Housing prices

Many young people don’t want to buy apartments

“Gen Z wants fast money, not mortgages.” Bank Jerusalem’s CEO says young people now prefer the capital market, and foreign buyers are heading for a new wave of purchases.

Housing in Israel.
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Bubble alert: The report that proves housing prices around the world are out of control

Daily life in Tel Aviv. November 19, 2025.

How Tel Aviv’s 'safest investment' collapsed: Falling apartment prices wipe out millions - analysis

Israelis shop for groceries and dairy products at their local supermarket in Katsrin, Golan Heights, May 2, 2024

Israel's Consumer Price Index up 0.5% in October, while home prices fall again


What can the government do to decrease housing costs? - analysis

With inflation on the rise in Israel, what actions could be made by the government in order to stabilize the rapidly rising cost of housing?

 View of a costruction site in the central Israeli city of Be'er Ya'akov, February 22, 2022.

Israel's periphery communities at greatest building collapse, housing danger - opinion

The concept that what is good for the Center is also good for the periphery is fundamentally incorrect.

 DEMONSTRATORS SET UP tents across from the Knesset, to protest soaring housing prices, last week. One of the signs reads: ‘We all deserve a home.’

Mortgage market mayhem: Public owes banks NIS 505 billion

High-interest rates haven’t cooled the market. In June, the public received mortgage loans amounting to NIS 11.9 billion, an increase of 2.5% over June 2021.

 THE BANK of Israel headquarters in Jerusalem.

Lapid: Gas prices to decrease in August, cheap retail is on its way

The Prime Minister has announced a decline in the price of gasoline after a period of repeated increases as part of an extensive effort to decrease the cost of living

 Illustration image of a man fueling his car at a gas station, in Jerusalem, on June 28, 2022.

Lapid should cut down the cost of living in Israel - editorial

As we approach another election, it seems increasingly apparent that the cost of living has become a major campaign issue, if not the most important one.

 Prime Minister Yair Lapid at Sunday's cabinet meeting, July 17, 2022.

Investors saw 16% decrease in housing transactions in May - Finance Min.

In a survey conducted by the Finance Ministry, data shows that the number of transactions of apartments sold as part of the price per occupant decreased by 14%.

 Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman

Econ Ministry director-general: Prices will drop due to reforms

Dr. Ron Malka states that other American and European retail chains besides Carrefour, which is French, are poised to enter the Israeli market.

Illustrative photo of Israeli money

What is Israel's next election about? The cost of living - comment

The reason the current state won't change is that the government, the retailers, the hoteliers, and the restauranteurs can get away with it.

 Milk for sale at the Rami Levy supermarket in Jerusalem on July 17, 2022.

Netanyahu's economic rhetoric is nefarious demagoguery

MIDDLE ISRAEL: Netanyahu’s election strategy is to blame his rivals for economic problems that they did not cause and he cannot solve.

 LIKUD PARTY leader and head of opposition Benjamin Netanyahu visits Jerusalem’s Mahaneh Yehuda market in October 2021.

Israel Land Authority: Housing price spike will slow down at end of year

Israel Land Authority CEO Yanki Quint speaks in a special interview about the housing crisis and criticism of the government plan.

RASHBA STREET plays host to quite a few of Rehavia’s vacant apartments.