January is brilliant for big intentions, but let's be honest, it's not always the best month

for sticking to things. Most resolutions barely make it past week two. But if one of your goals

is to start or grow your property portfolio, that's where Property Hub invest can really help.

We'll help you turn that early year motivation into real action, clear goals, a proper strategy, and access

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head to property hub.net slash 2026. Hey everyone, it's Robby here with Rob De, and you are listening

to the Property Podcast.

Who wants to invest in average? You want the best. And in this episode, always one of the most popular episodes of the year, we give you our property hotspots of 2026.

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 for our clients every year. You can find out about that at property hub.net slash invest. So obviously, we're pretty interested in where are the best places to invest. We think we found them, but we're not keeping them to ourselves, and we'll be showing them with you in just a minute.

But let's start with our news story of the week. And this gentleman seems to be making

news everywhere around the world at the moment. But he's also now made it to the property podcast.

And that gentleman in question is Donald Trump. And Donald Trump wants to ban large investors

from buying single family homes in a bid to bring down prices, Rob. Now, Donald talks a lot and

some of his talk leads to action, but a lot of it doesn't as well, so we have to bear that in mind.

So let's explain what he's proposing, because it's not the

biggest news story in the world about Donald at the moment, but it is important. And then what the

impacts of this as well are important to discuss too. Yeah, so what he's addressing is effectively

the same challenge that we've got in the UK. Housing is increasingly more expensive. There's

not enough of it. So while in the UK, politicians' moves have been targeting individual landlords trying to usher them towards the exit, what Trump is doing is targeting the big investment firms like Blackstone, who own a lot of individual homes and trying to take them out of the market. So it's not saying they have to sell what they've already got, but saying they won't be able to buy any more. And if you take the simplest possible view of economics, then you'd say, well, there's less demand in the market, therefore prices will fall or prices at least won't go up as fast. Now, there's not a direct comparison to the UK, because it is a bit different in the US. In the UK, we have pension funds and banks, big companies,

owning individual properties, but they normally play a part in building them as well. So they own them from new and it's new supply that wouldn't otherwise happen. In the US, there is more of

big investment firms buying up houses that already exist on the retail market. So there's more

of an argument to be made there

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