The Jerusalem Investor

15/07/2012

The price of an average home has risen 2.2% in 2012, the Central Bureau of Statistics reports, after falling in 2011.

12/06/2012

NEW Home sales in January-April 2012 rose 42% in Jerusalem!

The housing inventory rose 35% to over 20,000 homes.

14/05/2012

The average price of a home bought by a foreign resident is NIS 1.73 million, 62% above the average home price.

24/04/2012

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4220278,00.html

Business, Real Estate: CNBC says home prices fell following social protests in 2011, but interest rate cut apparently led to resurgence in property demand

12/04/2012

Higher property taxes, the global economic climate and a new emphasis on tourism are combining to fuel the vacation rental market in Israel.

11/04/2012

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20/02/2012

Israel, under threat of war from its neighbors since being founded in 1948, produced better risk- adjusted returns than all other developed stock markets in the past decade as the technology-driven economy attracted global investors.

21/01/2012

Prices will continue falling in the coming months, Global Property Guide says.

20/01/2012

OECD is the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development is an international economic organization of 34 countries founded in 1961 to stimulate economic progress and world trade.
V.A.T. is Value Added Tax and is your basic Sales Tax of 16% which is "built-into" most consumer purchases including some food.

Cars are dearer in Israel than the OECD average by 70%, milk and eggs by 44%, meat by 28%.

04/09/2011

"If the government keeps its promises to expand the housing supply, we'll have good reasons to believe that the market could see a slowing in the rise in prices, and even a drop in the coming years," says Eichal.

19/07/2011

Jerusalem and Tel Aviv are among the top three cities in the region to visit, according to a recent poll taken by the New York-based magazine Travel + Leisure.

19/07/2011

Top travel magazine for second year in a row ranks Jerusalem and Tel Aviv as two of the top five travel destinations in Africa and the Middle East