“We’re talking a minimum of $100,000 for [the studio we first visited], which requires a complete remodeling,” Michael Johnson, a vice president at the New York Apartment Association, explained.
The cost: $10,000 for an architect to review the plans and obtain a permit; $50,000 for kitchen and bathroom materials and labor; $20,000 for the floors and ceilings; $6,000 for appliances; $25,000 in electricians’ fees; and a miscellany of other significant fees. These figures add up to the typical $100,000–$200,000 costs of renovating a studio apartment like the one we visited. It’s the same story upstairs in the second unit."
In New York you need a CD permit to make changes in your apartment; the cost of the permit is $ 10,000 (=32,000 sheqel). In Ramar Gan, it is about the same. The process is similar but in Israel you have to receive permits of the Water Corporation and the Environmental Unit and so on. In Ramat Gan also present a map indicating distance from water boreholes.
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