It’s not so much about distinguishing a Prada from a Primark bikini, but more about sizing up whether there will be a backlash if you ask a screaming child to pipe down or ask your neighbour to remove his rubbish!
key to ensuring harmonious holidays. I say this from personal experience
after years of looking at resorts of holiday homes abroad with one eye on buying. When my schoolteacher husband and I had decided on the southwest coast of Turkey, the developers, a young Anglo-Turkish couple, invited us to stay in their home, a lovely rambling house in the countryside fi ve minutes from the apartment complex near seven-kilometre Sarigerme beach, near Dalaman. At Hakan and Katie Cinar’s nearby home we met a Scottish couple who had bought an apartment off plan in the same ‘Valley Apartments’ scheme we were considering in this unspoilt area of Turkey where there’s a new
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golf course and Hilton Hotel. On the complex there’s a shared pool, tennis court and barbecue area. We spent a great evening together and happily for us they have ended up our next-door neighbours. The Cinars – who run Lycia
Properties, from whom we then bought our three-bedroom, two bathroom apartment for £85,000 – actively make sure their prospective buyers meet existing owners as part of the selling process. “It is important that potential
owners know who their neighbours are going to be,” says Katie. “They need to determine what kind of people they are and also to get an independent view of our product and the area.
Jane’s neighbours... Above
Jane in her apartment Right
Violinists Caroline O’Neill and Colin Renwick
Top right Andy Parks and family
Second right Robin Phillips and family
Below right
Jane at her complex pool
“In our home we organise get-
togethers and barbecues so people can meet us and other buyers in a relaxed way; we also take them to the bar we own in the village so they can get a fl avour of local life. “We want happy owners and happy communities.” Indeed Lycia’s project manager,
Sultan, is so keen on bonding with the owners that she invited us all to her wedding last summer. But it was Katie and Hakan who also introduced us to professional violinists Caroline and Colin who have
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