Nidapark İstinye Koru

A 2+1 apartment in the Koru stage of Nidapark İstinye, on the İstinye hillside in Sarıyer, Istanbul, at $1,050,000. It measures 165 m² gross and 115 m² net, with an open kitchen, three bathrooms and a terrace that looks over the gardens and the pool rather than onto the block opposite.

The flat opens all at once from the door. The living room takes the full depth of the plan and is glazed on two sides, and the kitchen stands at the end of it as a handleless white U, its stone worktop carrying on up into a bronze mirror splashback that gives the daylight back a second time. Herringbone oak runs under the sitting and dining area and large-format grey marble under the kitchen and the hall, so the two ends of one room read as two places without a wall being spent to say so. Hob, ovens and extractor are already fitted, and so are the ducted air conditioning and the recessed lighting.

Both bedrooms are laid in wide oak boards and take a window that runs to the floor. The principal one has its own bathroom and a dressing corridor lined with mirrored wardrobes; the third bathroom is what keeps a two-bedroom plan from ever queueing. All three are finished in marble, with walk-in glass showers, wall-hung sanitaryware and stone vanity tops.

The terrace is the part the photographs carry least well. It runs the whole length of the living room behind a glass balustrade, and what it looks at is the Koru courtyard: trees, cut lawn, a stone path and the outdoor pool a few floors below. Koru is the quietest of the three stages Nidapark İstinye is built in — 12 blocks and 134 homes out of the project's 56 blocks and 522 homes — and, like Panorama and Vadi, it keeps a clubhouse of its own with an indoor pool, a gym and covered parking. Tahincioğlu Gayrimenkul held the whole 73,000 m² site low-rise and turned some 47,500 m² of it into park, which is why this terrace looks at green rather than glass.

İstinye Park is on the next hillside, the Levent and Maslak offices a short drive up the ridge, and the Bosphorus downhill at İstinye's marina; the Fatih Sultan Mehmet bridge reaches the Asian side without crossing the city. At $1,050,000 the purchase sits comfortably above the $400,000 that Turkish citizenship by investment asks for. The apartment is finished and empty, and every frame here is of this home rather than a show flat — so it can be seen this week. Tell us the day that suits you and we will arrange the viewing.