MACAO, July 9 (Xinhua) -- The overall residential property price index in China's Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) between March and May increased 0.9 percent to 268.3 over the previous period (between February and April), the SAR's statistics service said on Tuesday.

Information from the Statistics and Census Service also indicated that the overall residential property price index for the Macao Peninsula (270.9) and Taipa and Coloane (257.5) rose 1.1 percent and 0.2 percent respectively.

The index for Macao's existing residential units (288.7) went up 0.9 percent. Meanwhile, the index for Macao's pre-sale residential units (277.7) increased 0.5 percent.

In comparison with that of the same period last year, the overall residential property price index saw an increase of 1.2 percent.