Secular group vies for tenders in new northern ultra-Orthodox city
Globes: Two men set up building association for nonreligious Israelis to purchase NIS 650,000 units in Harish
View ArticleNetanyahu decried for ‘populist’ move to promote Kahlon
Outgoing minister acknowledges timing doesn’t ‘look pretty'; the prime minister is ‘feeling the heat,’ charges Shas’s Aryeh Deri
View ArticleHousing Ministry: Home prices still rising fast
Globes: New home prices rose 6% between 2012 and 2013
View ArticleHousing Ministry okays 1,700 new apartments over Green Line
Move likely to increase tension between Jewish Home party, which opposes withdrawal, and chief peace negotiator Livni
View ArticleHelp when the rent is too damn high
Young residents of Tel Aviv have a new resource for navigating the city’s notoriously tough housing market
View ArticleTax on empty ‘ghost’ apartments to double
Measure meant to push absentee owners to rent out properties that sit unused most of the year, creating empty neighborhoods
View ArticleSettlement construction more than doubled in 2013
Opposition blasts Netanyahu as new data emerges ahead of prime minister’s meeting with Obama
View ArticleCabinet okays tax-free homes for first-time buyers
Tax breaks, ‘target prices’ approved in effort to reduce housing costs for young families; Bank of Israel governor unimpressed
View ArticleLapid resolute on housing plan: ‘Let me do my work’
Finance minister defends initiative to drop VAT on first homes, calls his critics ‘interested parties’
View ArticleSkepticism greets East Jerusalem Arab housing plan
While some welcome mayor’s effort to support Arab needs, critics say initiative is only a fig leaf for a much wider problem
View ArticleIsrael to inject NIS 660m into minority communities
Cabinet okays improvements to transportation infrastructure and industrial zones in Arab towns, tourism development in Nazareth
View ArticleKahlon announces plan to lower housing prices
Finance minister focuses on deregulation, speeding up construction and disincentivizing property investment
View ArticleMinister suspends public housing evictions
Yoav Galant ‘wants to learn and examine the issue’ over the next few weeks, says official
View ArticleKahlon hails deal to build 20,000 homes in Beersheba
Finance minister says ‘historic agreement’ will help solve housing crisis, Globes reports
View ArticleKahlon backs proposal to expel families of terrorists
Finance minister says controversial move will deter terror, vows to oppose de-funding artists who are ‘disloyal’ to the state
View ArticleA deeper political agenda behind Israel’s soaring housing market?
Op-ed: Tackling rocketing house prices with new taxes and various harebrained schemes, the government seems to be ignoring the obvious solution: free up more land. Or has the goal all along been to...
View ArticleInvestors bailing out of new properties market — report
Purchases of new homes by investors down by a third over year, sales up by a quarter since December -- Finance Ministry
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State’s inability to fix the housing crisis leaves many out in the cold
The spike in real estate prices has made millionaires out of homeowners, while renters suffer; solutions exist, but nothing scares politicians more than taxing wealthy voters
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Green bodies slam decision to extend mandate of fast-track planning committee
Opponents say top-down Committee for Preferred Housing Sites builds on too much open space, fails to construct basic infrastructure needed by new homes
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Israeli housing prices have nearly doubled in a decade, with no signs of slowing
Prices have risen by over 12% so far in 2021, and are only set to soar further without real government-initiated solutions, researchers say
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