During an urban renewal conference in Jerusalem this month, Mayor Moshe Leon revealed plans to expand construction in the city to 10,000 apartments a year in order to attract the secular and national religious sectors. Approximately 33,000 apartments in major urban renewal projects are in various stages of planning, but only 500 are already under...

Earlier this month, Jaffa, Lod, Haifa, and other mixed Jewish-Arab cities across Israel saw violent clashes between local Jewish and Arab residents that left dozens injured. Now that the riots are over, the housing market may have a hard time recovering. In Lod, however, where the worst violence took place, some interested buyers may actually...

In which areas are the rental yields high? How can I find a good tenant? Which expenses are the tenants expected to cover, and which are the responsibility of the landlord? How much is property tax? These are the questions that should be addressed when seeking to make a profitable return on your real estate...

The city of Ramle, located in central Israel, suffered for many years from a poor reputation which drove away quality residents and investors. In recent years, that trend has begun to change with the construction of thousands of new apartments which have attracted a different population. The city also has a large supply of apartments...

The dollar-shekel rate reached a historic low last week. Most foreigners automatically assume that this will make it more difficult to buy a home in Israel, yet there are several ways to reduce the impact of the exchange rate on a property purchase. Those who buy a new property now can pay just 20% of...

A recent analysis found that the vast majority of urban renewal projects in Israel are planned and implemented only in the center of the country — in Tel Aviv and its neighboring cities, where land values justify undertaking such projects. The city expected to have the most extensive urban renewal is Bat Yam, which is...

Money is cheap, investment buyers are back, and construction rates are steadily declining. All signs indicate that 2021 will be a year of continued rising home prices in Israel, unless the Covid-19 pandemic changes everything, once again. Anyone who has followed the Israel real estate scene in recent years knows that the residential market is...

Going to the polls for the fourth time in two years will likely have a significant impact on the Israeli residential real estate market. The political instability increases the chances that the housing prices will continue to rise while making it more difficult than usual for the government to respond. Additionally, a major reform that...

The troubling combination of a shortage of building plots and a rapidly increasing population has led to a steady rise in the number of urban renewal projects in Israel over the past decade. Today, 20% of all new residential projects in Israel are either the demolition of old structures followed by new construction in its...

The increase, in recent years, in fraud and deception in the selling of agricultural land in Israel that is in the process of being “thawed”, or rezoned, for development has given the agricultural land market a bad name. However, while investing in this speculative market comes with high risk, it also holds great potential for...