#housing

The north’s ruling coalition on Friday changed its legislation regarding the purchase of real estate by non-Turkish Cypriots, allowing them to buy more properties. Foreign nationals are now allowed ...

The government is stepping up its efforts to make housing more affordable in Cyprus, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Wednesday. Speaking at an event titled “The Right to Housing – ...

A modern, digital Cyprus, which will be a model of transparency and accountability, socially sensitive and proud of its role in the region, is President Nikos Christodoulides’ vision for the ...

The government announced on Wednesday its commitment to supporting refugees by improving their access to housing, as it unveiled revised conditions for housing plans. According to the Interior Minister Constantinos ...

At least 1,650 applicants will share the €30 million allocated through the government’s energy and housing policy, which opened on November 21 and will run till January 1, 2025, or until the budget runs ...

The government will on October 30 announce two new schemes aimed at making housing in Cyprus more affordable, before beginning to implement both schemes within November, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said. ...

Cyprus is the “champion in the housing crisis”, reported Akel mouthpiece Haravghi last Monday. The party has been very critical of the government’s housing policy because it has been ...

This week saw the verbal jousting between the government and opposition party Akel over the issue of affordable housing return, with each side cherry-picking data from the latest Eurostat survey. ...

More than 1,500 people have so far benefited from special housing schemes targeted at rural and mountain areas, the government said on Thursday. The schemes are designed to help young people ...

The cost of buying houses and apartments has become a huge issue in recent years as is well-known. There is certainly also a problem in the level of residential rents, ...

The key pillars of development, financing ownership and governance of affordable housing explained By Erol Riza Cyprus, like many other EU countries, faces a socio-economic problem of a shortage of ...

Policies and lifestyles causing environmental damage and derailing economy Over the last 40 years the Cyprus government has relied increasingly on three main sources to generate economic growth, namely, property investment, ...

In my previous article I talked about the introduction of a new tax on the sale of real estate, to be paid by the seller, and I wondered how the ...

Affordable housing involves more planning than merely putting together incentives New government affordable housing plans have received lukewarm reactions as some are being seen as unfeasible and hold the prospect ...

Short-term patchwork government measures to deal with cost-of-living crisis and persistent inequalities are not enough By Les Manison A report by the OECD on “taxing wages” reveals that the increase ...

Lakatamia should be consulted before a potential decision is made by the government to house migrants at a former school within its municipal boundaries, its mayor said on Tuesday. Fotoula ...

The reactivation of the Housing for All (Stegi gia olous) social platform is “imperative,” as the reasons that lead to its creation in 2019 not only continue to exist, but have ...

The licence is personal, non-assignable and non-inheritable and expires upon the death of the beneficiary As part of its refugee housing policy, the state grants licences for the use of ...

In response to what it called a desperate situation, Akel on Wednesday launched a Housing for All campaign that includes the creation of a unified housing agency. “Our aim through ...

Healthcare professionals who worked overtime during Covid and got paid extra are being rejected for refugee housing support as their income levels are now higher than the government’s financial ...

Organised retirement communities have long been established in America and then in Europe. We are seeing a trend in construction of such complexes, such as in Spain, which should be ...

Interior Minister Nicos Nouris said on Wednesday that they would initiating housing plans in the old town of Nicosia and extending existing plans for the rural and disadvantaged areas on ...

There is a strong need to create a singular housing policy body, which will be responsible for monitoring and implementing housing plans, presidential candidate Andreas Mavroyiannis said on Wednesday. The ...

At 17.1 per cent, Cyprus had lower household expenditure on housing, water, electricity, natural gas and other fuels in 2021 in comparison with the EU average of 25 per cent, according to Eurostat. ...