欧洲房价持续下跌，西班牙跌幅最吓人

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HOUSE PRICES IN The European Union are continuing to drop with the most recent figures showing a fall 1.4 per cent in the first quarter of 2013 compared to last year.

欧洲房价继续呈现下跌趋势，最新数据显示，2013年第一季度的房价和去年同期相比， 下跌了1.4个%。

The figures, published by Eurostat today, show that in the eurozone area there was a drop in prices of 2.2 per cent.

今天欧盟统计局发布新数据，欧盟区的房价整体下跌了了2.2%。

Compared with the fourth quarter of 2012, house prices fell by 1 per cent in the eurozone area and 0.6 per cent in the EU in the first quarter of this year.

2013年房价与2012年末季度相比，欧盟区房价下跌了一个百分点，英国下降了0.6%。

Countries with the highest increases during this period include Romania, up 4.3 per cent and Estonia, up 3.1 per cent.

在这个时期内，欧盟区房价下跌最严重地区包括了罗马尼亚和爱沙尼亚，罗马尼亚下跌了4.3%，而爱莎尼亚下跌了3.1%。

In Ireland, house prices were down 3 per cent in the first three months of this year, though the largest decline was in Spain which saw prices fall 12.8 per cent.

爱尔兰房价下跌3%，而西班牙的房价下跌最多，下跌高达12.8%。