Noam Kolodny, Law Office

Real Estate, Sale Transactions, Planning and Construction, Real Estate and Arnona (Municipal Taxation)

  

Real Estate

  

The Kolodny Law Office has extensive experience representing buyers and sellers of residential apartments. The firm provides legal services to private clients from various regions in Israel, particularly in the cities of Tel Aviv, Ramat Gan, Givatayim, Kiryat Ono, Savyon, Herzliya, Ramat Hasharon, and Kfar Shmaryahu. The firm emphasizes high service standards, meticulous personal care, and courtesy.

 

It has significant experience in purchasing apartments from contractors and in sale agreements for purchasing second-hand apartments. The firm handles private clients.

 

Planning and Construction

 

The firm is engaged in filing objections to construction plans and building permit applications.

Attorney Noam Kolodny has extensive experience in the field of planning and construction. The firm has many years of practical knowledge and a broad professional infrastructure, including collaborations with architectural firms, appraisers, and supervision and management companies, enabling it to provide clients with comprehensive solutions professionally and efficiently. Over the years, it has served various types of clients: purchasing groups, real estate developers, and private clients.

 

The Kolodny Law Office is involved in urban renewal projects, Tama 38, removal of building irregularities, regulation of building irregularities, combination transactions, expansion of building rights according to existing rights in the city building plan (TABA), and increasing building rights through the deposit of a new TABA and a local building plan.

 

The firm has handled many private clients who purchased or sold apartments requiring legal handling of building irregularities. Attorney Kolodny possesses rich knowledge in legal techniques to minimize risks for the client and regulate building irregularities.

 

Attorney Noam Kolodny has developed general professionalism in the real estate field and specific expertise in planning and construction. Before founding the law firm, Noam Kolodny served as CEO of Rakia, a company that deals with aerial photography for property surveys, detection of building irregularities, and future planning of undeveloped areas according to existing TABA.

 

The Kolodny Law Office is experienced in a variety of real estate transactions in the fields of planning and construction.

 

Here are some examples from cases managed by the firm in the past:

 

· One of the firm's clients purchased a building designated for preservation. Because the building was neglected and required significant renovation before it could be inhabited, the Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality demanded a substantial financial investment from the client for the preservation of the historic structure. The client hired Attorney Kolodny's services to negotiate with the Tel Aviv Municipality. Collaboration with an architectural firm enabled the submission of a new building plan. The negotiations with the Tel Aviv Municipality concluded with the municipality agreeing to provide compensation to the client for the investment - an additional floor for the building.

 

· One of the firm's clients, a purchasing group, approached Attorney Kolodny requesting representation in a combination transaction and to conduct legal proceedings with the municipal authority to realize building rights according to existing TABA. In the first stage of the transaction, the transaction outline was constructed, and a series of agreements were drafted until both parties signed. In the second stage, after the completion of the transaction, the purchasing group received an additional housing unit on the building's roof.

 

· In a certain transaction, Attorney Kolodny represented a purchasing group in purchasing a plot and establishing a series of private homes. Dealing with large-scale construction exposes the client to financial risks, necessitating risk reduction by regulating relations with the contractor. The firm worked not only to set payment schedules according to construction progress but also to ensure the progress of execution throughout the construction process. To this end, it created a collaboration with a supervision and management company. The construction progressed at the planned pace, and upon completion, the firm received a letter of thanks from the purchasing group members.

 

Arnona (Municipal Taxation) and Property Tax

 

The firm represents companies against local authorities in reducing arnona payments, fees, and levies. It provides clients with comprehensive service, including collaboration with appraisers, engineers, and aerial photography companies to obtain information on the scope and classification of the area, alongside legal analysis of the arnona ordinance and relevant rulings, all to challenge the billing method. At an advanced stage, disputes and agreements with the authority are defined, and negotiations begin with the city representative alongside legal proceedings in the appeals committee or court.

 

Attorney Kolodny has experience representing various companies from different sectors in reducing arnona rates. The firm successfully manages legal battles against local councils and municipalities to reduce and cancel arnona charges, sometimes in amounts of millions of shekels.

 

Here are some examples from cases managed by the firm in the past:

 

· As part of the Ministry of the Interior's policy, the councils adjacent to the client's offices exchanged municipal jurisdiction areas, and the client found themselves in the jurisdiction of another local authority. The company's CEO approached Attorney Kolodny upon receiving a demand for arnona payment significantly higher than the previous arnona payment. After examining the local arnona ordinance, combined with aerial photographs and an appraisal opinion, it was decided to challenge the basis of the charge and the definition of the taxable areas. Attorney Kolodny negotiated with the local council to agree on significant reliefs in the arnona charge, returning the charge to its previous state.

 

· For another client, who relocated to new offices, a demand for arnona payment was received, which seemed excessively high. The client approached the firm to examine the legality of the arnona and whether it could be reduced. After legal research and conducting legal proceedings with the Tel Aviv Municipality over several months, the municipality agreed to accept Attorney Kolodny's argument: a large part of the company's offices constitutes a basement for arnona calculation purposes. Therefore, the Tel Aviv Municipality completely exempted the client from arnona payment for this area and significantly reduced the client's total arnona payment.

 

· In several cases, Attorney Kolodny succeeded in changing the business classification for municipal arnona purposes in the Tel Aviv Municipality for technology companies to the classification of "software house," reducing the arnona payment in Tel Aviv by approximately 75% of the original payment, thanks to the new business classification. Sometimes the new classification for determining arnona rates is accepted by the municipal authority - the Tel Aviv Municipality only after submitting objections and discussions in the appeals committee.