Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "فلسطین میں یہودیوں کی زمین کی خریداری" in Urdu language version.
If one buys a house from a non-Jew in Eretz Israel, the title deed may be written for him even on the Sabbath. On the Sabbath!? Is that possible? But as Rava explained, he may order a non-Jew to write it, even though instructing a non-Jew to do a work prohibited to Jews on the Sabbath is forbidden by rabbinic ordination, the rabbis waived their decree on account of the settlement of Eretz Israel.
Even though the Ottoman government was disturbed by this decision, it was compelled to take it, in order to close all doors to the Jews in 1891 and to prohibit the sale of Palestinian land to Jews, even if they were Ottoman citizens, in 1892.
... the High Commissioner promulgated an edict forbidding the sale of more than 300 dunams of land or the sale of land worth more than 3000 Palestinian Pounds (LP.), without his prior permission.
