Frequently asked questions

The average price of an apartment already exceeds $1.1 million, and transportation costs increased by 21% in 2021. Tel Aviv’s place in the list is misleading, however, because the index is calculated in dollars, and the shekel is very strong.

The profitable return on an Israeli real estate investment comes partly from rental income, and partly from the sale of your property. You can usually achieve a 25% return on investment in 3 to 4 years.

Although anyone can buy property in Israel, regardless of nationality or religion, foreign residents pay a higher purchase tax than Israeli residents. The purchase tax (purchase tax) must be paid within 50 days from the date of signing the contract.

Property tax is usually imposed on the owner of commercial and residential properties. Property that is not occupied is usually taxed on the owner of the property. The tax is imposed at the municipality level.

Dimona, for whatever reason, is currently at the top of the table as the capital of Israel’s cheap houses.

As Israel’s economic center, Tel Aviv has contributed almost half of the country’s GDP in recent decades.

More than any other factor, it is the low interest rates in recent years that have fueled the housing market, with huge amounts of cheap money including credit of hundreds of billions of shekels to entrepreneurs and tens of billions more to buyers for mortgages.