The timid recovery of the Spanish real estate market has started to become noticeable in property prices.
Free-market house prices experienced their first quarterly increase in late 2014, according to figures released by the Public Works Ministry. There had not been an uptick in the market since early 2008.
Prices rose 0.5% in Spain as a whole thanks primarily to a surge in demand for existing homes, which now represent nearly two thirds of sales.
The value of existing homes grew 0.2% from the previous quarter, while the price of new homes retreated 0.1%.
The average price of free-market housing in the last quarter of 2014 was €1,463.10 a square meter.
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