Bosphorus-Front Penthouse in Bebek, Beşiktaş

A top-floor apartment occupying the full width of a small modern building on the slope above Bebek bay. The living space runs the length of the water-facing elevation, with floor-to-ceiling glazing opening onto a terrace of roughly forty square metres that looks directly down the Bosphorus. Because the building steps down the hill, nothing stands between the terrace and the water. Three bedrooms sit along the quieter rear elevation, the principal one with its own bathroom and dressing area. The kitchen is separate rather than open-plan, which is common in this segment of the market and keeps cooking smells out of the reception rooms. Two parking spaces in the basement garage are included, along with a storage room. Bebek's waterfront cafés, bakeries and the small park are a walk of a few minutes downhill, though the return is genuinely steep. This is the most expensive category of property we list, and buyers should expect service charges in a building of this specification to be correspondingly high.