{"id":829,"date":"2024-01-31T20:35:41","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T18:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.raveh-ravid.co.il\/Doing-business-in-israel-2024\/?p=829"},"modified":"2025-03-27T11:04:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T09:04:51","slug":"real-estate-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raveh-ravid.co.il\/Doing-business-in-israel\/real-estate-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Estate"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The Land Authority is the entity that manages land owned by the State of Israel, the Jewish National Fund and the Development Authority, which constitutes about 93% of the entire territory of the State of Israel (which is approximately 22,000 square km), according to the policy that is made by the board of the Israel Land Administration. The remaining 7% of land in the State of Israel is privately owned.<\/span><\/p>

These land properties are leased to home and property owners for long periods of time, resulting in land being traded as if it were privately owned. However, indirect government involvement causes much higher bureaucratic and structural obstacles, which constitute a genuine barrier to the development of real estate properties and their preparation for construction. These barriers are considered one of the key causes of soaring housing prices in Israel. In view of recent social protests and the inability of young Israeli couples to afford a home, the Government of Israel intends to initiate a comprehensive reform in land planning, development, and trading rules in Israel.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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In the State of Israel, taxes that apply to land transactions are: purchase tax, which is imposed on the purchaser, capital gains tax, which is imposed on the seller, and in certain transactions, value-added tax is also imposed.<\/span><\/p>

The purchase tax rate in a real estate transaction is described above (see taxation section).<\/span><\/p>

In the case of sale of a single home that is owned by the seller, which is being used for residency, there will be an exemption from betterment tax up to an amount of NIS 4,846,000 in 2023 for a resident of Israel or a foreign resident (on the condition that they do not possess a residential property in a country in which they are not considered a resident).<\/span><\/p>

The capital gains tax rate on the sale of real estate is 25% if the seller is an individual and 23% if it is a company.<\/span><\/p>

In a real estate transaction, VAT will apply if the seller or buyer is a \u2018dealer\u2019 at a rate of 17% (in 2024).<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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There is no explicit legal restriction concerning the ownership of land in Israel by foreign residents. However, regarding land that is controlled by the Israel Land Authority, a board decision has been made stating that a foreign resident (who does not intend to immigrate to Israel pursuant to the right of return of the Jewish People) must receive approval from the Chairman of the Board according to a subcommittee that will discuss their request.<\/span><\/p>

There is no restriction concerning the sale or transfer of privately-owned land in the territory of the State of Israel to a foreign resident.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ownership of Property and\/or Land The Land Authority is the entity that manages land owned by the State of Israel, the Jewish National Fund and the Development Authority, which constitutes about 93% of the entire territory of the State of Israel (which is approximately 22,000 square km), according to the policy that is made by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":96,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-14"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raveh-ravid.co.il\/Doing-business-in-israel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raveh-ravid.co.il\/Doing-business-in-israel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raveh-ravid.co.il\/Doing-business-in-israel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raveh-ravid.co.il\/Doing-business-in-israel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raveh-ravid.co.il\/Doing-business-in-israel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.raveh-ravid.co.il\/Doing-business-in-israel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1136,"href":"https:\/\/www.raveh-ravid.co.il\/Doing-business-in-israel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions\/1136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raveh-ravid.co.il\/Doing-business-in-israel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raveh-ravid.co.il\/Doing-business-in-israel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raveh-ravid.co.il\/Doing-business-in-israel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raveh-ravid.co.il\/Doing-business-in-israel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}