Italy

Economic Freedom Rating, 5-Yr Change - Italy Compared to Continent

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Luxembourg	-5.93%
Poland	-3.77%
Italy	-2.85%
Cyprus	-2.75%
Moldova	-2.65%
Russia	-1.79%
Portugal	-0.99%
Ukraine	-0.04%
Estonia	0.05%
Sweden	0.53%
Switzerland	0.91%
Spain	1.27%
Finland	1.54%
Czech Rep.	1.56%
Lithuania	1.65%
Macedonia	1.72%
Ireland	1.76%
Germany	2.03%
Greece	2.11%
Croatia	2.49%
Norway	2.60%
UK	2.67%
Netherlands	2.94%
Austria	3.52%
Latvia	3.56%
Iceland	4.10%
Slovenia	4.93%
Belgium	4.94%
Hungary	6.67%
Malta	8.03%
Denmark	8.24%
Bulgaria	10.38%
France	10.46%
Albania	11.51%
Belarus	12.42%
Slovak Rep.	16.54%
Turkey	17.08%
Romania	21.55%
Bosnia & H.	32.31%

Italy: Economic freedom index, 5-year change

Increased economic freedom is strongly associated with high GDP growth, and therefore with rises in residential property prices. Changes in a country’s score on the Heritage Foundation’s freedom index are calculated by the Global Property Guide to produce a 5-point rating:

• Greatly Improved
• Improved
• Nuetral
• Worse
• Much Worse

Source: Calculated using figures from The Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street Journal

Italy does not publish any official house price or rents time-series. Nomisma has published average prices for 13 urban areas, semi-annually, since December 1990. Il Consulente Immobiliare, a real estate industry-related review edited by Il sole 24 Ore media group gathers information semi annually based on actual house sales. Neither are freely available. General economic statistics for Italy come from the Bank of Italy and the National Institute of Statistics.