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2016-07-11T17:21:00.001+03:00

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Getting Mark Zuckerberg to buy a Tel Aviv penthouse

2014-11-30T18:49:00.000+02:00

The record? A $35 million penthouse Does that sound over the top? There are a lot of properties in Israel changing hands at far higher prices than that. The biggest residential property deal in Israeli history, completed just this year, was Canadian businessman Sylvan Adams’ purchase of a penthouse at 10 Herbert Samuel Street on the Tel Aviv waterfront for 120 million shekels, or nearly $35 million. His new home is a huge duplex on the top two floors of a 21-story tower, with 1,300 square meters in floor space (including 300 square meters of balconies)

IMF warns of real estate bubble

2014-03-09T23:48:00.001+02:00

IMF: Israel's housing market is overpriced and a sharp correction will cause recession. The IMF implies in its annual report on Israel, published yesterday, that there is a real estate bubble in the country. It says that home prices are now 25% above their equilibrium value, after rising 80% in the past six years since 2007. Home prices relative to income and home prices relative to rents are 26% and 22% above the long-term level.

Tel Aviv real estate property launches the future

2013-04-16T13:29:00.000+03:00

“Tel Aviv has a multiplicity of atmospheres that create a type of city that you feel relaxed to live in,” he said. “It is friendly, welcoming, and comfortable.” Israel is the only country in the Middle East that protects homosexuals with anti-discrimination laws, and Tel Aviv was named the world’s “Best Gay City” of 2011 in an international competition conducted by American Airlines. JNS.org asked Huldai to respond to the claim by Israel’s critics that the country seeks to “pink-wash” its problems with the Palestinians by touting its acceptance of the gay community. “Those who say anything against Tel Aviv’s policies regarding the gay community don’t understand reality… We did a lot to embrace the community—the city sponsors a pride parade and centers for young people,” Huldai said. “We are taking care of the all of the parts of the city, whether it’s the haredi community, the Masorti (the equivalent of the Jewish Conservative denomination in the U.S.) group, or foreign workers,” he added. “All are fully participating, all are part of Tel Aviv.

2013-04-08T17:04:00.002+03:00

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2013-04-08T16:34:00.000+03:00

2013-04-08T14:56:00.001+03:00

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Buying a Resort Room in the sea of Galilee by foreign investors - May 2013

2013-04-08T14:39:00.004+03:00

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Bar Refaeli Snags Tel Aviv Apartment for Brother

2013-02-07T17:09:00.002+02:00

Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli has purchased a swank Tel Aviv apartment for her 26 year-old brother, Dor, according to a report by Globes online business magazine. The NIS 2.5 million 72-square meter two bedroom apartment is a property in the Midtown project on Menachem Begin Road in Tel Aviv. The 50 storey building is still under construction.

Blackstone to Buy Stake in 40 U.S. Shopping Centers

2013-02-07T17:06:00.000+02:00

Blackstone, based in New York, is adding retail properties as rents and occupancies rise. Shopping-center vacancies dropped to 10.7 percent in the fourth quarter from 10.8 percent in the previous three months and 11 percent a year earlier, according to New York-based data provider Reis Inc. Effective rents, or what’s paid after any landlord discounts, averaged $16.59 a square foot, up from $16.51 a year earlier.

House Prices and Property Demand Rising in Israel

2013-01-19T10:46:00.002+02:00

Better than expected economic growth is fueling a rise in house prices and stronger property demand in Israel these days. Despite daily fears of violence and security threats from area militia groups, the real estate markets in the 8,500-square-mile Middle East country are prospering, according to various media and analyst reports. Still, there is a shortage of affordable housing while rents in established neighborhoods are rising. Thriving real estate markets are seen in the Northern district, Qrayot Haifa and Jerusalem. Global Property Guide, published in Bristol, England, notes third-quarter growth in the Northern district was 4.8%; Qrayot Haifa, 2.5%; and Jerusalem, 2.7%. Israelis are spending more on consumer goods at the same time as the country's export business is growing. Those two factors are considered crucial to the real estate market health in the small country. With an estimated population of only eight million, Israel, in land size, is just a little smaller than New Jersey's 8,700-square-miles. According to Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), the average price of owner-occupied residences rose by 2.56% to ILS 1,132,000 (US $299,086), after a year-on-year rise of just 1.11% in the second quarter, and a decline of 1.56% in the first quarter of this year. One Israeli New Shekel (ILS) equals 27 cents U.S.

Israelis snapping up homes in town planned for ultra-Orthodox

2012-11-12T09:41:00.000+02:00

It's a chilly evening in the Sharon region moshav of Porat. Hemi Bar-Or and Noam Hillel are meeting with real estate investors at someone's home. The two are leaders of the campaign against ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) Harish, the city planned for Wadi Ara, and they're trying to persuade non-Haredim to buy there. Neither is technically a real estate professional: Bar-Or is an artist, and Hillel works in high tech, but over the past several years they've become excellent salesmen. After speaking with hundreds of people interested in buying into Harish, they know exactly what's motivating the masses: The low prices there. "In Afula, homes are more expensive and it's also farther north. There's no reason that prices in Harish won't become as least as high as those in Afula," says Bar-Or. "The next wave of tenders will pull up prices because there will already be an urban bloc." Hillel and Bar-Or explain why Harish is like Modi'in - Israel's last planned city - and like every other missed opportunity in Israel's real estate scene. They note that most people didn't buy homes in Caesarea or Shoham before prices shot up there. All the people present at that meeting seem to have done their homework, and all are convinced that Harish is a good buy. It seems like Bar-Or and Hillel can check off another 10 homes sold. "These are very attractive prices for such apartments - when the cost per 100 meters of construction, not counting land costs, can reach NIS 450,000 nowadays, and development fees are NIS 70,000," says Moshe, who is hosting the Porat event. "The question is who'll move into the neighborhood. If it's half Haredi and half non-Haredi that's just fine, but if it's more than half Haredi, then that's not as good because of the poor quality of construction in that community."

Fischer Seen Responsible Adult in Israeli Home Bubble: Mortgages

2012-11-06T14:25:00.000+02:00

The central bank announced home loan limits this week while at the same time unexpectedly reducing the benchmark rate to the lowest in 22 months. The directives set a maximum loan-to-value for the first time, restricting mortgages to 50 percent for investors, 75 percent for those who have never purchased a home before and 70 percent for everyone else. “There is a problem with the real estate market, it can’t be ignored,” Yaniv Pagot, chief strategist at the Ramat Gan- based Ayalon Group Ltd., said by telephone. “The government is in a sort of “end of school” atmosphere. The Bank of Israel, as the responsible adult, will have to let out the hot air until the government solves the problem by increasing supply.” Fischer’s steps to slow home price growth come three weeks after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called early elections amid a budget deadlock, caused in part by the government’s inability to fund social-welfare spending promised after consumer protests over spiraling housing and food prices. At the same time, the low rates have fuelled ballooning mortgage debt, raising central bank concerns about the stability of banks.

The silent killer of Israel's real estate market

2012-09-25T11:58:00.000+02:00

When we say "real estate bubble," we immediately think of the American bubble. We think of years through which housing prices rose and rose, only to suddenly collapse, leaving people impoverished. We think of the collapse of the financial system that financed the real estate bubble. We think of the huge segment of the public that believed housing prices could only go up, and of the banks and credit rating agencies which invented the financial tools that sowed such tremendous destruction in the global financial system. And so, when we talk about whether there is a bubble in the Israeli property market, we automatically wionder whether housing prices will continue to rise or whether they will drop sharply; whether Israeli lenders will meet their payments or whether there will be a large wave of insolvency; and whether Israeli banks are prepared for unemployment, recession and a wave of American-style mortgage defaults.

Partners rescue more than our real estate

2012-04-16T12:32:00.000+03:00

Steven Miller and Bret Caller, managers and co-founders of Blue Ash-based Viking Partners, don’t do anything halfway.

They’re aggressively capitalizing on the flood of failing commercial real estate loans, and recently made the first two acquisitions – shopping centers in Louisville and near Indianapolis – from their second private equity fund.

Away from the office, the business partners and friends have established themselves as leaders in the community, largely thanks to their work with the Jewish Federation on a local and national level. Caller also is active in the United Way’s Tocqueville Society, whose members donate $10,000 annually. Miller recently became involved with the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Cincinnati.

Those who know them say their reputations as tough businessmen precede them, as does their belief in the importance of helping others. The two aren’t mutually exclusive, Miller says.

“One of the reasons we do what we do is to provide for our families first and foremost, and secondly to provide for others,” Miller says.

In 2006, they were part of a group that helped rescue and transport Ethiopian Jews who were living in third-world conditions without running water or electricity to Israel. James Miller, the chairman of downtown’s Bartlett & Co. and a Viking investor, first met Steven Miller while he was giving a presentation about the Ethiopia trip.

“The first time I saw him, he couldn’t stop crying,” James Miller says. “It was pretty moving; he can’t talk about Israel without tearing up. The funny thing about it is he’s a very tough guy.”

Living the Israeli Dream without busting the budget

2012-04-14T10:18:00.000+03:00

According to a recent poll, most Israelis yearn for a private house with a garden. That's eminently achievable, but you'll have to make geographic compromises.

Where would most people in Israel live if they had their druthers? Our dream home remains, as it has long been, a private house with a garden in a small community or country environment.

About 75% of 305 respondents in a Panels survey of a representative national sample on behalf of TheMarker said they would live in a single-family home if budget wasn't a factor - and 56% of those said they preferred a rural village or small town. The dream, apparently, isn't far out of reach: Over 90,000 detached homes have been built in recent years. The problem is they're not always geographically within reach.

A tale of two Israeli cities, with renovations and missed chances

2012-04-13T16:45:00.000+03:00

Everyone is waiting to see whether masses of protesters fill Tel Aviv's Rothschild Boulevard this year, too. But strolling down the boulevard and the nearby streets, one can't help but notice a socioeconomic phenomenon of an entirely different stripe.

It seems construction work is taking place on every other building and on every empty lot. On some sites we're talking about high-rise apartment buildings or huge, glittering office towers; elsewhere it's the renovation and preservation of old structures, newly beautiful in their fresh paint.

For example, there's the corner of Ahad Ha'am and Balfour streets, where an old building is being expanded and renovated. Beneath it a huge pit is being dug for underground parking. In the end, as the sign promises, the project will turn an old, neglected three-story building into a renovated gem, with additional floors on top.

This is a holiday period when we should be thinking positively, and it's easy to think positively when considering Tel Aviv's urban renewal.

Unfortunately, for decades a process familiar elsewhere in the world has been taking place in Israel, too. City centers have deteriorated and lost their residents as well as their fabric.

Another Tack: Learning to love the bomb

2012-03-31T18:51:00.000+03:00

The upside to an Iranian missile onslaught on Israel is that it would facilitate new real estate projects on the crammed Coastal Plain and render obstructed sea vistas visible again. Increasingly, such morbid predictions of Tehran-initiated mega-scale land clearances in central Israel crop up in casual conversation.

Pent-up angst is vented via macabre gallows humor which presupposes that our dreadful end is inevitable, that by summertime we’d be flattened by Iranian rockets. We paint ourselves as pitiable pawns in the hands of trigger-happy leaders, as wretched victims of the unrestrained hubris and folly of demented higher-ups.

To hear some of what’s proffered by left-wing gurus and commentators, we’re now living though a terrifying real-life reenactment of Dr.Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Stanley Kubrik’s 1964 black comedy spotlighted a loony general who ignites a nuclear apocalypse that a coterie of bungling politicians and frantic generals fail to stop.

CORRECT: Israel Gazit-Globe Profits Down On Weaker Shekel

2012-03-30T17:06:00.000+03:00

JERUSALEM (Dow Jones)--Israeli real-estate company Gazit-Globe Ltd. (GLOB.TV) said Wednesday its net profit for the fourth quarter was slightly down at 223 million shekels ($60.3 million), compared with ILS226 million in the fourth quarter of 2010.

Rental revenue rose 18% to ILS1.39 billion from ILS1.18 billion, but a weaker shekel weighed on profit.

For the year as a whole net profit was ILS626 million, compared with ILS790 million, with annual rental revenue at ILS5.24 billion, up from ILS4.6 billion.

The company also attributed the lower annual profit to a weaker shekel. The company said it expects more growth in 2012 as it was able to make many investments in 2011, lower its debt and carry out an American initial public offering to list its shares on the New York Stock Exchange.

Shay Lipman, analyst at Israel Brokerage and Investments, a local investment house, said the company's performance in 2011 paves the way for continued growth and improvement in 2012.

In his report, Lipman raised the target price of Gazit Globe's shares to ILS55. Gazit Globe is a real-estate company operating in Israel, Europe and North America.

At 0930 GMT, shares of Gazit Globe were down ILS0.03, or 0.08%, at ILS39.06, in a higher Tel Aviv market.

Joanna Stromze explores the streets of Tel Aviv while discovering the best real estate deals

2011-11-30T11:20:00.000+02:00

With Tel Aviv’s population increasing rapidly, the ‘Garden City’ grew quickly throughout the 1930′s and 40′s. With its lovely white Bauhaus buildings (designed by German immigrants), the Old North’s unique urban architecture was recognized by UNESCO and declared as a world heritage site.

Its main streets are easily recognizable – Dizengoff, Ben Yehuda, Nordau Blvd., Jabotinsky, Arlozorov, Ben Gurion Blvd. and Gordon; with Ibn Gvirol to the east, the HaYarkon river to the north, the shoreline to the west and Frishman to the south.

The streets of the old north are vibrant and exciting, filled with young professionals, couples and families. This northern neighborhood has the best of what Tel Aviv has to offer; cafés, restaurants, bars, night life, and beaches (like the famous Mezizim beach) and of course shopping. Yet despite all the activity, it remains a quiet, family-friendly neighborhood.

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2011-11-13T20:16:00.015+02:00

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Tel Aviv's former Templer community demanded compensation for a real-estate project erected on land once owned by his family

2011-07-02T06:57:00.001+03:00

Last month, the High Court of Justice ruled on one of the most fraught and explosive real-estate petitions it has deliberated in the past decade. For seven years, the court discussed a suit by Helmut Georg Laemmle, an Australian descendant of the German Templers, demanding compensation of about NIS 1 million from the city of Tel Aviv for lands on which the two towers constituting the Weizmann Center were built.

The center, which is situated within the Ichilov Hospital compound, contains a mall offices, clinics, a convalescent home for new mothers, assisted living units and a business and commercial center that serves hospital patients, employees and the general public. However, the subject of the suit was not the towers, but rather the plot of land on which they were erected. The plot was part of the property of the Templer colony Sarona, which for the past 60 years has been at the center of controversy in the international arena, in a clash between the municipality and the government (especially the defense establishment ) and in the municipal real-estate playing field.

Tel Aviv Property Pangaea Real Estate

2011-06-30T20:46:00.001+03:00

Pangaea Real Estate Ltd. (PNGD) climbed the most in more than a week after the property developer and its partners agreed to buy land in Tel Aviv property to build a residential and commercial project.

The shares gained 6.6 percent, the most since June 6, to 0.835 shekel at the 4:30 p.m. close in Tel Aviv, giving the Herzliya, Israel-based company a market value of 116.7 million shekels ($34.1 million).

Pangaea and partners including Electra Real Estate Ltd. (ELCRE) agreed to pay 530 million shekels to Tnuva Food Industries Agricultural Co-Op in Israel Ltd. for the property. Electra rose less than 0.1 percent to 20.11 shekels.

Sleepy Israeli town to construct replica of Italian neighborhood

2011-06-30T20:29:00.001+03:00

Israel property Many thousands of kilometers to the west, Israel launched its own project in architectural replication this week: the Bella Lugano quarter in Yehud. Inspired by the the Italian-speaking section of this Swiss city, it is the brainchild of Mayor Yossi Ben David, who became well acquainted with Italy while working in his previous job in textiles.Israel real estate The old center of Yehud is built on the ruins of the Arab village of Yehudia and suffers from many of the syndromes that typically afflict downtown areas in Israel. It is outdated and neglected, and hard-pressed to compete with the successful mall that opened a few years ago in nearby Kiryat Savionim. All attempts to resuscitate it, including establishing a pedestrian mall, have failed.

As part of the renewal project that will encompass 200 dunams, the old downtown will be completely demolished except for the spire of a mosque from the old village of Yehudia and a tomb from the Mamluke period. Two apartment towers will be built and between them - the jewel in the crown - the Italian quarter with picturesque four- and five-story residential buildings. The ground floors will contain shops and feature ornamented colonnades and neoclassical columns. The building fronts will be painted in shades of orange, peach and lavender, and combine European motifs with Israeli sun porches.

Israel's wealthiest man, who died Thursday aged 89, has been in the spotlight since the U.S. accused his company of docking ships in Iran

2011-06-05T20:45:00.001+03:00

Ofer found himself in the spotlight two weeks ago after the U.S. State Department accused one of his shipping companies of doing business with Iran, thus violating sanctions. The Ofer Brothers Group has denied any wrongdoing.

Though Ofer's personal wealth is difficult to estimate, in 2011 Forbes put the figure at $10.3 billion, making him the 79th wealthiest person in the world and the wealthiest man in Israel. TheMarker estimated $4.85 billion.

Ofer was a businessman and shipping magnate, who had many dealings with the Israeli government. He had built up his shipping empire over the past 50 years, and used his profits to buy control of Bank Mizrahi-Tefahot and the Israel Corporation. He ran multiple venues, including the Dead Sea Works, Zim shipping company and oil refineries.

Ofer's main residence was in Monaco, but he also had a home in Tel Aviv's Akirov Towers and donated generously to Israeli institutions, particularly hospitals.

He is survived by his wife Aviva, his sons Eyal and Idan, eight grandchildren and one great-grandchild.