Bakırcı Zenit Topkapı, 1+1 Apartment for Sale

A ground-floor 1+1 apartment in Bakırcı Zenit Topkapı, a new seven-block project in Zeytinburnu, Istanbul, at $205,000 with delivery in August 2028. The launch campaign prices two of these flats together at $410,000, which is what carries a purchase over the $400,000 that Turkish citizenship by investment asks for.

Topkapı has been the city's front door since the Byzantine walls went up beside it, and it is still one of the few addresses in Istanbul from which the historic peninsula is minutes away and the E-5 two. The metrobus is an eight-minute walk, the tram ten and the metro twelve; the E-5, the metro, the metrobus and Marmaray all meet inside the same kilometre. Five universities — Yıldız Teknik, İstinye, Biruni, Arel and Yeni Yüzyıl — are four or five minutes away, as are Koç Üniversitesi Hastanesi and Liv Hospital. Marmara Forum is nine minutes, Forum İstanbul thirteen.

The project itself is 462 units across seven blocks of nine and ten floors: 364 homes, offices, and 26 shops along the street front, so the ground floor reads as a small high street rather than a blank wall. Forty per cent of the site is landscaped — 6,788 m² of it — and all of that gathers in the courtyard: water features, a pool, a playground and a sports court, with the blocks set far enough apart not to take each other's light. Ceilings are three metres, balconies six to seven square metres, and the plans run from 1+1 to 4+1 with duplexes on the upper floors.

The flat is the ground-floor 1+1 type. It has 39.60 m² of net indoor space opening onto a private terrace of 18.57 m² and a balcony of 2.27 m² — 60.44 m² of net living area once you count them, 69.28 m² of sales gross area, and 87.85 m² once the share of the common areas is allocated to it. A living room with an open kitchen, one bedroom, a work nook and a bathroom: the plan is drawn for one or two people, which is exactly why it lets so easily. Take one to live in or to rent out, or take two and cross the citizenship threshold in a single transaction.

Underneath all of it sit 166 seismic isolators. The system is Menshin, the Japanese base isolation that Japan uses in its own hospitals, schools and high-rises: the isolators go between the building and the ground, so the structure moves independently of the soil instead of resisting it. Bakırcı sent every isolator to Italy for quality control before installation. The developer has been building since 1981 — 85 projects, more than 5,000 units and two million square metres delivered — and Bakırcı GYO is the property arm of a group of eleven companies.

Payment is 35% down with the balance over 24 months, and delivery is 8 August 2028. After the sale there is 1% VAT, a 1% handover fee and the notary's charge. Every image here is the developer's own architectural visualisation, and the plan is the 1+1 A-ZT type. We can arrange a viewing in Topkapı, or go through block and floor availability with you remotely.