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Hi Trudy
I have often wanted to ask the questions you´ve been asking about property.
This summer I stayed with friends in Adapazarı and my friend´s husband is a builder/developer. They live on a site he developed and it is beautiful. He is now developing a site a few hundred yards away. These sites have security gates and a guard in attendance at all times. Beautiful trees (some willows  ) have also been planted around and a children´splay area is right by the security guard gatehouse.
I looked around the new site and some of the apartments (built in blocks of 4 - 2 upper and 2 lower). There were also some conventional houses.
The apartments had: large bathroom with conventional toilet; turkish toilet; large kitchen; very spacious living room; 2/3 good sized bedrooms; 2 balconies; utility; outside storage. I asked the price and the reply was 100,000YTL. Adapazarı is not what you would call a tourist area but these apartments are not in the centre of the city and there are many green fields around. I mentioned that I would like one of the many houses I saw in the countryside and I was told these are much cheaper. I think there can be some complication with land ownership in Turkey, and I wonder if that relates more to property in the countryside. In the U.K. houses in the country are more expensive.
I remember another friend in Adapazarı, who has a semi detached house (duplex) with Large living space and 4 bedrooms, set on one of the sites I mentioned above. He said he would have to pay 10 times more for the same thing in Istanbul (I didn´t ask the price).
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