House prices rise in April

ACCORDING to the Spanish property portal Idealista.com, nine of Spain’s regions registered an increase in the price of second-hand dwellings for April.
However whilst nine reported a slight increase, the other regions saw a decline.
The report points out that the average price per square metre at the end of April was the same level as the previous month, which means that it has stabilised after the slight increase of 0.2 per cent registered in the first three months of the year.
The sharpest increases in the average price per square metre were registered in La Rioja, which was up four per cent, and Castilla-La Mancha and the Balearic Islands both at 1.5 per cent.
Idealista´s April price index places the Basque Country, Catalonia and Madrid as the three regions with the highest average prices for second-hand homes in Spain.