Three-Bedroom Apartment in Moda, Kadıköy

A generously sized third-floor apartment on one of the tree-lined residential streets in the middle of the Moda peninsula. Rooms here are larger than in newer construction: the main reception is a double room of some forty square metres with tall windows on two sides, and all three bedrooms take a double bed comfortably. The kitchen was replaced within the last five years; the bathrooms are serviceable but original, and a buyer would probably want to update them in due course. There is a lift, a caretaker, and a shared rear garden that the ground-floor flats use most but which is available to all residents. Moda's seafront promenade is about eight minutes on foot, the tea gardens and the ferry pier a little further. Kadıköy centre, with the M4 metro terminus and ferries to Eminönü, Karaköy and Beşiktaş, is a fifteen-minute walk or a short tram ride. This is the classic Moda purchase: space, quiet, and a neighbourhood people rarely leave once they have bought into it.