Tel Aviv Real Estate Market Update | Why You Shouldn't Be Waiting on the Fence

Tel Aviv Real Estate Market Update | Why You Shouldn't Be Waiting on the Fence

It’s been a crazy summer here in the Tel Aviv real estate market. Our small city has been the center of the social protests that are occurring throughout Israel, with hundreds of thousands of people both marching in, and living on, the streets, protesting the high costs of housing and the overall cost of living. To make things more complicated for the Israeli housing market, journalists, economists, academics, developers, brokers, bankers, and bureaucrats alike continue to conjecture about the “bubble burst” that no one seems to understand, when, or even if, it exists.Read more

The Tel Aviv Real Estate Market: From a Broker’s Point of View | Israel Housing Market Update

The Tel Aviv Real Estate Market: From a Broker’s Point of View | Israel Housing Market Update

Anyone following the Israeli housing market over the past month has heard the hype. “The Israeli real estate market is a bubble!“, they cry, “people are camping in the streets, prices will surely fall next week!”, they write on their blogs and op-eds. Yet you have others who will tell you that the market is intact, prices won’t fall, and that, in fact, they will continue to rise.

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The Tel Aviv Real Estate Market: From a Broker's Point of View | Israel Housing Market Update

The Tel Aviv Real Estate Market: From a Broker's Point of View | Israel Housing Market Update

Anyone following the Israeli housing market over the past month has heard the hype. “The Israeli real estate market is a bubble!“, they cry, “people are camping in the streets, prices will surely fall next week!”, they write on their blogs and op-eds. Yet you have others who will tell you that the market is intact, prices won’t fall, and that, in fact, they will continue to rise.

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Will the Rothschild Boulevard Protests Create a Change in the Tel Aviv Real Estate Market?

Will the Rothschild Boulevard Protests Create a Change in the Tel Aviv Real Estate Market?

Anyone who has been in Tel Aviv over the last week has surely noticed the tent village that has sprouted up along Rothschild Boulevard in the heart of the city. What first started as a few students protesting the lack of cheap apartments for rent in the city has turned into a mini city of 100’s of families and individuals, with residents ranging from middle class families to current parliament members. Their demands? Solutions for affordable housing in the center of the city, a stop to the rise in home prices, and a reduction in the price of apartments for rent in Tel Aviv.Read more

What’s Happening in the Israeli Real Estate Market? | Perspectives on the Housing Market in Israel

What’s Happening in the Israeli Real Estate Market? | Perspectives on the Housing Market in Israel

Over the past month, the Israeli business press has been flooded with numerous articles and interviews concerning the state of the Israeli housing market. After seeing a steady increase in housing prices since 2007, at an average rate of 12% a year, prices rose over 15% in the last year, prompting many in the press and public to claim a bubble, due to these numbers being out of the norm for a developed country.

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