Housing market registered over 1 million sales in 2016

(ANSA) - Rome, March 1 - Italy's housing market continued its recovery in 2016 with over one million property sales registered last year, a 18.4% increase with respect to 2015, tax agency L'Agenzia delle Entrate said Wednesday. It was the third consecutive year of growth for the property market, which was hit badly by the economic crisis and had not hit the one-million-sales mark since 2011.