Hello and welcome to the Property Podcast it's episode 304 and this week we are

making our 2019 predictions. Uh-oh we'll be giving you our best cities to invest in, we'll talk London, and we'll even

make a prediction on Brexit. Yes, welcome to the property podcast where every Thursday morning property investors come together to be informed and inspired.

Last week we look back at how our predictions fared for last year and you know what it wasn't too bad so we're going to do it all again today

We're also going to be looking at the predictions from a series of industry experts and stick around to the end for Hub Extra where we've got a

really great free tool that's going to help you make better use of your time

online this year. So before we get into our predictions we thought we'd share out the pain because we're not the only ones

who've been bold enough to make predictions on the UK property market for 2019.

There are plenty others that have had a bash as well and luckily the BBC's put a lovely

article together rounded some of them up. Yeah very kind of them so let's have a

look at the kind of range that we've got so the most negative prediction that we

have is from Henry Pryor, housing market

commentator, who predicts a 5% fall.

You've got Miles shipside from Right Move predicting no change, so price is going to be completely

flat. That's the same prediction that Ricks have made.

Then you've got some commentators predicting a small rise 1% or 2% is quite common.

Then the most bullish predictions are from mortgage lender Halifax who are going for a 2 to 4 percent rise and Home Track who have reported a 3 percent rise.

So the range is anything from minus five to plus four.

But I think what's interesting, Rob,

is why those particular people have made the predictions

that they have, because it doesn't seem to be random.

It seems to be caused by the area of the market

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