Housing prices

Housing costs top young Israelis’ election concerns, security trails far behind - poll

A new Israel 2050 survey published Wednesday night found that economic and social issues, led by housing affordability, top young voters' priorities ahead of the elections.

View of the Southern Israeli city of Beer Sheva, as it seen from Dudaim landfills, in southern Israel on January 22, 2022.
Housing Market.

Summer demand pushes prices up 0.3%, including rent, transportation costs, statistics bureau says

Apartment prices continue to fall.

CBS: Apartment prices in sharp decline, rent skyrockets

Eldad Nitzan.

Contractors save, workers pay: The new reform in the construction industry


Amid interest rate increase: Mortgage returns, overdraft spike by hundreds

Bank of Israel's 0.75% interest rate increase is the highest in the last 20 years. Here's what it means and why it's facing backlash.

 The Bank of Israel building is seen in Jerusalem June 16, 2020. Picture taken June 16, 2020.

BOI’s interest rate increase will cause problems for the housing market – experts

Following the rise of the Bank of Israel’s interest rate, experts predict trouble for the future of Israel’s real estate economy.

An Israeli flag flutters outside the Bank of Israel building in Jerusalem

Corruption, money laundering drive red-hot Baghdad property market

“Some areas are more expensive than Dubai and London,” real estate broker Mohsen al-Hamid said.

An agent talks to a client at a real estate office in Baghdad September 10, 2008.

Four reasons to believe Israel’s inflation has peaked

Inflation in Israel is still considerably lower than in other developed countries. Nevertheless, July’s inflation figure came as an unpleasant surprise.

 Inflation (Illustrative).

Tenants, beware! These are the crazy clauses you might find in rental contracts

If you thought that rent is expensive in Israel – and the Tel Aviv area in particular – just wait until you see some of the insane clauses some apartment owners sneak into their contracts.

 View of office and apartment highrise buildings in central Tel Aviv, on November 27, 2017

What can the government do to decrease housing costs? - analysis

With inflation on the rise in Israel, what actions could be made by the government in order to stabilize the rapidly rising cost of housing?

 View of a costruction site in the central Israeli city of Be'er Ya'akov, February 22, 2022.

Israel's periphery communities at greatest building collapse, housing danger - opinion

The concept that what is good for the Center is also good for the periphery is fundamentally incorrect.

 DEMONSTRATORS SET UP tents across from the Knesset, to protest soaring housing prices, last week. One of the signs reads: ‘We all deserve a home.’

Mortgage market mayhem: Public owes banks NIS 505 billion

High-interest rates haven’t cooled the market. In June, the public received mortgage loans amounting to NIS 11.9 billion, an increase of 2.5% over June 2021.

 THE BANK of Israel headquarters in Jerusalem.

Lapid: Gas prices to decrease in August, cheap retail is on its way

The Prime Minister has announced a decline in the price of gasoline after a period of repeated increases as part of an extensive effort to decrease the cost of living

 Illustration image of a man fueling his car at a gas station, in Jerusalem, on June 28, 2022.

Lapid should cut down the cost of living in Israel - editorial

As we approach another election, it seems increasingly apparent that the cost of living has become a major campaign issue, if not the most important one.

 Prime Minister Yair Lapid at Sunday's cabinet meeting, July 17, 2022.