Brand Vadi Serenita 8+1

Serenita is the 8+1 duplex at Brand Vadi İstanbul — 634 m² in Büyükçekmece on the European side. Its plot runs from 910 to 1,070 m², with a 41.70 m² pool and a loggia of its own.

The 8+1 in the name counts rooms, not bedrooms, and the plan is worth reading before you picture it. Upstairs are four bedrooms and the master, with their bathrooms and a laundry room. Downstairs, off a 58 m² salon and a 33.70 m² kitchen, are a guest room with its own bathroom, a staff room with its own bathroom, and two multi-purpose rooms that most owners use as a study and a playroom. A 41 m² terrace opens onto the pool and the garage and store are at lower level. Net floor area is 482.30 m².

Brand Vadi İstanbul is 225 detached villas on 287,000 m², built by EMS Yapı, and every one of them has its own pool and its own garden. Residents share an indoor pool, a sauna, a Turkish hammam and a fitness centre, a cinema room, an art centre and a meeting room, children's playgrounds, basketball, football and tennis courts, a pond, and commercial units with a Macro Center, restaurants, cafés and a pharmacy. Security is on camera 24 hours. Each villa runs on a smart home system.

The location, in minutes: TEM 5, the E-5 15, Istanbul Airport 30. ALKEV is 2 minutes away, İstanbul Üniversitesi and Kültür Koleji 5, Beykent 10, Community School 10, MEV 8. Büyükçekmece Marina is 10 and so is Akbatı, Liv Hospital 15, Medicana International 20, Mall of Istanbul 30.

Three things worth knowing before you fly out. The show villa in these photographs is single storey and Serenita is not — the finishes are the project's, the layout is not; the floor plans at the end of this gallery are Serenita's own. This is the outer European side of the city, and those minutes are measured to motorways, schools and hospitals rather than to the old town. And the aerial photographs are unretouched: 225 villas on 287,000 m² means detached inside a planned street grid.

The figures above are the developer's list prices and they exclude VAT, title deed, delivery and notary costs, which the price sheet states in its own footnote. We will put the full cost in writing before you commit to anything.