We also tried to buy a piece of land and our solicitor found when doing a search at the land registry that the family who were selling it only had a small share and the remainder was owned buy 5 other family members.
Anyone trying to buy property which is not legally owned by the vendor will soon find out provided they have the sense to use a solicitor.
Even if someone was foolish enough to buy such land because they do not use a solicitor they would not get planning permisssion to built on it as they would not be the legal owners.
Yes it is true that there is some turkish owned land which has been used for building roads, airports etc. But there is a govenment fund to re-imburse the Turkish owners of such land in case of a solution to the Cypriot problems.
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