First time in Calis/possibly buying property- looking for information

[Scunner]

The greatest problem with buying in Turkey is asking the advice of people who have stronger views on what you should buy than you might suspect. The ability to listen to what potential buyers want to buy, then convince them not to and to buy what they want to sell can be extremely powerful and passes almost undetected under the label "advice". Maybe the agent hasn't sold for months (quite possible) and now they have you and you don't want the villa that the builder is paying 10% commission on, you want the resale that the owner is only paying 3% on. Time to change your mind, and quick...

Same can goes for Joe (or Mehmet) Public. It's hard not to listen to a man at a bar who is from your own country but lives where you are looking to buy, and of course many are very knowledgeable and informative. But how many people consider that sometimes, they tell you not to touch that property with a bargepole because of reasons a, b, and c, whereas they don't want you to buy it, perhaps for reason d, that they get a commission for bringing customers from some agents - and you didn't see this villa with those ones. Or because it's like their villa, and their villa is for sale.

So there's some advice to chew over. What it probably means is, by all means listen to advice - but pool it, just because someone told you that the one you like is in a bad area, or is sinking, doesn't necessarily mean it is...

[usedbustickets]

Good advice on property buying from Scunner, Ray1951 and Piscoe, particularly on renting first.  Take your time to know the area, it might be you prefer the mountain areas like Ovacik. Or Uzumlu rather than the beach area of Calis... Take your time and look around all areas and indeed property types, and also out of season, which many people actually grow to love more than the busy season.

Plenty of places show the football, locally I like he Kerim near to the water taxi station.  Plenty of choice for food, some good, some excellent for both value and quality, rarely is it bad or poor, so try around. 

We love living here, but we did spend over ten years getting to know the area before we moved out, so once again take your time and enjoy the finding out, and finally use the collective experience offered by CBF, both the search and posting facility for  single topic questions, it was a big help to us and others.. And there is always a laugh or two along the way.

[puma]

we bought the first time we came to calis ,but was very dubious about the estate agent when she asked us to pay our deposit for a property we had viewed at the paint shop were she had a bill
left that one behind and then went to 2 other agents one scunner knows and all they wanted was to show us was telemosses, which at the time had flood problems.
we eventually found a good estate agent on our 2nd to last day, who found us a great property and we are still there p/t after 10yrs
good luck