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

The world's a bit mad. It always has been, but it just feels a bit extra mad at the moment.

And when it is like that, you have volatility in the markets.

And we've absolutely seen volatility in the mortgage market.

So this week, we bring you right up to speed with what is happening. We bring an expert in

to help us understand what's happening in the mortgage market and what steps we should be taking

in this crazy market. Welcome to the property podcast. Thank you for joining us. In case you don't know, we run a business

that ranges more than £100 million worth of property deals every year. You can find out about that

at Property Hub.net slash invest. And of course, something that all our clients are asking us about

right now is mortgages. Everyone wants to know what's going on and most importantly what's

going to happen next. So in this episode,

we've gone direct to the source and brought in a very special guest to answer exactly those questions. All of that coming up in just a minute. It's time for our news story of the week now. And this

week's news story comes courtesy of Right Move. And Rob, I'm surprised by this data, but asking prices rose by 0.8% in April. That kind of

feels a bit of a disconnect from what's happening in the market now, the ambition of the

asking prices of people putting their properties on the market. What do you make of this story?

It is a strange one, isn't it? I was surprised to see this data because we've been talking a bit recently between ourselves

and on the podcast about just how bad sentiment is.

We've had some bad sentiment over the last few years.

But this feels like a new level of negativity has been unlocked.

But no, asking prices are up.

They're normally up in April.

It's normally 1.2%.

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