Apartment Rents in Famagusta & İskele/Long Beach 2026

A 1+1 apartment in Famagusta asks a median of about £398 a month and a 2+1 about £500, while İskele/Long Beach 1+1s ask about £549 — as of 231 listings sampled on 19 October 2026. Landlords here price mostly in pounds, but not only: about a third of the Famagusta sample was in US dollars and nearly a quarter of İskele’s in euros. These are asking rents, not signed contracts, and this page covers renting only; buying property is a separate, sensitive subject we keep to a neutral overview in buying property in North Cyprus.

What do apartments rent for in Famagusta and İskele in October 2026?

As of 19 October 2026, Famagusta asking rents run from about £300 for a studio or small 1+1 to £550 for a typical 3+1, with İskele/Long Beach a step higher for every size. The table shows each size’s range, median and sample count, with dollar, euro and lira listings converted to pounds:

Area	Size	Listings	Range (£ equivalent)	Median	Median ~EUR
Famagusta	1+0 studio	6	£300–450	~£356	~€422
Famagusta	1+1	17	£300–500	~£398	~€472
Famagusta	2+1	87	£338–1,200	£500	~€592
Famagusta	3+1 (and 3+2)	30	£400–1,126	£550	~€652
İskele / Long Beach	1+0 studio	21	£300–450	£380	~€450
İskele / Long Beach	1+1	28	£399–800	~£549	~€650
İskele / Long Beach	2+1	35	£400–1,250	~£760	~€900
İskele / Long Beach	3+1	4	£650–1,690	too few	—

The middle half of Famagusta 2+1s asked £413–550, so the £1,200 top end is a handful of large central flats, not the norm. Inside İskele, the Long Beach strip alone had a 2+1 median of £650 (22 listings); the higher district median comes from Boğaz, where pound-priced 2+1s asked £950–1,200.

By Famagusta neighbourhood, across all sizes, as of 19 October 2026:

Famagusta neighbourhood	Listings	Range (£ equivalent)	Median
Gülseren	14	£300–600	~£535
Çanakkale / Sakarya (EMU line)	42	£338–600	£450
Karakol / Salamis	21	£300–600	£400
Tuzla / Baykal / Yeniboğaziçi	23	£380–700	£550
Centre	34	£316–1,200	£470

Methodology, stated plainly: the sample is the five most recently updated pages of 101evler’s Famagusta flats-to-rent list (1,054 live listings that day) and three pages of its İskele list (1,211), with duplicates removed and 8 listings left out whose prices were clearly annual or mis-keyed. Conversions use the KKTC Central Bank rate of 17–19 October 2026 (£1 ≈ 65.86 TL, €1 ≈ 55.59 TL, $1 ≈ 49.42 TL). The neighbourhood bands in the June 2026 edition came from a smaller portal that showed no active Famagusta listings in October, so they have been replaced rather than carried over; no listing in the sample was tagged Maraş, so that band is gone too. The full dataset is published at /data/guides/apartment-rents-famagusta-iskele.csv.

Which currency are North Cyprus rents quoted in?

Mostly pounds sterling, increasingly US dollars in Famagusta, and pounds or euros in İskele: of 141 Famagusta listings sampled on 19 October 2026, 90 were in GBP, 46 in USD, 4 in Turkish lira and 1 in euros; of 90 İskele listings, 69 were in GBP and 21 in EUR. Landlords price in hard currency to hold value against lira inflation. The practical consequences for a tenant: your rent is stable in the listing’s currency while your income may not be; your bills — electricity, water, internet — stay lira-priced, so a long-stayer runs a genuine multi-currency budget. Read the currency symbol before comparing two flats: at October 2026 rates a $500 listing is about £375, roughly £125 less than a £500 one. How to move money between currencies without losing a margin at every step is the currency and cards guide’s territory.

How do Famagusta and İskele/Long Beach differ for renters?

Famagusta is a student market and İskele/Long Beach a new-build seafront market, and the price gap shows it: as of October 2026 the Famagusta 1+1 median sat near £398 against about £549 in İskele. Famagusta’s demand cycles with the university calendar — the EMU-line neighbourhoods of Çanakkale and Sakarya fill in September, landlords expect long commitments, and the cheaper bands belong to older walk-up stock. İskele/Long Beach supply is dominated by recent resort-style complexes — furnished units, pools, gyms — which is why its 1+1 median sits roughly £150 above Famagusta’s and why euro-quoted investor units appear there. As an observation: the Long Beach product is closer to a serviced-apartment lifestyle, the Famagusta product to a conventional town tenancy — our Long Beach area guide covers what living on that strip is actually like.

What are the practical mechanics of renting in North Cyprus?

Standard terms, per local guides and 2024–2026 reporting: deposit of 1–2 months’ rent, about one month as agent commission where an agent is involved, and contracts running a 6–12 month minimum. The student market plays harder: paying 6–12 months in advance is a common landlord expectation around EMU, and 2024 press reporting cited furnished 2+1s in Famagusta topping £8,000 a year paid annually — year-stamp that as 2024 reporting, but the advance-payment convention itself persists. No agency recommendations here by design; whichever portal or agent you use, verify who actually holds the deposit and get the contract’s currency, term and advance schedule in writing.

How fast are rents rising in North Cyprus in 2026?

Faster than prices in general: according to the TRNC Statistical Institute, actual rents rose 47.64% in the year to September 2026, against 35.02% for the consumer price index as a whole, and the average rent it records reached 29,542.91 TL that month — about £449 at the October 2026 rate. Measured in hard currency the rise is smaller: Haber Kıbrıs, working from the institute’s data on 6 July 2026, put the June 2025–June 2026 increase at 47% in lira but 31% in pounds (£345 to £450) and 29% in euros. The same report cited 101evler’s May 2026 market report at an average of £6.6 per m² across North Cyprus. For longer context, the Q1 2024 101evler/Reidin index had apartment rents +135% versus December 2021, with Famagusta at £5.52 per m² — dated, but it shows the direction has held for years.

What does the rent line mean for a whole budget?

A worked example at October 2026 asking rents: a couple in a Long Beach 1+1 at the strip’s median of about £549 a month pays rent in pounds or euros and nearly everything else in lira — electricity, fibre internet and groceries on top. Rent is usually the largest single line, which is why the neighbourhood and currency choices in the tables above move a monthly budget more than any other decision. The full stack — utilities, groceries, mobile and the eating-out line — is priced in the cost of living guide, which keeps one rent row and points back here for the bands.

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