TPP179: What is quantitive easing (QE) and how does it affect property?

The Property Podcast

Rob Bence & Rob Dix

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🗓️ 18 August 2016

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Quantitative Easing: hard to understand, even harder to say...and about to have a serious impact on your property investing plans. In this week's episode we explain what QE is, what effects it has, and how you can position yourself to take advantage of it. Useful links: A video from the Bank of England explaining the mechanism by which QE works A letter to the Chancellor warning of the risks A report from the New Economics Foundation assessing QE and proposing an alternative TPP024: Inflation – your worst enemy or your best friend? TPP168: The disappearing middle class (and what you can do about it) We also said we'd reproduce a table with some of the figures we discussed in the episode: Percentage changes in asset prices since 5 March 2009: Average mortgage rate: -31% UK house prices: 32% UK stock market: 87% UK stock market with divs reinvested: 138% Total return from average deposit account: 5% Total return from UK gilts: 47% UK inflation: 16% Pension annuity rates: -27% Gold (in dollar terms): 38% See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	QE, the Queen's English? No, this week we're talking about quantitative easing.
0:04.8	You're listening to episode 179 of the Propsy Podcast, I'm Rob B,
0:08.8	with me is Rob D and we've got a cracking episode coming up.
0:19.0	A cracking episode about some kind of of arcane macroeconomic principle, I hear you say?
0:22.0	Well, yeah, actually, it is pretty interesting. We've just
0:26.2	been, well, if you're anything like us, we've just been nattering about it for ages before hitting
0:30.2	record. We think it's interesting and whether or not you agree it affects you. So that's why we're
0:34.9	going to be talking about it and it affects property specifically as well. So that's what we're going to be talking
0:39.6	about in this week's episode. But before we get to all that the first thing to
0:45.1	quickly announce is we've been talking about our first ever Northern Summit
0:49.4	recently on the podcast we've been asking you to vote and we have a winner you should have
0:54.6	received an email about it by now if you're on our list but the winning city was
0:59.4	Manchester so the heart of the northern House powers on narrowly edging out leads.
1:05.4	Nottingham had a late rally as well, but Manchester is the winner.
1:09.2	So if you want to come and join us in Manchester, emails have gone out by the time this
1:13.9	podcast goes out there may or may not be places left but if you go to the
1:17.9	Property Hub dot net slash summit you can find out all about that and we'd love to see you and don't worry if you're in London or in the southeast and you want to join us on a summit
1:27.1	Our final one of the year is in October as well and tickets for that are now on sale too and you can check the details out at the same place.
1:34.4	So get along to that link and have a look.
1:36.6	We'd love to see you there.
1:37.6	And I'd love to see a few of you at R&P soon.
1:41.5	What am I talking about?
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