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

It's Market Update.

It's our most listened to show each and every month because you want to know what is happening

in the market and there is a lot happening in the market at the moment.

The world's a bit uncertain but we're going to give you all the detail of what's happening

so you feel a bit more secure.

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 property every year for our clients.

You can find out about that at property hub.net slash invest.

And at times like this, when everything is a bit uncertain, it's never more critical as an investor to know what's going on. So let's bring you up to speed right now. So let's start like we always do

with house prices. And nationwide of reported house prices up by nearly one whole percent

in the month of March, 0.9 to be exact. And that means the average

price in the UK now is 277, 186 pounds. There's the exact number for those who like the detail.

That's another strong month. And that is what we were seeing, those green shoots that we talked

about in the last few weeks. That was, of course,

until the Iran War. And for the last few weeks, there's been a bit more uncertainty. So we'll have

to see whether those green shoots have been trodden on or it's just a temporary blip in the market.

But either way, as we've talked about in an episode recently, it's allowed deals to be done again.

Those green shoots were allowing sellers to become a bit more confident and maybe not accept

deals they might have towards the back end of last year. But with the Iran War, there's a temporary

blip at least, but we'll have to wait for April's and possibly even May's numbers to see

what impact that's had. But regardless, the first quarter of the year, it's been a strong one for property. Strong one you consider what we've had recently, Rob. Of course, it's nowhere near a boom, but it was some healthy growth at least. I was going to say, 0.9% in March, 0.3% in February, this is boom territory for recent standards. But actually, no,

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