Malta housing prices increase 4.1% between fourth quarter of 2016, 2017

Malta experienced an increase in housing prices by 4.1 per cent in the last quarter of 2017 when compared with the same period in 2016, Eurostat figures has found.

The EU's statistical arm gathered data within EU member states on housing prices at the fourth quarter of 2017 and compared them with the previous year.

House prices, as measured by the House Price Index, rose by 4.2 per cent in the euro area and by 4.5 per cent in the EU in the fourth quarter of 2017 compared with the same quarter of the previous year.

Compared with the third quarter of 2017, house prices rose by 0.9 per cent in the euro area and by 0.7 per cent in the EU in the fourth quarter of 2017.

Among the Member States for which data are available, the highest annual increases in house prices in the fourth quarter of 2017 were recorded in Ireland (+11.8 per cent), Portugal (+10.5 per cent) and Slovenia (+10.0 per cent), while prices fell in Italy (-0.3 per cent).

Compared with the previous quarter, the highest increases were recorded in Slovenia (+3.7 per cent), Croatia (+3.2 per cent) and Cyprus (+2.7 per cent), while decreases were observed in Sweden (-2.8 per cent), Denmark (-1.7 per cent), Belgium (-0.4 per cent) and Finland (-0.3 per cent).

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