The first in Israel to employ a hedonic quantitative model to assess the “willingness to pay” for residential qualities on the periphery of a metropolitan area, which today is a basic model in the real estate market, which serves the Central Bureau of Statistics.
Experience in the real estate market in hundreds of projects:
- Estimated demand potential
- Apartment mix
- Apartment prices, demand elasticities versus prices and project positioning
- Estimation of returns on investment (rental fees, increase in the value of assets, mortgages, etc.)
- The influence of location factors, the granting of benefits to the periphery, taxation of apartments, changes in the level of interest,
- Regularly conducts ongoing market surveys and analyzes databases on the residential, rental and investment market
- Dozens of articles in the professional press
- Participation in dozens of professional conferences in the real estate field, in the appraisers’ conferences, the IMC, Tel Aviv University, etc.
Areas of Expertise:
- Location decisions of households and commercial entities
- Urban economics; Models of urban planning
- Land use planning according to principles of supply and demand
- Models for testing the relationship between land use planning and transportation
- Commercial real estate market (industrial, commercial, office, leisure, etc.)
- Central commercial location
- Tourism – master plans for tourism, tourism projects
- Assessment of urban and regional planning contexts of expected benefits of public projects
- Master plans to reduce greenhouse gases in some of the largest communities in Israel
- Accompanying residential projects in Israel with a green standard
Studied and taught in these fields in the Department of Geography and Urban Studies – Social Sciences / Public Policy at Tel Aviv University (1976-1988)
- Head of the Urban-Economic Division of geokg
- 2000-2010: Member of the National Council for Planning and Construction
- 1990-1996: Member of the Board of Directors of the Israeli Association for Transport Planning and Research (ILAT)
- Lecturer at various colleges and in various conferences on residential real estate and commercial real estate
