The call from the Israeli Haredi man angered Sarah (not her real name), a not-so-young American Jew from Chicago. The man introduced himself on the phone as “Michael Stroud, property locator.” He told Sarah he had located some land of which she was the legal inheritor, and it was now in the process of having its zoning and planning approved for building − but he refused to provide any further...
Israel's real estate detectives track down unclaimed land
For a fee, land locators find long-forgotten assets by searching obscure corners of the property registry.
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Nimrod Bousso


