Urban Renewal

EBN’s Real Estate Department is one of Israel’s leading practices in urban renewal. It has extensive experience in both vacate-and-build (Pinui-Binui) projects and Tama 38 transactions. The department provides its clients—some of Israel’s most considerable entrepreneurs and private apartment owners—with comprehensive legal support throughout all transaction stages, drawing on its experience in hundreds of complex projects.

The department’s team possesses extensive hands-on experience in urban renewal, enabling it to provide high-level legal representation combined with skilled negotiation management. Given the unique nature of these projects, the team operates with sensitivity and a deep understanding of the rights holders’ needs, ensuring that the process is handled efficiently and transparently. Urban renewal transactions involve complex legal, planning, and financial considerations, requiring a strategic and balanced approach that distinguishes between primary and secondary issues, mitigates conflicts of interest, and ensures the successful execution of the project while minimizing delays.

As part of its legal representation in urban renewal projects, the department offers comprehensive support at every stage—from initial proposal structuring and early-stage planning through negotiation and execution of agreements, legal guidance in planning procedures before the relevant planning committees, obtaining zoning approvals where required, securing building permits, coordinating with financial institutions financing the project, handling objections from dissenting tenants, drafting agreements with construction contractors, overseeing the delivery of new residential units, and managing the registration of rights in the condominium registry.

The department has proven expertise in providing creative legal solutions for the unique challenges inherent in urban renewal projects, particularly in managing the complex relationships among landowners. The team effectively navigates legal, financial, and social barriers, including addressing reluctant tenants who oppose the project, by offering strategic solutions that facilitate smooth project execution.

Thanks to the exceptional expertise and dedication of its legal team, the department’s clients—developers and private landowners—benefit from comprehensive legal support that combines extensive legal experience with in-depth business and planning insights. This ensures efficient project progression, reduces delays, and secures the successful completion of transactions.