The price of acquisition whether for existing properties or new constructions were both on the rise, up 3.4 percent and 2.5 percent respectively year-on-year.
In quarter-on-quarter terms, the housing price index surged 3.7 percent, the highest value on record, and breaking a three-quarter run of negative or zero variations: -0.4 percent, -0.3 percent and 0.0 percent for the final quarters in 2014 and the first quarter of 2015.
Both segments saw price rises with new housing advancing 5.3 percent quarter-on-quarter, against 0.2 percent in the first quarter and outpacing second-hand houses that rose 3.0 percent against a 0.2 percent contraction in the first quarter of this year.
As regards the actual sales in the second quarter, there was a total of 24,512 transactions of which 19,576 involved previously owned properties, with this 79.9 percent of total sales, up from 78.4 percent in the first quarter, a new maximum high.
The National Institute of Statistics also drew attention to the 24.8 percent year-on-year rise in property transactions and identified it as the second highest rate recorded behind the second quarter of 2013.
However, whilst sales of previously owned properties advanced by an annualised 33.5 percent, there was a 0.7 percent fall in the sale of new builds in the second semester.