One of the most important questions that comes to the minds of property owners whose real estate has been decided to be expropriated by public institutions and organizations is how long the expropriation process will take. People who do not have much information on the subject think that expropriation cases will take a long time because they are a state process. However, in practice, the situation is not at all as it seems.
Since expropriation cases are heard in Civil Courts of First Instance and an estimate of the duration is made taking into account the workload of the courts, the process takes an average of 10-12 months to complete. As expropriation cases are subject to summary proceedings, they will be concluded within this period due to the discovery and expert witness stages.
If the immovable property is not registered to more than one person and the procedures related to the notifications sent by the court are completed on time, the case will be concluded within an average of 1 year.
The same situation applies to urgent expropriation cases. No matter how urgently the relevant public institution includes the transactions to be carried out in the public interest within the scope of expropriation, the lawsuit process will be completed in approximately the same period of time.
Another important issue in expropriation cases is the agreement made with the owner of the immovable property. If the owner of the immovable property does not like the price offered to them for the transfer of the immovable property, they can stop the process by filing a lawsuit for the cancellation of the expropriation. Since this lawsuit, which will continue in the Civil Court of First Instance, will take approximately 1 month, your case will be concluded within 13 months at the latest.