PMI: 15% decrease in land sales for construction compared to 2018

This is according to data presented by the Israel Lands Authority (PMI), Adiel Shimron at the real estate conference in Eilat

Adiel Shimron (photographer Il Yitzhar)

Adiel Shimron, Israel Landlane Conference (Photo: Photo: Eyal Yitzhar, Globes)

The PMI (Israel Land Authority) will conclude 2019 with land sales for 35-40,000 housing units, as part of signed deals. This is a decrease of about 15% compared to last year. The amount of land sales in real estate auctions also decreased, About 70,000 housing units in the past few years, to about 55,000 housing units that are expected to be marketed by the end of the year, according to PMI data published by its manager Adiel Shimron, during the Eilat real estate conference. Shimron took part in a panel on the subject , Explained some of the data in the political maze "2019 was a tough year for 2 election campaigns, and yet we will reach a total revenue of about NIS 11 billion," he said.

Shamron also rejected the public-interest argument that RMA controls 93% of the state's land. "In the public, we believe we own 93% of the land, but how many are available? Without the 13.9 million hectares of land and KKL-JNF land and without arable land, we only hold 7 million hectares. And if all of the planned land is already sold we stand at 1.9 million hectares and if we also take away private land and land from the local authorities - we only own 7 percent of the state’s land, about 1.59 million acres, ”he said.

After TAMA 38, the municipalities want to reduce the evacuation of construction as well

However, he said, Rami still has a very large potential to change the state of housing in Israel: "Apart from vacant land marketers - who we understand are not plentiful, through land reductions we can make a greater impact on the housing shortage and produce much more creative solutions. We are required to streamline land use as evacuation from the IDF camps to the Negev and more significant is the development of macroeconomic and environmental protection issues. We deal with removing land pollution barriers to land permits. In Apollonia we purify the land in billions and we carry out huge scale infrastructure projects in Haifa Bay The partners in the total purification of NIS 1.5 billion worth of land. We financed NIS 360 million for the evacuation of the Eilat airport. This is money we spend and return from land marketing and our interest is our ability to use the funds to clear and develop land, "he said.

Disagreements surfaced during the discussion between Shimron and President of the Israel Builders' Association, Raul Sarogo, who later went on to operate the IDF as a central planning arm, and the position of Madna to the Attorney General, Erez Kaminitz, who said that the IDF exhausted itself after loading the stack. Planning in all the shortage of planning inventory created during the first half of the current decade.

"The USSR is building thousands of housing units not only on paper but also in practice. There are 20,000 - every Ashkelon is built on the VP, every Or Yehuda is built on the VP. What is not applicable? Without the USSR, people will not have where to live in the country.

Kaminitz said he did not agree with this, and that he supported the operation of the IDF mainly for urban regeneration projects and plans in Arab communities, where the committee has an advantage over the regular planning committees.

The panel leaders, Adv. Ziv Caspi and appraiser Yaron Spector, raised the question of whether the current policy of taking agricultural land from the agricultural sector is effective, and whether the compensation given to the seats and kibbutzim for the land taken from them is indeed attractive enough and can encourage them to give up more. Agriculture, with a thaw for construction.

Moshav Movement Secretary-General Amit Yifrach resented the presentation in this way, saying that the goal of the movement is not to make profits from the land, but first and foremost to receive alternative land. "We do not see a profit center from the agricultural land, and do not want money and shopping malls, but look for the The solution to agriculture, ”he said.

The chairman of the Appraiser's Office, Haim Masilie Gers, on the other hand, believes that it is doubtful that farmers receive any compensation from the state for taking the land, because they have enjoyed the land as long as they have been the lessors. "A lease is a long-term lease, it is not Ownership, ”he said.

In the matter of the compensation, Kaminitz and Samaria said that the state was stretching the compensation as far as it could and that farmers did not appear to be able to offer higher compensation than is currently the case. These damages are set by special committees at the PMI, based on a set of criteria set by the PA.