(ANSA) - Rome, February 2 - Italian house prices fell 5.6%
in 2014, the Osservatorio di Immobiliare.it sector monitor said
Monday.
The fall sharpened in the last part of the year, it said.
The weighted average price of residential real estate in
Italy in December 2014 was 2,166 euros per square metres.
Among the cities with dearest property was Florence, which
with an average of 3,657 euros overtook Rome (3,566).
The biggest annual falls were in central Italy (-7%) and
the south (-6.8%).
The housing market in the more affluent northeast held up.
House prices down 5.6% in 2014
Florence overtakes Rome for costliest real estate