The TABA Capital Model

An urban renewal project is a one-time opportunity to significantly improve the residents’ quality of life and the property value of their homes. However, the greater the opportunity, the greater the risk. In many cases, residents enter the process with very little understanding or bargaining power, commit too early, receive too little, and find themselves in uncertainty and lack of control throughout the project. **TABA Capital** was founded to create a different kind of process—one in which the weight, power, certainty, and control shift from the developer and the municipality directly to the property owners.
Here’s how it works:

Urban Renewal with Taba Capital vs. Directly with a Developer

Developers

Planning and Financial Certainty

Urban Master plan is approved in advance with the authorities. Residents know their rights and the value of their compensation before selling their homes to the developer.

Developers

The agreement is signed before the plan is approved or advanced, leaving uncertainty about what will ultimately be approved, what the actual compensation will be, and whether it will be fair or adequate.

Legal / Property Certainty

The legal agreement with the developer is signed only after the plan is approved, when all details are clear and known to the residents.

Developers

The agreement includes clauses that allow the developer to withdraw or change the compensations if the project is not sufficiently profitable.

Flexibility in exchange for uniform compensation

Residents can choose the compensation option that best suits them: splitting an apartment when the existing area is large, a combination of receiving both money and an apartment, or money only — according to their personal needs and preferences.

Developers

Compensation is uniform for everyone, with no flexibility to adjust due to the uncertainty that exists at such an early stage.

Independent Professional Representation

The professional team (lawyer, appraiser, architect) is chosen by the residents and represents their interests only.

Developers

The developer brings in their regular team, which is loyal solely to them and operates according to their business objectives.

Bargaining Power and Risk Management

After the plan is approved, residents open a tender between developers, with full freedom of choice and without excuses or claims such as “I don’t know what will be approved.”

Developers

Any commercial offer made before the plan is approved is both right and wrong at the same time. There is no planning or financial certainty, and therefore no real ability to negotiate neither for the developer nor for the residents.

Maximizing Building Rights

The additional rights gained through planning are transferred primarily to the residents, resulting in higher actual compensation.

Developers

Most of the additional rights remain in the hands of the developer and are used solely for their own profit.

Avraham Levi

"The economic considerations of these companies were solely to make more profit and not out of concern for the residents."

Boaz Shapira

“Tab’a Capital has a social approach; they represent the residents, listen, understand their needs — there is a true partnership here.”

David Eric Blassen

“The Tab’a Capital team knows us personally and maintains a close relationship with us.”

David Okon

“Tab’a Capital first studied the area, brought in professionals, and spoke with the residents, and only afterward submitted a proposal that was far better than the other companies’.”

Eliran Samama

“Tab’a Capital is not driven solely by an entrepreneurial approach — rather, it organizes the residents and places them at the center.”

Esti Schreiber

“Tab’a Capital united the residents and developed the plan together with us. They approached the entire process with the developers from the residents’ point of view.”

Uriel Zada

“Tab’a Capital operates according to a social model; they ensure that the landowners also receive the maximum profit.”

Yehuda Shmuel

“Tab’a Capital submitted a proposal with better building rights: an additional 46 square meters, and rights also for those who had not yet built.”