Jerusalem real estate

Jerusalem's Rehavia neighborhood. (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Jerusalem, Tel Aviv at odds over who pays for future benefits of urban renewal

Municipalities’ appeals committees take opposite views on who foots the bill for extra value on properties in areas zoned for TAMA 38 development

A couple looks at real estate ads in the coastal city of Netanya, July 29, 2015. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

As agent fees swell with home prices, a platform turns that bonus cash into charity

By Danielle Nagler

A view of Jerusalem. (Liran Sokolovski Finzi via iStock by Getty Images)

Housing snapshot: Apartment sales and rentals across Israel

By Danielle Nagler

Older and newer buildings seen in Netanya in 2020. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

It’s not Boardwalk or Park Place, but NIS 300,000 puts you in Israel’s property game

By Danielle Nagler

September 23, 2022, 10:18 am

It’s not Boardwalk or Park Place, but NIS 300,000 puts you in Israel’s property game

Part 1 of a Times of Israel series examining what a down payment of about $90,000 can get homebuyers looking to climb the nation’s steep real estate ladder

By Danielle Nagler

September 16, 2022, 12:09 am

Housing snapshot: Apartment sales and rentals across Israel

Our regular behind-the-scenes feature on what is going on in Israel’s housing market right now

By Danielle Nagler

September 11, 2022, 8:12 pm

As agent fees swell with home prices, a platform turns that bonus cash into charity

Utilizing a unique partnership scheme, Social Nadlan seeks to deliver some good from the extra money being made off skyrocketing real estate prices

By Danielle Nagler

September 9, 2022, 10:45 am

Jerusalem, Tel Aviv at odds over who pays for future benefits of urban renewal

Municipalities’ appeals committees take opposite views on who foots the bill for extra value on properties in areas zoned for TAMA 38 development

By Danielle Nagler

A Jerusalem bedrrom designed by Gittie Perl. (Elad Gonen for gp-interiors)

August 19, 2022, 6:35 am

Luxury living: Design guru plans dream homes for Orthodox clientele in Jerusalem

Gittie Perl has become the go-to designer for observant Jewish households with means that are looking to call the capital home

By Danielle Nagler

A quiet street in Ramat Hasharon. Illustrative. (Verbaska_studio via iStock by Getty Images)

August 18, 2022, 9:34 pm

Housing snapshot: 9 apartments and houses recently sold across Israel

Our regular behind-the-scenes look at properties bought and sold nationwide

By Danielle Nagler

A construction site for new housing in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba on July 28, 2022. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

August 15, 2022, 11:58 pm

Inflation and housing prices continue to climb, breaking new records

July increase in consumer price index brings Israel’s yearly inflation rate to 5.2%; housing prices jump by 17.8%, the highest in over a decade

By Danielle Nagler

New construction of residential apartments in Ashkelon, January 19, 2019. (chert61 via iStock by Getty Images)

August 15, 2022, 4:08 pm

New homes sales in Israel fall, as mortgage-borrowing also down

New Central Bureau of Statistics report suggests property outside central in-demand towns and cities is selling the fastest

By Danielle Nagler

Magic Kass Interior (courtesy Magic Kass)

August 5, 2022, 5:37 am

They’ve cracked it: Israeli wonderland Magic Kass draws thousands per day

Israeli development group behind nation’s largest indoor amusement park has big real estate plans for West Bank settlement’s industrial area

By Danielle Nagler

View of the construction site for a new building, in Jerusalem, August 31, 2021. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

July 27, 2022, 7:30 pm

Second housing lottery closes, again massively oversubscribed

Around 112,000 households register to win the chance to buy 5,499 discounted apartments nationwide

By Danielle Nagler

A plane flies above an apartment building in Tel Aviv. (Emmanuel Dunand/AFP)

July 16, 2022, 10:07 am

Israeli housing prices continue to break records, up 15.9% over last year

Continued increases across the country come despite recent slowdown in sales and a large-scale government-subsidized housing project

By Danielle Nagler

An aerial view of a construction site in Netanya during a cloudy sunrise, March 2019. (edb3_16 via iStock by Getty Images)

July 14, 2022, 7:45 pm

Data on sales of new homes shows Netanya is Israel’s fastest-growing city

Meanwhile, evidence is mounting that fewer people are buying homes in today’s market, although building continues apace

By Danielle Nagler

Construction of new residential buildings in the northern Israeli city of Harish, on January 15, 2019. (Flash90)

June 24, 2022, 6:10 am

Housing snapshot: 10 apartments and houses recently sold across Israel

Our regular behind-the-scenes look at properties purchased nationwide

By Danielle Nagler

An artificial pond in a public park in Beersheba. (Roman Mykhalchuk via iStock by Getty Images)

May 26, 2022, 6:31 pm

Housing snapshot: 10 apartments and houses recently sold across Israel

A behind-the-scenes look at some of the properties that have changed hands so far this year

By Danielle Nagler

A view of the ultra-Orthodox-majority city of Bnei Brak, August 06, 2019. (Gili Yaari / Flash90)

May 24, 2022, 9:48 am

Looking inward: In Israeli cities, ‘densification’ seen as answer to housing demand

‘Concentrated dispersion’ – the development of existing residential areas and less urban sprawl – adopted as way forward for building across Israel

By Danielle Nagler