TRNC authorities track fake estate agents including student agents

Turkish Cypriot police have launched a manhunt for bogus estate agents from an increasing number of tip-offs, it has been revealed.

This is coming after the president of the Cyprus Turkish Estate Agents’ Union, Hasan Sungur, called for a long- awaited legal amendment to empower his organisation. 

Mr Sungur said numbers of registered estate agents in North Cyprus had risen from 18 in 1987 to over 1,000 at present, half of whom were foreign nationals legally barred from working in the profession.

He claimed the state had lost control of a market where “foreign students” had “long been operating as bogus agents” to sell property and cars, and grievances had been voiced by many people.

Cyprus Today