
  3. communicate with architect/foreman of the construction to request alterations
  4. communicate with utility companies for subscriptions.


Are these a real estate agent duties? Or some sort of assistant / consultant?

Where do I look for people like that?


If anyone has suggestions, advices, recommendations, or just any thoughts really - please comment :)


P.S. I went through the process of purchasing an apartment in Antalya, but this was extraordinary luck that we had real estate agent speaking russian and construction architect speaking english. It was a great experience, I wish I could have something similar.

Andrey Ryazantsev

Any ideas?

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