732 summer castles: the incredible real estate project that is today a ghost town

What should be a dream complex, product of a real estate project, is currently a ghost town, consisting of hundreds of totally empty castles. It is about Burj al Babas, a real estate project with small castles like houses fallen into oblivion.

It is surrounded by mountains and fairytale-like landscapes. It is located near the village of Mudurm, halfway between Istanbul and Ankara. Properties resembling castles were sold as luxury homes until the construction of the Sarot property collapsed in 2018;

Work began in 2014 with the idea of ​​selling them as holiday homes. The plans also included Turkish baths and an entertainment complex. But as Mezher Yerdelen (vice president of Sarot Property) says at the agency AFP only a few houses were sold and several investors withdrew from the project. of the 732 houses planned, the company finished 587 Today, his debt is 23 million euros.

With hundreds of mansions that seem to come out of a pattern or unreal design, the castles have white terraces and pointed towers that evoke European architecture or fancy castles.

The Burj al Babas complex, which promised to build 732 large cottages and a shopping center, has left a multitude of properties that draw the curious and curious to know the abandoned Disney-style castles.

The construction company had sold 351 homes valued at between $ 400,000 and $ 500,000 each, mainly to Gulf investors. However, many of these trades were canceled when 80% of the market was already built, due to falling oil prices and the negative impact of construction price fluctuations in Turkey.

Today, the dream of the Turkish real estate complex has not come to fruition. Far away, the idea of ​​the fairy tale was more like the nightmare of a story of terror. Hundreds of uninhabited castles await silence, in a surreal and forgotten ghost town.