Spanish home prices up 4.5% year on year in third quarter of 2015, rents also up

Residential property prices increased by 4.5% in the third quarter of 2015 compared to the same period in 2014, according to the latest data from the National Statistics Institute. The details from the housing price index means that prices have now increased for six quarters annually in a row following six years of decline and it is the highest quarterly rise since the last quarter of 2007 when growth was 5.7%, just before the global economic downturn. House prices then started falling in the se...