As prices keep on soaring, buying a home is becoming an impossible dream for ever more Israelis. Even rentals are exorbitant. Let's have a strategy to put that right

Prices have risen by over 12% so far in 2021, and are only set to soar further without real government-initiated solutions, researchers say

Opponents say top-down Committee for Preferred Housing Sites builds on too much open space, fails to construct basic infrastructure needed by new homes

Prices up all over the country; consumer price index rises 1.6% since beginning of the year

Sharpest rise in prices is seen in Jerusalem, followed by Tel Aviv and then Haifa, according to figures from the Central Bureau of Statistics; cost of living also up

Bank of Israel says Israelis took out NIS 78.1 billion in mortgages last year, a 15% increase over 2019

Housing Ministry figures show dire sales figures during March-May were replaced by an increase in purchases in June-August

Finance Ministry figures show purchases in second quarter of 2020 down 27% compared to 2019, at lowest level since 2003

Last week's move signals government is abandoning its unsuccessful bid to bring down housing costs, to help construction industry and keep up supply amid pandemic

The spike in real estate prices has made millionaires out of homeowners, while renters suffer; solutions exist, but nothing scares politicians more than taxing wealthy voters