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The Property Podcast

May 2025 Market Update

The Property Podcast

Rob Bence & Rob Dix

Investing, Education, Business News, News, Business

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

This month’s market update comes with a twist, as Rob & Rob share surprising house price trends, under-the-radar market insights, and give you a rare behind-the-scenes look at a deal they’ve just completed.  Click here if you want to learn more about Property Hub Invest or get free advice from our Portfolio Managers.   (0:47) House price data that shocked Rob & Rob   (7:15) What’s going on in the rental market   (10:45) The latest news on mortgages    (14:30) Some insights about the build to rent market    (16:27) Hub Extra   Links mentioned:  Starlight Express   House prices  Nationwide house prices  Rightmove house price index   Rental market  Rental trends tracker  Generation Rent complains about landlords requiring guarantors   Mortgages   The Mortgage Works cuts landlord prices, launches sub-3% loans  Momentum continues with fixed rate cuts: Moneyfacts  MPC Preview: ‘The world has changed’   Accord lowers stress rates as part of affordability model changes    Buy to rent  Strong Q1 for investment positions the market well for 2025 - UK BTR Market Update - Q1 2025   Enjoy the show?  Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts - it really helps others find us!  Sign up for our free weekly newsletter, Property Pulse  Find out more about Property Hub Invest

Transcript

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0:00.0

You've been listening to the podcast, keeping an eye on the market, maybe even running the numbers,

0:04.6

but are you actually ready to invest? Well, in just two minutes, you can have your answer,

0:09.8

because we've created a free quick quiz to help you discover exactly where you stand. And the best part

0:14.8

is, not only will you receive your readiness score, but we'll also send you a free

0:19.0

personalized guide packed with tools and advice to help you

0:22.2

move forward with confidence. So don't keep wondering. Take the quiz now at property hub.net slash

0:28.2

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

0:34.7

It's our market update episode. And this week, we're going to bring

0:37.6

you surprising data on house prices, at least it surprised us. We're going to give you our personal

0:42.0

insights of what we are seeing in the market that's not being reported elsewhere. And we have

0:46.4

great news on mortgages. Yes, thank you for joining us. In case you don't know, we run a company that does over ÂŁ100

0:58.0

million worth of property deals every year for our clients. You can find out about that at

1:01.6

property hub.net slash invest, which means we're out there active in the market, seeing what's going

1:06.4

on. So as well as reporting all the news you need to know about this month, we're also sharing some

1:10.4

insight of our own, including sharing a deal that we've done that we are very proud of. So make

1:14.9

sure you stick around. We often start with house prices and why change a successful formula?

1:21.0

Well, we might want to change it if we keep getting numbers like this. Rob nationwide says prices are

1:26.0

down by 0.6% in April. March it was flat, zero, but in April it was down by 0.6%.

1:34.1

Should we start to get worried? That is the question. Not according to Robert Gardner,

1:38.0

Nationwide's chief economist, and who are we to argue with him? He said basically this is what

1:41.2

they were expecting, and it's because of the stamp duty change.

1:48.7

So the stamp duty bans reset recently and whenever that happens, whenever there's a change to stamp duty, you always see the same effect, which is basically demand gets pulled forward. So everyone

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