Rent is one of the income items of those who have residential real estate in Turkey. Nevertheless, you need to be careful with the choice of tenants: the other day, the news thundered in the Turkish media that several apartment owners who rented housing to illegal immigrants were fined 321,440 Turkish lira (TL).
During the checks for the presence of migrants living illegally in the metropolis in Istanbul, 56 people were detained at seven addresses as part of a raider check. In parallel, three owners - homeowners who rented housing to migrants - were arrested, as well as a person who acted as an intermediary.
The owners of the housing organized a kind of hostels in their residences, trying to accommodate as many people there as possible; this was evidenced by the bunk beds found in the rooms, which stood there in abundance.
So now three "lucky entrepreneurs" will have to pay a fine of a third of a million. Illegal migrants are being deported.
Illegal rent increases are also fraught with fines and not only them, which the authorities are also vigilantly monitoring now. But the question of whether the restriction on a 25% increase in rental rates will remain from July 2023, when the previous decree on this issue expires, is still hanging in the air.