Hey everyone, it's Rob B here with Rob D and you are listening to the property podcast.

We're making a big claim. We are saying it's the best time to invest in 40 years.

That's to most people going to sound crazy. But I tell you what, I'm all in on this.

And by the end of the podcast, I'm sure you will be too.

Welcome to the property podcast. Thank you for joining us. In case you don't know, we run a business that buys more than £100 million worth of the property every year for our clients.

You can find out about that at property hub.net slash invest. Because we're out there doing deals

every day, we know how people are

feeling about the market. And they are, for the most part, not feeling good. But we believe that a lot

of the negativity around at the moment is misplaced. And today, you're going to find out why.

So it's time for our new story of the week. And this week's news story, we're taking from MSN.

That takes me back. The headline reads, these 10 northern house

price hotspots have seen values saw more than 10% in a year. Rob, 10% in a year. Have we got an

old article? This doesn't seem like it should be correct. But spoiler, I know it is. Yes,

it is. It's all happening in the north. We've spoken many times before about this north-south divide that has opened up where not just the best yields, but also the best capital growth

happening in the Midlands and upwards. You really see it when you break it down to a postcode

level and don't just look at the averages. That's what Hamptons have done. They're reporting

on data from the ONS. And the biggest annual increase in house prices was in Blackburn, putting on

14.4% year on year. Now, obviously, when you've got smaller areas, there are fewer transactions,

therefore the data is going to be more extreme. But still, 14.4%. Blackburn is not alone,

Rob. Northeast Derbyshire, up 13.4%.

Harleypool, Liverpool, Newcastle, all name-checked as having double-digit house price growth.

I don't know why you moved south, Rob, big mistake.

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