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When I choose an investment location I don’t just take someone’s word for it, I like to go out and see it for myself before I decide if it  is somewhere worth investing for the long term.

With the lifting of the reciprocity law in Turkey, I am expecting the price of Istanbul property to rise significantly.

The Tapu is one of the most important documents you can have when investing in Turkey property, but what happens when the details are incorrect?

Care homes are not something I like to think about too much, they are the last place I would want someone to put me in when I am old.

Turkey has been one of our favourite markets for the past 12 months with its surging property prices and strong rental demand, however there was just one thing holding it back for some of our investors – the ‘reciprocity principle’.

I am sure that most us like to live in a place that we can call our own. Being brought up on a council estate in the eighties, I remember when the right to buy scheme changed many lives for the better – including that of my own family.

This was a question I and countless others have asked themselves before deciding that there are few other businesses like it.

Yesterday a few friends and I from the office were discussing the recent weakening of the US dollar and what this will mean for property investors.

I make no secret that I am attracted to the eastern promise of Istanbul and while London still offers great returns for investors, I expect Istanbul to outperform it and offer a more exciting opportunity in 2012 – here’s why.

My grandparents struggled on a basic state pension, it wasn’t easy for them however they made the best of it. As we stare down the barrel of retirement the problem for our generation is that we may not even have the luxury of “getting by.”

Making sure you get the legal aspect right should be one of the first things you do when investing in property whether it’s Turkey or anywhere else in the world.

Just in case you didn’t know already, I am delig