It affects everyone who buys or sells a property. With a new ordinance dated 02/18/2021, those who are not authorized cannot do so. Those who do this anyway will be punished for money laundering. This is a huge blow to pirate real estate agents and individuals who do not sell their own real estate! The Treasury Department’s Committee of Inquiry into Financial Crime made an important decision. If those who work without a license are caught, the finance department will pursue them for money laundering and tax evasion. If you want to find out whether a real estate agent has a license, you can use the real estate trading information system to make inquiries and notify about companies that operate without a certificate. (Ttbs.gtb.gov.tr) Registration certificates from real estate companies can be queried via this information system. Citizens can also file a complaint through this system.