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Every door. One house.

A real deal rarely stays behind one door: a Pinui-Binui project stalls on an unregistered inheritance, and a home sale suddenly runs into a betterment levy. That's why the firm's two worlds — urban renewal and real estate — live under one roof: you walk through one door, and the whole house stands behind it, from the first question to the keys. It's how we come to know your deal in full, including the parts you didn't yet know belonged to it. Find the door for your deal below. Each one opens to its own in-depth page.

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Which deal is yours?

Every deal opens with a question of its own. Buying from a developer: which guarantee protects your money. An inheritance: whose name the rights are registered under today. Urban renewal: what each owner receives. Choose the deal in front of you, and the page that opens starts from exactly that question.

Urban renewal

Representing owners across the table from the developer: a tender that puts developers in competition for your compensation, and a full guarantee package from start to finish.

The 13 stages, from the committee to the Land Registry

A new apartment from a developer

The contract was written by the developer, for the developer. We read it line by line and answer with a rider that fights for your money, your dates and your security.

What we check in a developer contract

A resale apartment

No statutory Sale Law guarantee stands behind you here — the contract itself is your security, so it has to be built differently.

What replaces the Sale Law guarantee

Olim & overseas investors

Buy in Israel without flying in: the deal runs remotely, in English, in your time zone, tax and registration included.

Every stage of buying from abroad

Buyer & investor groups

The same apartment at a developer's price — if the agreement between members is built right from day one.

What the members' agreement must say

Combination deals

Land for apartments: representing the landowner across from the developer — the consideration, the security and the tax, until the apartments are registered in your name.

The landowners' page

Developers, companies & institutions

Your outsourced real estate department: from the seven project gates to a compliant sales office — one legal team for all of it.

The seven project gates

Family transfers & inheritance

Putting an apartment in a child's name feels like paperwork. It is a full land transaction: a Tax Authority filing, purchase tax, registration — even though nothing was paid. We set out the tax before signing, and protect the parent who gives.

What we check before a family transfer

Land & the Israel Land Authority

Most land in Israel is leased from the state, not sold. If the lease was never capitalized — the rent prepaid up front — the transferor owes the Land Authority a consent fee. We read the lease file before a price is set.

Capitalized or not — and why it matters

Residential leases

Since the 2017 amendment, one chapter of Israeli law governs residential leases, and it fixes what no contract can change: what counts as habitable, the ceiling on deposits, the clock for repairs. The rest is ours to draft, before the tenant moves in.

What the statute already settled

Commercial leases & income property

Three years plus two options is not a short lease: once the term can run past five years, it loses its exemption from registration. And a tenanted building comes with its leases, whether or not you saw them. We start with that layer.

The contracts that come with the building

Planning & the betterment levy

The betterment levy is half the rise in value a plan created, and it usually surfaces at tax clearance: too late to contest the assessment or price it into the contract. We quantify it up front and object while the window is open.

When the levy arises, and when you pay it

Parcellation, unification & reallocation

A plot that never went through parcellation exists in the plan, not in the register. What you hold is a share of an undefined whole, and every deal, loan or permit runs into it. We carry the survey plan through to registration.

Why the land deal is waiting on the register

Condominium registration & attachments

The roof above you and the storeroom below are yours only if the registration order attaches them to your apartment. Use does not create ownership, and a buyer reads the order, not the neighbors' understanding. We handle the plan, the by-law and the attachments.

What is actually attached to your apartment

Durable power of attorney

A general durable power of attorney fails at the worst moment: the parent is no longer competent, and the agent has no express authority to sell the apartment. For our clients we draft it with the property instructions inside, beside a will written in rights and shares.

What goes into the power of attorney, and on what terms

Wills & estates

Most wills say who. One with an apartment in it has to say how — which rights, in what shares, what happens to the mortgage and who goes on living there. Without that, "in equal shares" stalls at the registry.

When the asset is one and the heirs are three

Don't see your deal here?Title and registration, taxation, commercial leases, subdivision, betterment levy and more.All our services

Questions, answered

What people ask us before a real estate deal.

What happens to our apartment if the developer collapses mid-project?

The protection doesn't rest on the developer's stability. It rests on a full set of guarantees: the improved Sale Law guarantee for the full value of the new apartment, plus separate guarantees — most of them autonomous bank guarantees, payable on their own terms — covering interim rent, taxes, defects, and registration. And one more, built for the moment a project stalls and your property has to come back to you free and clear. The full set, guarantee by guarantee, is laid out on the urban-renewal page.

The full set, guarantee by guarantee — on the urban-renewal page

Who reviews the developer's contract?

A lawyer of your own — because the contract was written by the developer's lawyers, from the developer's point of view. The review covers the security behind each payment, escalation tied to the construction-cost index, the delivery date and late-delivery compensation — and it ends in a rider, signed as part of the contract.

What exactly gets checked, and what can actually move — on the new-construction page

Buying a resale apartment — with no Sale Law guarantee, what protects your money?

The contract itself. The Sale Law guarantee exists only when you buy from a developer, so in a private sale the protection is built into the agreement: staged payments tied to milestones, a caution note — the Land Registry entry that flags your pending purchase — recorded right after signing so no conflicting transaction can be registered, and a balance held in the attorney's trust account until every approval is in.

Every link in that chain — on the resale apartment page

We're abroad. Can we close a purchase in Israel without flying in?

Yes, you can close a purchase in Israel without flying in. A power of attorney with consular or notarial authentication stands in for you at signings, funds move through a trust account, and a caution note is registered on the apartment immediately — so the deal stays protected while you are in New York or Paris. Everything runs in English, in your time zone.

The stages, from the first call to the keys — on the olim and overseas buyers page

A buyer group and a purchase group — aren't they the same thing?

No — and the difference decides what protects your money. A buyer group buys finished apartments from a developer: each member on their own contract, with a sale-law guarantee on every payment above 7% of the price. A purchase group buys land and builds on its own, with no developer answerable for the result and none of those protections. Before you sign, know which of the two you are entering.

The full comparison, row by row — on the buyer-groups page

How to start

A conversation with a real estate lawyer, wherever you are in the process.

An apartment you're buying or selling, a building entering renewal, or a contract waiting on a decision. Leave a name and a number and a senior lawyer on the team will call you back: we hear you out and tell you what the next step is — even when it isn't with us.

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