Israel real estate market

Israel is building homes, but not the homes Israelis need, Shoresh study warns

The study, published on Wednesday by Shoresh researcher Yael Mishly, argues that Israel’s housing market has a deeper problem than a simple shortage.

|BySARAH BEN-NUN
The French Hill – a project by Terra Real Estate and Rotshtein.
A view of the luxury apartments and tall buildings in downtown Jerusalem, on October 27, 2015. Most of the luxury apartments are owned by foreign residents or by Israelis who use them as vacation homes. The city with the largest number of phantom apartments is Jerusalem.

NYC Jewish-Syrian community buys two Jerusalem towers in deal worth over NIS 1 billion

SNIR Real Estate Agency CEO Nir Shmoul described the purchase as "the biggest deal in Israel's history."

|ByTZVI JASPER
Louis Marshall 2-4 Tel Aviv.

It’s all about the timing

Why now is the perfect window of opportunity for property acquisition.

|ByNERIA BARR, IN COOPERATION WITH BROSH GROUP
Construction is seen in Tel Aviv on May 7, 2023

Israel's real estate must change its ways if it wants to attract real global investors - opinion

The old norms, handshake deals, verbal promises, under-the-table fixes, political favors, and informal agreements may have been standard in the past, but they are barriers to the future.

|ByJARED ISAAC

Modernizing Safed

Bargains can still be found in Safed, but new developments are bringing prices up.

JUNE 26, 2014ByJOHN BENZAQUEN
Safed is gearing up to provide services for Bar-Ilan University’s new faculty of medicine

From the Ground Up: Once upon a time

The strange-- and true-- stories from the world of Real Estate in Jerusalem.

MAY 26, 2014ByRAPHI BLOCH
Baka real estate 311

The ‘wall mountain’

South Jerusalem’s Har Homa has evolved into one of the city’s most popular neighborhoods

APRIL 17, 2014ByJOHN BENZAQUEN
A panoramic view of the Har Homa neighborhood in south Jerusalem.

Buying in Beersheba

The Negev city has become an important hi-tech center with a dramatic influence on the city’s real estate.

APRIL 3, 2014ByJOHN BENZAQUEN
When Ben-Gurion University of the Negev was founded in 1969, Beersheba began to attract professionals and middle-class families, and the housing standards changed accordingly. Now, with the expected transfer of hi-tech personnel from the Center of the country to the Beersheba vicinity, it is changin

Moody's upgrades Israel's banking system to stable

Despite the overall improved outlook, several problems remain , including housing market, the shekel's appreciation, and political risks.

FEBRUARY 12, 2014ByNIV ELIS
Moody's corporate HQ