Italy - house price declines expected soon!
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Italy’s housing market has remained resilient, despite falling markets in most other developed countries. House prices in H1 2009 rose by 3% from a year earlier, according to the index published jointly by the Bank of Italy (BoI) and the National Statistical Institute (Istat). When adjusted for inflation, house prices rose by 1.9%.
Italian house price rises peaked in 2002, rising 12% (9.2% in real terms) from a year earlier. House prices rose by an average of 6.5% p.a. (4.1% in real terms) from 2003 to 2006, then by an average 4.6% p.a. (2% in real terms) from 2007 to 2008.
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