Is Buying New the Way to Go in Tel Aviv?

Is Buying New the Way to Go in Tel Aviv?

As both a new comer or a veteran to the Tel Aviv real estate market, you may have found yourself asking yourself this very question. In a market where the newest and most modern apartments fetch the highest prices, way above market value, many home buyers and investors find themselves willing to wait the 2 to 3 years that many new projects require until you’re able to call your new home, “home”. Just as many, of course, find it difficult to justify the wait time, for both practical and market reasons.Read more

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

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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Tel Avivians Against Historic Preservation?

Tel Avivians Against Historic Preservation?

Next week Tel Avivians will celebrate “White Night”, the anniversary of UNESCO’s bestowing of the honor of a UN World Heritage Site onto Tel Aviv’s White City. The White City, a collection of over 4000 Bauhaus, Eclectic, and International Style buildings dating from the city’s birth in 1909 to the end of the 1930’s, is the world foremost site of the Bauhaus architectural style, the vast majority of the school being destroyed by the Nazis throughout the 1930’s and 1940’s.

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There ARE High Return Yields in the Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area, and on the Beach!

There ARE High Return Yields in the Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area, and on the Beach!

While we all know that the days of high yield returns in Central Tel Aviv for the average investor have passed, there are still some viable options to make in excess of 3.5% in areas farther afield in Jaffa and Herzliya. An investor can expect an average return of 2.5 – 3% in Tel Aviv. Unfortunately, sellers have already calculated the maximum the property could ever possibly be worth and take this out on the buyers. Fortunately, there are other options out there.

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