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House Prices Up by 42 in the Euro Area
October 8, 2019
House prices, as measured by the House Price Index, rose by 4.2% in both the euro area and the EU in the second quarter of 2019 compared with the same quarter of the previous year, according to Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union.
Compared with the first quarter of 2019, house prices rose by 1.7% in the euro area and 1.6% in the EU in the second quarter of 2019. In Cyprus house prices increased by 4.2% in quarterly and by 8.0% in annual basis, after 0.8% and 4.3% respectively for the previous quarter. Greece did not make any such data available to Eurostat.