Sustainable Living in Mersin – Invest in your Lifestyle Property and escape city life

Are you retired? If you are, and you have say $500.000 saved, you will be considered wealthy in Turkey, as half a million dollars is over 20.000.000 TL. Of course you can achieve your retirement dreams with less, however this amount will be enough for you for the rest of your life. Invest in your lifestyle property today with MARE Investment, escape city life and live sustainably in one of Mersin’s Eco-Villages.

• A day in the life: from gardening and shoppinge locally, your milk, eggs and olives. Swimming and enjoying a fish meal down at the bay.
• You can grow most essential vegetables and greens such as tomatoes, peppers, onions, cucumber, parsley, mint in your garden. Having a few lemon, orange and olive trees would not be bad. If you like other fruits, from pear to apple, plums to peaches almost any tree will grow and feed you in your garden.
• Solar panels for electricity would be saving for you. Get your water from underground and filter it for high quality drinking water. Your lifestyle property will generate power, produce your food and even make you money after 5 years.
• You could get all the ingredients of a Guacamole from your garden.

You will be just about 20-30 minutes to main shops and markets. You can be at a nearby fish restaurant or a lovely, quiet beach in 10 minutes. In a few weeks, you will now which lady to get the milk from, who has the freshest eggs. You can learn how to make flat bread on your stove, and enjoy living naturally in Mersin.

• Interest in raw land increases every day. The pandemic of 2020-2022 shook the World and as people we realised we live only once.
• In Turkey there was an earthquake in 2023, which is just about 200 km to the East. Over 200.000 people migrated to Mersin permanently and the first thing they thought was ‘Let’s buy a land and put a simple home on it!’.
• We are discussing different investment pathways: land purchase, building your lifestyle property, landscaping its garden.
• Potential returns: once you have started having a harvest, it will get to ‘too much for us’ level in a few years. You could have your olives set in salty water, or get olive oil from them. Take what you need for a year and you can sell the rest and generate an income, greater every year.

Say you invested in and having lived in Mersin for some time, you would like to sell and move on. Your lifestyle property is a significantly impressive one and it will go at a decent price, getting you a good profit. At the end of the day any investment has an exit at a targeted time.

Öztürkmenli village is your new Eco-village for your lifestyle property

• Öztürkmenli is right up the hill from Susanoglu, an established holiday resort with hotels, and residential complexes. There are stores, supermarkets, basically all you need while you are on holiday or when you are settled in Mersin.
• Related to the topic of this article, Öztürkmenli is different to other villages of Silifke, Mersin. The borders of the settlement is way larger than the existing village. In other words, on most of the plots available, we are allowed to build up to 50% of the land area.
• This way you will have a sea view home and within the 50% allowance we can create an excellent, sustainable property and a lovely garden. Here is a sample land for sale for your lifestyle property.

With our simple building model, you will pay 40% of the turnkey price of the construction and the rest will be paid over the duration of the construction. Referring to the $500.000 mentioned in the beginning, let us see in numbers how much a sustainable lifestyle property costs in Öztürkmenli.

Your lifestyle property in numbers

Say you bought Land 1 from the sample ad above for $56.000 including the buying cost 5-6%. On 1.125 sqm we can easily build a 200 sqm 3-4 bedroom home with a swimming pool. The building and its exterior areas will cover 27-30% of the land and leave us with 800-850 sqm of a garden.

850 sqm can have maximum 30 trees on it, however you do not need this many. Say we place 4 olive, 2 avocado, 1 lemon, 1 orange, 1 apple, 1 cherry, 1 peach, 1 mango and 3 other type of trees on the land. this will create an excellent garden, a lot of shade when the trees reach 3-4 metres high.

Of course you may be after a bigger land and have the same building on it. Then, just the land price difference will be added to your total cost.

Building cost including landscaping and every detail is $1.100 per sqm. So you can say the total cost will be from $260.000 to $350.000.

Call us now to talk about why you could consider Mersin as a strong alternative to Antalya, Mugla or Istanbul.