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The Property Podcast

TPP168: The disappearing middle class

The Property Podcast

Rob Bence & Rob Dix

News, Investing, Education, Business, Business News

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

We’ve activated gloom-mode this week to talk about what’s set to become an endangered species in the UK: the middle class. By “middle class” we don’t mean whether you say “sofa” or “settee”: it means middle-income earners, who are increasingly being squeezed out. Over the last 30 years, the proportion of households in London described […] The post TPP168: The disappearing middle class appeared first on The Property Hub. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0

Hey Rob B here with Rob D and you are listening to the Property Podcast.

0:04.0

This is episode 168 and we're looking at the middle class crisis

0:09.7

and what you can do about it. Yes, welcome to the property podcast on all the heavy hitting topics at the moment, aren't we?

0:22.0

We had some pretty heavy duty economics

0:24.3

last week and this week we throw in the word crisis in there we've kind of taking a bit of a

0:29.1

journalistic lead there but we're talking about the middle class crisis and importantly what you can do about it. We covered it in the magazine a few months back, but we're going to get it into it in even more detail today. And of course we're going to relate it all back to property and what

0:43.4

properties got to do with it and how property can help you related to this topic

0:47.4

because that is of course why we're all here. So that's coming up as well as a

0:51.5

really good resource and an interesting news story.

0:54.8

First though, just a quick mention that today is Meet Up Day.

0:59.1

It's the first Thursday of the month which means of course it is the property hub meetups 30 of them more than 30 I think around the country tonight

1:07.8

also as far afield as Copenhagen we had Dubai last night I can barely keep up with where they all are. They are just

1:14.9

mushering up all over the place. But wherever you are, just go to the Property Hub.net slash meetups,

1:20.8

find your nearest, register for it, we can guarantee, pretty much guarantee, you're

1:25.2

going to have a great time.

1:26.9

We can, and talking about them popping up everywhere, Rob, I'm going to be at a new

1:30.8

meetup for the first time to launch it tonight in Maidstone. So if anybody is in the

1:35.7

Maidstone area and you're listening to this on the day of the recording, head that way, jump

1:39.8

on the Property Hub. dot net forwardett. Nett Fadne

1:44.0

You made stone, don't worry, there's plenty of others.

1:47.0

So check it out.

1:48.4

Check out that list.

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