Hi Rob D here, welcome to this bonus episode.

This was originally broadcast back in June last year,

and we're dropping it back into your feed today for two reasons.

Firstly, because it goes perfectly with yesterday's episode

about whether property really does double every 10 years and secondly because

Robby really wanted to hear the Back to the Future music on the podcast again.

So we're looking at how to use the past to predict the future when it comes to property prices.

This is basically a case study in what happens when you're obsessed with property and you don't

want to do whatever work you're supposed to be doing at the moment.

This came out of Rob B's procrastination.

Rob be procrastinated and the rest is history.

Boom boom.

So what he started doing was looking at the past regional data from the nationwide price index.

So as you'll probably know, the nationwide puts out an index every quarter showing what's

happened to property prices. There are others available but nationwide

is a popular one and it goes back a long way. It shows you the UK figure and it gives you a regional breakdown

and it's the regional part that Rob started getting interested in. The reason that we wanted to dig into it

and pull out the findings for this episode is that a lot of people ask us about London and

what's happening with regard to London and the 18 year

property cycle. So if you're not up to speed with the idea of the cycle we're going to

link to an episode about that in the show notes which you'll find at the

Property Hub. Net slash history but hopefully you are aware at the Property Hub. dot net, history.

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