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

The Market Update. And we have house prices, interesting news from different regions,

some doing incredibly well, some booming and some tanking. It's a real mixed part with what's

going on in the UK at the moment. But even more bizarre, we've got the government doing something really

positive for the property market. I promise you, it's true, it's not a joke, but then we have

another party that seems to be doing something that is a joke, but unfortunately is not. We

will report on it all.

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give you your monthly dose of everything you need to know as an investor, which is what we're

about to do right now. Let's kick off this market update with house prices. And first of all,

we'll get some data in from Zouple. So what do they have to say? Well, they are saying

that house price data is running at 1.4% up until August 2025.

And interestingly, they are saying that pre-budget tax speculation is hit activity for higher-value homes.

And demand is down 11% for homes priced at 1 million plus.

But I don't think this is just a budget thing. Of course,

that will have some sort of impact. But this has been impacting the southeast. I'm okay that

Rob and I know very well because of all the years we've lived there. And this has been something

that's been going on for a lot longer. I actually really think this started to kick in after the

government went after non-doms because a lot of

don-doms left the country. Now, what type of properties do they buy? Well, they aren't buying

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