I expect many homes to go on the market over the next few months.
Why? Surely not because of these regulations.
This year will be the first year that we don't find ourselves in the position a lot of folks are, i.e. having friends and family using an apartment for a nominal charge.
If we were still in that position then, maybe because we're just a bit more pragmatic about things like this in Turkey, we'd simply bite the bullet and register the property as folks are having to do. Yes, its another outlay, but not a massive amount - £179 set up fee and £50pm for the months that you rent or have friends staying. If that's enough to make someone sell up then then I'd say they're just looking for an excuse to sell.
Over the years we've owned several properties in Turkey and operated two businesses, one a limited company, so nothing really surprises me any more when it comes to Turkish bureaucracy and ways the government and tax man manage to squeeze money out of the guy in the street. The hotel associations have been lobbying for more regulation of the private rental sector for some time and with the introduction of new regulations relating to registering daily rentals, I suspect the government thought they could kill two birds with the one stone. Happy days for the Maliye...
I reckon some folks think these new regulations are aimed at foreign owners - they aren't. Turks who rent out their place have to jump through the same hoops as everyone else - Turkish friends with a place in Bodrum just signed up, even though their bookings for the past two years have been minimal.
My understanding from this post is that I do not need to register under the new rules?
Keith's right, you need to register but you wont need to register and pay SGK.
JF