Real Estate Sector 2025: Weak rams and prices move up

The real estate sector in Lebanon has not yet recovered, due to political, economic and financing factors. Despite the continued absence of housing loans, real estate prices rise in different rates from one region to another, where some areas are witnessing an increase in the volume of transactions, while others face stalemate in the real estate market.

The captain of the intermediaries and the real estate consultants, Walid Musa, in an interview with “Lebanon 24”, drew attention to the fluctuations witnessed by the real estate market throughout this year, on the impact of security and political developments, as the sector went through various stages starting with the positive and optimistic atmosphere that followed the election of a president of the republic and the formation of a government, and the accompanying hopes to re -move the market, through the continuation of Israeli attacks Interior, which reflected a frequency of the investor and the buyer, “and after lifting the ban on the travel of the Emiratis to Lebanon, we witnessed a great impulsion by Emiratis, Kuwaitis and Qataris reflected a high demand in the real estate market. Then the foreign demand receded on the impact of the Israeli -Iranian war where we entered a phase of anticipation, and after the end of the war, hope returned to move the market, but that prevented that negative atmosphere in the country, linking the weapon of H. God, especially since the threat of weapons use at home does not encourage any foreigner or Lebanese to invest.
Purchase operations are weak
The most prominent factor that brings out the motivation of Lebanese youth to possess and buy apartments, is the decrease in purchasing power, and the continued absence of residential loans that funds the developer and helps the buyer, as citizens with low or medium -income people cannot buy a residence in the absence of financing. As for the loans of the Housing Bank, with a roof of one hundred thousand dollars, which is allocated to housing outside the major cities, according to certain conditions, it does not cover the need, but the citizen must benefit from it according to Moussa “in the current situation, there is a request by the Lebanese expatriate, but this does not mean that there are many sales that happen, but the sales operations are limited to a few, and are concentrated in areas that are characterized by high purchasing power, by those funded by Lebanese They live between Lebanon and alienation. ”
Prices rise
Despite the state of the sector, prices are witnessing a remarkable increase, “areas with high purchasing power, such as Fakra, Downtown Beirut, Al -Rama Al -Bayda, Al -Ashrafieh, and Bahr Amashit have regained their prices by a difference between 20 and 15% from their previous levels.
An increase in building licenses..bath Lebanon in the forefront
According to the Bank of Odeh Al -Fasali’s report, the construction sector began to regain its vitality in varying proportions between the regions. The report indicates an increase in building permits in the first half of the year 2025 by 16.1% compared to the same period last year. “The licensing area reached 282,6763 square meters, compared to 2434,866 square meters in the first half of the year 2024, according to the Figures of the Engineers Syndicate in Beirut.
In terms of the distribution of regional permits, Mount Lebanon Governorate obtained the largest share, which is 45.2% of the total (1278.86 square meters). It was followed by the South Lebanon Governorate by (25.4%, or 718989 square meters), then the Bekaa Governorate (12.1%, or 343085 square meters), Nabatiyeh (11.3%, or 318608 square meters), while Beirut’s share was 4.9%of the total (137941 square meters) and the share of North Lebanon 1.1%(30054 square meters). This growth is attributed to the increase in the licenses given in all regions, at rates ranging between 4.3% and 48.4% between the first half of the year 2024 and the first half of the year 2025, with the exception of the Bekaa, where construction licenses recorded a decrease of 28.4%.
The recovery is subject to political and reformist solutions
The real recovery of the real estate market, and the enabling of the Lebanese to own ownership, requires achieving a number of factors, in which political and security stability integrates with the restructuring of the banking sector, and the re -granting housing loans within an integrated residential plan, Moses referred to, “It is necessary to agree on any Lebanon we want, so the language of threat and violence will only lead to more economic setbacks, and that would frustrate all attempts To attract Lebanese and foreign investors to the country. ”