AREAS OF EXPERTISE
real estate projects
Sefi Zilberstein law office accompanies large-scale real estate projects ranging from commercial, logistics, retail, and office-space categories, to large-scale residential projects, providing advice and guidance covering all stages of the project, from acquisition, planning, development, financing and contract agreement with vendors and sub-contractors, to construction, marketing, and completing all the required registrations. The firm provides planning support and legal services to contractors, developers, public companies, financial institutions, private investors and property owners, among our clients are some of Israel’s largest real estate companies.
In addition, the firm specializes in representing developers in all types of urban renewal projects, providing guidance from the examination of a project’s financial feasibility through planning and construction, to a project’s final registration at Israel’s Land Registry. Services include: due diligence, contracts, representation in combination deals, exchanges of building rights, property sales, complex agreements and more.
Real estate transactions
The firm has extensive knowledge and experience in legal counseling and representation of clients in complex sales and rental contracts for apartments, offices, commercial properties, shopping centers, logistic centers, retirement housing, acquisition and sales of land, and more, and is actively involved in a wide array of transactions, including some of the largest in the Israeli real estate market.
The firm’s partners bring extensive experience and a strong reputation in leading urban renewal projects, facilitating combination deals, exchanges of building rights, shared ownership and development contracts, purchase groups, sales and financing agreements, tenders, and dealings with the Israel’s Lands Authority (REMI).
Planning & Zoning
The firm offers comprehensive legal representation to property owners, developers and contractors in planning and zoning procedures, covering all stages of plan promotion and licensing, from the preparation of documents through their approval by planning authorities. We represent our clients all in objection procedures, court discussions and in dealings with local, district and national planning authorities.
The firm’s partners provide legal counseling and expert opinion in the preparation of permit applications, and represent both entrepreneurs and opposing parties in objections and appeals to the planning and zoning committees, and in administrative petitions.
urban renewal
The firm has extensive experience and unique expertise in leading urban renewal projects – TAMA 38 (the national outline plan for reinforcement of buildings against earthquakes) and ‘Pinui-Binui’ (literally, evacuation & construction) projects, in both the contractual-legal and planning & licensing phases. Our firm represents developers or land owners from the inception of a project to its completion, from getting the necessary approval of land holders, through planning and plan approval procedures, all the way through to handing the new apartments to owners and registering the apartments on their behalf.
Sample urban renewal projects
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480-unit Pinui Binui (evacuation & construction) in Jerusalem
Transforming an 8 building, 174- unit compound in Jerusalem’s French Hill neighborhood into a 480-unit residential complex with 12,000 sq.m of commercial and employment space.Currently in planning and zoning promotion phase.
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Luxurious TAMA 38/2 (demolition & construction) project in Jerusalem
22 luxury units on Avital Street
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TAMA 38/1 (reinforcement & renovation) on Nachmani Street in Tel Aviv
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TAMA 38/2 (demolition & construction) Luxury residential & commercial project with Mediterranean-sea views on HaYarakon Street in Tel Aviv.
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220-unit Pinui Binui (evacuation & construction) in Ramat Gan
Residential, office and commerce complex on Raroe Street. -
Boutique project on Herzliya’s Tchernichovsky Street
Currently in planning and zoning promotion phase. -
TAMA 38/2 (demolition & construction) project in Green Herzliya
Kibush Ha’avoda Street, near Reichman University. -
Evacuation & Construction projects and complexes in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Ramat Gan, Holon, Herzliya and Netanya.