House Prices

    Irish property has the fastest rising prices in Europe, according to official statistics.    The latest data from Eurostat shows that European property prices edged up 0.9 per cent between January and March 2015, compared to the previous quarter, and by an even higher 2.5 per cent compared to the same quarter in

  US home sales are soaring, as the recovering economy fuels the housing market. Prices, though, are rising too.   Pending sales rose 0.9 per cent in in May 2015, taking the National Association of Realtors’ index to its highest level in nine years. Pending sales are 10.4 per cent higher than one year ago

Prices of Chinese property continued to rise in June, with the majority of the country’s major areas seeing growth, despite the government’s efforts to cool the activity in the sector. Across the 70 largest cities in China an average year-on-year rise of 5.8 per cent was seen last month, 0.7 per cent higher than the

The Halifax house price index has reported that the prices of residential UK property decreased by 1.2 per cent in June compared to the previous month. House prices in the UK saw an overall increase of 4.5 per cent in the first half of 2006, however, and a rise of 2.6 per cent in the

The government has released its UK House Price Index for May 2006, showing that inflation in the UK property market rose to 5.6 per cent from 5.1 per cent in April. Wales was the only country in the UK to see a fall in inflation in May, to 5.1 per cent from the level of 6.6

Prices of Maltese property are currently on an upward trend and showing no signs of easing, according to overseas property agents Tribune Properties. The prices of property in Malta were reportedly the highest of all EU members in 2004 and have continued to increase since then, with government figures showing that a sixteen per cent

The US property sector is experiencing a rise in prices as the market across the Atlantic continues to boom. According to real estate experts in the country, property prices in areas popular with British second home owners, such as Florida and California, rose up to 11 per cent in a year. In California, the median

Prices of property in New Zealand have seen a reduction in their rate of growth for the fourth month in a row, according to figures from property valuer QV. Across the country, property values rose by 12.4 per cent for the 12 months to May, to an average price of $327,779 (£112,391). This rate of

The Chinese property market is in a period of substantial growth, with large amounts of overseas property investment coming into the country, according to reports. Industry observers in the area have attributed recent rises in property prices to an expanding inflow of foreign capital to China’s real estate industry, Shanghai Daily has claimed. Many major