Regardless of all of the discuss of overseas residents dashing to purchase houses in Israel amid rising antisemitism overseas, whole purchases by overseas residents amounted to simply 77 flats in April, in response to the Ministry of Finance chief economist. This compares with 106 flats bought in April 2025 and 177 flats in March 2026.
After deducting the houses bought by overseas residents in April, the full internet purchases by this phase was 56 houses, down from 67 flats in April 2025.
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This determine is included in Investor purchases, which totaled 751 houses in April, down 12% from April 2025. The share of whole transactions was 15%. Investor gross sales in April totaled 922 flats, down 28% from April 2025.
General residential actual property transactions in April 2026 had been very weak. April is generally a weak month due to the vacations however this yr it was much more so. In April 5,081 houses had been bought, down 31% from March 2026 and down 19% from April 2025.
2,107 new houses had been bought in April, down 11% from April 2025 and down 25% from March 2026. 2,974 second-hand houses had been bought in April, down 24% from April 2025 and down 35% from March 2026.
The chief economist’s evaluate famous, “A multi-year comparability of the variety of transactions within the free market in April discovered that this stage in April 2026 is likely one of the lowest recorded because the early 2000s, and solely in April 2023 and 2020 (the outbreak of the Covid pandemic) had been decrease ranges of transactions recorded. Contractors’ gross sales within the free market are additionally close to the underside of the rating.”
The evaluate stresses that the conflict with Iran was nonetheless underway within the first week of April, though the seven days of combating in that month coincided with Passover week.”
It may be assumed that Passover and the conflict had an important affect on the numbers in April 2026, though it needs to be famous that Passover additionally occurred in April 2025.
Printed by Globes, Israel enterprise information – en.globes.co.il – on June 11, 2026.
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