Four-Bedroom Villa Above Tarabya Bay, Sarıyer

A house set into the hillside above Tarabya bay, one of the deep-water inlets on the upper Bosphorus where the summer villas of the nineteenth century were built. The property dates from 1998 and was substantially refurbished around 2017. Its principal asset is the aspect: the living floor, the main bedroom and the terraced garden all face south-west across the bay, so the water is in view from most of the house and the light lasts into the evening. Accommodation runs to four bedrooms, four bathrooms, a large kitchen-dining room and a sitting room with a fireplace, arranged over two main floors with a converted attic study above. The garden is terraced in three levels down the slope, with mature pines and a paved seating area at the lowest point. Garaging for two cars. Tarabya's marina and the fish restaurants along the bay are a few minutes downhill. As with all of upper Sarıyer, there is no rail connection and journeys south depend on the coast road, which is slow at peak times.