Israel real estate market

New wave of aliyah presents opportunities, challenges for real estate investors

With more than 4,000 North American olim forecast for 2026, Israel must address housing affordability, currency pressures, and community integration to make aliyah financially viable.

New immigrants from North America arrive on a special " Aliyah Flight" on behalf of Nefesh B'Nefesh organization, at Ben Gurion airport in central Israel on August 14, 2019.
Foreign workers in Israel

'We're better without Palestinian workers': Construction heads say foreigners better for Israel

The French Hill – a project by Terra Real Estate and Rotshtein.

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

 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


From the Ground Up: Not so secret agents

A good agent will identify a need and solve it or make sure that it is solved by the right person.

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For Jerusalem’s future, foreign real estate investment must be lauded

To truly change the image of our city, we need to push Jerusalem as a sound investment for all types of buyers.

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Modernizing Safed

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

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.

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The ‘wall mountain’

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

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.

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.

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