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The Property Podcast

TPP354: Reflecting on 2019 and our biggest lessons

The Property Podcast

Rob Bence & Rob Dix

News, Education, Business, Investing, Business News

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2019

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Merry Christmas! We hope you had a lovely day yesterday, and just because it’s the festive period, that doesn’t mean we’re stopping The Property Podcast! So as a nice little finisher to the year, Rob & Rob are taking a look back on 2019 and discussing what went right for them, and more importantly, what went wrong. But also, how they’re going to learn from it.  Here’s what you can expect The Robs to reflect on in this episode: News: To kick start this episode, Rob & Rob are discussing the big stories that have been in the news this year. You can expect to hear mentions of Brexit (even though we didn’t really get anywhere with it this year), the general election and the industry as a whole.  Industry/Market: The guys then go on to discuss the property industry and market over the past year and how we’re in that mid-cycle wobble territory. Also this year saw the tenant fee ban come into play which wasn’t as detrimental as everyone thought it was going to be.  Property Hub: 2019 was a huge year for Property Hub! We kick started the year with a complete rebrand (we can’t believe it’s only been 12 months!), we moved our head office to Manchester city centre and we launched our YouTube channel (even though Rob & Rob are still getting used to being in front of the camera).  One of the hardest things that The Robs have had to deal with this year was the development at Grand Junction which, if you’ve listened to this podcast episode, you’ll know has been going on a lot longer than just 2019 and has brought a lot more downs than ups. But it is finally now complete so there have been plenty of lessons for The Robs to take away from it.  But that wasn’t enough to put Rob D off, he went on to build another development in York which wasn’t quite as stressful as Grand Junction but did have it’s own host of issues that Rob D was able to learn from. You can listen to the podcast episode on Rob D’s York development here. Personal: To wrap up this episode, Rob & Rob reflect back on their personal lives with what they’ve been up to over the past 12 months outside of The Hub.  So that’s it, 2019 is boxed off! And what a year it’s been. We hope you’ve had an amazing year and if you’ve been with us on this journey over the past year, thank you and we look forward to kick starting 2020 with you.  Here’s to 2020 being bigger and better than ever!   We’d love to hear what you think of this week’s Property Podcast over on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. You might even have a topic you’d like us to cover in the future - if so, pop us a message on social and we’ll see what we can do. Make sure you’ve liked and subscribed to our YouTube channel where we upload new content every week! If that wasn’t enough, you can also join our friendly property community on the Property Hub forum. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcript

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0:00.0

So 2019 is nearly done.

0:04.3

Hopefully you've had a lovely Christmas day, but before the years wrapped up,

0:08.4

Rob and I wanted to look back on what's gone right for us this year,

0:11.5

but also, probably more more importantly what hasn't and what we can learn from it. Welcome to the Property Podcast where every Thursday and we do mean every Thursday even if it's

0:26.8

Boxing Day property investors come to be informed and inspired. Today you might be

0:30.9

feeling a bit full a bit sleepy but we're going to try and wake you up by reminding you of everything that's happened this year

0:36.2

And sharing some of our highs and lows and the lessons we've learned from a very eventful year

0:42.0

You know what this time of year is a great time to reflect on

0:45.6

things and look back because it's looking back can help you make better decisions

0:49.9

moving forward and it's been a really interesting year you can use other words

0:53.4

an interest in for all of us a lot has happened this year and some would argue that

0:57.5

nothing's really happened but it's been eventful at the very least so we're

1:00.9

going to reflect back on the general market and also what's been happening for us and giving you our thoughts on it all.

1:07.0

So let's start broad and obviously the biggest story of this year but also the one where a shockingly small about has actually happened is Brexit

1:16.2

And we don't have to go into any detail about that so I don't think it would make us any happier or cast any light on things

1:22.0

But everything that's going on politically has set the tone

1:24.4

for everything that's going on in the property market specifically which will come to in a

1:28.8

bit the bright spot in all that and because we had a general election going on as well means that we didn't have a budget

1:34.4

this year so at least there was nothing to worry about there.

1:36.8

So overall in terms of property prices Rob it's not been that eventful something that we

1:41.9

covered on our predictions review show last week. It's positive the market is up overall the southeast of

1:49.2

London are down slightly but no drama and that's okay we can take a year like that and it kind of

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