The street, not the listing photo
Drive throughs, at the hour that matters
A listing shows you eight photographs taken with a wide lens on a bright morning. It does not show you the road outside, the building opposite, where anyone parks, or the twenty minutes the commute actually takes when everyone else is doing it too.
So we drive it and film it, uncut, at the hour it matters. Eighteen routes are in production. None is published yet — each appears here as it is finished.
Uncut, at normal speed
No cuts, no music, no drone shot of the sea. The camera runs the whole way, because the point is the bit an edit would remove.
Filmed at the hour that matters
Rush hour for the commute, Friday afternoon for the shops, the school run for the traffic. An empty street at eleven on a Tuesday tells you nothing.
The things listings leave out
Parking on the street, the age of the buildings either side, the site hoardings, and whatever is going up on the plot next door.
Timed, with the clock on screen
Commute tests run the real route at the real hour with the time visible, so the number is yours to check rather than ours to claim.
Drives and commute tests — 18
Ra'anana, end to end
Ahuza from top to bottom, then the residential streets either side, so the difference between the addresses is visible.
Kfar Saba, the green line across
Through the centre and out to the newer eastern neighbourhoods, where most of the recent building is.
Hod HaSharon
Wide, low and green. Filmed to show how much of it is houses rather than blocks.
Herzliya: Pituach and the rest
The two halves of the city in one run, because the price gap between them surprises people.
Ra'anana to Tel Aviv
Route 4 and the Ayalon at 08:00, clock on screen the whole way.
Modi'in: Buchman and Reut
The two neighbourhoods Anglo buyers ask about, filmed back to back.
Modi'in to Tel Aviv
Highway 431 at 07:30, then the same route by train for comparison.
Ramat Beit Shemesh Alef
The original streets, the shopping, and where Alef ends and the next neighbourhood begins.
Ramat Beit Shemesh Gimmel
The newest building, the site hoardings, and how far it is from the older parts.
Beit Shemesh to Jerusalem
Route 38 to the entrance to the city at 08:00, and the train as an alternative.
Efrat, north to south
Across the neighbourhoods, showing how spread out it is and where the shops actually are.
Efrat to Jerusalem
The tunnel road at 07:45, filmed both directions on the same morning.
Jerusalem: Baka and Old Katamon
Emek Refaim, the side streets, and the walk between the two neighbourhoods.
Netanya: Ir Yamim and Agamim
The new towers by the sea, and what sits behind them.
Netanya to Tel Aviv by train
Platform to platform at the morning peak, including the walk at each end.
West Rishon LeZion
The 2010s towers, the parking, and what is still being built.
Rehovot and Ness Ziona
Two neighbouring towns in one run, filmed to show where one ends and the other starts.
Ashkelon to Tel Aviv by train
The line most people ask about when they see Ashkelon prices, timed end to end.
A street is only half the question
The other half is what apartments on it have actually been selling for. Send us the street and the price you have been quoted, and we will tell you what the register holds. We are not selling you the apartment and we are not paid by anyone who is.
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This index publishes data and takes no money from anyone it writes about. No advertising, no paid placement, no sponsored entries, and no referral or introduction fee from any agent, developer, bank, lawyer, surveyor or mortgage broker named anywhere on this site. Filming a street is not a recommendation of it. This is not a licensed brokerage, it holds no listings, and no property is sold through it.
The index measures achieved prices in Tel Aviv. Pages covering other parts of the country describe process, entitlement and area character rather than prices, and no figure quoted in them should be read as an index measurement. A journey time recorded on one morning is that morning, not an average.