House insurance

[Mike Walker]

we organised the whole lot,earthquake,buildings & contents thru Ayhan cinar a broker onthe first floor over the fish market in Fethiye.Very helpful.cost £200,including Dask.The policy is also in english!  Tel 0532 2954166

[sunseeker]

Initially we approach our Turkish banks, Finasbank and Garanti for quotes. Despite promises of quotes from Finasbank they failed to deliver and Garanti failed to responsed. After many emails and phone calls to Turkey we did manage to get some costings from a few Turkish companies but the prices varied quite a lot. We found that each company required different details before the prices were forthcoming. This process was frustrating and time consuming (it may be a lot easier if you are over there). In the end we were able to arrange insurance from an established English company with a very reasonable price (details can be supplied if you send an email) it was quite a painless and fast process and it was a lot easier than trying to obtain quotes from local Turkish companies and the banks (ours).

[puma]

go to the search  and put in home insurance there is info on there about this subject,hope this helps

[AnneandTerry]

We recently took out buildings and contents insurance with the local Allianz man. He was very helpful, speaks good English and even took us out to lunch! Also helped us buy a television set and secured good discount. The policy is written in English, and payment can be made by credit card in sterling, thereby saving on exchange fees. Have already recommended him to several other owners, who have also taken out policies.  Please feel free to email us for further details.

Anne and Terry

[june]

We have tried several different ones since buying our apartment 3 years ago but On Cenks recommendation we went to Baris in Fethiye last year, he was excellent he met us by the Mosque and took us to his offices, he speaks very good english and explained everything it cost £160 for the cover for a 2 bed apartment inc the earthquake cover, the policy is with AIG and all in english and comparable with a UK policy.

I personally would not use the banks as its not their core product just an add on and a means of making more money and if the truth be known they really don't know much about insurance an insurance broker is much better.

June

[june]

Sorry Di and Barry the website address is www.barisconsultancy.com  and it gives all the telephone numbers on there.

June

[puma]

we are with baris also very helpful man

[Andrew H]

Can someone explain, we already have a buildings and contents policy, which includes earthquake insurance, arranged last year but our developers tell us we have to have a seperate DASK policy as well now the tapu is in our names, I am not sure this is correct anybody able to help

[JohnF]

D.A.S.K., or Dogal Afet Sigortalari Kurumu, is a requirement for ALL homeowners and is a completely seperate policy to any household or buildings insurance you've taken out.  Here's a link to the official D.A.S.K. leaflet: DASK

JF

[jcrian]

Can someone explain, we already have a buildings and contents policy, which includes earthquake insurance, arranged last year but our developers tell us we have to have a seperate DASK policy as well now the tapu is in our names, I am not sure this is correct anybody able to help

We were told that the DASK is compulsory but only pays out a certain amount which probably wouldn't cover the rebuilding costs.The earthquake bit on your main policy covers the shortfall in costs that the DASK doesn't cover.