Sur reported at the end of last week on a Ministry of Housing report that confirmed that Malaga province had the highest increase in house prices anywhere in Spain last year.

The price per square metre of housing reached just over €2400, which is 2% higher than the figure reached just before the housing bubble burst in 2008.

And there is no sign of a slowdown. Malaga is the province where house prices have risen the most in the last twelve months, with rateable value per square metre of freehold housing up by 9.8%, compared with 7.5% for Andalucía as a whole, and 5.7% across the country.

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