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Hey everyone, it's Robby here with Rob De and you are listening to the Market Update

Property Podcast. This week we'll be discussing the budget. We'll be discussing a landlord

sell-off and reveal who's buying those properties from that sell-off. And we'll talk about

Rachel Reeveson, what she's been up to with her, by-toller.

Welcome to the Property Podcast. Thank you for joining us. In case you don't know,

we run a company that buys more than £100 million worth of property every year for our clients.

We can find out about that at Property Hub.net slash invest. And this is the

episode every month where we round up everything that you need to know about what's going on in

property. So let's get into it. Let's start like we often do with house prices. So annual

house prices quite strong in the last month, according to nationwide, with a monthly rise of

0.3%, which for a month

is pretty good. Let's face it, we talked about this at length last week. The sentiment out there

at the moment is pretty shocking, and hopefully you're all taking advantage of that, but the market

isn't shocking. And actually, over the last 12 months, it's up by 2.4%.

Now, Rob, we haven't organised the party off the back of that level of growth,

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