Israel
No Housing Market Meltdown for Israel
Despite economic weakness and growing unemployment, most home prices are still rising in Israel
Survey: Israeli housing prices bucked global downtrend in Q1Hadar Tadmor and Arik Mirovsky Haarez 02.06.2009 | |
 Of all the global real estate markets surveyed by Global Property Guide, Israel's posted the sharpest increase in housing prices during the first quarter of 2009. |  Residential real estate investments in six major Turkish cities have caused a profit to the investors in real terms in April 2009, according to Reidin.com, the world's first and leading global online information services provider, with Istanbul and Bursa emerging at the top of the list by recording profits in real terms of 0.54% apiece; followed by Adana and Ankara, both with 0.52%. |
Real estate experts: An overview of the Israeli market Jerusalem Post 14.05.2009 | Haredi housing shortage worseningShai Pauzner YnetNews 11.05.2009 |
 Israel Property founders Jonny Baker and Jonny Gaon - two native English-speakers - established their business with the simple concept of making the process of purchasing real estate in Israel easier for the overseas buyer. As more foreign residents and non-Hebrew speakers purchase and rent property in Israel, the practical issues involved in finding the right property can be daunting. Israel Property facilitates the often frustrating and time-consuming process of dealing with multiple agents in a foreign country and provides guidance from A to Z. |  Geocartography knowledge Group reveals that solving ultra-Orthodox population's housing problem would require construction of 4,000 new apartments a year. At the moment, more than 3,000 housing units are missing |
Gush settlers blamed for housing woes JTA News 11.05.2009 | Settlers plan housing project in JaffaOfer Petersburg YnetNews 11.05.2009 |
 Settlers evacuated from Gush Katif in 2005 are mostly to blame for the fact that they are not yet in permanent housing, a former official told a commission of inquiry. |  Construction company catering exclusively to national-religious public wins Land Administration bid in mixed city, plans to build vast project including synagogue, yeshiva, near one of oldest Arab neighborhoods. 'This is war,' warns local resident |
The conflicts of Danny Dankner Haaretz 11.05.2009 | Yesha Council: Young families forced out of West Bank by housing shortageNadav Shragai Haaretz 11.05.2009 |
 During the 1990s, the Dankner family was an economic power in Israel. They owned the controlling interest in Salt Industries, which does make salt and which also owned a controlling interest in Hapoalim, Israel's biggest bank. They owned Dor Chemicals and Dankner Investments, a holding company. |  Thousands of Jewish settlers are forced to move to Israel proper every year because of a housing shortage in the West Bank, the Yesha Council of settlements claimed at a press conference yesterday. |
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